You've never seen HIMYM? Get the on the Hulu train this instant. Seriously. How I Met Your Mother is happiness bundled in romance, tied up with friendship silly string and stuck clean through with a syringe of bitter life lessons. I adore it. As you're a writer IRL, I'm sure you'd appreciate it when I say that for this show: continuity wins. I've never seen a sitcom that rewarded long-time viewers in such roundabout and creative ways. And the character development! I could blab for hours.
Also, there's romance, and there's another romance, and there's THAT OTHER ROMANCE, WHICH ISN'T THE MAIN ROMANCE BUT IS, MY WORD, TOTALLY STEALING MY HEART RIGHT NOW. The series also has the odd success of creating one of the most disgustingly chauvinistic and repulsive cads in tv character history, and making him a) my favorite character to watch, and b) someone whose fate I actively care about even while I hope he gets regularly tested. At first I thought, "How can I like Barney, when he is the opposite of everything I respect or believe in for a person? I am failing at my feminist core platform, here!" But then I gave in and just enjoyed it, all of which would never have happened with a less talented actor and a less saavy writing team.
It's just that after re-reading all there is of "The Earth Moved [numbermumble] Miles In Our Kitchen" last night, I'm stalking your journal in case you wrote any more S/P fanfic I don't know about. :)
Thanks, it's okay, and again I appreciate the comment! And if you're looking for more, I'll direct you happily to this. =D Warning, it's darker than The Earth Moved, and is paced oddly as it was mostly written for a challenge request and thus very little planning went into the first half. (I say this, haha, when literally no planning at all went into the first dozen comment ficlets for The Earth Moved) But I think you'll like it! I actually like it best of my fics, even though it's an AU and thus a bit weird. And sometimes the characters aren't nice at all. It's less 'sitcom-y' than some my other stuff.
On that link, if you follow the tag with 'rashaka', you'll also see my submission for Porn Battle VII several months ago. That's all I've written formally for TBBT.
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Also, there's romance, and there's another romance, and there's THAT OTHER ROMANCE, WHICH ISN'T THE MAIN ROMANCE BUT IS, MY WORD, TOTALLY STEALING MY HEART RIGHT NOW. The series also has the odd success of creating one of the most disgustingly chauvinistic and repulsive cads in tv character history, and making him a) my favorite character to watch, and b) someone whose fate I actively care about even while I hope he gets regularly tested. At first I thought, "How can I like Barney, when he is the opposite of everything I respect or believe in for a person? I am failing at my feminist core platform, here!" But then I gave in and just enjoyed it, all of which would never have happened with a less talented actor and a less saavy writing team.
It's just that after re-reading all there is of "The Earth Moved [numbermumble] Miles In Our Kitchen" last night, I'm stalking your journal in case you wrote any more S/P fanfic I don't know about. :)
Thanks, it's okay, and again I appreciate the comment! And if you're looking for more, I'll direct you happily to this. =D Warning, it's darker than The Earth Moved, and is paced oddly as it was mostly written for a challenge request and thus very little planning went into the first half. (I say this, haha, when literally no planning at all went into the first dozen comment ficlets for The Earth Moved) But I think you'll like it! I actually like it best of my fics, even though it's an AU and thus a bit weird. And sometimes the characters aren't nice at all. It's less 'sitcom-y' than some my other stuff.
On that link, if you follow the tag with 'rashaka', you'll also see my submission for Porn Battle VII several months ago. That's all I've written formally for TBBT.