Happy Holidays and Writing Angst

[twincityhacker]

Before I forget again: Happy first days of Hanukkah and Kwanzaa

I never thought having MST3K as my main fandom would make it harder to write for other fandoms.

Besides the "There's a detailed cannon?" thing.

Maybe it's my own fault, but for the Africander fiction challenge, I'm having a bit of a problem thing.

And it's not "Anya swings by, even though she's dead."

I can't seem to write any other charecter than Xander, because any other charecter I write my brain misfires and goes "MARY SUE! MARY SUE! MARY SUE!" and dies on the spot.

But I do have to own up to a possible plot contrivence, or two. It's not like it's Technoservo-levels of insanity, but the plot does pin on two leaps of logic. At least, I think it's a leap of logic.

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[slwatson.livejournal.com]

It's not like it's Technoservo-levels of insanity

::chuckles:: Her webbie is down. Some part of me wonders if she realized the notoriety she achieved. If she realized that her name, in MST3K fandom, was used as a off-the-cuff insult.

And now she's used as a measuring scale? ::ala the Guinness commercials:: Brilliant!

[msp-hacker.livejournal.com]

Her website has been down for about a year, I think.

But while her stories aren't the best, I won't go as far as saying her name would be an insult. More like an descriptive label of crack-fic. Because if you skip books two and seven and most of the scenes that Ashely is in, the story borders on decent and occasinaly wanders over to good.

But even though I like the MST3K Chronicals, I still use her as a measuring scale for many reasons... like the conclusion that Cambot's a girl and, you know, Ashely. o_O

[slwatson.livejournal.com]

But while her stories aren't the best, I won't go as far as saying her name would be an insult.

I would.

Shauna suddenly got up on a table and attempted to get everybody's attention. "May I have your attention please? Everybody? Will you -- SHUT THE BLOODY HELL UP!!!"

Alexis smirked. "Here, let me. TECHNOSERVO!!!"

The crowd stopped and glared evilly at her.

"They're all yours," said Alexis, narrowly ducking a couple of half-full beer glasses chucked at her by the ShadowKnights Mike and Joel.

Lampooning TechnoServo is a time-honored tradition. It's on par with making Joe Don Baker food jokes or cutting on 'The Project' at every available opportunity.

And while admittedly I've become much tamer in my compulsive need to rabidly chase down people who mischaracterize in massive ways (which there's no arguing she did that on several occasions), the drive is still there.

And yeah... I kinda like it that way.

[msp-hacker.livejournal.com]

Now, I would do that for Kevin t. Robot, but it just doesn't seem to have the same ring to it.

I always imagined that at the end of that story, the other charecters throw Ashely in the theater and force her to watch bad movies and even worse anime dubs until she self-destructs - 'cause after that mess, I don't think her own Writer would have anything to do with her.

[slwatson.livejournal.com]

Kevin who?

And I tend to imagine that at the end of the unfinished TTPCTS Round Robin, they took out Ashley and that damn cat if hers. But hey, so long as she's notorious... I suppose that's fame in its own right.

The sad thing is, this is all from the top of my head.

[msp-hacker.livejournal.com]

Kevin T. Robot was writting a little story called "Tales of the Satellite." He only got to chapter three, but the following things occured:

Mike and the 'bots are stuck in Earth orbit after Dr. F's nucular reactor exploded, taking him with it and them with no way down. (I asume this is after season six because there's no Frank.)

Joel has had a really bad time of it after escaping. First, his sister-in-law refuses to help him get out of Australia, thinking that his little drop out of the world was caused by a five-year long drug trip. Then he gets back to the States, causes a ruckuss about Dr. F expreminting on humans, and is thrown into a sanitoruim. He escapes a month later, and is on the lamb, since everyone thinks he's a danger to himself and others.

Enter the niece. (Yes, the niece) Apparently, Joel was so despreate to have anyone belive him that he tells his niece everything - and she belives him. Eventualy, who's ever after Joel spooks him enough that give everything to Raye because he's afraid that Gizmonic is going to wipe his mind or somthing (Earth has not been kind to Joel at all)

So Raye gathers up her friends KC and Joe Richardson and attempt to break into the place that either experimented on her uncle or drove him insanse, in effort to clear is name. Things don't go so well.

