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Soon, the serious post about the novels and publishing decisions and so forth. For now, the writing brain is still buzzing with "oh, Mr. Finch" and "oh, Sergeant Hathaway" and "oh, Aral I-mean-Viceroy-Count-Admiral" (none of which, by the way, sound like "oh, Mr. Darcy," at least in the sense of swooniness. They are all rather exasperated and empathetic and amused and okay, the Aral one is a little swoony, but not in a wet-poet-shirt sort of way. Yes?). Which, okay, means there will be more fic, though I can't promise anything except the Lewis one since I am contracted to do that (and have made a pretty good start), but I can't talk about that one because it is Secret.
Other things I may write in the future:
The most probable is the one that![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
penwiper26 gave me the impetus for by asking quite a while ago for the first private conversation between Aral and Ekaterin, and then added a bunny recently about Aral and Tej, and I thought, well, let's extend that to Laisa and Kareen while we're at it, and throw in Alys for good measure. So, what I will hope to write is Five Conversations Aral Had With Daughters-In-Law and Um-Daughters-In-Law and Alys-Who-Is-Decidedly-Not-A-Daughter-In-Law-But. And I mention it here because I had thought, give it to L. for her birthday! but here it is past mid-November and no. That will not happen. Hopefully it will happen before her next birthday.
Also, these:
The one where Harold Finch is the Fisher King (kingfisher, geddit?) and no, I have no clue how but it's a cool idea, yes?
The sequel to "Sparrow" where Harold and Simon have a Serious Talk about machines and bodies and spying and stuff. I would have to make up some sort of plot for this, at least as backstory. But still, this is more likely than the others to actually happen.
The Lewis/Sherlock crossover where Sherlock comes to Oxford during his hiatus and falls into the middle of an investigation in which Philip Horton reappears as the star witness, and there is interesting stuff about Asperger's and some sort of tug-of-war over Philip between Sherlock and Hathaway. This would, clearly, also involve plot. And research.
Or, quite possibly, none of the above.
In other news, I meant to wait for Christmas to reread Dialogues of the Dead and Death's Jest-Book but I failed to do so (I must, however, remember to post my very strange list of Christmas books at the appropriate time). Oh, Reginald Hill. RIP and I still adore you. Ah, and if we are proposing strange-but-not-impossible crossovers:
The one where Franny Roote meets Root, and sociopathic underhanded mayhem ensues. Bad code, indeed. (But seriously, no one but me would read that. Unless I can convince some of you to read Reginald Hill. And watch PoI. C'mon... *holds out candy*)
Other things I may write in the future:
The most probable is the one that
penwiper26 gave me the impetus for by asking quite a while ago for the first private conversation between Aral and Ekaterin, and then added a bunny recently about Aral and Tej, and I thought, well, let's extend that to Laisa and Kareen while we're at it, and throw in Alys for good measure. So, what I will hope to write is Five Conversations Aral Had With Daughters-In-Law and Um-Daughters-In-Law and Alys-Who-Is-Decidedly-Not-A-Daughter-In-Law-But. And I mention it here because I had thought, give it to L. for her birthday! but here it is past mid-November and no. That will not happen. Hopefully it will happen before her next birthday.Also, these:
The one where Harold Finch is the Fisher King (kingfisher, geddit?) and no, I have no clue how but it's a cool idea, yes?
The sequel to "Sparrow" where Harold and Simon have a Serious Talk about machines and bodies and spying and stuff. I would have to make up some sort of plot for this, at least as backstory. But still, this is more likely than the others to actually happen.
The Lewis/Sherlock crossover where Sherlock comes to Oxford during his hiatus and falls into the middle of an investigation in which Philip Horton reappears as the star witness, and there is interesting stuff about Asperger's and some sort of tug-of-war over Philip between Sherlock and Hathaway. This would, clearly, also involve plot. And research.
Or, quite possibly, none of the above.
In other news, I meant to wait for Christmas to reread Dialogues of the Dead and Death's Jest-Book but I failed to do so (I must, however, remember to post my very strange list of Christmas books at the appropriate time). Oh, Reginald Hill. RIP and I still adore you. Ah, and if we are proposing strange-but-not-impossible crossovers:
The one where Franny Roote meets Root, and sociopathic underhanded mayhem ensues. Bad code, indeed. (But seriously, no one but me would read that. Unless I can convince some of you to read Reginald Hill. And watch PoI. C'mon... *holds out candy*)
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Date: 2012-11-20 03:26 am (UTC)From:but I'll take a belated BD present anytime. :)
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Date: 2012-11-20 03:30 am (UTC)From:no subject
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Date: 2012-11-20 06:51 am (UTC)From:Also fascinated by Simon and Finch talking about bodies and machines. And the Fisher King!
