Yes that did require all caps announcement.
OMG I can’t believe it after all this time I can finally watch!
Only the first 3 episodes are up at the moment but that’s good. Limit me Disney+ or I’ll just binge the lot, I have zero self control and I want to make it last because it’s soooooo good.
I love this show so much and finally I can see it!!!
OMG I shouldn’t laugh but I can’t stop haha.
I just had a steam notification that a “game on my wishlist was on sale” and I checked and it was Marvel’s Avengers. I’d forgotten I hadn’t taken it off, now I’m glad I haven’t because it’s making me laugh so much.
50% sale. The games only been out a couple of months. I know I’m being super mean here but I can’t help but think that maybe it hasn’t sold as well as they hoped, on account of the game not being that good. I know, that was just my opinion but still such a huge sale seems suggestive to me.
Oh I’m a bad person to laugh. It’s just it’s funny to me I’m sorry.
So I didn’t get to the John/James flashback in the end as John decided to have a mental crisis first. I mean that was what provoked him to remember their first kiss but I didn’t realise it was going to take quite that many words…
This was the first POV I’d done with John because I wanted to leave it until later, I was trying to plant clues for people (what people? nobody’s reading this /facepalm) to guess what happened in Praxis and this scene basically confirmed it for anyone familiar with canon. Though obviously it will get totally confirmed, and John’s questions answered, when they eventually return to Praxis.
Poor man. I have flavours of Bucky Barnes and Teal’c in there because they both had some killer lines about guilt and forgiveness. I know that scenes with just ‘thinking’ aren’t very dynamic but while John is desperate to talk to Helen and James he’s also terrified of what they’ll say. Which is valid because they aren’t ready to hear it yet.
Anyway tomorrow the actual flashback! Man this fic is one long mess haha. Oh dear. You know I did at least get an itch to write a oneshot Sanctuary fic today. I started thinking wouldn’t it be nice to write an AU where John was never cursed. I was thinking John and Helen’s wedding day (in which James of course would be whispering the vows along with them) which would be as tooth-rottingly fluffy as you can imagine. I might just have to do that.
Words Written: 1,872
Current Total: 41,994
I know it’s a bit early to quit for the day but I finished my scene and I just don’t have the spoons to start another. I woke up this morning to find the fridge/freezer had packed up in the night and I’m just done with today. Really I’m amazed words happened at all.
Anyway flashback of how The Five met is done. I think I’ll do John flashing back to how he and James first got together tomorrow. Then I should return to more plot-based stuff of destroying the Cabal.
I said at the beginning of the month that I wasn’t sure whether I would post this or not. I’m now leaning towards posting it, even as I question the point because *crickets*. Currently I’m wavering because I really feel like I need another opinion on it. I can get stuck in my own head and not see things right, but as I don’t know anyone who watches Sanctuary a beta isn’t going to happen. I guess I’ll have to see how I feel if I try and revise it. #DecemberProblem
Words Written: 1,413
Current Total: 40,122
I can never focus if I’m waiting for something. So until the wireless adaptor came I was useless but after I’d fixed my internet, and then rambled about it to anyone who would listen, I then got back to the words!
Revision is definitely going to need to be a thing. Following my uncertainty about yesterdays interrogation scene, I’m not 100% certain about the pow-wow scene in Helen’s office today either. BUT fortunately it was brief and we’ve moved into more shippy territory. James did some thinking about the bloody mess their lives have become, and resolved that he wants to try again with Helen, and then the next thing will be a flashback to the day they first met.
So tomorrow writing Day One – Oxford years 🙂 It’s going to be so hard, because you know historical things. 1886, what do I know about that? But I’m going to give it a go. This is the start of The Five, it’s huge. OK let’s try and not think that in case I freak myself out, it’s very minor really /cough.
Words Written: 2,147
Current Total: 38,709
I owe tumblr an apology.
I’ve been complaining for weeks that this site hasn’t been loading properly on desktop. I assumed it was because the staff had screwed something up again. I thought it was a tumblr problem … until I noticed images weren’t loading very well on other sites either.
So I ran a speedtest and found that I was only getting 4mbs. I was about to yell at my ISP but then it hit me – tumblr loaded fine on my phone. I ran a speedtest on my phone and it was 50mbs! Curious I ordered a wireless USB adaptor for my desktop (I had been using an ethernet powerline adaptor) and today it came and I ran another speedtest.
54mbs – a full 50mbs faster using wi-fi.
