Ponderings
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I find it amusing that as the holiday season draws to a close, I begin to go back to the Halloween/supernatural/paranormal mindset I held for a great majority of the past year.
That doesn't mean that I don't want to do criminal mysteries anymore; on the contrary, I'm into chapter ten of the thriller fic and am still just as excited over it, if not moreso. I've had the very last part of the last chapter planned in my head for so long and I'm so anxious to share it. But that can't happen until I write the rest of the story, which I am also eager to tell. There's a scene that will probably be at the end of chapter 11 that I'm anxious to get to.
I would like to write some supernatural/paranormal/psychological things along with the criminal mysteries. I'm still waiting to post the psychological oneshot, but I will probably get it up tonight. One thing I like about psychological fics is that they're not necessarily supernatural/paranormal, but they're frightening all the same. Sometimes moreso than anything supernatural.
I also find it amusing that when I first had thoughts of wanting to write for all four of Jeff Siggins' Patty Duke Show characters, I was overwhelmed as well as slightly unsettled by the thought of so many identical boys. Now, as I've been analyzing them more and writing for them and discerning their individual personalities, I can't imagine it any other way. They're each very distinctive, even though they share some traits such as being nice, kind people. In my headcanon, Alfred and George have been firmly established as brothers and Alan and Philip are brothers as well as cousins to Alfred and George. I love that there's nothing in canon to contradict it, and that Alfred even canonically helped support the idea by announcing that he has a cousin named Philip.
This isn't written down anywhere yet, but I'm thinking that it's the boys' mothers who are identical twins, to make it a bit different from Patty and Cathy's fathers being twins. The fathers being twins is the canon-friendly explanation for how the girls look alike, so a version with the mothers should work okay for Alfred and company.
There is an Alan Brewster mentioned in season 3, and though of course that wouldn't be Jeff's Alan since no characters from the first two seasons are in season 3, I'm thinking of writing that it is Jeff's Alan since there's no indication he couldn't be. The characters from the first two seasons appear in any fics I write from season 3, both because I love them and because I feel season 3 was lacking without them. Also interesting is that the principal at the end of season 1 and into season 2 is named Brewster, so I could make him related to Alan and Philip; possibly an uncle or a grandfather, once I determine how old he is.
I've been hard at work on the story that's a follow-up to the Ross, the Peacemaker episode. I suddenly got a burst of inspiration and have been flying over the pages. There's still quite a bit to go, however.
I've been lukewarm on the fic idea involving Alfred hit by a car while protecting George. I was doubtful whether I should even finish it or if I even wanted to, but I think I really do. I've idly considered changing some of it, yet every time I read it over it looks just fine, and I realized yesterday that I really still do want to somehow finish it, even if it is a bit more serious than anything on the show. Maybe it actually isn't; I've tried to keep the show's mood about it. There's some humor here and there, and since the show canonically can get much more serious than a common sitcom, it might look alright.
Something that likely will not get posted anywhere is my exercise in writing for Alan and Philip. It's based around a roleplay idea where Yami Marik abducts them, takes them to the Shadow Realm, and tries and fails to force them to fight to the death with each other. The exercise follows Philip's thoughts as he struggles to deal with what happened after the fact, and how he and Alan are both having trouble recovering from it. I'm sure that would shoot up the eyebrows of every other fan of the show, unless somewhere out there is another person who likes both it and YGO.
Though it would probably shoot up my eyebrows despite the fact that I do like both. Patty Duke and the supernatural just do not mesh well. Although the final episode of the series had Patty Lane thinking she had ESP, and it actually seemed like she did. That was the strongest the show ever delved into the paranormal, albeit it's still a far cry from psychopathic alternate personalities tormenting people in a dark realm for the fun of it.
In any case, I suppose I might post it only in here when it's done, but since it doesn't seem that anyone on the Friends list knows/likes the show, I'm not sure if there's a point. It wouldn't really be an accurate introduction to the show for anyone interested, either. But if they're curious anyway because of all my musings on these various characters and the show, I'll likely put it up here.
I find it amusing that as the holiday season draws to a close, I begin to go back to the Halloween/supernatural/paranormal mindset I held for a great majority of the past year.
