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Remix, and other stories
May. 3rd, 2011 06:19 pmSo, Remix!
There seem to have been half a dozen popslash stories produced this time round, which is a distinct improvement on last year so, well done, signups!
Not so difficult, after all (The Difficulty Level remix) about Brian and AJ and why things are so awkward between them.
Straight Through my Heart (The Can't Stop The Bleeding Mix) is Kevin and Lance meeting in a vampire bar.
Someday He'll Be Taller (the Grownups Have More Fun Mix) is the remix of one of my Dragon Challenge stories from last year, giving rather more depth and detail to Nick's feelings about being the youngest in the group.
As You Like I Love You (being the First Part of The History of Justin Timberlake) is an untraditionally titled remix in blank verse.
Heineken and Daisies (the Baby, We Need To Talk remix), a nice POV-switch version of SnarkyLlama's story in which Lance comes home to discover gifts of alcohol and flowers. This is, I think, my favourite, but then, I think the original is my favourite of the remixed stories, too.
Firebird Suite (Celebrity Mix) is a smart, dark-edged reworking of a smart, dark-edged and sorta mystical original.
It's just possible you may be able to guess which one I wrote.
I confess I failed dismally to write any Remix Madness stories, even though I had one almost in my grasp. Partly it's through feeling *incredibly* tired, and partly through the glasses failure (see below). Sadly, it doesn't look as though anyone produced any popslash for that challenge, although there was potential for such.
And other stories...
My glasses broke a couple of days before the long weekend - one of the little nose-pads fell off. I went to the optician's and discovered it had closed early for staff training, so I went back the next morning and they replaced both pads with own-brand ones, very efficiently. Sadly, these proved to be not at all comfortably aligned, and then it was a long weekend, through which I wore my *three* other pairs of glasses - distance, reading and computer-range. So I have been enduring that tiresome "old-people" problem of never having the right pair of glasses in the right place. I got the nose pieces readjusted again this morning, but they're still not right so this afternoon I asked them to order in a set of Police fittings. I suspect they will turn out to be shockingly expensive little bits of plastic.
Managing tonight's rehearsal without my varifocals will be… interesting.
On another tangent altogether, I'm amazed how *rude* the Etiquette Hell maven can be. A mean-spirited diatribe on how the recent royal nuptials transgressed against many rules of American etiquette. Hah. Written by someone whose understanding of my country's culture is, shall we say, out of date?
The only point I think is really reasonable is that it would have been right and proper to offer each and every one of the invited guests a couple of sausage rolls and a glass of fizz after the ceremony. I think the Queen has enough room at Buck House to fit them all in, and it really wouldn't have broken the bank.
Otherwise, bah!
There seem to have been half a dozen popslash stories produced this time round, which is a distinct improvement on last year so, well done, signups!
Not so difficult, after all (The Difficulty Level remix) about Brian and AJ and why things are so awkward between them.
Straight Through my Heart (The Can't Stop The Bleeding Mix) is Kevin and Lance meeting in a vampire bar.
Someday He'll Be Taller (the Grownups Have More Fun Mix) is the remix of one of my Dragon Challenge stories from last year, giving rather more depth and detail to Nick's feelings about being the youngest in the group.
As You Like I Love You (being the First Part of The History of Justin Timberlake) is an untraditionally titled remix in blank verse.
Heineken and Daisies (the Baby, We Need To Talk remix), a nice POV-switch version of SnarkyLlama's story in which Lance comes home to discover gifts of alcohol and flowers. This is, I think, my favourite, but then, I think the original is my favourite of the remixed stories, too.
Firebird Suite (Celebrity Mix) is a smart, dark-edged reworking of a smart, dark-edged and sorta mystical original.
It's just possible you may be able to guess which one I wrote.
I confess I failed dismally to write any Remix Madness stories, even though I had one almost in my grasp. Partly it's through feeling *incredibly* tired, and partly through the glasses failure (see below). Sadly, it doesn't look as though anyone produced any popslash for that challenge, although there was potential for such.
And other stories...
My glasses broke a couple of days before the long weekend - one of the little nose-pads fell off. I went to the optician's and discovered it had closed early for staff training, so I went back the next morning and they replaced both pads with own-brand ones, very efficiently. Sadly, these proved to be not at all comfortably aligned, and then it was a long weekend, through which I wore my *three* other pairs of glasses - distance, reading and computer-range. So I have been enduring that tiresome "old-people" problem of never having the right pair of glasses in the right place. I got the nose pieces readjusted again this morning, but they're still not right so this afternoon I asked them to order in a set of Police fittings. I suspect they will turn out to be shockingly expensive little bits of plastic.
Managing tonight's rehearsal without my varifocals will be… interesting.
On another tangent altogether, I'm amazed how *rude* the Etiquette Hell maven can be. A mean-spirited diatribe on how the recent royal nuptials transgressed against many rules of American etiquette. Hah. Written by someone whose understanding of my country's culture is, shall we say, out of date?
The only point I think is really reasonable is that it would have been right and proper to offer each and every one of the invited guests a couple of sausage rolls and a glass of fizz after the ceremony. I think the Queen has enough room at Buck House to fit them all in, and it really wouldn't have broken the bank.
Otherwise, bah!