Remix, and other sundries

[raven]

Remix reveal, darlings! I can hereby declare that I wrote "Ways of Not Speaking (the Poetry in Motion Remix)", a remix of "Secrets, Lies and Guiness Pies", by gunderpants. And of course, likethesun2 was absolutely right. I promised a ficlet, and a ficlet she shall have.

It's been a good remix year, I think. I signed up because I haven't written a fic off my own bat since November 2006, and this is beginning to get to me; I mean, yes, depression fucked my brain up for three months, more or less, but I've been much better for almost three months since, and I want to write, I can write, I think, I just don't know why I haven't been able to. This way I haven't written anything truly original, but Remix kicked my arse into writing something. And that's good. I no longer hate the story as much as I did, but I can still see the bits in it which would have been better if I hadn't, er, written three quarters of it two hours before it was due. Even given that, the reason I had such difficulty with it is that well, I've already written this story. Remus, Tonks and Harry coping with Sirius's death - I did that with "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds", and I guess the challenge, here, was not writing the original story again but not writing Lucy... again either. Which I couldn't do, because gunderpants' characterisation of Remus is not like mine, and it was great fun, getting him down. (Fanfiction of fanfiction, in a way.)

And so. And so, and so. In other news, I have so much work to do right now it sucks beyond the telling of it. I just can't be bothered, which is never a good sign (neither is not being able to write, come to think of it) but I can't, and thus, it is all staying resolutely undone. I would much rather play cricket and go to OULES. jacinthsong and I have been cast as, I believe, Guard #1 and Guard #2, but Maria outdoes us both as the feminine subconscious to foulds's Sherlock Holmes. I have this sense that Jon and Maria would make very good masculine and feminine sides of the same person. At least, this is what I was trying to explain to the assembled masses at the pub yesterday - we were celebrating me_ves_y_sufres's not-birthday, with fannish talk, the not-revelatory-for-anyone revelation that foreverdirt writes gay porn and, later, a prolonged argument that led to vampire_kitten proving right there and then, in the pub, that 0.999... = 1 - with a quite stunning lack of success.

Cricket on the Master's Field and then OULES, yes! I guess, in the meantime, I should go and attempt to read something about... what is it? Why we still need a language of thought and cannot all be happy bouncy intentional realists. My Mind tutor, I feel the need to point out, resembles no one so much as Sam Vimes - kuteki, who appeared like the Ghost of Christmas Past in last week's tute, agrees - and thus I am rather scared of him. Hence maybe doing some work is a good idea.

I'm unsure on the etiquette of re-posting my remix in my journal. Right now I think not; maybe later for the sake of completion.

Back to thoughts on mind, yes.

Comments

[emily-shore.livejournal.com]

foreverdirt writes gay porn??? NOOOOO!!!!!!!

;)

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

I KNOW. I WAS SHOCKED.

[likethesun2.livejournal.com]

Now that I can say it to your face (metaphorically), I'll say it again: your story was fabulous, poetic and absorbing and really affecting. You are so talented, you know that?

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

*blushes hotly* And you are fantastic, you know that?

And, and, I owe you a ficlet, because you guessed! Name fandom and characters!

[foreverdirt.livejournal.com]

I write gay porn? *gasp!* Why did no one tell me?

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

OMG WE THOUGHT YOU KNEW.

[tau_sigma]

I love your remix fic. I love it very much. I am doing that incoherant, lack of meaningful comments thing a bit, but I wanted to let you know that I loved it and it was great to read.

And oh, I can't be bothered either. I pretended that not working today was fine because it's a Sunday, you need one day off a week, right? but really I haven't worked properly in goodness' knows how long and exams are in two weeks and oh goodness. Sorry. I will go and melt about this somewhere else. Um. *hugs*

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much. *hugs you* I'm so glad you liked it.

*hangs onto you* You know, if you want to ring me at any point, don't think twice. Ring me and we can have a chat, and even if I can't make anything better, I can tell you a joke, or read you some fic, or tell you Interesting Facts About Broccoli, anything you like. :)

[tau_sigma]

*hugs* Thank you. Work is a leetle better, I think, and general stuff. I may take you up on the phoning. I am, um, rubbish at phonecalls, mostly. But it would be nice to chat, perhaps, sometime. Particularly intrigued by trying to make you come up with Interesting Facts About Broccoli. :) *clings* You are Lovely.

[vampire-kitten.livejournal.com]

0.999... = 1

I told a physicist about this, and he didn't believe me that it was true either. Luckily another girl joined me in jumping all over him and writing proofs all over the nearest window until he submitted.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

*laughs* The only reason I believed you straight off is because the relevant entry was on Wikipedia's main page, and I read the whole thing in abject fascination.

[vampire-kitten.livejournal.com]

But... how is this not obvious? It's GCSE level ideas!