sekritomg | Too much

I have reached a point where I have started writing too many things to ever finish them all. I am going to be gone a whole lot over the next month, and

imaginaaation is holding a contest that I have got to finish a story for by June 30.

What should I work on?

- A dramatic story about death?
- A tense story about body modification?
- A boisterous story about fake hipsters?
- A graphic story about geometry?
- A mournful story about adoption?
- ~~A first-person story about promises?~~ I can write this, but not in the first person.
- A funny story about gender identity?
- "The Other Table"?
- ETA 6/12: A cracked-out story about Kyle having a vagina? (This story isn't deep enough to pretend to be vague and cool about it.)
- ETA 6/12: A fluffy story about antiquing?

Without telling you which is which, one of these stories doesn't have Stan or Kyle in it at all, one isn't actually slash, one that is slash isn't Stan/Kyle, two are multi-chaptered, one is set during college, and one of them, I haven't even begun writing.

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When I checked out the Paper Swap link in your journal, I thought about participating for about half a second before I realized the only paper-related items I can make are origami flowers. Sorry for the ignorance, but what does paper crafting entail? The only thing I can think of are those cutouts where you fold along the dotted lines and make 3-D stuff. I feel stupid asking. You can tell I’m part of that super-convenient digital era. Not that I don’t respect digital artists, but I’m very sure that I take advantage of Photoshop more often than most people do. I only got my tablet to do South Park porn. This is probably just because I fail at it, but I generally assume that handcrafted art takes more skill than anything on a computer, or at least a different type of skill. Dexterity, namely. The lack of an undo button would destroy me.

Uh, fic-naming lessons? Are you kidding?? “Three-Legged Race For Sprained Ankle Awareness Bake-Off,” okay? I don’t know if I told you this before, but I was oh-so-slightly tipsy when I first read it, and the title by itself just killed me. Pure genius. (I totally pushed back the contest deadline. I hope there will be last minute entries, but it’s been sort of a shitty month, anyway.)

Honestly, I used to be the person that went, “Good work, update!” in my reviews, but they’ve been getting progressively longer. My history starts with a one-liner and from then on they slowly become essays. I like giving helpful feedback, but it takes so damn long. I think you feel my pain about how hard it is getting motivated to actually sit down and attempt to write decent concrit.

Aw, thank you, obviously it’s the same here. This is the first fandom I’ve gotten into in which the other fans are actually more than incidental, at least to such an extent. Dude. You’ve been into South Park for that long? That’s awesome! Hey, why aren’t you more of an elitist? Man, I would so be pimping out my excessive knowledge and correcting people on very minute things. You know, just generally being an asshole, because that’s the way I get when I know things other people don’t. Of course, I’m really glad you aren’t like that. (I only got into South Park in October of 2006, forgot about it, then picked it back up in November of ‘07. BORING BACKSTORY but there it is. I was shipping KennyxKyle back then, oddly enough.) You partake in squeaky-clean fronting, too? I unconsciously do that with people I don’t know.

I am so pissed. I haven’t had any time to write for a few days, and I’m just dying to post shit. I really need to quit my fucking job. You do your research really well, because I’d already assumed you were a master chef or something. I know exactly what you mean about the super-intrusive chunks of information, and am relieved to hear that my facts are at least at the ninth-grade term paper level. I’ve noticed that about Judaism, too! There need to be more fandom Jews. I only know of a couple. I also watch episodes madly. I’ve downloaded a lot of them--and promptly made lots of stupid fake movie trailers with them for YouTube, because Brokeback Mountain StanxKyle is FUNNY, damn it, and I made this Titanic one that I just have to show you sometime because it is relevant to another one of our threads.

I tried to be brief so I could fit this comment into one post. My idea of brevity is, like, three tangents per sentence. As opposed to, you know. Four or something.

From:

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Well, the idea behind this swap (there are swaps of various kinds all the time, actually) is that 'paper' is the theme, so theoretically you could do anything you imagined as long as 'paper' kept the project cohesive. By which I mean, you could do papier-mache, you could construct something paper-ish from another medium entirely. There are other interpretations: academic papers, newspapers, walking papers, and so on. You could do some art on paper, like a painting or drawing. Nevertheless, I assume most participants will be making something from paper that is also functional, like a card or journal. A good idea is paper dolls, actually. But so much of this is about the crafting movement, and as my partner and I make stationery, we'll be making sets of notecards. Not very creative, but there you go. Oh, I expect a lot of letterpress.

