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beccaelizabethAchievments of the day:
woke up feeling stabby
did not stab anyone
okay, small achievement, but I'm counting it.
New food will be here sometime before 10pm. Yesterday I was awake at that time quite comfortably. Today I wish to be asleep. This is unhelpful.
Tomorrow is early class again - last one this year, although I'm going in next week too for hand in and stuff. After that I fully intend to not choose any classes that happen before 1000 ever again.
You know, if that's remotely possible.
It's the traffic. The hour could be wrong no matter when on the clock it is, but trying to go places at places going time is just massively unworky. Blah.
After next week there will be no college for many months.
I intend to write fic.
My Ripper: Fools Journey series is calling again.
Trouble is the particular one that is calling is the one with the character I haven't reintroduced yet. But the story is shiny and in my head has not-technically-Duncan-MacLeod in drag. The pretty actually trying sort, not the comedy sort.
... okay, so it's possible that's only a plus for a very limited audience.
It's Temperance, and I've only written up to High Priestess.
Meh.
I could make little summaries of all the plot bunnies and then bounce around the series at random.
I suspect though that would work about as well as me writing out of order ever does - by the time I get there, there has to be somewhere else.
Also unhelpful is I've just thought of a way to rewrite Magician so it has a whole extra set of characters and some parallels to play with yet retains the claustrophobic feeling I wanted. But rewriting old fic is not in fact a useful thing to do.
Next fic in the series is Andrew, Giles, and Ethan investigating a haunting house. I ran it as an RPG once, which leads to the funny teaser with the builders. Most of the rest of the RPG I shall have to file as what not to do. People sort of gave up. Oops.
But I have an ending now, and it is shiny.
Card is 'Empress', fic is 'House and Home'.
After that is 'Emperor', which I thought was about fathers, but then realised it had to be about brothers too.
Hierophant is fun but currently shallow. I can only remember the bit of the plot which is necessary to the whole rest of the season, not the actual emotional framework I was going to put it in. This maybe suggests it weren't quite right.
I know this one has a whole thing where Giles and Ethan are both teaching Andrew, and from Andrew's point of view it's a bit like those things where there's a devil on one shoulder and an angel on the other. Only in an Order/Chaos way.
Also they retrieve Plot Coupons, to be cashed in for story later.
I think the key has to be a whole 'good old days' thing, where we flash to my version of the past where Giles and Ethan broke up, because that was about Ethan's magic. And then they go hunting stuff Ethan used to own, and end up in a whole mess of trouble.
It ends up with Ethan out in the rain being a drama queen, and a bolt of lightning.
Lovers/Choice is a whole adventure where everyone is not quite sure if they're dead. And also there's amnesia. Except for Andrew. He just does CPR.
It's a lot more exciting when it's all happening in detail.
Chariot has Oz. And also a car. One of these is more or less an excuse for the other.
Strength has a fight scene. Possibly need a plot to put it in. Also it has a good cliffhanger.
Hermit follows the cliffhanger and also has an independent yet themey plot with Andrew and Oz.
Wheel of Fortune resolves the cliffhanger and brings Andrew back together with Giles. Andrew quoting from the DVD extras on the geek edition of Lord of the Rings is key to the plot resolution. Also Andrew saves the day.
Unfortunately for Andrew that whole "I curse you with my last breath" thing works a whole lot more literally in the Buffyverse.
Justice is actually about Karma, and Andrew, and lingering doubts about if he is in fact a good guy now.
Willow is involved.
Hanged Man currently requires a slightly unlikely setup involving an armed bank robbery happening at random, but what it's actually about is werewolves. This is because I have a version of the Tarot that has a Shapeshifter card instead of the Hanged Man.
There's lots of running around London.
It's actually kind of skinny as it stands for one of my plots. I mean, lots of action adventure cliffhanger stuff, and stuff for Ethan to do, but not a whole lot of emotional involvement.
Hmmm... Giles running around London at night. There's flashback mileage there. And the whole point of involving Oz was really about Ripper and anger issues and if Giles has a split personality (which he totally totally doesn't, but the whole thing where some people can look at available evidence and decide he does). So flashbacks would tie that in and make it more texty and less sub.
Then there's Death.
The plot on that one involves Giles taking Oz back to his flat in a place that isn't London. By train. Andrew gets the car.
Huh. That would be, like, metaphor for Andrew taking control of Andrew life. Except for he's still in a borrowed car.
Cool.
