Hmmm. Interesting.
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ladybug_archiveSo I've been watching Carmen episodes and loving it all over again. And the Mysterious Woman segments in season 2 have inspired me on what Perry fic to do next: that cracky oneshot noir parody with Steve Drumm. LOL. It's moving right along; I'm on page 7! I don't intend for it to be very long, but maybe it will be and I'll need to post it in several chunks. Then I still wonder what big fic to start next, but I'll worry about that when this one is done.
I've also been loving the Dying Informant sketches in seasons 1 and 2. So cracky and silly, yet hurt/comforty at the same time. And they make my crush on Scott flare up again. Even though I'm not really comfortable writing hurt/comfort for the fandom anymore, I still love the canon h/c.
... So much so that I dug into my old fics to read the couple I did based around canon Dying Informant sketches. And I remembered something I'd thought about years before, how I used to kind of want to see that character as being separate from Scott the musician. (After all, at least some of the sketch characters are undeniably not meant to be the musicians, like Mrs. Pumpkinclanger or Scott the plumber, etc.) I kind of sometimes pictured the Dying Informant as a loner, with Greg his only real friend, and from Greg's reactions in many of the segments, that status was questionable. Reading those fics again, I was actually perfectly fine with them as long as I kept that mentality of the characters being separate. The moment the characters merged into one, I became uncomfortable.
It makes me wonder if I might like to try writing some short h/c fics about the Dying Informant, either keeping to the canon segments or else crafting some new ones similar to those, and also keeping to the idea of the character being separate from Scott the musician. Even if he actually is not (Crystal and I always played/pictured them as one and the same), maybe for any possible fics like that, I just wouldn't tread into that territory so it could be left ambiguous, as the show itself left it.
It just goes to show that I can't be separated from hurt/comfort for very long. And when the show itself encourages it, it becomes almost impossible for sure. Which is probably how it started in the past, but it will never be that way again, since I am still very uncomfortable by any hint of hurt/comfort involving the actual musician personas of the characters, fictional versions or not.
I've also been loving the Dying Informant sketches in seasons 1 and 2. So cracky and silly, yet hurt/comforty at the same time. And they make my crush on Scott flare up again. Even though I'm not really comfortable writing hurt/comfort for the fandom anymore, I still love the canon h/c.
... So much so that I dug into my old fics to read the couple I did based around canon Dying Informant sketches. And I remembered something I'd thought about years before, how I used to kind of want to see that character as being separate from Scott the musician. (After all, at least some of the sketch characters are undeniably not meant to be the musicians, like Mrs. Pumpkinclanger or Scott the plumber, etc.) I kind of sometimes pictured the Dying Informant as a loner, with Greg his only real friend, and from Greg's reactions in many of the segments, that status was questionable. Reading those fics again, I was actually perfectly fine with them as long as I kept that mentality of the characters being separate. The moment the characters merged into one, I became uncomfortable.
It makes me wonder if I might like to try writing some short h/c fics about the Dying Informant, either keeping to the canon segments or else crafting some new ones similar to those, and also keeping to the idea of the character being separate from Scott the musician. Even if he actually is not (Crystal and I always played/pictured them as one and the same), maybe for any possible fics like that, I just wouldn't tread into that territory so it could be left ambiguous, as the show itself left it.
It just goes to show that I can't be separated from hurt/comfort for very long. And when the show itself encourages it, it becomes almost impossible for sure. Which is probably how it started in the past, but it will never be that way again, since I am still very uncomfortable by any hint of hurt/comfort involving the actual musician personas of the characters, fictional versions or not.
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Date: 2015-08-06 12:36 pm (UTC)Yessssssss, indeed.
Hmm. I've definitely always seen them as the same, I guess to justify the fictional persona thing and so that even when I'm writing about the characters, I can still draw from personalities and things. But seeing the Informant as separate is an interesting way to look at it. Though the idea of him as a loner seems sad (especially since, as you said, Greg's reactions make it questionable that he's his only friend). Leaving it ambiguous is probably best.
At any rate, rediscovering it is very fun!
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Date: 2015-08-06 10:59 pm (UTC)Yeah, I generally preferred then to see them as the same, so I never acted on those thoughts. I still like to think of them as the same, yet when considering hurt/comfort, it's definitely more comfortable to imagine otherwise.
Totally!
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Date: 2015-08-06 02:54 pm (UTC)if you have to do h/c again remember: small doses
man I really need to get writing, if I post episode 9, it'll be shorter than usual, and the case in the episode will hardly be fleshed out, because I said it before and I'll say it again, Daphne is hard to write for.
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Date: 2015-08-06 10:54 pm (UTC)I doubt I would do anything except new Dying Informant-type scenes or expanding on ones already in the canon, since as I said, anything involving the musician personas still made me uncomfortable. It was only the thought of the Dying Informant as a separate character that I seemed to feel okay with.
Oh dear. Well, good luck.