the best-laid writing plans gang aft agley

[dbskyler]

I've been trying to work on my WIP, but it is dead in the water again. On the other hand, in the course of not working on said WIP, I found myself playing around with another fic idea that I've had for a few months, and I ended up writing out the whole thing last night. It is (currently) coming in at slightly under 1,000 words, which is actually a good thing as it is also inspired by a 50ficlets prompt. Except, remember how I was saying that I was going to try to make those ficlets back into little ficlet-y things, and not spend time on them as full-fledged fics? Yeah, not so much.

Oh well. The good news is, I should have a new fic to post soon!

In other news, my prodigious attempts at writing procrastination led me to come across a Space:1999 fanvid that I wish to share with you all. For those of you who don't know the show, the second series featured an alien named Maya who can shapeshift into any living creature. (Just like one-half of The Wonder Twins, which was on at around the same time if I'm not mistaken.) The fanvid features some of Maya's more interesting changes -- aka, "If you thought that Classic Doctor Who's monsters looked bad, wait'll you see this." (I'm especially fond of the shuffling, glow-in-the-dark green tents with eyes, although those weren't just Maya-creatures, but also actual invaders of the moonbase.) The scenes in the fanvid are out-of-context enough to be non-spoilery, unless you didn't want to know that yes, the producers did really have Maya change into a cockroach, and what's your point? The fanvid is also a shippy tribute to Maya's relationship with Tony, and I confess that I do indeed ship Maya/Tony, and this fanvid shows why -- they have excellent on-screen chemistry with each other, and Tony never seems fazed by anything she transforms into, although he really probably should be. Anyway, enjoy!

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Comments

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

I had hoped to finish beta-reading your chapter last night - but as it turned out, I was nearly 90 mins late getting home as I got stuck at work waiting while the engineer (who'd taken 6.5 hours to drive from Southampton to Oxford in the dreadful snow!) fixed our Dry Cleaning machine because it had been out of action since Thursday lunchtime. So by the time I got home and had something to eat, etc, I was just too damned tired. :(

[thisbluespirit]

Aw - I see what you mean about the vid! That was very cute. I totally ship them just on the basis of watching it. ;-D

And when it comes to funny sfx, this is nothing - I've seen Blake's 7, and they had even less money than DW... (and the results are sometimes utterly jawdropping, especially when it's being all 1984 in space, and then a group of Michelin men walk in... Or an unconvincing giant ant.)