[WIP Wednesday] 2019-12-04

[thrillingdetectivetales]

It's that time again, nerds! Welcome to
WIP WEDNESDAY!



Feel free to share bits of what you're working on, ask for feedback or advice from your fandom fellows, gush about a project you're starting, whatever! Let's keep this good good HBOWar content train chugging along!

Comments

Re: The Pacific - Andy/Eddie timeline fuckery

[thrillingdetectivetales]

I know how much you enjoy your research, and I agree that it makes me feel more confident about a period piece when I have a breadth of knowledge at my disposal to ensure really granular accuracy, but I feel like the general approach to fanfiction overall is that historical accuracy is sort of a nice bonus that can be cool to see rather than an absolute necessity that's going to impact the success of the story in any meaningful way.

TL;DR It's gonna be totally great and turn out just fine, friend~ You're a fantastic author and I, for one, can't wait to read your weird non-linear Andy/Eddie Colonel Kink fill.

Re: The Pacific - Andy/Eddie timeline fuckery

[muccamukk]

I think one of my hang ups, and the reason I often bounce off setting change AUs, is that I really feel like circumstances shape behaviour, and if I know more about the place and time, including details, but often more the feel of it, or what people like that thought, then it feels more real to me. I always like the Ursula Le Guin quote:

As for “Write what you know,” I was regularly told this as a beginner. I think it’s a very good rule and have always obeyed it. I write about imaginary countries, alien societies on other planets, dragons, wizards, the Napa Valley in 22002. I know these things. I know them better than anybody else possibly could, so it’s my duty to testify about them.

Which could be more self serious than it is, if you don't consider it's Le Guin.

Anyway. There's only one bed. They fuck. It'll work out.