ANYways, Andrew does something unwise with something earned in Hierophant, and Giles and Oz sleep on the train.
It's more exciting than it sounds.
Temperance is the one with the gay bar.
I have many many emotional bits and plot threads to go there.
Also, pretty men in sparkly dresses, dancing by moonlight with wolfboy.
And Andrew picks up a guy who not only looks like Nightwing, he knows who Nightwing is.
Giles and Ethan dance. Which is sort of sad, cause my 'verse Ethan is still a ghost.
And the actual plot is to do with the pub across the road with the very traditional owner, and his son who wants to be more his own man.
I think the only one who doesn't get a semi independent plot thread is Ethan, but he's the one who bounces around between them making snarky comments.
The Devil is about werewolves, and introduces the season Big Bad. There's a whole six stories left after this one, so more of an end-of-season Big Bad. Also he's not very big.
But in my head he looks like Kronos without the scar.
Also we have further proof that Andrew has the worst taste in men. And after serving his parent pissing off purpose, he gets dumped. Woe.
... I think this is the one where everyone except Ethan ends up naked in bed together. And then Xander walks in. And joins them.
So, you know, limited woe.
Tower makes people dead again. But with a happy ending!
And there's a whole angsty bit in the hospital that rather depends on having already established that werewolves are very hard to kill.
Also Andrew finds out that no actually there was no mystery there, he's just dumped. For real.
But first he does something very unwise with another plot coupon from Hierophant, including instruction from Ethan, who isn't really paying attention at this point and later on ignores Andrew completely.
... I just realised how come this follows Devil. It isn't random. They're sneaking back to investigate something on the BB's land. Andrew travels seperately. Then plot happens.
With lotsnlots of ghosts.
Star is the one where Giles and Ethan spend the whole episode in bed.
Andrew sulks and goes to London and finds a new set of friends.
So the coven is up to eight members again, and hits the town to celebrate.
When Ethan finds out he will approve.
Worry.
This is also full of flashbacks to other coven days, Giles and Ethan stuff.
But there's no Oz in the plan.
Moon is another werewolf one.
I remember two plots for the werewolf story, but I wasn't sure which order they go in. Oops. Er, the logical one involves a whole lots more werewolves in this one than in Devil. Also that way a spell used on Oz earlier gets used on a larger scale here.
Therefore this is the one with puppies.
And Giles gets shot with the wild juice.
And Andrew's ex gets in the way of Oz.
Then there is Sun. Which I can't describe at all without giving away the Huge Great Plot Twistthat isn't an obvious pun at all.
Because of the events in Moon, the BB is very pissed off, and that leads to someone needing rescuing. Giles and Andrew and Oz and Ethan and some of Andrew's new friends go and launch a rescue, but it goes a bit pear shaped, so a much bigger rescue is needed in
Judgement.
Giles and allies gathered in Tower, Andrew and allies gathered in Star, Oz and allies gathered in Moon, and Ethan... who actually is babysitting, I guess. Probably needs something cool to do too. Involves doors and gods and stuff, that being his thing.
All out assault on a heavily defended lair.
There's much coolness.
... looking over those plots I do see how Ethan could be considered rather underused. I mean with the ghost thing he has to tempt others into doing stuff, and rarely gets to do stuff himself. I shall have to work on that.
The World
last in the first season
loops back to 0 and gets the Council back in.
Basically, Giles and Ethan and Andrew and Oz have been off in their own little world for most of this season, but now the outside world would like a word with them. And possibly that word is 'Tribunal'.
But it's also the one where everything from 0 gets *resolved*, and it turns out the whole season ties together.
I can still write out the complete season's plot bunnies from memory.
I think this is still stories that want told.
And the fun thing about the RFJ stories is the first season is just the setup for a much cooler season where Ethan gets to be as powerful as he wants. Sort of. And there's more characters, some of them girls, at least some of the time. It's very cool in my head.
And I know what the Emperor card is about with quite a lot of details.
... if I wrote down as much as I thought up I'd be the most prolific author in LJ.
*sigh*
woke up feeling stabby
did not stab anyone
okay, small achievement, but I'm counting it.
New food will be here sometime before 10pm. Yesterday I was awake at that time quite comfortably. Today I wish to be asleep. This is unhelpful.
Tomorrow is early class again - last one this year, although I'm going in next week too for hand in and stuff. After that I fully intend to not choose any classes that happen before 1000 ever again.
You know, if that's remotely possible.
