The best laid plans...
Nov. 29th, 2012 05:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenakMy actual Yuletide assignment being written, beta'd, edited and posted, I feel ready to move on to the next stage of Yuletide angst. You know, the one where the glow of satisfaction that the story is accomplished is quickly followed up with "but will anyone read it... oh damm, it's an entire month more until I find out!" Since I wrote a treat before the actual assignment, I can now fret for two stories instead of one, but on the bright side, the week before Christmas won't have any panicked "but I haven't posted my story yet and when the hell should I find the time?" cramps.
Uploading the story, I idly checked my statistics at the AO3 and was surprised. For years the most read stories had remained constant (the most often read was Spinning Fate, as it happens a Yuletide 2009 story), but this year the Arachne-Strikes-Back tale got toppled by a new story. A hastily written Remix Madness tale from this year, which when it was first posted hadn't been reviewed by anyone before the name reveal. And now has double as much hits as any other story of mine at the AO3, so colour me stunned, because Messenger (The Earl Grey Remix) is hardly the best thing I ever wrote. I can only conclude that it a) got that many hits because the original is a story bypenknife, and/or b) Jean-Luc Picard character introspection complete with Spock's Dad And Spock is popular. Merci, mon capitaine. Anyway, neither Picard nor any Vulcans are in either of my two Yuletide tales, and both fandom I picked are relatively obscure (but then that is the point of Yuletide), so I don't expect the statistic to change again any time soon.
Rather counter productive to my plan of Yuletide angsting is the fact I came across this lovely, incredibly relaxing and fond smile inducing Avengers tale:
Tea, Chocolate, Coffee: In which Bruce, Pepper and Tony live their lives as a threesome, and this is so my fanon until the inevitable day when canon angst will return to the Marvel Movie Universe with the release of a new film.
On another note, I was thrilled to read that there will be a radio production of Neverwhere (by Neil Gaiman, aka the one he first wrote as a tv miniseries and then as a novel), with a dream cast that includes James McAvoy as Richard, Natalie Dormer as Door, David Harewood as the Marquis, Sophie Okonedo as Hunter, Benedict Cumberbatch as Islington and Anthony Head as Croup. And Christopher Lee as the Earl, which makes Neil Gaiman adorably fanboyish in his post. (Who can blame him?) I was also thrilled to discover Jack Harkness' daughter Alice, aka Lucy Cohu, in a minor role (she's Lamia). A radio series won't have the problem that troubled N.G. about the tv series (let's just say the BBC budget for the great Beast was, errr....), and the actors are fantastic. I'm so looking forward to this. Also it reminds me there was a reason why I kept using the term "London Below" when writing my Bond meta, and that someone should write a crossover AU where M and Bond go on the run there, instead of Scotland, pursued by Silva, of course. Because M has been been there before as a young agent, though not since then; she has made arrangements that mean no interference from either side. But after Silva does that thing he does with the London Tube, certain dignitaries in London Below see this as an outrageous violation of the treaty and her responsibility (she created Silva), so M and Bond have those pissed off entities after them as well as Silva, who is mad enough to find the way all on his own. Whom will the Marquis sell to whom? Will Bond avoid hitting on Lamia and get himself (nearly?) killed again? Will M manage to keep outright war breaking out between Below and Above? Etc. Come on. It would be glorious.
Uploading the story, I idly checked my statistics at the AO3 and was surprised. For years the most read stories had remained constant (the most often read was Spinning Fate, as it happens a Yuletide 2009 story), but this year the Arachne-Strikes-Back tale got toppled by a new story. A hastily written Remix Madness tale from this year, which when it was first posted hadn't been reviewed by anyone before the name reveal. And now has double as much hits as any other story of mine at the AO3, so colour me stunned, because Messenger (The Earl Grey Remix) is hardly the best thing I ever wrote. I can only conclude that it a) got that many hits because the original is a story by
penknife, and/or b) Jean-Luc Picard character introspection complete with Spock's Dad And Spock is popular. Merci, mon capitaine. Anyway, neither Picard nor any Vulcans are in either of my two Yuletide tales, and both fandom I picked are relatively obscure (but then that is the point of Yuletide), so I don't expect the statistic to change again any time soon. Rather counter productive to my plan of Yuletide angsting is the fact I came across this lovely, incredibly relaxing and fond smile inducing Avengers tale:
Tea, Chocolate, Coffee: In which Bruce, Pepper and Tony live their lives as a threesome, and this is so my fanon until the inevitable day when canon angst will return to the Marvel Movie Universe with the release of a new film.
On another note, I was thrilled to read that there will be a radio production of Neverwhere (by Neil Gaiman, aka the one he first wrote as a tv miniseries and then as a novel), with a dream cast that includes James McAvoy as Richard, Natalie Dormer as Door, David Harewood as the Marquis, Sophie Okonedo as Hunter, Benedict Cumberbatch as Islington and Anthony Head as Croup. And Christopher Lee as the Earl, which makes Neil Gaiman adorably fanboyish in his post. (Who can blame him?) I was also thrilled to discover Jack Harkness' daughter Alice, aka Lucy Cohu, in a minor role (she's Lamia). A radio series won't have the problem that troubled N.G. about the tv series (let's just say the BBC budget for the great Beast was, errr....), and the actors are fantastic. I'm so looking forward to this. Also it reminds me there was a reason why I kept using the term "London Below" when writing my Bond meta, and that someone should write a crossover AU where M and Bond go on the run there, instead of Scotland, pursued by Silva, of course. Because M has been been there before as a young agent, though not since then; she has made arrangements that mean no interference from either side. But after Silva does that thing he does with the London Tube, certain dignitaries in London Below see this as an outrageous violation of the treaty and her responsibility (she created Silva), so M and Bond have those pissed off entities after them as well as Silva, who is mad enough to find the way all on his own. Whom will the Marquis sell to whom? Will Bond avoid hitting on Lamia and get himself (nearly?) killed again? Will M manage to keep outright war breaking out between Below and Above? Etc. Come on. It would be glorious.
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Date: 2012-11-29 04:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-11-29 05:40 pm (UTC)I also marked it "gen", so presumably no one hoping for Picard/Spock or Picard/Sarek ended up there...
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Date: 2012-11-29 05:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-11-29 07:21 pm (UTC)YES. And by YES I mean OH MY GOD WHY DOES THIS NOT EXIST?
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Date: 2012-11-30 08:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-12-17 03:24 am (UTC)