Nailing the Zeitgeist?

[sakon76]

Okay, I have to make a confession. While writing Toy Soldiers, I was crying. This is not a big deal; I've written a few stories before that had me touch-typing because I couldn't see the keyboard through my tears. But since finishing it and doing a few post-posting tweaks... it actually kind of leaves me cold. Like leaving a room and turning back and discovering the door locked behind you so all you can do is look in through the windows. I can't get back into the story; I can't identify emotionally with it anymore.

Yet, going by comment count, it's arguably the most popular thing, both here and on ff.net, that I've written in rather a while. There's an amorphous cloud of LJ people whose screen names I recognize from the fandom as being those people who will and do comment on my writings... and something like a third of the comments are from people outside that pool. I've never run into these individuals before; why are they suddenly commenting on this story? @.@; (No offense to said individuals, of course. It's just a bit bewildering to be "discovered" by a whole bunch of people at once, particularly when I post fiction fairly regularly.)

I suppose I'm just going through a touch of cognitive dissonance or dissociation or something. And writing what the entire fandom is feeling this week. But from the inside, it's a weird experience.

Comments

[meallanmouse.livejournal.com]

I know I won't be seeing the newest movie. I've read about it and heard about it from others - I know part of what kills it for me is that the female character part is so very obviously written for Mikaela, then "rewritten" for the Carly character and you know? I was fond of the Mikaela character. And contrary to what's been said in interviews, I'm not really with the "Oh, we can swap a female character it's NOT IMPORTANT and refreshes the MOVIE OMG!" argument, so much. Eh. And it's made it hard for me to connect to fic written in relation to that movie, because I've got a world of "yeah, whatever" to go along with it, sadly. :/

[sakon76.livejournal.com]

AMEN. The whole replacing Mikaela with Carly thing is one of my primary hates for the movie. (There are others, but Carly is the biggest. Thank God Michael Bay is now OUT of my fandom.) I'm working on one fic to explain (and fix) it... and then maybe working on another fic to do the movie as it was originally supposed to be, IE making sense, and having a female lead who doesn't dislike the robots and does more than stand around staring with an open mouth and vapid expression.

As far as I'm concerned, Carly doesn't exist. Sam is with Mikaela and all evidence of Carly is simply Michael Bay f*cking up his own film. Because it/she makes no sense.