Photoshop in itself is a skill. At least now you have a tablet. They're pretty cool, but not having one I'm definitely not practiced enough to make anything other than flower doodles. I think you're pretty successful at it. But at least you have writing to fall back on.

I didn't know you were tipsy. I've never read any fan porn any other way than sober. And actually, I never thought about it before. The "Three Legged Race" thing just came from, like, the name of the bake-off. I wanted to call it "Get Your Bake On" or something because I desperately wish I could do cute puns like you, but I thought it was stupid. My new idea is just giving everything random song lyrics as titles. This contest story's working title is totally "I Came A Long Way to See You Now I Wish You Were Dead," not that it has anything to do with the story or the theme or anything. It's just in that GTA IV commercial. I hate titling things. It kills me.

From:

sekrit-omg.livejournal.com

I haven't written enough reviews. Although I have actually written a couple of critical ones that I feel bad about. (I also agreed to edit someone's story, and then my computer broke, and that was three months ago, and ... I suck.) Also, someone once wrote a lecture at the top of their chapter about the lack of reviews, and I kind of went off on him/them. Man, I really suck. Hard. Albeit hopefully in a satisfying way.

I try not to be an elitist in fandom. We are all equally awesome and terrible. Maybe I don't succeed, but ... that was kind of what I got out of the hobbit fandom: It was like, look, lady, I'm glad you're 60 and you have PhD and you were reading LOTR when it just came out, and you wrote a novel-length tome about Frodo's futuresex/lovesounds with many requisite allusions and subtleties, but honestly, you're writing fucking gay fucking porn about fucking hobbits, get over yourself.

Oh, and I hardly have every moment of SP memorized. I was rather into when it started, but then when I got to high school my interest waned and I only sort of watched it every now and then. Then, when I got to college, my roommate and I were obsessed with it, and we started having a SP-themed holiday instead of Christmas, and I was the freaking Mole for Halloween, OMG. Then when I got really busy at college I stopped caring again, then I graduated and had Tivo and started re-watching it fervently. I had a lot to catch up on, like all of seasons 8, 9, and 10. Weirdly though I'd seen "Apologies to Jesse Jackson" and "Cartman Sucks." Then when the second half of season 11 started I camped out and watched it all. And then when I started getting into the fandom I was like, I have to rewatch all of it from the slash perspective! Stan is so gay! He totally did something gay in season 3 I missed when I was 14! And that is all you ever needed to know about me.

(Not really. ... Kinda. I have a Kyle plushie from when I was 12. It doesn't look like Kyle at all. It's too happy.)

Totally clean fronting, not necessarily, just certain things and certain people. It depends who. Closeness varies. Oh, and I think much of it has to do with the fact that the LOTR fandom was so hilarious, I wasn't serious about like hobbits being madly in love. I kind of just adored the wank. But this SP thing I am so completely serious about, like writing and deliberating and, and .... talking to people. For some reason, caring makes it worse. To other people.

Kenny/Kyle? Really? Care to elaborate? Because I get it, kind of. I just don't see a lot of fuel for K^2. I know some people are really into it, though. Really.

The only decent thing I can make is quiche. Go figure. I mean granted I wouldn't have written a story about cooking if I wasn't somewhat interesting in food or cooking, but it's not like I know off the top of my head how to make a Key lime pie. Your facts are seemless, actually. Like I said, I look for things sounding naturalistic. And your stories sound nothing if not naturalistic.

It seems like there are a couple of people in the fandom who are really big Jews. Like, hugely into being Jewish. I don't really know, the Broflovskis seem stereotypically/culturally/secularly Jewish, but they don't keep kosher, or seem to really follow the religion particularly strictly. Like most things it varies based on what's hilarious. But then there are some fanfics that are really heavy-handed.

I feel like I have all these semi-hilarious YouTube video ideas that I can't execute. (My best idea back in the day was probably hobbit slash to the tune of "Gasolina," probably that's stale now, though.) So if you can do it, I commend you. Also, I will try to track you down now. Congrats, I'm totally a stalker.

Okay great, that's the end of my LJ responsibilities for now. Now I have a review reply I won't get to today. But we'll see.