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xmentreatyoselfHey, guys! Signups closed earlier this week, and it's now time for our first check-in post. :DDD
Now that you've had a week or two to think about your project, we'd love to hear about what part of it excites you the most! What's really making you itch to work on it it? Is it the overall idea that excites you, or one very specific part you can picture so clearly in your head that you're dying to get to it?
Conversely, if you signed up without knowing what you wanted to work on, is there anything at all that's striking your fancy? Any vague ideas you'd like to brainstorm? We can help with that!
You may also post excerpts/thumbnails/sound bites of whatever you are working on here, if you have started already and want to share. We would love to cheer you on!! If you're writing fic, we suggest posting three lines or so, and, though we're not quite sure of what the equivalent of three lines would be for podfic or art, we'd love to see some small part of your progress there as well!
[Check-in posts are 100% optional. You may post logged-in or anonymously, whichever you prefer, and conversations in the comments are not only allowed but encouraged. You do not have to answer the questions posed in the post if you'd rather talk about some other aspect of your project instead. TALK ABOUT FANWORKS, TREAT YO SELF. :DDDDD]
Now that you've had a week or two to think about your project, we'd love to hear about what part of it excites you the most! What's really making you itch to work on it it? Is it the overall idea that excites you, or one very specific part you can picture so clearly in your head that you're dying to get to it?
Conversely, if you signed up without knowing what you wanted to work on, is there anything at all that's striking your fancy? Any vague ideas you'd like to brainstorm? We can help with that!
You may also post excerpts/thumbnails/sound bites of whatever you are working on here, if you have started already and want to share. We would love to cheer you on!! If you're writing fic, we suggest posting three lines or so, and, though we're not quite sure of what the equivalent of three lines would be for podfic or art, we'd love to see some small part of your progress there as well!
[Check-in posts are 100% optional. You may post logged-in or anonymously, whichever you prefer, and conversations in the comments are not only allowed but encouraged. You do not have to answer the questions posed in the post if you'd rather talk about some other aspect of your project instead. TALK ABOUT FANWORKS, TREAT YO SELF. :DDDDD]
I am the most indecisive XD
Date: 2015-03-14 04:04 pm (UTC)If you haven't decided what to work on for Treat Yo Self, never fear, because I'm a mod and I haven't either!!! I will probably keep writing other things until crunch time in the middle of April, when I will hopefully decide on one of my ~5k ideas (or come up with a new one) and get to work. I thought about just using this time to work on my existing WIP even though I wouldn't be able to post it to the Treat Yo Self collection, and I still do intend to do that once I'm done with the current fic I'm writing for a friend, but I really do want to post to the collection during the anon period and I really do want it to be a (for me) more substantial story than my usual oneshots...so I need to decide on something at some point. But it probably won't be until later, when the deadline is looming, and will totally depend on what I'm feeling then.
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Date: 2015-03-14 06:50 pm (UTC)Re: I am the most indecisive XD
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Date: 2015-03-14 06:48 pm (UTC)My personal goal is to finish the deeply self-indulgent D/s AU I've been working on where Charles is a police crisis counselor who gets assigned to Erik's abuse case (he's escaping a relationship with Shaw, natch). There's some silly world-building where submissives are treated like children who have to be in the custody of a dominate at all times, which is basically an excuse for Charles to end up as Erik's temporary dom and help him navigate their state's extremely shitty family court system.
It's been the comfort fic I write in my head when I'm falling asleep for more than a year now, and I'm super excited to work on it in a more focused manner. I have around 10k written so far but I want to buckle down and write the actual plot bits and not just endless h/c or porn. A snippet of the most recent scene I've been working on:
Charles is ready this time; his hand extended with his palm up so Erik can give the stainless steel ring to him. It feels very heavy as Charles closes his fingers around it. He very carefully doesn't think about where it just was, or about the obvious warmth it still retains from Erik's body heat.
"Okay, get dressed." Charles says, rolling backward a few paces so he can turn around and get out of the bathroom. "I'm going to start making dinner."
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Date: 2015-03-14 08:09 pm (UTC)The first is a post-DOFP Cherik mpreg fic (with mpreg!Erik). I've mainly written mpreg!Charles so it's definitely interesting writing mpreg!Erik especially trying to keep it as Erik-y as possible and also the fact that the relationship between he and Charles is still strained at this point and I don't necessarily want it to be "oh we're having a baby and everything is better" but I'm also not the best at writing angst/conflict and I'd like to try to have them at some sort of compromise or start of one by the time the baby is born. I've written 1.4k words on it so far.
The second is a McFassy fic, where they try experimenting with D/s things (not as a D/s verse but just them trying the dynamic in their relationship) with sub!Michael (mostly because of my want for more sub!Michael because there isn't enough of it.) I have 1.7k on it so far and it's mainly them discussing the idea/dynamic.