So I’m sorry tumblr it wasn’t you, it was me and thank merlin I’ve fixed it because it was starting to drive me mental.
Ok I’m not 100% convinced with the interrogation scene I wrote. I think that will be something I revisit in revision. There are parts I like, parts that I worry don’t pass the logic test, and parts that I’m unsure whether it’s correct characterisation. I mean I 100% think that Helen could be that ruthless but I don’t know.
Anyway, I had another think today about all the Oxford flashbacks I still want to weave in and I decided on the POV for them. I actually don’t think it’s going to be as hard as I thought because I need them to start thinking in the direction of their relationship. They are fighting it because they’ve running from their feelings for over a century. I think that’s why I’m struggling to get to it.
Right so tomorrow I think we have to make a return to Helen’s office *sniggers* I know, I know, we were trapped in there for most of a week at the start of the month but it’s necessary. They need to discuss the information they got from Kate and form an attack plan. After that? Well I think it’s time these poor characters got some sleep, they’ve been up over 48 hours. I know source blood enhanced stamina but still they did die, that has to take it out of you.
So James alone in his room, struggling to sleep because his mind doesn’t switch off, he starts thinking about John and Helen and then flashback to the first time they meet Helen at Oxford. Technically that comes after the flashback where John and James get together but it’s the beginnings of The Five so it makes more sense to me to do it first. I don’t know, I can always alter it in revision.
Words Written: 1,719
Current Total: 36,562
Start of week three. Wow. This has been a quick month.
Usual story, intended to write more, struggled to start and then it didn’t happen. Sunday is a bad day for it anyway as I have family dinner. Plus on Grand Prix weeks I often get time with mum, which is lovely, but obviously means less writing time. Anyway, not so many words but still some. There’s forward momentum.
Kate is now tied to a chair inside a containment cell. The team are discussing how to get her to betray the Cabal. Nikola just suggested threatening her with John hehe. I guess tomorrow I’ll need to resolve that somehow ??? (I don’t know). This part is very vague. No more scenes, just ‘ehhh this needs to happen somehow’ so that’s helpful past!self (no it’s not).
I have compiled a list of everything I want to include in the rest of the story. I don’t know how to weave it together but at least I know what it is. Hopefully, one word in front of another, and I’ll make it happen somehow.
Words Written: 1,661
Current Total: 34,843
Ok that was take two on the gifset because I decided to change the scene I used for the second gif and I also fiddled with the text.
I mean I’m just doing this for me because it makes me happy. I’ll fall over in shock if a single person reblogs it so it’s all good 🙂
Now though I’m thinking perhaps I should have found a James/Helen scene. I like the ones I picked but it’s an OT3, not just Helen/John and John/James. Decisions, decisions hehe.
Ehhh I can always go for take three later if I change my mind. That’s the beauty for making things for yourself.
Seriously though I need to think of a ship name. I know decade old show, I’m in this solo but I don’t care. Thinking of ship names I’m familiar with, it’s usually either squishing names together (e.g. Rumbelle) or taking something unique about the character (e.g. BraveWarrior). Names for this won’t work so well, not least because there’s three of them. As for unique attributes, the obvious for John would be Ripper but I reject that because he was cursed with that energy parasite. So while I could go with something like DoctorRipLock I don’t want to.
I’m leaning towards something like otp: haunted for the three of them. That word came up in the season 1 episode when John and James were having drinks “You aren’t the only one haunted” and of course the episode where the energy parasite was revealed was entitled ‘Haunted’.
I’ll think some more on it 🙂
Adventures in writing battles continue kinda?
I mean I tried to do the banter thing with John and Nikola as they dealt with the SHU outbreak, but then I swapped to James who just thought about what to do as he awaited the Cabal agents (that may have ruined the tension). Right now I’m pondering how to write the James vs Kate battle so James can show off his sharpest weapon – his mind.
So no I did not spend all my time on that gifset hehe BUT I am going to bed super late because I couldn’t stop fiddling once I started. Honestly this ship needs a name as I wasn’t sure what to tag it. I don’t think #this ship is pain is very unique however true it is.
So tomorrow James fights Kate and then I get to the part I did not plan particularly well – the dismantling of the Cabal. Hope that doesn’t confuse me for too long. I’m tempted to leave it a bit vague like they did in the show and spend my words on flashbacks instead. There’s a still a lot of the Oxford days I want to explore. Hmm.
Words Written: 2,510
Current Total: 33,182