Happy Holidays and Writing Angst

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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.

Comments

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*