I do have a third idea but it's probably not going to be something I post for this, so I might only work on it occasionally while working on the others.
Knowing me, even with my Spring Break end of this month, I might end up throwing myself into one of these in order to have something to finish by the posting period because school tends to get in the way of my writing time after spring break. But I will aim to have one of them finished to post at least.
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Date: 2015-03-15 04:50 am (UTC)The first two of those are a fantasy AU with dark!Charles and an age difference AU with older!Charles (both Cherik, of course :D). I've talked about these with some people in the tales chat, and both seem like they are very interesting to people! Both of these are also supposed to be EPIC and LONG and therefore not as likely to get done. But I really want to write them! D:
The second would be a continuation fic for one of my AU oneshots, which features college student!Erik who harasses and falls in love with high school student!Charles. That one would be exploring more of their relationship and it's obstacles, and is also probably the most manageable one to write tbh. But it's also probably not that self-indulgent.
The last two would be finishing my two WIPs posted to AO3, but those are both already public and not as appealing therefore. Though I DO really need to finish those too . . .
AND I want to draw some fanart too! To go with any of the above stories!
Moral of the story: I HAVE NO CLUE. BUT SOMETHING. SOMETHING WILL BE WRITTEN. AND DRAWN. SOMEHOW.
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Date: 2015-03-21 12:09 am (UTC)I'm in love with you.
The words hang heavy in the air, overtop the silence that permeates Charles’ study. Outside of the door, the voices of the children can be heard, playing in the halls. Erik’s face is serious and determined, a little bit afraid, and so, so young. Charles can barely collect his thoughts, too overwhelmed by the revelation. So he says the first thing that comes to his mind, shocked and full of rejection that probably comes across too harsh, in an effort to cover up his true feelings on the matter.
“No,” Charles says, watching as Erik’s face falls and his eyebrows pinch together.
“Why not?” he demands, clearly close to tears. Then his gaze turns accusing, eyes narrowing. “You know you feel the same, I’ve felt it.”
“Fuck, Erik. You—you’re eighteen. And I’m fucking thirty. We can’t.”
“Why not? It shouldn’t matter—if we both feel the same. Why are you so scared? Are you afraid you’re going to break me or something? Because you’ve already done that a few minutes ago,” Erik whispers the last part, a tear escaping down his cheek as he hugs his arms in close. Charles wants so badly to comfort him, but that isn’t an option. Erik might try to kiss him again, if he does that.
“I just—I do care about you a great deal, Erik, but we really can’t. I think it best that you leave now,” Charles says the last words icily, ignoring the deep pain in his chest that only deepens when Erik begins to cry in earnest.
“Fine then, I’m going. I hope you’re happy being alone. I don’t ever want to see you again!” he yells between sobs, flinging the door open with his powers and racing down the hallway towards his room. The door slams behind him and Charles jumps at the sound. He can hear so much rage and despair radiating from Erik’s mind, thoughts a swirling storm of grief.
What have I done, Charles thinks, running a hand down his face and pushing his own despair down deep inside.
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Date: 2015-03-15 01:43 pm (UTC)Hence we came to decision of our very first collab! (well non-porny collab). We've got almost all the plot outlined so hopefully we can start writing it and not potato together. We are very good at potatoing together; the writing together part, not so good.
I'm mostly excited to attempt doing my first long fic, and to be writing with kage. Also because we have so many ideas about this AU, it's a bit daunting as to whether or not we can actually pull this off well to our standards.
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Date: 2015-03-15 07:17 pm (UTC)Sounds like you're off to a great start! :D
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Date: 2015-03-16 09:34 am (UTC)I've been wanting to make an XMFC/DOFP fanvid set to Vienna Teng's Never Break Away basically since the album came out, but have been having trouble reconciling the end of the song with the story I want to tell. Recently though I ran across Pistols at Dawn by Seinabo Sey and I think splicing the two songs together would give me the narrative I need to cover both XMFC and DOFP.
OR I might go completely the other direction and finally buckle down on the Argentine tango fic that's been running around my head for ages. What's been blocking me on that is how I feel obligated to do tons and tons of research on the underground tango scene in the 60s before I start writing, which is difficult when the available literature in English is rather scant. But if there was ever a time to treat myself and just write the dance porn I crave, I suppose this is it! A bit of that:
As he studied the men lounging in the corner, trying to judge whether any of them were the kind that might associate themselves with Shaw, Erik felt the prickle along his neck that meant someone was watching him in turn. When he glanced up, he found himself being surveyed by a pair of electric blue eyes. The man was sat opposite from him across the scuffed hardwood and raised his eyebrows quizzically once he'd captured Erik's gaze. When Erik didn't respond he shrugged and turned to the bulky bearded man next to him, murmuring something that elicited a short bark of laughter before allowing himself to be pulled to his feet in a single graceful motion.
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Date: 2015-03-16 10:22 am (UTC)underground tango scene in the 60s - I did not know this was a thing! Very much looking forward to this.
