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  1. Title: Christmas Gift Author: Wyzeguy Summary: Following the events of "On Angel's Wings", Scott and Rogue find themselves getting even closer. AU/AR Status: Complete Rating: Adult ++ Link: http://xmen.adult-fanfiction.org/story.php?no=600090491 Reason for nomination: Incredibly well-written, with an unusual pairing (Scott/Rogue in Evo). It's gut-punchingly poignant, and plays w/ the idea of "if there's a paranoid jealous telepath on the loose, might she create false memories in those she suspects? Can one proclaim innocence if one remembers only guilt?"
  2. I can certainly respect that you think Scott+Jean might be tired by now. Thanks for the compliments, both here and in your reviews. In a similar vein, I was kinda aggravated that, in Evolution, they'd played around w/ Kitty+Lance and even hinted at Kitty+Kurt, but then at the end they were all like "btw, Colossus!" and I was like "btw, lame! New universe = room to explore other options!" I'll admit that Colossus has since grown on me, though.
  3. In defense of those who don't seem to read story tags and disclaimers, there have been instances where I went into a fic, having read those warnings, and decided to try it anyway, hoping that the way the particulars were handled would keep the story readable. Specifically, there have been a few N/C fics that still came across as 'sexy' based on the way those scenes were written, and others which were dark and gritty rape-fics. The latter really turned my stomach, as I was expecting the former (N/C but written in such a way that it still feels like a normal sex scene, where one can forget it's N/C). I've left a few bad reviews for such stories, because they were, as I said, sickening.
  4. As EveKnight said, quality is better than quantity to me when it comes to reviews. I'd rather have a handful of well-though-out ones than a lot of "OMG I love this story it r0xx0rz!" Omicronus: I've only had one instance where one of my stories received a review well after it was first posted - the story's only review, no less. That did make my week. I'd never consider pulling a story just b/c it wasn't receiving enough reviews. How many is 'enough' anyway? To gauge how well a story is being received, I think it's best to use a combination of views (especially if that # goes up w/ each update), rates, and reviews.
  5. I second what the fellow above me said - I post chapters as I write. It makes my update schedule erratic, but my overall schedule is rather erratic.
  6. I got quite a few reviews for my latest story, Down Under (X-Men/Marvel fandom), where one of my reviewers kept missing vital plot points and called my quasi-OC (it's complicated: http://www2.adult-fanfiction.org/forum/index.php/topic/26889-down-under/ for details) a Gary Stu, despite the fact that he had several flaws. Link to the reviews, and feel free to read the story also, of course: http://xmen.adult-fanfiction.org/review.php?set=read&no=600090845
  7. I always hand-write each chapter before typing it up. It lets me see where and how I revised a story, though a lot of times I revise on the fly between manuscript and typed copy. It's a quite visceral experience, putting pen to paper, an invigorating experience, one that typing cannot hope to match.
  8. Well, Scott and Jean were headed for reconciliation by the end of my story, en route to the second wedding that happens in X-Men: The Animated Series. I didn't expect quite the response that I got, though in part I intended the story to raise some interesting questions, like "where does a relationship stand once one has died and come back to life?" Legally, "till death do [they] part," but what about emotionally? Especially for Scott, who is consistently shown in the relevant episodes of the series as having a hard time letting Jean go to grieve for her, or even giving her space to recover from the ordeal. I do most definitely 'ship' Scott and Jean, regardless of continuity, though I'm not necessarily afraid to have them pair up w/ others, as necessary for my plot. They seem to me to exert a sort of gravity on one another, altering each other's trajectory towards the other. Their relationship, of which I just love the dynamics and the implications, influenced me to boycott the first 2 seasons of Evolution, until I realized the authors were just having some fun shaking things up on that front; to boycott Wolverine and the X-Men (though I also didn't watch that b/c I loathe Wolverine); and to boycott some of the most recent storylines, where Jean's dead and Scott's w/ Emma, especially given the particulars of how Scott+Emma came to be. To answer your question (sorry for the tangent there), I do indeed. I have a list of X-Men story ideas in a not-handy-at-the-moment notebook, consisting of at least a dozen more entries, and I keep developing ideas faster than I can write the stories. (Thank you, overactive imagination!) The next project's going to resemble Solo Shots a bit - a series of somewhat-unrelated vignettes. In part, this is due to some upcoming uprooting, and a less plot-heavy story will be easier to write amid the turmoil; in part, it's due to the more positive reactions I got to Solo Shots. Down Under's got the most reviews, but I think Solo Shots has been my most successful entry. Heat of the Moment has gone largely ignored, which is sad b/c it's my favorite so far; but it came out at the same time as a lot of other high-quality fics and got lost in the shuffle a bit, I think. Sorry for rambling there. I'm the kind of person who'll talk your ear off if you'll let me.
