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vaznettiI'm a regular question-answering demon tonight, apparently. Well, I expect the ceiling to start leaking any minute now, so that will distract me.
From Tarsh:
If it'd been up to you, who would have died in the Buffy finale, and how?
After Kennedy left the room, Willow would have died. I think that spell needed a bigger sacrifice to make it convincing. I would have hated that--I would have been in tears, because even though I haven't liked Willow's character much recently, she was my hook character all the way back in Season 1 and I can still love her even when I don't like her. And her death would have made sense. I might have left Anya alive, in that case, but I would have let the slayer who died (I've forgotten her name--Amanda?) die, and maybe one other. And I liked the way Spike died, to be honest. I think Willow's death would have balanced that out, in a way--there were a lot of similarities between those characters.
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spican
1. Do you have any ambition to write a non-fanfic novel some day? If so, what kind?
Well, I stopped the Roman AU when I realized that if I wrote it I should just go ahead and write a historical novel. Every now and then I get the urge to write a novel about Julia, Augustus' daughter. And I'd be shameless and make it a real romance, too, and figure out a work-around to her rather sad death. Then I'd make a whole series of them, for all the Roman empresses. And every classicist I know would hate me forever. I'd have to use an assumed name.
2. What is the most beautiful place you've travelled to? The ugliest? Why?
Oh dear. Every place is beautiful in its own way. I was lucky enough to go to the Al-Aqsa mosque (I think that's the name), on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, before it was closed to non-Muslims, and it is I think the most beautiful building I've ever been in. Standing in it is like being inside a waterfall of blue and gold and light; it also feels quite holy, as you'd expect, and that makes it feel even more beautiful. it was, I would say, about eight times as beautiful as the Taj Mahal was the morning I saw it, and the Taj was beautiful enough to cure PMS and the common cold, as I can attest.
The most beautiful place, as a whole, is probably northern New Mexico.
The ugliest? I once got lost in the suburbs of Istanbul, which are pretty insalubrious. And there's Birmingham. Sorry, not a fan of Birmingham, although Brummies are nice enough people.
3. I know you like to cook. If you were going to make me a really, really yummy dessert, what would it be? :)
It would be an orange and almond cake with chocolate sauce. I should give you the recipe for this, because it's nearly foolproof. If it was autumn or winter, it might be apple cake with ice cream. I'm a pretty simple cook.
4. You've created a family of original characters for your Pity/Pain/Articled universe. What gave you the idea of involving Krycek as an outsider into a family unit in this way? Do you think you've adjusted Krycek more to fit in with the Bookman familiy, or the other way around?
(4b. And are you going to give that series a name eventually, so that one can stop referring to it as your Pity/Pain/Articled universe?)
The series is called "In Love With Truth," but I don't really like that title, so I very rarely use it. But you can start doing so, and it might catch on.
Making Krycek the outsider in that family unit was kind of an accident. I started out with the idea that he probably had friends or at least acquaintances in his offscreen life, so I originally tried to fit them to Krycek: to make them the kind of people he'd associate with. I didn't realize, at that point, quite how complicated their relationships were. I thought that they'd be more of a substitute family for Krycek. Plus, you know, I started out with just Jacob and Leilah--the father and the dead husband were added on as the story grew. But I think making Krycek the outsider in another family unit is useful within the story--because the story is at least in part about the way Mulder sees Krycek, and Krycek is very much an interloper in Mulder's family (via the murder of Bill Mulder, which Krycek "stole" from Mulder himself, along with any chance of a reconciliation).
I think that Krycek is a different person with them than he is with, say, Mulder--at least at first, although I think his identities have come together in the course of the stories, as he's grown closer to Mulder and as Jacob has gotten more deeply involved with the conspiracy. But I'm not sure that I've adjusted him to fit them--although I suspect that he's gotten a lot smoother over the course of the series, which may be their influence as well as a change in the way I was writing the character.
5. What is your favorite slash crossover pairing and story?
I'm an old fashioned girl. Give me my Krycek/Methos and I'm happy. And I'm happiest if the story is Ladonna's If I Should Fall from Grace with God, with her crossover snippets, like this one, coming a close second (because for those two, I want silly, happy endings).
From Tarsh:
If it'd been up to you, who would have died in the Buffy finale, and how?
After Kennedy left the room, Willow would have died. I think that spell needed a bigger sacrifice to make it convincing. I would have hated that--I would have been in tears, because even though I haven't liked Willow's character much recently, she was my hook character all the way back in Season 1 and I can still love her even when I don't like her. And her death would have made sense. I might have left Anya alive, in that case, but I would have let the slayer who died (I've forgotten her name--Amanda?) die, and maybe one other. And I liked the way Spike died, to be honest. I think Willow's death would have balanced that out, in a way--there were a lot of similarities between those characters.
And some questions from
spican 1. Do you have any ambition to write a non-fanfic novel some day? If so, what kind?
Well, I stopped the Roman AU when I realized that if I wrote it I should just go ahead and write a historical novel. Every now and then I get the urge to write a novel about Julia, Augustus' daughter. And I'd be shameless and make it a real romance, too, and figure out a work-around to her rather sad death. Then I'd make a whole series of them, for all the Roman empresses. And every classicist I know would hate me forever. I'd have to use an assumed name.
