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sugarspiceandcursewords replied to your post “reading as autobiography”
I used to do a lot of those episode fill-ins and flesh-outs as well. My memory of the shows always fades but I still like to read that type of thing. And this is a particularly good reminder that authors are people and stories often come from specific headspaces, so no one should ever have to justify why a story or series went a certain way or ended. And the things we write in less than sunny times can be really helpful to others.
This reminds me that I’m about due for an SGA nostalgia trip, so I shall go re-read some stuff as well and we’ll see whether or not I have kudosed them while logged in yet!
LOL thanks!
I think that is an excellent point, though– sometimes I think a lot of art is important because of what the artist was going through, and sometimes art is important regardless of what the artist was going through.
Anyway, it was making me think of two of the most recent comments on my old SG:A stuff– I got one, at the end of the one series, that was so lovely I’ve literally had it open in a tab since I got the notif months ago, trying to think of what to say in response, and it was in essence “I get that you didn’t mean to stop here and this wasn’t finished but leaving it on this note was such a lovely wrap-up anyway”, basically, only like, better-said and deeper. It was so lovely, I literally cried.
And then the more recent one, on the other series which got recced somewhere so it’s enduringly popular and I Regret That a lot honestly, which was “IIIIII don’t get it, IIIIII’m confUUUsed, you set up all this shit and then never resolved it?? What’s all that supposed to mEEEEan?? How dare u”
Which, ironically, because I’m not a good person, I did reply to right away (it is not the first comment I’ve gotten like that on that series, hence the Regretting the mild popularity of it; if I’d been able to finish I’d be delighted but I set it up to be way too ambitious and also I was pretty fucking mentally ill, so), and i said “oh I get what’s confusing you! see, when you’re on AO3 there’s a little ticky box that says whether a work is completed or not and this one’s still set to Not, also I wrote this shit for free in 2012 so you get what you fucking get and being a snippy little shit isn’t the way to get it finished!” only I hope I said it nicer. Not much, though. Because fuck you, whoever the fuck you are; you’re looking at something marked WIP that hasn’t been touched in numerous years and you’re pretending that confuses you??
So I wrote right the fuck back and they haven’t answered, which, good, and then I stewed about it for a couple of days. The fucking nerve.
sugarspiceandcursewords replied to your post “reading as autobiography”
I used to do a lot of those episode fill-ins and flesh-outs as well. My memory of the shows always fades but I still like to read that type of thing. And this is a particularly good reminder that authors are people and stories often come from specific headspaces, so no one should ever have to justify why a story or series went a certain way or ended. And the things we write in less than sunny times can be really helpful to others.
This reminds me that I’m about due for an SGA nostalgia trip, so I shall go re-read some stuff as well and we’ll see whether or not I have kudosed them while logged in yet!
LOL thanks!
I think that is an excellent point, though– sometimes I think a lot of art is important because of what the artist was going through, and sometimes art is important regardless of what the artist was going through.
Anyway, it was making me think of two of the most recent comments on my old SG:A stuff– I got one, at the end of the one series, that was so lovely I’ve literally had it open in a tab since I got the notif months ago, trying to think of what to say in response, and it was in essence “I get that you didn’t mean to stop here and this wasn’t finished but leaving it on this note was such a lovely wrap-up anyway”, basically, only like, better-said and deeper. It was so lovely, I literally cried.
And then the more recent one, on the other series which got recced somewhere so it’s enduringly popular and I Regret That a lot honestly, which was “IIIIII don’t get it, IIIIII’m confUUUsed, you set up all this shit and then never resolved it?? What’s all that supposed to mEEEEan?? How dare u”
Which, ironically, because I’m not a good person, I did reply to right away (it is not the first comment I’ve gotten like that on that series, hence the Regretting the mild popularity of it; if I’d been able to finish I’d be delighted but I set it up to be way too ambitious and also I was pretty fucking mentally ill, so), and i said “oh I get what’s confusing you! see, when you’re on AO3 there’s a little ticky box that says whether a work is completed or not and this one’s still set to Not, also I wrote this shit for free in 2012 so you get what you fucking get and being a snippy little shit isn’t the way to get it finished!” only I hope I said it nicer. Not much, though. Because fuck you, whoever the fuck you are; you’re looking at something marked WIP that hasn’t been touched in numerous years and you’re pretending that confuses you??
So I wrote right the fuck back and they haven’t answered, which, good, and then I stewed about it for a couple of days. The fucking nerve.
