SNOWFLAKE CHALLENGE #8: WRITING WOES

 

 

Talk about a current fannish project (fic, art, vid, crochet, funko pop village) that you are creating or enjoying.

A chance to ramble about my current WIPs? I'll gladly take that.

This month I went low effort, to ease myself into what's going to be a veeeeery busy week. The fics I'm tackling are two, and only one of those will be (hopefully) finished this month. Both are DCU fics, following my current obsession.

The short one is a 5+1 one-shot type (although I guess there's a chance I'll divide those in short-ish chapters). I've labelled it "Immortal Jason" because it's precisely about that lol. There's an argument to be made about new earth!Jason having some resurrection capabilities -or, maybe more accurately, about how the ~universe~, corrected by Superboy-Prime's punch, just... rewrites itself and puts Jason back alive, as he "should" have been. So I thought it could be interesting to write about different members of the Bat Clan finding out about it! At first it was a more diffuse project, but at the beginning of this month I set it on a definite timeline: all post-UTRH, pre-Countdown/Batman R.I.P, (ymmv on whether those would still happen after the fic; not my problem xD). With a more stretched out period than the comics allowed, because they can't allow any breathing rhythim, of course (technically right after UTRH there's a one-year time skip). I've roughly decided that a period of three years goes between those events, for this fic's purpose, and that works out great for the fic. So far, I have rough drafts of (in order), Tim's, Cass', and Dick's scenes. Next would be Damian's, Alfred's, and Bruce's.

The long project is... well, a long one lol, and I'll be tackling it for the next few months. It's a long fic set in Young Justice, the animated show, set after the last season and focused on briging Jason back to the fold, and introducing Damian with it. It takes a little inspiration, among other comic timelines (even a little of pre-crisis!Jay), from the DCAU version of Jason that was written into a comic a few years back; just a little bit, because I found the treatment of his character there fucking atrocious LOL, but there were a couple elements that I found interesting (mainly, Jason having an older sibling that dies before Bruce takes him in. A brother, in the comic, but I've genderswapped the character). Other than that, there's a lot of Jason, a lot of the Bat Clan and the al Ghuls, a lot of flashbacks visiting Jason's time as Robin Because I Love It, and a lot of secret identity shenanigans, because Jason conceals his true identity for a long part of the story.

I'm still working out the kinks -seeing what characters to include and how prominent they'll be, what events I want to show in flashbacks, key events I want to include, etc.-, and I've written a lot of the flashbacks and a handful of scenes down the line. I'm really enjoying it, because this is a huge passion project of mine that's been floating around my head for years, and it's now finally crystalising.

I'm also enjoying the three sentence ficathon. I've received some fills and I've written a couple myself; I'll publish a masterpost about it later down the road, in case I write or receive more ^-^

Finally, I've mentioned this before, but other than that, this month I'm focusing on an original short story, telling the backstory of the protagonist and antagonist of a slightly longer tale: two vampiresses that veer for control of an underground empire in an upcoming election. I aim to publish that in my newsletter by the end of January.