Happy New Year my dears

Let's go forth and change the horror that our world has become - all our countries, not just the USA.

( last night stuff )

I'll have a nap later, if my sisters don't drag me off to the beach, because it's going to get pretty hot...

writing summary 2017

( many words, so stuff, write )

My YT fics are doing pretty well - one better than the other. They're in the same fandom for two different people, which is also a fandom I've written in before although not for YT. The really enjoyable thing is how multiple people have mentioned a certain ambiguity I echoed from the original canon. That was very much the idea - to leave that question up in the air, which is half the charm of the canon in the first place (the other being the very distinct characters).

Yuletide fics: Calvin & Hobbes

I wrote two Calvin and Hobbes fics for Yuletide, one assignment, one pinch hit. I had several options for the assignment, but the story that wanted to be told was the one about passing Hobbes on, so I wrote it.

Title: Eye Of The Tiger (2318 words) by tielan
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Calvin & Hobbes
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Calvin/Susie Derkins, Calvin & Hobbes (Calvin & Hobbes)
Characters: Calvin (Calvin and Hobbes), Hobbes (Calvin and Hobbes), Susie Derkins, Mr. Bun, Original Characters
Additional Tags: Family, Childhood, Adulthood, Passing The Baton
Summary: Calvin isn't sure about this business of passing Hobbes on. However, it may not be up to him.

I wanted to preserve the ambiguity of Hobbes' nature, while adding in a little something more in Susie's relationship with Mr. Bun, and giving a snapshot of what adult life might look like to those two.

The story was pretty well taken - I think that's the most comments I've ever received on a fic in a YT fandom!

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The second request was about holding onto the magic of childhood and not giving in to the 'adult' world. But Calvin needs to eat and drink and have money, so he needs a job. I did manage to avoid giving him an office job, though. And travelling seemed like a good way for him to continue to stretch his imagination - and to contemplate the philosophy of a world with less in it.

I nearly summarised this with the words of Jack Sparrow to Barbossa from Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End:"the world's still the same; there's just...less in it..."

Title: wider than the whole world (1350 words) by tielan
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Calvin & Hobbes
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Calvin & Hobbes (Calvin & Hobbes)
Characters: Calvin (Calvin and Hobbes), Hobbes (Calvin and Hobbes), Susie Derkins
Additional Tags: Growing Up
Summary: He joins a hiking group because he’s looking for some adventure, and he can let his imagination wander along with his body. Hobbes goes with him.