I think I tried Reginald Hill one time and kind of bounced off, but perhaps it was the wrong one to start with. Suggestions for good starting-places?
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Date: 2012-11-20 12:34 pm (UTC)From:If you don't care too much about chronology, which I know you don't, I would suggest jumping in with Arms and the Women and continuing through to Dialogues of the Dead and Death's Jest-Book (oops on title above, will fix). Franny Roote makes his first appearance way back in An Advancement of Learning, but the early books, while clever enough, just don't have the mature oomph of the later ones.
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Date: 2012-11-27 02:39 am (UTC)From:And I've just gone and requested Arms and the Woman from the library...
>okay, the Aral one is a little swoony, but not in a wet-poet-shirt sort of way. Yes?
This made me both laugh and sprain my brain trying to picture Aral in a wet-poet-shirt. (And bizarrely, Really Want To See the story where the demure Vor bud at least twenty years his junior has decided that He Is Powerful and Power Is Sexy, and is flinging herself at him. I can't figure out where I could shove it into the timeline, and really it's only an excuse to see Aral totally discomfited and everyone around him laughing their asses off...)
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Date: 2012-11-27 12:33 pm (UTC)From:Ah, and hurray on trying Reginald Hill! Slowly but surely, I will capture everyone's minds...
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Date: 2012-11-27 05:30 pm (UTC)From:Yeah, I don't think around the time of Komarr would work--before, I don't think he's famous enough, and after, she'd either be another trigger for his depressive spiral or would end up as a charred hole in the ground, neither of which is appropriate for light romance.
I think you have to be after Cordelia, not coincidentally--Aral from 11 to his mid-forties is a all darkness, broken edges, and military genius, which doesn't quite work for a romantic lead (at least not opposite Miss Vorbud. He's perfect for Cordelia...) So we're sometime in the Regency. Now either Miss Vorbud is irredeemably stupid (which is no fun; insofar as I do romance, which isn't much, I demand characters who aren't dumb. Naive or misguided, fine. Not dumb) or she has some reasonable, ah, reason to ignore Cordelia.
So at some point during the Regency, Cordelia and Aral are visibly apart. Either she's somewhere else because she needs to be there (off doing galactic diplomacy? (Cordelia?!? It is to laugh) Off with Miles for medical reasons?) or they are making some show of distance. I can certainly see a scenario where they'd need to be playing at opposition in order to smoke out some sort of trouble, get hold of two opposing factions--maybe let Aral go to the conservatives with "Look, I'll give you this moderate proposal, my Mad Betan Wife is trying to get the proles and the progressives to do something extreme, and if we don't Stop Them with Moderation...")
And into this Miss Vorbud, possibly the relative of one of those conservatives, in her first Season, decides that he is Her Perfect Man. Poor teenaged Gregor is upset and confused. Miles is furious, and sets about with all his pre-teen ingenuity to Get Her. Alys quietly despairs. Cordelia laughs and laughs and eventually sits Miss Vorbud down and has a long conversation.
I'M NOT WRITING THIS.
There is totally no scene in my head where Aral is saying to Simon "You're supposed to protect me, dammit!" and Simon is answering "From assassins. Not from teenaged girls," and Aral points out that surely this is at least character assassination, and Simon doesn't laugh so hard he turns purple.
Not writing it, not even a little.
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Date: 2012-11-27 06:57 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2012-11-27 10:57 pm (UTC)From:I can see it already! Miss Vorbud, head over heels in love and certain what Aral needs is a Proper Barrayaran Girl instead of a mad Betan and she will understand him, seeing her chance and boldly taking it...
... so how's the not-writing-it going?
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Date: 2012-11-28 12:35 am (UTC)From:...and Miss Vorbud needs to peculate in the back of my head for a little longer anyway, because if I'm going to do this right she's going to need some PoV time, and I don't have her voice yet. I don't *do* fluffy romance.
You people are evil. :)
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Date: 2012-11-28 01:06 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2012-11-28 01:44 am (UTC)From:And I do hope it will be at least mostly fluff. It wants to be gentle comedy; if I get bogged down in Issues and Angst I will be Much Annoyed.