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noel_of_spike. A simple tale, I told myself, not much more than a PWP, and about time I got back to what I used to think of as my OTP.
More within, with brief spoilers for True Blood season 1 ep 4.
However, it's turning out to be a lot harder than I thought it would be (doesn't it always?). I think I'm just, plain running out of cunning plans to get Angel and Spike into bed together. So far, it's taken them 7 pages and their motivation (or Angel's anyway) is totally shot given the timeframe. I think I'll just have to write the sex scene and then twist the story around it.
Speaking of which, it's a fanfic cliche, but a true one, that sex scenes get harder and harder to write as you go along. Okay, so you start off rather pleased with yourself that you've managed to write one at all. Then you get your confidence and write lots of them. Then you begin to get a bit blase. And finally you get to the point where you skip the sex scenes in other people's fics to read the 'good' bits, having started off (not always but sometimes) coming from the complete opposite direction. And occasionally along the way you have a 'wobble' when you decide that the sex scenes you wrote and that people said were 'hot' were nothing of the kind and they were just being nice to you.
Mind you, that happens about fanfic writing in general, not just sex scenes.
So anyway, yes, Angel and Spike shall have sex this Christmas in my story (unless they just go off the idea and decide to have a nice mug of cocoa instead), but hopefully there will be a little more to it too.
Watched ep 4 of True Blood season 1 last night - the one where the famous Eric finally appears. I thought this was the best episode yet, with the rather slapstick (possibly not the best word in the circumstances) comedy of what happened to poor old Jason (the faux labour scene in the hospital was hilarious), the turns from various odd locals, including William Sanderson as the sheriff (he doesn't seem to have changed much since Bladerunner), the scenes in the vampire bar and Bill's thralling of the policeman.
I'm still getting a Twilight-y vibe off Bill and Sookie (only mitigated by the fact that Sookie is considerably less annoying than Bella and at least seems to have a sense of humour, and at least Bill doesn't bloody sparkle), but found Bill slightly less boring in this episode. As for Eric, though the actor does nothing for me (a bit too Aryan superman for my taste), I like the character and the whole vampire bar set-up, which sort of suggests that True Bloodverse vampires are omnisexual etc etc. The hierarchical nature of their society as portrayed in what I've seen so far (the older you are, the more powerful you are is how it comes across) doesn't thrill me, though. I do wonder why this is such a cliche of vampire stories, even when the source material isn't much concerned with vampires at all. For instance, Buffyverse fanfic centring around the vampire characters has more or less had to create their society from scratch since Joss himself was never interested in it, and the same hierarchical pattern according to age occurs a lot in that. Is it just because of the Master (and Kakistos a little), because there are other old vampires in the Buffyverse who don't seem to command much respect?
Finally, I still sometimes find myself thinking it's weird how much I love the Buffyverse given that I don't actually like vampire stories and never usually read/watch them. You could say, I suppose, that this is because BtVS isn't actually about vampires, but then the problem for me remains that, apart from Buffy herself, I like the vampire characters best.
Odd. And even odder that without BtVS, which isn't about vampires, but in which I like the vampire characters best, I would never even have thought of watching True Blood, because it's about vampires and I'm not interested in them.
noel_of_spike. A simple tale, I told myself, not much more than a PWP, and about time I got back to what I used to think of as my OTP.More within, with brief spoilers for True Blood season 1 ep 4.
However, it's turning out to be a lot harder than I thought it would be (doesn't it always?). I think I'm just, plain running out of cunning plans to get Angel and Spike into bed together. So far, it's taken them 7 pages and their motivation (or Angel's anyway) is totally shot given the timeframe. I think I'll just have to write the sex scene and then twist the story around it.
Speaking of which, it's a fanfic cliche, but a true one, that sex scenes get harder and harder to write as you go along. Okay, so you start off rather pleased with yourself that you've managed to write one at all. Then you get your confidence and write lots of them. Then you begin to get a bit blase. And finally you get to the point where you skip the sex scenes in other people's fics to read the 'good' bits, having started off (not always but sometimes) coming from the complete opposite direction. And occasionally along the way you have a 'wobble' when you decide that the sex scenes you wrote and that people said were 'hot' were nothing of the kind and they were just being nice to you.
Mind you, that happens about fanfic writing in general, not just sex scenes.
So anyway, yes, Angel and Spike shall have sex this Christmas in my story (unless they just go off the idea and decide to have a nice mug of cocoa instead), but hopefully there will be a little more to it too.
Watched ep 4 of True Blood season 1 last night - the one where the famous Eric finally appears. I thought this was the best episode yet, with the rather slapstick (possibly not the best word in the circumstances) comedy of what happened to poor old Jason (the faux labour scene in the hospital was hilarious), the turns from various odd locals, including William Sanderson as the sheriff (he doesn't seem to have changed much since Bladerunner), the scenes in the vampire bar and Bill's thralling of the policeman.
I'm still getting a Twilight-y vibe off Bill and Sookie (only mitigated by the fact that Sookie is considerably less annoying than Bella and at least seems to have a sense of humour, and at least Bill doesn't bloody sparkle), but found Bill slightly less boring in this episode. As for Eric, though the actor does nothing for me (a bit too Aryan superman for my taste), I like the character and the whole vampire bar set-up, which sort of suggests that True Bloodverse vampires are omnisexual etc etc. The hierarchical nature of their society as portrayed in what I've seen so far (the older you are, the more powerful you are is how it comes across) doesn't thrill me, though. I do wonder why this is such a cliche of vampire stories, even when the source material isn't much concerned with vampires at all. For instance, Buffyverse fanfic centring around the vampire characters has more or less had to create their society from scratch since Joss himself was never interested in it, and the same hierarchical pattern according to age occurs a lot in that. Is it just because of the Master (and Kakistos a little), because there are other old vampires in the Buffyverse who don't seem to command much respect?
Finally, I still sometimes find myself thinking it's weird how much I love the Buffyverse given that I don't actually like vampire stories and never usually read/watch them. You could say, I suppose, that this is because BtVS isn't actually about vampires, but then the problem for me remains that, apart from Buffy herself, I like the vampire characters best.
Odd. And even odder that without BtVS, which isn't about vampires, but in which I like the vampire characters best, I would never even have thought of watching True Blood, because it's about vampires and I'm not interested in them.
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Date: 2009-10-30 10:20 am (UTC)Yes, probably. I hope it turns out to be nothing. Also, I don't think I can have had swine flu after all, just some low level virus, as I'm pretty much better now apart from a niggly cough.
What strikes me every time I see the actor who plays Bill in an interview, he is so much better looking and attractive than the way he appears on TB
They do seem to have made him look as unattractive as they possibly could. I wonder why? And it doesn't surprise me to read that William Sanderson is never out of work. He pops up all over the place. He was even in Babylon 5.
Re: the sex scene, I try to avoid too much detail these days, partly because I'm afraid of getting it wrong and making a fool of myself, but mainly because I long since decided that less is more. Even the best writers (and I'm thinking of one in particular, though naming no names) can end up coming across like a sex education manual.
I suppose there might have been a time when I regarded ending the fic before the sex scene as a cheat, but not any more.