Back on the Satellite of Love, things aren't goining so well either. Mike has practicaly starved to death, Cambot is in pieces, and every one else isn't doing too much better. But even slow death does not stop Crow from pulling pranks like supergluing bunny ears to Mike's head. Also, Mike has a dream of a crashed spaceship and a beach - and of someone watching the waves further up the beach.

Still at Gizmonics, Raye has gotten kidnapped after a sicking ride on the Gizmonics Record Hall, which also turned up nothing but telling them to look in Deep 13. KC goes looking for her, and runs into Dr. Fruitcake (not his real name). Dr. Fruitcake is a little pissed off at Dr. Forrester since he knocked him out and ran-sacked his lab looking for somthing. So Dr. Fruitcake puts his mind into a computer and tells KC to drink a phasing potion, adn the two of them head for Deep 13.

Of course, this rescue misson only serves to get them captured too, but that's okay, since Raye and Joe is with them. And they promptly get sent to the Satellite of Love with several years of supplies.

After Mike, Crow and Servo riff on Dr. F's filmstrip on how he survied the explosing staring Adam West and Arnold Swartchenager and a stapler, they all meet up.

They divy up some of the rooms, and Gypsy drags off Joe to the infermary since he's still uncounious (and probably in a coma). Everyone settles in, with pranks involving Servo riggeding up a twelve pen salute in Mike's room and other hijinks. (Raye acts a lot like Crow.) Only that Mike's a little parniod that the newcomers are going to do something terrible, and Gypsy found a bomb on the shuttle she agonizing on whether ruining the first happines that Mike has had in a long time, but eventualy tells him.

There is also a plot arced laid out where while Dr. Fruitcake is expermenting on the crew (?!) he discovers that there is somthing up with KC involving psychic women and planets exploding.

They all of them gather on the bridge disussing on how their going to die in two days if they can't figure out a way to get rid of the bomb without plummiting the Earth into a ice age, they get a call from "one of the few people on Earth who can hack the SOL's security codes" and...

That's all he wrote, leaving the reader wondering if it's Joel on the line and how screwed up he his now.

I would have just linked to the story, but it's offline and I'm missing a part.

Re: The sad thing is, this is all from the top of my head.

[(Anonymous)]

First, his sister-in-law refuses to help him get out of Australia, thinking that his little drop out of the world was caused by a five-year long drug trip.

::laughs:: That wouldn't be too unrealistic, considering that Joel may have been high the entire time he was on the show. Common rumor has it, anyway. I certainly don't take it as canon, but the mental picture of Joel toking up in a closet after a bad day on the SOL amuses me.

The whole thing sounds like taking the plot concept too seriously has gotten out of hand. Aside the fact, of course, that it completely ignores canon and should be labeled an AU. I mean, not that I haven't wanted to ignore Sci-Fi era canon, just because Pearl was... ugh. No. I will not get into my Sci-Fi rant, dammit!

It's not that bad an idea, though. I mean, aside the neice and the rampant potential for angst. I'm sure the execution made it bad, though. At least, however, it's faintly more plausible than TechnoServo's entire psycho run.

Huh. Almost wish it was still online. I thought I had a bead on pretty much every piece of MST3K fanfic there is on the web.

Thanks for the summary.

Re: The sad thing is, this is all from the top of my head.

[msp-hacker.livejournal.com]

::laughs:: That wouldn't be too unrealistic, considering that Joel may have been high the entire time he was on the show. Common rumor has it, anyway. I certainly don't take it as canon, but the mental picture of Joel toking up in a closet after a bad day on the SOL amuses me.

Now, I can totaly buy Charecter!Joel lighting up in a closet somedays, especialy before and after an experiment.

And you're welcome!

Damn LJ.

[slwatson.livejournal.com]

He probably pulled out his four-foot tall waterbong after Manos. Hell, that movie makes me wanna get high, and I've never even touched the stuff.

Re: Damn LJ.

[msp-hacker.livejournal.com]

Actually, I ran an experiment once when I came back from having several teeth pulled, and popped in Manos, to see if being high on three diffrent kinds of painkillers (novicane, nitrous oxide, and tyonal-3) could dull the pain of the movie.

It did, but not as much as you would think. NOTHING can kill the pain of that movie. *sigh*