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Ok, so, Yuletide reveal!
My main story, and the one I'm most proud of, was Fearful Symmetry, a Back to the Future alternate timeline where Marty doesn't go back to the Wild West and instead there is lots of exciting technobabble and ultimately I come as close to slashing Marty/Doc as I was comfortable with.
I got lots of compliments on my technobabble. Apparently I came up with more plausible explanations than the movies, which wasn't exactly my intention. I didn't write the story to fanwank the flux capacitor. My recipient was more interested in the characters than in the mechanics of time travel and the only reason I loaded the story down with so much technical conversation about time machines and physics is because Doc and Marty are scientists and that should be the way they talk, damnit. Well, and also because I really wanted to write the drunken physics scene. (Whee! For the second time, I can pull out my drunkenscience tag)
As I wrote in responding to my recipient, I think it is in the end an essentially religious story, deeply informed by my struggles to make sense of the tension between faith and science. Marty and Doc both share with me a faith that the universe has a fundamental order- that entropy is time's arrow, and yet, profoundly and beautifully and strangely, we humans have the capacity to reverse the direction of entropy on a small scale.
I wrote two fairly quick 1000 word stories as treats, too.
The Last Temptation of Eve is a gender-swapped, pov-swapped first person reinterpretation of Josh Ritter's post-apocalyptic love song "The Last Temptation of Adam". The idea occurred to me and I had to write it, and it just flowed out of my fingers. I think the whole story took an hour and a half to write.
If On a Winter's Night a Traveler Fanfic by Mystery Writer is 10 drabbles of exactly 100 words, a quick bit of fluffy metafic that was amusing as hell to write and produced some stories that I kind of want to follow through on. I pranced through 5 very different fandoms, including Fiddler on the Roof! Man, I should write longer Fiddler fic.
And I want to direct everyone's attention again to major_general's East of Eden epilogue And This Story Shall the Good Man Teach His Son
, which remains fantastic on the tenth read.
My main story, and the one I'm most proud of, was Fearful Symmetry, a Back to the Future alternate timeline where Marty doesn't go back to the Wild West and instead there is lots of exciting technobabble and ultimately I come as close to slashing Marty/Doc as I was comfortable with.
I got lots of compliments on my technobabble. Apparently I came up with more plausible explanations than the movies, which wasn't exactly my intention. I didn't write the story to fanwank the flux capacitor. My recipient was more interested in the characters than in the mechanics of time travel and the only reason I loaded the story down with so much technical conversation about time machines and physics is because Doc and Marty are scientists and that should be the way they talk, damnit. Well, and also because I really wanted to write the drunken physics scene. (Whee! For the second time, I can pull out my drunkenscience tag)
As I wrote in responding to my recipient, I think it is in the end an essentially religious story, deeply informed by my struggles to make sense of the tension between faith and science. Marty and Doc both share with me a faith that the universe has a fundamental order- that entropy is time's arrow, and yet, profoundly and beautifully and strangely, we humans have the capacity to reverse the direction of entropy on a small scale.
I wrote two fairly quick 1000 word stories as treats, too.
The Last Temptation of Eve is a gender-swapped, pov-swapped first person reinterpretation of Josh Ritter's post-apocalyptic love song "The Last Temptation of Adam". The idea occurred to me and I had to write it, and it just flowed out of my fingers. I think the whole story took an hour and a half to write.
If On a Winter's Night a Traveler Fanfic by Mystery Writer is 10 drabbles of exactly 100 words, a quick bit of fluffy metafic that was amusing as hell to write and produced some stories that I kind of want to follow through on. I pranced through 5 very different fandoms, including Fiddler on the Roof! Man, I should write longer Fiddler fic.
And I want to direct everyone's attention again to major_general's East of Eden epilogue And This Story Shall the Good Man Teach His Son
, which remains fantastic on the tenth read.