2. What is the most beautiful place you've travelled to? The ugliest? Why?
Oh dear. Every place is beautiful in its own way. I was lucky enough to go to the Al-Aqsa mosque (I think that's the name), on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, before it was closed to non-Muslims, and it is I think the most beautiful building I've ever been in. Standing in it is like being inside a waterfall of blue and gold and light; it also feels quite holy, as you'd expect, and that makes it feel even more beautiful. it was, I would say, about eight times as beautiful as the Taj Mahal was the morning I saw it, and the Taj was beautiful enough to cure PMS and the common cold, as I can attest.
The most beautiful place, as a whole, is probably northern New Mexico.
The ugliest? I once got lost in the suburbs of Istanbul, which are pretty insalubrious. And there's Birmingham. Sorry, not a fan of Birmingham, although Brummies are nice enough people.
3. I know you like to cook. If you were going to make me a really, really yummy dessert, what would it be? :)
It would be an orange and almond cake with chocolate sauce. I should give you the recipe for this, because it's nearly foolproof. If it was autumn or winter, it might be apple cake with ice cream. I'm a pretty simple cook.
4. You've created a family of original characters for your Pity/Pain/Articled universe. What gave you the idea of involving Krycek as an outsider into a family unit in this way? Do you think you've adjusted Krycek more to fit in with the Bookman familiy, or the other way around?
(4b. And are you going to give that series a name eventually, so that one can stop referring to it as your Pity/Pain/Articled universe?)
The series is called "In Love With Truth," but I don't really like that title, so I very rarely use it. But you can start doing so, and it might catch on.
Making Krycek the outsider in that family unit was kind of an accident. I started out with the idea that he probably had friends or at least acquaintances in his offscreen life, so I originally tried to fit them to Krycek: to make them the kind of people he'd associate with. I didn't realize, at that point, quite how complicated their relationships were. I thought that they'd be more of a substitute family for Krycek. Plus, you know, I started out with just Jacob and Leilah--the father and the dead husband were added on as the story grew. But I think making Krycek the outsider in another family unit is useful within the story--because the story is at least in part about the way Mulder sees Krycek, and Krycek is very much an interloper in Mulder's family (via the murder of Bill Mulder, which Krycek "stole" from Mulder himself, along with any chance of a reconciliation).
I think that Krycek is a different person with them than he is with, say, Mulder--at least at first, although I think his identities have come together in the course of the stories, as he's grown closer to Mulder and as Jacob has gotten more deeply involved with the conspiracy. But I'm not sure that I've adjusted him to fit them--although I suspect that he's gotten a lot smoother over the course of the series, which may be their influence as well as a change in the way I was writing the character.
5. What is your favorite slash crossover pairing and story?
I'm an old fashioned girl. Give me my Krycek/Methos and I'm happy. And I'm happiest if the story is Ladonna's If I Should Fall from Grace with God, with her crossover snippets, like this one, coming a close second (because for those two, I want silly, happy endings).
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Date: 2003-06-12 08:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-06-13 05:19 am (UTC)And I really don't know if I should start calling your series "In Love With Truth" if you don't like that title! You might end up resenting me. *g*
And I'd be shameless and make it a real romance, too, and figure out a work-around to her rather sad death. Then I'd make a whole series of them, for all the Roman empresses. And every classicist I know would hate me forever. I'd have to use an assumed name.
Well, if you managed to combine this with your other dream about the professorship at Yale, it would end up in a scenario of most amusing professional duplicity. Here's hoping you accomplish it. ;)
Thanks for your replies!
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Date: 2003-06-15 03:03 pm (UTC)You know, I thought she was going to die. When she turned all glowy and white, for a split second it went beyond that, into almost translucent, and I thought she was going to just... fade away.
Then they turned her solid again and she was basically fine, but I still feel like it was a cop out. I'd have hated it, too, if she'd died -- but they way they did that just left me terribly unsatisfied about it.
And I liked the way Spike died, to be honest. I think Willow's death would have balanced that out, in a way--there were a lot of similarities between those characters.
I'd agree with this, too. Now that I've had a chance to get over the gibbering 'they killed him?!', that is. I hate that they did, but at the same time, it worked, and well, and was right. Although that 'I love you', 'No, you don't. But thanks for saying it' exchange at the end between him and Buffy... he couldn't go on the way he had been, and there wasn't much of a way out of it for him, but. Ouch.
Anyway, another couple of questions, if you're still taking them; 'cause now I've had a bit of a chance to get past Buffy and come up with something vaguely question-like...
2. Was it always going to be the humanities for you, all the way back through school? Or did you flirt with the sciences, once upon a time, too?
3. Why Krycek? What moment or action (or inaction) crystallised the character in your head into someone you needed to write about?
4. Are these allowed to get personal? If so, how'd you meet Adrian, and who asked who out first? Did the other instantly say yes, or was persuasion required? (If personal isn't allowed, feel free to ignore this) (Also, I have this vague feeling I should actually know the answer to this. But if it came up that time in Wales, I've forgotten, so have the question anyway *g*)
5. What, exactly, do we need to offer you to induce you to write that Furst-homage Krycek & Triangle!Scully fic?