Still thinking
Nov. 26th, 2017 06:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
insaneladybugIf I change the disaster to water for my Dead and Alive redo, maybe James somehow manages to drag himself out of the water or just ends up washed ashore and then is attacked by Bonnie and Clyde at that point. Then I could still have him trick them when they try to kill him, although I'd also want to change that the method of death is strangling. I haven't done that since learning of how it hurts the throat/neck even if you do survive. Several weeks of wearing a neck brace just for a few seconds of strangling ... no, thank you. Maybe they just try hitting him on the head and he falls down dazed, but fakes being dead when he realizes they think they hit him hard enough to kill him. Of course, then they'd try checking for a pulse and he'd have to get up and try to fight them off, and then he still falls off a cliff to lower ground. They leave him for dead at that point, either that or they have to leave because the ground is crumbling all around. (Or because of some other effect of their flood. I imagine Ash and company will have to try to repair the dam to stop the entire forest from being wrecked.)
Also thinking that the water disaster starts when Bonnie and Clyde deliberately break a dam or something to try to flood the cabin where the trio is staying. So a flood happens and James tries to help Jessie and Meowth, but then goes under and they can't find him and are panicking thinking he's drowned. But instead, yeah, he gets to shore and then that other stuff happens.
In the morning I tried redoing the scene in the climax when Jessie finds James after he's hurt saving her from the Big Bad. That scene didn't end up so different, though, since that was the one where I wanted to keep the dialogue I already had. But other things will be pretty different and/or fleshed out.
And I'm worried that I screwed up my other fic by posting the epilogue without reading through the whole story again first. I read through it so many times while writing and posting other segments, and after writing the epilogue too, so I thought it was okay and I'd addressed everything I needed to in the epilogue, but now I'm worried that maybe I didn't. Bleh.
Heh, how funny that I was worried getting the Pokemon DVDs would plunnie me since I'd casually written for the show in the past, but then decided it probably wouldn't happen. And now it has anyway. I'm still working with the Turtles fics too, but I'm having a bit of trouble concentrating on finishing the one I've been working on. It's actually close to the end, so hopefully I'll be able to get the rest done in between all these Pokemon plunnies. I really want to do a second Christmas Turtles fic and have Santa return and talk to Barney, happy that he's in a better place now. But aside from that, I am worried about the continuation of the series. The other fics on the list aren't really speaking to me and I don't have any other ideas.
A year ago tonight, I was working on my Phantom of the Floxy Redux fic. I went to this awesome Messiah sing-along thing and planned out the hurt/comfort scene while I was there. It was the only time I was really happy during that Christmas season. Every other celebratory thing I tried to do that year seemed to go wrong. I can't attend the sing-along this year, so I hope other things will go right this time.
I still love that old fic. So intense and exciting and fun to write. But wow, have Baxter and Barney come a long way since then. Especially Barney. But Baxter's grown too.
... And wow. I didn't think anybody could make me like the song Christmastime is Here. It sounds so melancholy and sad even though it's really supposed to be peaceful, happy, and nostalgic. It always make me feel melancholy and sad. But I just heard Kurt Bestor make it sound peaceful and nostalgic. (Then it got upbeat and jazzy too.) Finally, a version I like! Now he's doing a calypso O Christmas Tree. Epic.
Also thinking that the water disaster starts when Bonnie and Clyde deliberately break a dam or something to try to flood the cabin where the trio is staying. So a flood happens and James tries to help Jessie and Meowth, but then goes under and they can't find him and are panicking thinking he's drowned. But instead, yeah, he gets to shore and then that other stuff happens.
In the morning I tried redoing the scene in the climax when Jessie finds James after he's hurt saving her from the Big Bad. That scene didn't end up so different, though, since that was the one where I wanted to keep the dialogue I already had. But other things will be pretty different and/or fleshed out.
And I'm worried that I screwed up my other fic by posting the epilogue without reading through the whole story again first. I read through it so many times while writing and posting other segments, and after writing the epilogue too, so I thought it was okay and I'd addressed everything I needed to in the epilogue, but now I'm worried that maybe I didn't. Bleh.
Heh, how funny that I was worried getting the Pokemon DVDs would plunnie me since I'd casually written for the show in the past, but then decided it probably wouldn't happen. And now it has anyway. I'm still working with the Turtles fics too, but I'm having a bit of trouble concentrating on finishing the one I've been working on. It's actually close to the end, so hopefully I'll be able to get the rest done in between all these Pokemon plunnies. I really want to do a second Christmas Turtles fic and have Santa return and talk to Barney, happy that he's in a better place now. But aside from that, I am worried about the continuation of the series. The other fics on the list aren't really speaking to me and I don't have any other ideas.
A year ago tonight, I was working on my Phantom of the Floxy Redux fic. I went to this awesome Messiah sing-along thing and planned out the hurt/comfort scene while I was there. It was the only time I was really happy during that Christmas season. Every other celebratory thing I tried to do that year seemed to go wrong. I can't attend the sing-along this year, so I hope other things will go right this time.
I still love that old fic. So intense and exciting and fun to write. But wow, have Baxter and Barney come a long way since then. Especially Barney. But Baxter's grown too.
... And wow. I didn't think anybody could make me like the song Christmastime is Here. It sounds so melancholy and sad even though it's really supposed to be peaceful, happy, and nostalgic. It always make me feel melancholy and sad. But I just heard Kurt Bestor make it sound peaceful and nostalgic. (Then it got upbeat and jazzy too.) Finally, a version I like! Now he's doing a calypso O Christmas Tree. Epic.
