The Day After
Nov. 16th, 2010 09:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tsukinofaeriiAs per the orders of Mama Jazzy and Mama Mundi, my wrists are wrapped as I type this. Creepy. D: I look like a bright green and purple mummy. It is kind of distracting.
Today I dedicated to resting the hands (mostly), so I spent the majority of my creative time doing the planning I didn't give myself time for in the past two weeks. After juggling things, making notes, and generally figuring out WTF I'm doing, I figure that I will be losing one plot and four scenes, heavily modifying another three, and generally butchering the rest. I have about 14-16 scenes left to write, and have written 28. :| At about ~2k per scene, that's roughly another 30k on the docket before the heavy edits. (Still hating my prose. How many damned times am I going to start sentences with pronouns?)
This is the point where I start thinking that I should apply alcohol and make all of this seem like so much more of a good idea. I should be able to fit this is with my Fic Exchange prompt, but I don't think I will have a chance to write one of the lovely little comm prompts. :( Sadness. I have my eye on #13. D: Want so much! (FTR, it's not mine.)
I did make myself do a little light writing, just to keep momentum. Also. Um. Well, I have roughly two weeks to finish the rough on this thing by my current timeline. And that will give me a couple of weeks for the prompt. Which will immediately be followed by the beta'ing of this. So! Busy Faerii will be busy! Word count hit 51,170, so roughly 1k. Here's the excerpt.
Have I mentioned that I love Ult Thor?
Today I dedicated to resting the hands (mostly), so I spent the majority of my creative time doing the planning I didn't give myself time for in the past two weeks. After juggling things, making notes, and generally figuring out WTF I'm doing, I figure that I will be losing one plot and four scenes, heavily modifying another three, and generally butchering the rest. I have about 14-16 scenes left to write, and have written 28. :| At about ~2k per scene, that's roughly another 30k on the docket before the heavy edits. (Still hating my prose. How many damned times am I going to start sentences with pronouns?)
This is the point where I start thinking that I should apply alcohol and make all of this seem like so much more of a good idea. I should be able to fit this is with my Fic Exchange prompt, but I don't think I will have a chance to write one of the lovely little comm prompts. :( Sadness. I have my eye on #13. D: Want so much! (FTR, it's not mine.)
I did make myself do a little light writing, just to keep momentum. Also. Um. Well, I have roughly two weeks to finish the rough on this thing by my current timeline. And that will give me a couple of weeks for the prompt. Which will immediately be followed by the beta'ing of this. So! Busy Faerii will be busy! Word count hit 51,170, so roughly 1k. Here's the excerpt.
But Tony wasn't done being ungrateful. "If I maul you horribly, it's your own fault. You do know that I have food in the refrigerator, right? Good old bagged blood, courtesy of the American Red Cross and all the people who they turn away for donations."
"Yes, I know, and yes, I will remember that."
Thor started rolling up his sleeve, baring a gloriously muscled forearm. "That is to fresh blood what the recycled sugar water your corporate masters call juice is to real fruit." Thor pressed his arm under Tony's nose, holding it steady with his other hand. "Bite, friend, and feed."
Have I mentioned that I love Ult Thor?
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Date: 2010-11-17 06:12 am (UTC)I kind of love him now too. (Note I haven't read any Ultimates yet)
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Date: 2010-11-17 03:03 pm (UTC)Ooooh, you should read that. It's very different from the main continuity, but it has a lot of its own highlights.
You are keeping them wrapped. Good
Date: 2010-11-17 07:26 am (UTC)Re: You are keeping them wrapped. Good
Date: 2010-11-17 03:04 pm (UTC)Your address is still the same, right? I do not recall you moving.
Yeah, it's the same
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Date: 2010-11-17 03:19 pm (UTC):D Is Steve going to break out in possessive jealousy? Will he deliriously accuse Thor of being a man-stealing ho? Homewrecker. Through the window with you!
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Date: 2010-11-17 03:30 pm (UTC)Steve is being kept pretty much away from windows, as they have moved him to the basement. Also, Steve calling Thor a homewrecker in this would be pricelessly funny, because he has utterly destroyed two different rooms in the past 24 hours. But no, I was thinking more that with certain things I have done to Steve's backstory, it's possible that not only is he the vampire equivalent of junk food (tastes delicious, minimal nutritional value), but also that there could be Side Effects of prolonged nomming.
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Date: 2010-11-17 03:47 pm (UTC)Steve would be indignant to hear he is junk food. He is physically perfect! It is true that 'perfect by human standards' and 'perfect by vampire standards' might have a few differences. Does Tony have some kind of bizarre vitamin deficiency? Or will he catch the srs bzns and >:[ from Steve? Tony will not be pleased if Steve takes away his 'junk food'.
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Date: 2010-11-17 04:33 pm (UTC)(bites fist and bounces up and down) SPOILERS. HERE BE SPOILERS. DO NOT LOOK IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO KNOW.
Tony is showing signs of vampire vitamin deficiency, which did not add originally up with my plans for vampiric nutritional needs (though bagged blood not being as good for him as fresh was a long time plan). Other characters have observed Tony has been a little colder than usual, his skin is a little stiff, and he has new wrinkles. It confused me, until your comment reminded me that the SSS was partly created using the vampire virus as sort of a freezing method. Doc Erskine got Steve to physical perfection with other methods, and then modified and weakened the V. Virus and killed/revived Steve (stopped his heart for short time) in order to keep him there indefinitely. Which is, incidentally, the reason why Steve is sick—the two viruses interact in odd ways. But what it means is that Steve's blood contains the virus, so every time Tony munches on him, he gets hit with a small dose of essentially what is making Steve ill, and it takes more energy to clear up than the rest of Steve's blood supplies. It is as if he's drinking a glass of salt water. Add that to the lowered value in bagged blood, and six months later we have Tony exhibiting signs of undead malnutrition.
I do not think that they will realize this, so it's probably only going to get worse. Wanda and Thor have pointed out that Tony needs fresh food as a supplement, so that will help, but it's not a resolution.
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Date: 2010-11-17 04:43 pm (UTC)Oh dear, so Steve's possessiveness is actually making Tony ill? You will have to address it in the third part.
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Date: 2010-11-17 05:24 pm (UTC)Yes, it is, but I see a phrase in your response that strangely blurry and makes me scared. D:
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Date: 2010-11-17 05:39 pm (UTC)Well, you'll need something for NaNo 2011, right? :D
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Date: 2010-11-17 06:15 pm (UTC)XD LOL You are already planning a year ahead on me?
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Date: 2010-11-17 01:59 pm (UTC)Ok you don't like you prose but at least it's there, easier to fixe sucky prose than to write it perfect the first time. at least in my opinion, ewven if sometimes I have a hard time remembering when the blank page mocks me.
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Date: 2010-11-17 03:08 pm (UTC)Oh, look, Choose Random Icon gave me Steve & Tony kissing. That is a good sign.
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Date: 2010-11-17 06:53 pm (UTC)MiniNaNo has worked the same way for me. Has to write something everyday, let's just go forward
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Date: 2010-11-17 06:51 pm (UTC)