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Date: 2015-03-16 12:26 pm (UTC)So mine (as it stands right now -- early days and whatnot) looks like it'll be an AU of sorts, though I tend to base things a little more off of comic stuff than movie stuff. Probably not going to be explicitly, POINTEDLY shippy, I think, but we'll see where flights of fancy take me.... Anyway, all asides... aside: an AU set a few decades into the future about the first manned extrasolar mission to a planet called Oya, to see if it's habitable. A little lonely, and a long way to go, and as these things usually do, there might be something on Oya that's not quite what they bargained for. This is all so far (not too much, but a start!):
“One hundred years ago today, humanity sat at their radios, and at their television screens as a new age unfolded before them. They watched as Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin set their indelible footprints on a new world, watched as they etched a signature suspended in dust. Humanity listened to its leaping forward, humanity imagined, and wondered. Kennedy said we chose to go to the moon not because it was easy, but because it was hard; that we had to be bold, and be bold again; that we should climb the Everest of space, land on the Everest of the Moon and the planets because we are human — because they are there. Our climb has not been continuous — we have faltered, and we have failed. We have let bigotry come before camaraderie, and we have let shortsightedness conquer imagination. We have let war lead before exploration. We have let our concern for ourselves blind our dreams for our children. But today, we reclaim our virtues, and like our forefathers, we will watch another era unfold. Today, we launch the first manned extrasolar mission to Oya, a planet lightyears from the here and now, in a venture more bold and more ambitious than ever undertaken in humanity’s long history. They will go boldly out into the unknown and learn whether Oya can be a new mother to our race, whether we will one day stretch our hand into the heavens and know that our brothers live in that endless sky. One hundred years ago, we scaled the silver mountains of the Moon. Today, we send ten brave souls into the endless sea between stars, and in six years time, we will wait, and listen, however distant, across space, across relativity, past silver mountains and footprints in dust, for their lighthouse signal, their inevitable call to home.” [Applause]
— President Robert Kelly, 20 July 2069, speech transcript [excerpt]
“Taking your last look at the world?”
Jean turned her head, and smiled at her friend. “Just saying goodbye.”
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Date: 2015-03-16 01:46 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2015-03-17 01:42 am (UTC)i'm not really "planning" anything, exactly. i have sort of an idea of where i want this to go in my head and what canon i want to include, but i'm sort of just going free-form and seeing where the fic takes me! which i haven't really done since way before nano, so that's exciting! i've never written disabled charles before, so any tips on that would be welcome! i'm also mixing in a bit of 616!canon (I usually do) and adding destiny to the charles/raven/erik dynamic established in xmfc and dofp, so that'll be interesting. and of course, it's a non-powered au 'cause i so rarely give any of my superheroes superhero powers, haha.
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Date: 2015-03-20 11:26 pm (UTC)I've always had this vague, wistful desire to write a steampunk Cherik fic, and even though I have FAR too many wips, I decided to go for it! And I am so happy and excited that
I've finished a draft of the first scene (2500 words) but it needs some serious cleaning before it comes into the light. But I can do first line:
In St John's Wood there lived a man who could find a needle in a haystack.
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Date: 2015-03-21 12:10 am (UTC)The words hang heavy in the air, overtop the silence that permeates Charles’ study. Outside of the door, the voices of the children can be heard, playing in the halls. Erik’s face is serious and determined, a little bit afraid, and so, so young. Charles can barely collect his thoughts, too overwhelmed by the revelation. So he says the first thing that comes to his mind, shocked and full of rejection that probably comes across too harsh, in an effort to cover up his true feelings on the matter.
“No,” Charles says, watching as Erik’s face falls and his eyebrows pinch together.
“Why not?” he demands, clearly close to tears. Then his gaze turns accusing, eyes narrowing. “You know you feel the same, I’ve felt it.”
“Fuck, Erik. You—you’re eighteen. And I’m fucking thirty. We can’t.”
“Why not? It shouldn’t matter—if we both feel the same. Why are you so scared? Are you afraid you’re going to break me or something? Because you’ve already done that a few minutes ago,” Erik whispers the last part, a tear escaping down his cheek as he hugs his arms in close. Charles wants so badly to comfort him, but that isn’t an option. Erik might try to kiss him again, if he does that.
“I just—I do care about you a great deal, Erik, but we really can’t. I think it best that you leave now,” Charles says the last words icily, ignoring the deep pain in his chest that only deepens when Erik begins to cry in earnest.
“Fine then, I’m going. I hope you’re happy being alone. I don’t ever want to see you again!” he yells between sobs, flinging the door open with his powers and racing down the hallway towards his room. The door slams behind him and Charles jumps at the sound. He can hear so much rage and despair radiating from Erik’s mind, thoughts a swirling storm of grief.
What have I done, Charles thinks, running a hand down his face and pushing his own despair down deep inside.