no one's going to take me alive

[wildestranger]

i. I've plotted the whole first chapter of the Regency AU (hmm, must come up with a name - a shame Adventures in High Life is already taken *g*), and hope to finish a first draft by next week. Why does my brain refuse to come up with shorter fics? I expect the first chapter to be around 5000 words and there could easily be ten more chapters. Argh. I don't have the time (or the hands) to write 50000 words of porn.

Also, I'm starting to find some interesting difficulties in terms of historical accuracy. The thing is, I know this period extremely well (I'm not a historian but I am a scholar of literary history, and this era happens to be my specialty), I'm aware of things like how people would have addressed each other, what would have been appropriate and inappropriate familiarity and such. Sir Peter Wentz might think of Mr Stump as his dear sweet Patrick, but it would be impossible that he would ever call him so, no matter how eccentric his reputation. Mr Ross and Mr Smith might, as foster brothers, address each other by first name, but they could not allow their friend Mr Urie to do so. This causes all kinds of problems in terms of romance templates and fanfiction plot devices. Not to mention things like responses to homosexuality in Regency England - one might argue that Oxbridge-educated gentlemen might have learned to appreciate Greek customs and Greek love, but country-bred men such as Brendon, or Dissenters like Patrick? HIghly unlikely. And I cannot be willfully anachronistic with this. Well, not more than is strictly required by the notion of putting bandom people into Regency England in the first place. *g*

ii. In other news, I have purchased the new Muse cd/dvd and unsurprisingly, Matt Bellamy continues to be a rockgod who makes my spine ( and other places) tingle. Please Mr Bellamy, make a new album soon so that I may take even more delight in your sheer existence. And if you wouldn't mind, a Queen cover album with My Chemical Romance would be nice. I know you're mates with them and all, so there's no excuse. Think of all the guitar offs you could have with Ray Toro! And Gerard could teach you all about stagegay!

*takes a moment to contemplate this*

iii. Does anyone know why bandomsecrets seems to have been deleted?

Comments

[achika-chan.livejournal.com]

The bandomsecrets thing is a really long story. The mod deleted it because people are wanky assholes, pretty much. Bandom_secrets is active, though, and so is bandslashsecret

[wildestranger.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I wondered if it might be something like that. Was the wank actually bandomsecrets related?

bandom_secrets seems to be deleted too.

[achika-chan.livejournal.com]

No. I'm pretty sure it wasn't b!s related. I'm nearly 100% that people were harrasing her because of That One Fic.

[wildestranger.livejournal.com]

*sighs* It's ridiculous enough that people are wanking over the fic - there are polite ways of expressing disagreement, and name-calling doesn't make anyone's argument look better - but to bring that to a community arena that is entirely unrelated? A community that is used by many other people as well as the mod? Fucking ridiculously stupid.

[ellie-nor.livejournal.com]

I've plotted the whole first chapter of the Regency AU

Hooray!!!!!

[wildestranger.livejournal.com]

:)

[harriet-vane.livejournal.com]

Wellllll, sure, the rules are there, but most romance writers seem to just ignore them when it's convenient. I find it jarring in those books when someone addresses someone else by first name too soon, but since this is BRENDON we're talking about... Eh. Willful anachronism ftw!

[wildestranger.livejournal.com]

That's the thing, exactly - I get irrationally annoyed when romance writers don't bother doing their research, and so to do that myself would be both hypocritical and intellectually dishonest of me. Since I mock other people for following romance conventions instead of historical accuracy, I cannot really do that same myself. *sighs* I guess I'll just have to find a way around them.

Incidentally, I expect to finish a first draft (I've got around 3000 words at the moment) in the next few days, and shall send it over as soon as it's done. Well, as soon as Brendon stops being difficult. How to reconcile the behaviour of a an uncouth country boy with the inherent, um, Brendonness of him?

[harriet-vane.livejournal.com]

I think it's expected that True Love will bend the rules a little bit, but I totally get that. I go back and take out all my sappiest tendencies in stories (and oh my god, look at what's LEFT) because nothing kills me more than unmitigated sap in a story. Good grief. But I'm sure there's a way to have amazing Regency romance without making you feel like a cheater.

I am SUPER excited about the chapter being almost done. If I had a drawing room, I would swoon appropriately. I have a 1br apartment in NYC, though, so I will just do this: \o/