It's the traffic. The hour could be wrong no matter when on the clock it is, but trying to go places at places going time is just massively unworky. Blah.
After next week there will be no college for many months.
I intend to write fic.
My Ripper: Fools Journey series is calling again.
Trouble is the particular one that is calling is the one with the character I haven't reintroduced yet. But the story is shiny and in my head has not-technically-Duncan-MacLeod in drag. The pretty actually trying sort, not the comedy sort.
... okay, so it's possible that's only a plus for a very limited audience.
It's Temperance, and I've only written up to High Priestess.
Meh.
I could make little summaries of all the plot bunnies and then bounce around the series at random.
I suspect though that would work about as well as me writing out of order ever does - by the time I get there, there has to be somewhere else.
Also unhelpful is I've just thought of a way to rewrite Magician so it has a whole extra set of characters and some parallels to play with yet retains the claustrophobic feeling I wanted. But rewriting old fic is not in fact a useful thing to do.
Next fic in the series is Andrew, Giles, and Ethan investigating a haunting house. I ran it as an RPG once, which leads to the funny teaser with the builders. Most of the rest of the RPG I shall have to file as what not to do. People sort of gave up. Oops.
But I have an ending now, and it is shiny.
Card is 'Empress', fic is 'House and Home'.
After that is 'Emperor', which I thought was about fathers, but then realised it had to be about brothers too.
Hierophant is fun but currently shallow. I can only remember the bit of the plot which is necessary to the whole rest of the season, not the actual emotional framework I was going to put it in. This maybe suggests it weren't quite right.
I know this one has a whole thing where Giles and Ethan are both teaching Andrew, and from Andrew's point of view it's a bit like those things where there's a devil on one shoulder and an angel on the other. Only in an Order/Chaos way.
Also they retrieve Plot Coupons, to be cashed in for story later.
I think the key has to be a whole 'good old days' thing, where we flash to my version of the past where Giles and Ethan broke up, because that was about Ethan's magic. And then they go hunting stuff Ethan used to own, and end up in a whole mess of trouble.
It ends up with Ethan out in the rain being a drama queen, and a bolt of lightning.
Lovers/Choice is a whole adventure where everyone is not quite sure if they're dead. And also there's amnesia. Except for Andrew. He just does CPR.
It's a lot more exciting when it's all happening in detail.
Chariot has Oz. And also a car. One of these is more or less an excuse for the other.
Strength has a fight scene. Possibly need a plot to put it in. Also it has a good cliffhanger.
Hermit follows the cliffhanger and also has an independent yet themey plot with Andrew and Oz.
Wheel of Fortune resolves the cliffhanger and brings Andrew back together with Giles. Andrew quoting from the DVD extras on the geek edition of Lord of the Rings is key to the plot resolution. Also Andrew saves the day.
Unfortunately for Andrew that whole "I curse you with my last breath" thing works a whole lot more literally in the Buffyverse.
Justice is actually about Karma, and Andrew, and lingering doubts about if he is in fact a good guy now.
Willow is involved.
Hanged Man currently requires a slightly unlikely setup involving an armed bank robbery happening at random, but what it's actually about is werewolves. This is because I have a version of the Tarot that has a Shapeshifter card instead of the Hanged Man.
There's lots of running around London.
It's actually kind of skinny as it stands for one of my plots. I mean, lots of action adventure cliffhanger stuff, and stuff for Ethan to do, but not a whole lot of emotional involvement.
Hmmm... Giles running around London at night. There's flashback mileage there. And the whole point of involving Oz was really about Ripper and anger issues and if Giles has a split personality (which he totally totally doesn't, but the whole thing where some people can look at available evidence and decide he does). So flashbacks would tie that in and make it more texty and less sub.
Then there's Death.
The plot on that one involves Giles taking Oz back to his flat in a place that isn't London. By train. Andrew gets the car.
Huh. That would be, like, metaphor for Andrew taking control of Andrew life. Except for he's still in a borrowed car.
Cool.
ANYways, Andrew does something unwise with something earned in Hierophant, and Giles and Oz sleep on the train.
It's more exciting than it sounds.
Temperance is the one with the gay bar.
I have many many emotional bits and plot threads to go there.
Also, pretty men in sparkly dresses, dancing by moonlight with wolfboy.
And Andrew picks up a guy who not only looks like Nightwing, he knows who Nightwing is.
Giles and Ethan dance. Which is sort of sad, cause my 'verse Ethan is still a ghost.
And the actual plot is to do with the pub across the road with the very traditional owner, and his son who wants to be more his own man.
