A miscellany of planning things
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kasihyaFirst, a selection of Metric lyrics:
I can see the end, oh, but it hasn’t happened yet
You always said that love was not enough
And now we know there’s nothing awaiting us
Better than the truth
We’re so close to something better left unknown
I can feel it in my bones
Choose the highest bidder was my answer
When they told me I was up for sale
Baby, wherever you are
Baby, whatever you do
Faster than you think
Time staggers on
When I’m bored, I send vibrations in your direction
Through the satellite mind
I know it’s a lie, I want it to be true
The rest of the ride is riding on you
I’m as far gone as they say
I can’t fake the daytime
It’s all not one, I love everything
No sleep, I lose everything
Oh don’t tell me again
I won’t see you again
I’ve been sleepwalking through the railway station
All the survivors singing in the rain
Every living thing pushed into the ring
Fight it out to wow the crowd
It’s too late in the day to turn it around and change my mind
Poly Story Thoughts
Jamie, Matt, and Simon. Waitress, history teacher, and electrician.
Jamie lives with Matt and Simon in a V-formation triad.
Jamie is in a long-distance relationship with Ellen, who lives in Boston and dates Jamie’s ex-boyfriend.
Jamie is also casually dating Charlotte, who lives in Rosendale and whom she met at the Rosendale Street Festival.
Matt currently isn’t dating anyone besides Jamie and Simon.
He and Jamie are engaged in a campaign to get Simon to ask out the cute guy whose apartment he and his uncle are currently rewiring.
Boom, there’s one plot. Simon likes this guy, he’s said so, but he is (a) shy, and (b) still not 100% sure how to deal with the whole poly thing. Jamie and Matt are super-enthusiastic about him having a boyfriend, and he feels pressure and regrets mentioning anything at all, because he just wants to be able to mention it; he doesn’t necessarily feel the urge to date other people yet. His plot is his increasing frustration and inability to communicate this to his partners.
Meanwhile, Matt and Simon are living together in Matt’s apartment, which is too small for all three of them, so Karen is busy hunting down a second job so that the three of them can move into a house together, because she’s renting a room in someone’s house a mile away, and it’s fine, but she’s been spending more and more time over at their apartment, to the point that it’s becoming clear that they should get a house. They have their eyes on a house, too, but they don’t have quite enough money to be able to pay the rent comfortably: Jamie’s family is well-off, but estranged; Matt’s family wants him to make his own way in the world; and Simon’s parents would, but he doesn’t think they can really afford it, so he’s not going to ask them. So Karen is searching for another job, because being a waitress only takes up eight hours of her day, and there’s more time in the day, right?
Jamie and Matt are extroverted, gregarious people, and Simon is shyer, more reserved.
Jamie and Simon also don’t have a sexual relationship. They are like the opposite of friends with benefits.
And as for a Matt-centered plot …
I don’t know; I’m torn between wanting to write about a poly triad being their poly selves, or something dreamlike. I could write the Deluge story for class, or rewrite it, or fiddle around with it, or write a different version. Something that involves isolation, and rain.
Noah and Sarah arrive at the fire, and discover Joseph, who is pleased to see them because the only people he’s talked to in the last week or so have been ghosts.
Bridging the Rubicon Muttering
What the hell happened? I think it was that Deanna was in love with Sam, so that when — god DAMMIT, I know I wrote this down somewhere, why can’t I find it? I did something dumb and deleted it, didn’t I. Okay.
1. Deanna is in love with Sam, probably falls in love with her over the first year or so that they’re together again.
2. This prompts her to sell her soul for her.
3. When she gets back and Sam is palling around with Reuben, she is jealous.
4. Then Sam makes bad life choices, and she gets her heart broken as well as having a junkie for a sister. When she leaves the voicemail, she tells her that, that that’s part of it. Sam, of course, never gets this message.
5. Her betrayal after Sam lets out the Devil is correspondingly deeper. The love that she has is twisted and falls apart.
