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kleenexwoman) wrote2004-09-21 12:36 pm
kleenexwoman) wrote2004-09-21 12:36 pm
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I can't really think. My mind is clogged up. You know how sometimes a random movie or book or some kind of fandom will latch onto your mind and you really can't get rid of it? I watched Back To The Future about a month ago and bits of the movie are still playing in my head. YTF (why the fuck) should this be? Can't I get something else stuck in my head, like Neal Stephenson books or my homework maybe?
There is, however, an antidote. What I need to do is write a big all-inclusive fic that will involve everything I think about the movie. I did this with the Askewniverse when I wrote The Divine Rehabilitation of Jason Mewes and it worked fairly well.
Actually, this may be two fics. One will involve extensive therapy with Delusional!Marty and the other will probably involve an alternate universe Philip K. Dick talking about Darth Vader.
There are two major types of fandom universes. I shall call these Type A and Type B. Type B universes are universes that can be fucked with. Type A universes are the universes with which you fuck other universes.
For example:
"Back To The Future" and "Harry Potter" are Type B universes.
Anything that Jhonen Vasquez does, and anything that Philip K. Dick does are Type A universes.
The reason is this: "Back to the Future" does not have a strong enough worldview or paradigm to apply to another universe. Its strength is its characters entirely; if not for Marty and the Doc and the flux capacitor, it could be real life.
The same is true for Harry Potter. The characters and the plot and the whole "ooh, witches exist" thing are more important than the way the created world works.
On the other hand, Jhonen Vasquez's worldview comes through very clearly in his work. The world in which he manipulates his characters is arbitrary, malevolent, and absurd. You could put any character at all into this world and they would react the same way that most of his characters do.
It's the same thing for Philip K. Dick, although there's another dynamic going on with his work. To wit: I have tried in the past to fuck with the PKD universe. This is impossible because of the very nature of the PKD universe, which is already fundamentally fucked-up. Any attempts to fuck with it further are either streamlined into the text that is already there or accidentally produces a new novel written posthumously.
There are some worlds that fit both categories, but only within certain boundaries. "Smallville" and "Animorphs", for example, could theoretically be combined with each other without one universe dominating the other. There are also some fandoms that are split; in the case of the Askewniverse, the split occurs after the movie "Clerks." "Clerks" is a Type A universe and everything that comes after it is a Type B universe.
I should apply to Jurisfiction or something.
Anyway, if there's anyone that wants to help me put together a fic that will expel this movie from my mind and leave me free to do more productive things, you are more than welcome to help.
There is, however, an antidote. What I need to do is write a big all-inclusive fic that will involve everything I think about the movie. I did this with the Askewniverse when I wrote The Divine Rehabilitation of Jason Mewes and it worked fairly well.
Actually, this may be two fics. One will involve extensive therapy with Delusional!Marty and the other will probably involve an alternate universe Philip K. Dick talking about Darth Vader.
There are two major types of fandom universes. I shall call these Type A and Type B. Type B universes are universes that can be fucked with. Type A universes are the universes with which you fuck other universes.
For example:
"Back To The Future" and "Harry Potter" are Type B universes.
Anything that Jhonen Vasquez does, and anything that Philip K. Dick does are Type A universes.
The reason is this: "Back to the Future" does not have a strong enough worldview or paradigm to apply to another universe. Its strength is its characters entirely; if not for Marty and the Doc and the flux capacitor, it could be real life.
The same is true for Harry Potter. The characters and the plot and the whole "ooh, witches exist" thing are more important than the way the created world works.
On the other hand, Jhonen Vasquez's worldview comes through very clearly in his work. The world in which he manipulates his characters is arbitrary, malevolent, and absurd. You could put any character at all into this world and they would react the same way that most of his characters do.
It's the same thing for Philip K. Dick, although there's another dynamic going on with his work. To wit: I have tried in the past to fuck with the PKD universe. This is impossible because of the very nature of the PKD universe, which is already fundamentally fucked-up. Any attempts to fuck with it further are either streamlined into the text that is already there or accidentally produces a new novel written posthumously.
There are some worlds that fit both categories, but only within certain boundaries. "Smallville" and "Animorphs", for example, could theoretically be combined with each other without one universe dominating the other. There are also some fandoms that are split; in the case of the Askewniverse, the split occurs after the movie "Clerks." "Clerks" is a Type A universe and everything that comes after it is a Type B universe.
I should apply to Jurisfiction or something.
Anyway, if there's anyone that wants to help me put together a fic that will expel this movie from my mind and leave me free to do more productive things, you are more than welcome to help.