I think the only one who doesn't get a semi independent plot thread is Ethan, but he's the one who bounces around between them making snarky comments.
The Devil is about werewolves, and introduces the season Big Bad. There's a whole six stories left after this one, so more of an end-of-season Big Bad. Also he's not very big.
But in my head he looks like Kronos without the scar.
Also we have further proof that Andrew has the worst taste in men. And after serving his parent pissing off purpose, he gets dumped. Woe.
... I think this is the one where everyone except Ethan ends up naked in bed together. And then Xander walks in. And joins them.
So, you know, limited woe.
Tower makes people dead again. But with a happy ending!
And there's a whole angsty bit in the hospital that rather depends on having already established that werewolves are very hard to kill.
Also Andrew finds out that no actually there was no mystery there, he's just dumped. For real.
But first he does something very unwise with another plot coupon from Hierophant, including instruction from Ethan, who isn't really paying attention at this point and later on ignores Andrew completely.
... I just realised how come this follows Devil. It isn't random. They're sneaking back to investigate something on the BB's land. Andrew travels seperately. Then plot happens.
With lotsnlots of ghosts.
Star is the one where Giles and Ethan spend the whole episode in bed.
Andrew sulks and goes to London and finds a new set of friends.
So the coven is up to eight members again, and hits the town to celebrate.
When Ethan finds out he will approve.
Worry.
This is also full of flashbacks to other coven days, Giles and Ethan stuff.
But there's no Oz in the plan.
Moon is another werewolf one.
I remember two plots for the werewolf story, but I wasn't sure which order they go in. Oops. Er, the logical one involves a whole lots more werewolves in this one than in Devil. Also that way a spell used on Oz earlier gets used on a larger scale here.
Therefore this is the one with puppies.
And Giles gets shot with the wild juice.
And Andrew's ex gets in the way of Oz.
Then there is Sun. Which I can't describe at all without giving away the Huge Great Plot Twist
Because of the events in Moon, the BB is very pissed off, and that leads to someone needing rescuing. Giles and Andrew and Oz and Ethan and some of Andrew's new friends go and launch a rescue, but it goes a bit pear shaped, so a much bigger rescue is needed in
Judgement.
Giles and allies gathered in Tower, Andrew and allies gathered in Star, Oz and allies gathered in Moon, and Ethan... who actually is babysitting, I guess. Probably needs something cool to do too. Involves doors and gods and stuff, that being his thing.
All out assault on a heavily defended lair.
There's much coolness.
... looking over those plots I do see how Ethan could be considered rather underused. I mean with the ghost thing he has to tempt others into doing stuff, and rarely gets to do stuff himself. I shall have to work on that.
The World
last in the first season
loops back to 0 and gets the Council back in.
Basically, Giles and Ethan and Andrew and Oz have been off in their own little world for most of this season, but now the outside world would like a word with them. And possibly that word is 'Tribunal'.
But it's also the one where everything from 0 gets *resolved*, and it turns out the whole season ties together.
I can still write out the complete season's plot bunnies from memory.
I think this is still stories that want told.
And the fun thing about the RFJ stories is the first season is just the setup for a much cooler season where Ethan gets to be as powerful as he wants. Sort of. And there's more characters, some of them girls, at least some of the time. It's very cool in my head.
And I know what the Emperor card is about with quite a lot of details.
... if I wrote down as much as I thought up I'd be the most prolific author in LJ.
*sigh*
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Date: 2007-05-09 10:06 pm (UTC)(Or, get it done by my date and I'll write a review of it as meta or something.)
I think I friended you on the basis of what I'd read of RFJ, right when I joined Live Journal, and I often feel guilty I don't have time to read your posts on other fandoms. But I do try to follow what's going on, and chime in from time to time.
Hob
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Date: 2007-05-10 04:19 am (UTC)Yay! Yay! Yay!!!!!
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Date: 2007-05-10 05:20 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-05-10 03:50 pm (UTC)I am amused that "Temperance is the one with the gay bar". According to this theory that correlates zodiac signs with tarot cards, that's my card.
So in the Beccaverse, I correlate with a gay bar. Hee.
Yes, the daughters frequently roll their eyes at me (not that I would mention the above).
Anne, professional Weirdo Mom
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Date: 2007-05-10 06:26 pm (UTC)It was just - I was trying to think of somewhere you'd see someone standing in a dress and angel wings with a glass in each hand. And some venues sprang to mind.