That doesn't mean that I don't want to do criminal mysteries anymore; on the contrary, I'm into chapter ten of the thriller fic and am still just as excited over it, if not moreso. I've had the very last part of the last chapter planned in my head for so long and I'm so anxious to share it. But that can't happen until I write the rest of the story, which I am also eager to tell. There's a scene that will probably be at the end of chapter 11 that I'm anxious to get to.
I would like to write some supernatural/paranormal/psychological things along with the criminal mysteries. I'm still waiting to post the psychological oneshot, but I will probably get it up tonight. One thing I like about psychological fics is that they're not necessarily supernatural/paranormal, but they're frightening all the same. Sometimes moreso than anything supernatural.
I also find it amusing that when I first had thoughts of wanting to write for all four of Jeff Siggins' Patty Duke Show characters, I was overwhelmed as well as slightly unsettled by the thought of so many identical boys. Now, as I've been analyzing them more and writing for them and discerning their individual personalities, I can't imagine it any other way. They're each very distinctive, even though they share some traits such as being nice, kind people. In my headcanon, Alfred and George have been firmly established as brothers and Alan and Philip are brothers as well as cousins to Alfred and George. I love that there's nothing in canon to contradict it, and that Alfred even canonically helped support the idea by announcing that he has a cousin named Philip.
This isn't written down anywhere yet, but I'm thinking that it's the boys' mothers who are identical twins, to make it a bit different from Patty and Cathy's fathers being twins. The fathers being twins is the canon-friendly explanation for how the girls look alike, so a version with the mothers should work okay for Alfred and company.
There is an Alan Brewster mentioned in season 3, and though of course that wouldn't be Jeff's Alan since no characters from the first two seasons are in season 3, I'm thinking of writing that it is Jeff's Alan since there's no indication he couldn't be. The characters from the first two seasons appear in any fics I write from season 3, both because I love them and because I feel season 3 was lacking without them. Also interesting is that the principal at the end of season 1 and into season 2 is named Brewster, so I could make him related to Alan and Philip; possibly an uncle or a grandfather, once I determine how old he is.
I've been hard at work on the story that's a follow-up to the Ross, the Peacemaker episode. I suddenly got a burst of inspiration and have been flying over the pages. There's still quite a bit to go, however.
I've been lukewarm on the fic idea involving Alfred hit by a car while protecting George. I was doubtful whether I should even finish it or if I even wanted to, but I think I really do. I've idly considered changing some of it, yet every time I read it over it looks just fine, and I realized yesterday that I really still do want to somehow finish it, even if it is a bit more serious than anything on the show. Maybe it actually isn't; I've tried to keep the show's mood about it. There's some humor here and there, and since the show canonically can get much more serious than a common sitcom, it might look alright.
Something that likely will not get posted anywhere is my exercise in writing for Alan and Philip. It's based around a roleplay idea where Yami Marik abducts them, takes them to the Shadow Realm, and tries and fails to force them to fight to the death with each other. The exercise follows Philip's thoughts as he struggles to deal with what happened after the fact, and how he and Alan are both having trouble recovering from it. I'm sure that would shoot up the eyebrows of every other fan of the show, unless somewhere out there is another person who likes both it and YGO.
Though it would probably shoot up my eyebrows despite the fact that I do like both. Patty Duke and the supernatural just do not mesh well. Although the final episode of the series had Patty Lane thinking she had ESP, and it actually seemed like she did. That was the strongest the show ever delved into the paranormal, albeit it's still a far cry from psychopathic alternate personalities tormenting people in a dark realm for the fun of it.
In any case, I suppose I might post it only in here when it's done, but since it doesn't seem that anyone on the Friends list knows/likes the show, I'm not sure if there's a point. It wouldn't really be an accurate introduction to the show for anyone interested, either. But if they're curious anyway because of all my musings on these various characters and the show, I'll likely put it up here.
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Date: 2011-01-03 09:42 am (UTC)Alfred, being the most carefree of the four boys, I think will take what happened especially hard even though he wasn't actually there. I have a fascination with the carefree characters reacting very harshly to dark situations like that.
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Date: 2011-01-04 03:42 pm (UTC)*nodnod* Psychological fic is awesome. I think you might like the movie Inception - lots of eerie psychological stuff about what's real and what's not. And it's easy on the eyes too, all the main characters are gorgeous and so dapper in all their suits. XD;
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Date: 2011-01-04 05:43 pm (UTC)I've been thinking I should check out Inception. I love psychological movies. Guys in suits don't hurt either. LOL.