  9. The following originally appeared at the end of chapter 14 of Down Under, found in the X-Men/Marvel section of the archive: I'm fully willing to admit that this may not have been my best work thus far, so I'm pretty glad to have maintained a 4-star rating as of 10/29/11. I thought I might give some background on how this story came to be. A few years ago, my then-girlfriend, now-wife, wanted me to write a story featuring Pyro, since she thinks Aussies are, shall we say, 'fair dinkum'. I decided to write the story using Jean, since she's one of my favorites and a lot of fun to write. I have a thing for sexy redheads - the wife included! I wrote a few other stories, which appear elsewhere on this site, to get into practice, a process needing a few years by now, before I felt like I could do a story like this any justice. This story was ambitious, I thought - it's something of a crack pairing, and rather than PWP, I wanted something that might make a modicum of sense. But how? First, I decided to set the story in the X-Men Animated Series universe - the storylines weren't quite as complicated as the comics, and since I own the series on DVD I could do research easily. I remembered that Animated Pyro wasn't Aussie, but English, which gave me something of an opening. Comics Pyro had been a journalist once upon a time, a writer; my Aussie not-quite-Pyro would be a writer still, but a poet in this case. Animated Pyro's real name is never mentioned, so I kept St. John Allerdyce for the Australian poet's name. Next, how does Jean meet him? A trip to Australia seemed an obvious solution, but why would she go alone, without her one true love, Cyclops/Scott Summers? The Animated Series came in handy here, as there wasn't much exploration of the aftermath of the Dark Phoenix Saga. Also, there were 2 different Grey-Summers weddings, one before Phoenix and one after - the first may not have been legal, since a shapeshifter was masquerading as a priest, and therefore not ordained; the second was crashed by Sinister's goons on Apocalypse's orders. I figured that all the stress of that whole Dark Phoenix thing - including dying and being resurrected - might cause Jean to need a vacation... to Australia, which is on the other side of the planet from all the shit she's dealing with back home, including a man who (according to my interpretation of the character) never really dealt w/ her first presumed death when she took the M'Kraan crystal into the star and didn't return. The poetry itself seemed the key, the force that would draw the two characters together, so that attraction could bloom and sex could be had. The idea for the PTSD-style flashbacks came to me just as I finished the first chapter, but in some ways I felt like they, and the overall theme of dealing w/ being raped (more or less - I never could quite settle on a term for what Mastermind did to her), dying, and having a second chance at life, were too ambitious for a sex story. I still think so, though I tried to work in that Jean wanted 'comfort sex', which is where I lost some of you readers. I also ran into the problem of how to explain St. John's existence as an entity separate from Pyro, the terrorist mutant. I considered leaving them as one entity, and Jean being attracted to a villain, but her previous issues w/ villains, I thought, would kill any attraction on the vine. So I extrapolated that Pyro is the criminal half-brother of St. JohnAllerdyce, the Australian poet; both are mutants and have very similar, if not identical powers. I think maybe I didn't explore St. John's powers enough, but I frankly wasn't interested in doing so. Some of you got hung up on those facts - the two being separate, but just happening to be related - which strikes me as odd, since weirder shit has happened in the Marvel Universe (like the whole Phoenix thing in its entirety). Further, family members have had very similar powers canonically (Polaris and Magneto), and random family members pop up all the time (Polaris and Magneto or the Summers family, for starters). The fact that Australia is nicknamed "Oz" opened up the whole idea that Jean was Dorothy, escaping to another place to avoid her problems at home, but finding out that it wasn't what she was looking for, and that what she was looking for was always there. That, of course, is also where all the chapter titles come from, with a few lyrics from Wicked added to the mix for some of the later/darker/more "complex" chapters toward the end. Apologies if the above didn't interest you at all, but for some reason I thought it important to peel back the curtain, so to speak, and reveal the considerations I had in mind while writing this story. I doubt it'll change your opinions at all, but sometimes, as a writer, it's necessary to display one's methodology.
  10. Same issue as the OP. Strangely, I was still able to add a chapter to the story in question ("Solo Shots" in the X-Men/Marvel section), despite its hidden status. I would very much like to know what needs to happen to make the story visible again. Thank you.
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