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seriousficI think humor is my forte; well, it comes easiest at least. Right now I'm writing a fic that's, umm, dramedy I guess would be the word? That's probably misspelled. It’s about Dick losing his memories and reverting to, Golden Age/Silver Age Robin, with Barbara having to pick up the pieces. So there’s some drama (after all, Dick is going to remember all the horrible things he’s done/have been done to him) but also the expected comedy of Dick being back at the “Holy egg yolk, Batman!” stage. It’s making it kinda hard to balance the comedy with the drama. There’s no flagrant ridiculousness like Batgirl’s eggnog hatred… at least, there won’t be once I’m finished editing it… but there are going to be some chapters that are almost entirely comedic, so I’m hoping that can retain the dramatic weight of what came before. It’s quite possible I’ll have to excise some of the funnier bits and try to rework them into a straight-up crackfic.
And just as proof that the longer I write something, the bigger the cast gets, a simple Dick/Babs fic now has a scene of Booster Gold, Roy Harper, and Dick Grayson sitting around Barbara’s kitchen, eating pizza bites and watching Freakazoid. You’re all welcome to envy my grasp on canon, because that is totally what would happen.
Or a threesome. But I'm pretty sure neither Booster or Roy would go for sex while Freakazoid is on. It's pre-Countdown Paul Dini, people. Literally better than sex.
So, anyway, trying to take the audience on an emotional roller-coaster without giving them whiplash; i.e., no knock-knock jokes right before a character cheats on his wife. Not that I don't believe in whiplash as a dramatic technique, but here I'm afraid of it sapping the weight/hilarity from the proceedings instead of lending pathos to them. Some day I'm going to write a DC fic that's less than 10,000 words. Say... U LIEK DICK/KORY HATESEX, Y/Y?
ETA: Which means that section where Dick and Roy celebrate the possibility of Dick catching some underage tail should probably be redacted. I gotta wonder if the Dick/Tim shippers put up with this.
ETA the second: For your edification and amusement, the dialogue too hot for LJ!
“Elvis,” Dick said. “If I had to fuck a guy... I mean had to, if my life depended on it... I'd fuck Elvis.”
“That’s a good choice,” Roy said, nodding at his friend’s wisdom.
“You?”
“You.”
“Me?”
Roy nodded.
“Gay,” Dick proclaimed.
“From a purely pleasurable standpoint. You’d probably be good at sucking cock.”
“Thanks.”
“Don’t mention it.”
“I won’t… except to my therapist.”
Booster stole one of Roy’s pizza bites and ate it while they were occupied.
“Hey, hey, hey, you know who else would probably be good at sucking cock?” Dick asked rhetorically.
“My mom?”
“No. What?”
“Just heading you off at the pass, man.”
“No, not her, Kara ‘Goddamn Supergirl’ Zor-El.” He held out his hand, palm flat, for a high five. “Schwing!”
“Dude,” Roy grunted, “she probably graduated from high school, like, ten minutes ago.”
“I know, right? Schwing!”
Roy high-fived him. “Schwing!”
And just as proof that the longer I write something, the bigger the cast gets, a simple Dick/Babs fic now has a scene of Booster Gold, Roy Harper, and Dick Grayson sitting around Barbara’s kitchen, eating pizza bites and watching Freakazoid. You’re all welcome to envy my grasp on canon, because that is totally what would happen.
Or a threesome. But I'm pretty sure neither Booster or Roy would go for sex while Freakazoid is on. It's pre-Countdown Paul Dini, people. Literally better than sex.
So, anyway, trying to take the audience on an emotional roller-coaster without giving them whiplash; i.e., no knock-knock jokes right before a character cheats on his wife. Not that I don't believe in whiplash as a dramatic technique, but here I'm afraid of it sapping the weight/hilarity from the proceedings instead of lending pathos to them. Some day I'm going to write a DC fic that's less than 10,000 words. Say... U LIEK DICK/KORY HATESEX, Y/Y?
ETA: Which means that section where Dick and Roy celebrate the possibility of Dick catching some underage tail should probably be redacted. I gotta wonder if the Dick/Tim shippers put up with this.
ETA the second: For your edification and amusement, the dialogue too hot for LJ!
“Elvis,” Dick said. “If I had to fuck a guy... I mean had to, if my life depended on it... I'd fuck Elvis.”
“That’s a good choice,” Roy said, nodding at his friend’s wisdom.
“You?”
“You.”
“Me?”
Roy nodded.
“Gay,” Dick proclaimed.
“From a purely pleasurable standpoint. You’d probably be good at sucking cock.”
“Thanks.”
“Don’t mention it.”
“I won’t… except to my therapist.”
Booster stole one of Roy’s pizza bites and ate it while they were occupied.
“Hey, hey, hey, you know who else would probably be good at sucking cock?” Dick asked rhetorically.
“My mom?”
“No. What?”
“Just heading you off at the pass, man.”
“No, not her, Kara ‘Goddamn Supergirl’ Zor-El.” He held out his hand, palm flat, for a high five. “Schwing!”
“Dude,” Roy grunted, “she probably graduated from high school, like, ten minutes ago.”
“I know, right? Schwing!”
Roy high-fived him. “Schwing!”
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