open season on virtual seasons

[tielan]

And so it begins.

I've been asked to join a Virtual Season writing team. I'm sure there are plenty out there, being plotted and planned and discussed and pimped all over the shop. I expect the f-list will be full of announcements when I actually get a look at it.

In a twist that anyone who regularly keeps up with this LJ will find hilarious, it's a Shep/Weir Virtual Season. Yes, a notoriously anti-Shep/Weir writer was asked to write in an openly Shep/Weir VS.

There are tissues over by the sideboard for those of you presently in hysterics.

I declined. Other than that I have too many stories of my own to complete, I've already done my time trying to write in and run Virtual Seasons in previous fandoms.

In addition, I tend to get my own ideas about storylines and where they should go, and, given my own character and pairing preferences in this fandom, my ideas very rarely intersect with what "most fans" want to see. Which is a recipe for disaster when you're working on a VS team which already has a specific 'skew' to which you don't subscribe. (My other experience with character/pairing 'skews' in VSs is that it doesn't take long before they overwhelm the writing - Our Stargate's SG1 VS6 and Jackfic's SG1 VS9 are classic examples of this.)

Possibly my inclusion is a sop to 'other areas' of fandom outside of the Shep/Weir contigent - I saw at least one name on the invites list who was more into the Shep&Rodney gen angle of the show - but even if this is the case (and I'm not saying it is), it's still a compliment to have been asked.

I'm just not going to add another project to my 'to-do' list.

It does make me wonder just how many Virtual Seasons are going to sprout in Atlantis fandom in the next six months, though.

Comments

[allisnow.livejournal.com]

*bwahahaha*

[tielan]

Yes, I thought that might be your reaction. *wry*

[allisnow.livejournal.com]

Am I so predictable?

Answer: yes, yes I am!

[miera-c.livejournal.com]

It is so way too early for this, at least for me. The S3 finale hasn't even aired yet, for heaven's sake.

[tielan]

Actually, IIRC, the S3 finale should have aired in Canada sometime in the last three hours. Which is probably why the mail turned up in my inbox this afternoon.

And you have a good (implied) point: that we don't even know what's going to happen in S4, or how the characters are going to be used.

[ryf.livejournal.com]

That begs the question whether they actually look at a writer's work before they invite them to join their team, in my opinion...

[ryf.livejournal.com]

Not to say your writing isn't good or something, but I do sometimes think that the makerts of those things get across rather desperate for getting writers that will actually finish writing episodes. I have seen my fair share of virtual seasons that never went past episode 3.

[tielan]

LOL. "Or something," I think!

I think they went for a) prolific, b) high-profile authors in the various sections of fandom, without necessarily considering the pairing- or character-preferences of the authors in question.

[ryf.livejournal.com]

Yeah, one of the resona why I am a Biology student is that I am really not good at expressing myself :)

[tielan]

Hey, I'm a computer programmer - which should be even lower on the 'expressive' scale than a biology student. :)

So, no excuse. ;)

[ryf.livejournal.com]

Pffff ;)

*goes back to her Python program*

[sjhw-tolerance.livejournal.com]

Yes, a notoriously anti-Shep/Weir writer was asked to write in an openly Shep/Weir VS.

ROTFLMAO! That is pretty funny. I think it speaks to your writing ability that you were asked. Plus, you write a very good Weir.

[tielan]

I don't know about writing a 'very good Weir'. I don't Mary Sue her, that's all.

[sjhw-tolerance.livejournal.com]

Well, maybe that is all it takes, to make her realistic.

[pixiesio.livejournal.com]

And not Mary Sue-ing her is writing her well. :)

And yes, très amusing. ;)

[tielan]

See, and I thought I was a cynic!

[madjm.livejournal.com]

it's a Shep/Weir Virtual Season

Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

Ahem.

It is a nice compliment, though.

[tielan]

See, I'm tempted to ask if the laughter is because it's a Shep/Weir VS, or because I was asked to write in it...

:)

But, yes, a nice compliment.

[madjm.livejournal.com]

Oh, I think you'd do a great job writing in a VS, but it's hilarious that they would ask you to write something Shep/Weir-y. I guess because you have so often raved about how great that pairing is. :)

[thelana.livejournal.com]

Hah, it seems that it made fandom_wank: http://www.journalfen.net/community/fandom_wank/1056494.html

[tielan]

Oh dear...

I saw they made a post at teylafen and then I couldn't find it this morning. I thought maybe they got scared off after looking at the userinfo.

...clearly not.

[missyvortexdv.livejournal.com]

LOL! I followed the fandomwank post on this and had a little peruse on their website - what caught my eye was this answer to one of the questions in the fAQ "A Virtual Season consists of a group of unique and diverse fans..." I guess they were really going for diversity when they asked a non-S/W writer to join them!

You know, I hadn't really thought S4 would inspire lots of Virtual Seasons. In my mind they're more for when shows end... I once had an idea for an AU SGA one, highly Teyla based but a lot darker, different direction from the very start. Ah, one day I shall write it - perhaps with some help, not sure - though you know really VS's are just longer fic anyway. It's almost like people who write them want them to be taken more seriously than normal fic, which I find odd...