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Update: In this post I was considering the 40k Eddie Munson Big Bang. I just saw the announcement for a 10k Stranger Things Big Bang which is ... probably a much better idea. 10k feels a bit short for a bang, and I am less interested in a more general bang.
Am I dumb enough to try a Big Bang again? Not only have almost all my experiences with structured fic events been horrible, but the last two I did never actually ran. So, not only did I not know about re-dating, when my fic went live it wasn't part of any event.
I've also dealt with weird stuff with mods that I am not going to bring up publicly in namespace, but when I've posted on FFA 'hey, was this weird of the mod?' the answer was unilateral.
I feel like the spiders Georg of weird BB and Exchange problems. I swore them off forever years ago. I stick to fandom stockings type events only.
Still, I'd really like a chance to do something structured, long term and interactive in the Stranger Things fandom.
The minimum is 40k words I'd have 3 months. But in these three months I also need to:
* Finish my 6+1 story. I have 3/7 chapters posted and some writing done on all remaining chapters. Chapter 4 might be up tonight... but more likely this weekend.
* I must finish Sharkskin before digging in too much on a BB
* I have Still Here to finish, but I don't mind updating that slowly.
But I also need to figure out what to do, especially since I am already writing a long, plotty fic. This will also mean I probably wont get Fake Dating On A Train done before Leverage season 7. I actually do have a good chunk written and could start posting before S7 E1, but finishing it would be deeply unlikely.
I am currently working on two very different stories. I'd need to come up with a different thing to write. Here are my current stories:
Still Here is my long, plotty fic that accounts for all characters and their inner lives. Steve is touch starved and has deep issues with physical contact with male friends due to years of being on sports teams and in paranoid, toxic locker rooms. Both the boys are bi. Eddie is going to wind up being the group archivist.
6+1 is vibes. Everyone is alive. Don't ask me how. Slightly fantastical, whimsical feel. Cozy vibes. Steve is coming to terms with being specifically gay after heterosexuality was such a big part of how he saw himself. I don't know if I should use the word comphet. I do see it casually used for people of all genders, but it started out as a specifically lesbian term. But in my brain this is 'Steve deals with comphet'. Also Eddie is dealing with being forcibly adopted by a large inter-generational family group after having had a rocky, unstable home life.
As much as I enjoy struggling with internalized homophobia, both focus more on the euphoria of realizing who you are. I think The Light Ahead did, too.
So, what to do that is separate from all that?
I don't want to do a Kas!Eddie AU.
I am somewhat intrigued by the idea that after the next Vecna battle everyone still alive wakes up back in 1983 with all their memories. So, Steve, Robin, Max etc all remember everything, but Eddie doesn't. Interesting idea, but I am not sure what I'd do with it.
I do still want to play more with early RPG culture and the importance of lgbt+ bookstores. I also want to write odds and ends like 'Eddie talks to El about taking control of her identity by getting a cover up tattoo, turning numbers into flowers'
I don't want to do any kind of big AU or anything, but I also feel like my current stories covers a lot of what I want to do with Stranger Things. I did some planning last night to make sure I don't mix the sauces.
I am going to at least see if I can come up with an idea. Despite eleventy billion reasons why it's a bad idea, I do want to do the thing
Am I dumb enough to try a Big Bang again? Not only have almost all my experiences with structured fic events been horrible, but the last two I did never actually ran. So, not only did I not know about re-dating, when my fic went live it wasn't part of any event.
I've also dealt with weird stuff with mods that I am not going to bring up publicly in namespace, but when I've posted on FFA 'hey, was this weird of the mod?' the answer was unilateral.
I feel like the spiders Georg of weird BB and Exchange problems. I swore them off forever years ago. I stick to fandom stockings type events only.
Still, I'd really like a chance to do something structured, long term and interactive in the Stranger Things fandom.
The minimum is 40k words I'd have 3 months. But in these three months I also need to:
* Finish my 6+1 story. I have 3/7 chapters posted and some writing done on all remaining chapters. Chapter 4 might be up tonight... but more likely this weekend.
* I must finish Sharkskin before digging in too much on a BB
* I have Still Here to finish, but I don't mind updating that slowly.
But I also need to figure out what to do, especially since I am already writing a long, plotty fic. This will also mean I probably wont get Fake Dating On A Train done before Leverage season 7. I actually do have a good chunk written and could start posting before S7 E1, but finishing it would be deeply unlikely.
I am currently working on two very different stories. I'd need to come up with a different thing to write. Here are my current stories:
Still Here is my long, plotty fic that accounts for all characters and their inner lives. Steve is touch starved and has deep issues with physical contact with male friends due to years of being on sports teams and in paranoid, toxic locker rooms. Both the boys are bi. Eddie is going to wind up being the group archivist.
6+1 is vibes. Everyone is alive. Don't ask me how. Slightly fantastical, whimsical feel. Cozy vibes. Steve is coming to terms with being specifically gay after heterosexuality was such a big part of how he saw himself. I don't know if I should use the word comphet. I do see it casually used for people of all genders, but it started out as a specifically lesbian term. But in my brain this is 'Steve deals with comphet'. Also Eddie is dealing with being forcibly adopted by a large inter-generational family group after having had a rocky, unstable home life.
As much as I enjoy struggling with internalized homophobia, both focus more on the euphoria of realizing who you are. I think The Light Ahead did, too.
So, what to do that is separate from all that?
I don't want to do a Kas!Eddie AU.
I am somewhat intrigued by the idea that after the next Vecna battle everyone still alive wakes up back in 1983 with all their memories. So, Steve, Robin, Max etc all remember everything, but Eddie doesn't. Interesting idea, but I am not sure what I'd do with it.
I do still want to play more with early RPG culture and the importance of lgbt+ bookstores. I also want to write odds and ends like 'Eddie talks to El about taking control of her identity by getting a cover up tattoo, turning numbers into flowers'
I don't want to do any kind of big AU or anything, but I also feel like my current stories covers a lot of what I want to do with Stranger Things. I did some planning last night to make sure I don't mix the sauces.
I am going to at least see if I can come up with an idea. Despite eleventy billion reasons why it's a bad idea, I do want to do the thing
