The world is full of unfinished visioncloths

[dolorosa_12]

I'm happiest when my days are filled with a good mixture of stuff, and that's certainly been true this weekend. In list format, in no particular order, I've done the following:

Read so many books, in a variety of genres (about which more in a review post later in the week)

Done a variety of yoga sessions ranging from the intense to the stretchy to the restorative

Roamed the outdoor market in the rain, picking up vegetables, fruit, bread and cheese

Swum a kilometre

Pottered around on Dreamwidth, overwhelmed by, and grateful for, the response to both my snowflake_challenge posts and the return of my Friday open threads

Walked out through the muddy fens with Matthias, under clear skies

Now I've got curry simmering, fragrant on the stove, and I'm winding down, and resting.



Today's snowflake_challenge prompt is: In your own space, talk about an idea you wish you had the time / talent / energy to do.



I have a number of original fiction ideas that I've been picking away at for more years than I care to admit, and I suspect none of them will ever see the light of day. My private personal shorthand for each of these stories is:

Time-travelling celestial war with consensual angelic/demonic possession, and a woman who is the embodiment of a book in which is written the words which can unmake celestial beings

Literal capitalist vampires in an inner-west Sydney share house (I swear I came up with this idea years before What We Do In the Shadows ever existed, and my version isn't a comedy

Strict and inescapable hierarchy dystopia world

The Ravenstan Six (team of misfits save fantasy world, with bonus cities/city-states are THE BEST subtext)

Misogynistic secondary world fantasy where all magic-workers need to draw on (and drain) a human source

As I say, I can't see any of these ever being completed, but they're fun to play around with from time to time.

In terms of fanworks, I have two ideas that I've picked up and dropped over the years, both in tiny book fandoms.

One is in The Queens of Innis Lear (Tessa Gratton) fandom: a sprawling, episodic post-canon series with the title Earthsaints, following Elia, Ban, Aefa and Morimaros as they drift in and out of each other's lives, with any and all pairing configurations possible, with the ultimate aim of all four characters ending up as an OT4. I basically want to see all four characters interacting when there's less at stake, and see how they work together to remake their world.

The second is a canon divergence/post-canon AU for Galax Arena (Gillian Rubinstein), focusing on Presh and Allyman (of course), but also featuring Leeward, Fenja, Mariam and Eduardo, all of whom wind up working for Cirque du Soleil. The fic would be part trauma recovery (I have this one scene burned into my brain, in which Presh realises that a) she'll actually have safety nets and wires and harnesses to work with and b) she can actually rely on her fellow Cirque du Soleil performers, and she's completely overwhelmed and unable to cope with this realisation), part trying to escape their former captors, who are still trying to bring them down. This is such a self-indulgent idea, basically bringing together one of my favourite fandoms of the heart, and my nerdy, lifelong love of Cirque du Soleil, and I genuinely can't think of anyone other than me who would want to read it.

Briseis/Chryseis f/f fic in the Iliad fandom (to be fair, there's quite a bit of Iliad fic, but little of it focuses on those characters).

As I say, lots of ideas, neither the time nor the capacity to complete them. But I find them fun to think about.

Comments

[dolorosa_12]

Exactly so. I mean, this is basically the most I've ever written about any of these things in public, ever, so it's not even as if I've got a neverending, partially published WIP that people are waiting for me to finish. They're just things that make me happy to think about from time to time.