6. When Sam goes away, and she’s hanging out with Cas, they sleep together when they think that Cas is going to die.
7. Even after their reunion, ‘let’s figure this out’ type of hunting, she loves Sam, but as a sister, and always with that bad aftertaste of ‘we could have had it all, but then you fucked a demon and started the apocalypse’ in her mouth. Meanwhile, her relationship with Cas becomes something between ‘guardian angel and ward’ and ‘girlfriends’.
8. As a result, her relationship with Sam is more contentious, built on less trust, and soured with complicated feelings.
I'm doing August Wrimo by means of writing four different things at once, and tallying up how much I write in an unnecessarily complicated spreadsheet. I've got my kink bingo stories, my stupid rule 63'd Supernatural story, a story about Noah's Ark that takes place in a canoe, and the Untitled Novel of Doom. It's ... uh ... going well
Yes, Metric is a fandom. It's a fannish thing, and that's how it shows up in my head.
EDIT:
Yet More Rubicon Muttering plus conversation between Dean and Deanna
It has to do with proximity -- like friction, rubbing the walls thinner by virtue of there being one person on either side at the same time. That's why Sam can hear Other Sam talking to the cashier, because they're only a few feet away from each other on their other planes.
To prevent this from continuing to happen, they do their best to work around each other. 'There's a nest of vampires up in Maine, how does that sound?' 'I talked to the girls this morning, they're taking care of that on their end. Say they'll let us know when it's clear.'
'We think we might have a lead in Texas, we're gonna head there next, okay?'
'Okay, we'll steer clear of there. I've always wanted to see Canada.'
And Other Sam is trying to get her sister to talk to her about the fact that her girlfriend just died, which is not working. Maybe her other part has a better chance of talking to her about it, in their roundabout way. I feel like it'd be good because they'd actually be okay talking to each other - they're on near-identical wavelengths, so they can read between the lines and don't expect each other to adapt their communication styles. So their conversations would be ... stifled, but useful.
-- Hi.
-- Hey. What's going on?
-- We're in Montana right now.
-- Oh, well that's fine. We've got a demonic alligator in Florida.
-- Right, you just happened to find an animal possession in Florida.
-- Hey, a job's a job.
-- I'd sure like to go to Florida this time of year.
-- ...
-- How's Cas?
-- He's ... fine. Back.
-- Good.
-- Question.
-- Yeah?
-- You two, you weren't ...
-- I don't want to talk about it.
-- Sorry. You're dealing with it?
-- Of course I am.
-- Good.
-- What about Sam? How's she holding up?
-- [muffled background voices] She's touched you asked.
-- What are you guys doing?
-- Eating. Food. It's delicious.
-- Bitch. I'm stuck at a zoo.
-- Where's Sam?
-- Hitting up the locals for info.
-- Crap, I gotta go. I think I just ordered a milkshake from Gabriel.
-- What?
-- ...
-- Damn it.
I can see the end, oh, but it hasn’t happened yet
You always said that love was not enough
And now we know there’s nothing awaiting us
Better than the truth
We’re so close to something better left unknown
I can feel it in my bones
Choose the highest bidder was my answer
When they told me I was up for sale
Baby, wherever you are
Baby, whatever you do
Faster than you think
Time staggers on
When I’m bored, I send vibrations in your direction
Through the satellite mind
I know it’s a lie, I want it to be true
The rest of the ride is riding on you
I’m as far gone as they say
I can’t fake the daytime
It’s all not one, I love everything
No sleep, I lose everything
Oh don’t tell me again
I won’t see you again
I’ve been sleepwalking through the railway station
All the survivors singing in the rain
Every living thing pushed into the ring
Fight it out to wow the crowd
It’s too late in the day to turn it around and change my mind
Poly Story Thoughts
Jamie, Matt, and Simon. Waitress, history teacher, and electrician.
Jamie lives with Matt and Simon in a V-formation triad.
Jamie is in a long-distance relationship with Ellen, who lives in Boston and dates Jamie’s ex-boyfriend.
Jamie is also casually dating Charlotte, who lives in Rosendale and whom she met at the Rosendale Street Festival.
Matt currently isn’t dating anyone besides Jamie and Simon.
He and Jamie are engaged in a campaign to get Simon to ask out the cute guy whose apartment he and his uncle are currently rewiring.
Boom, there’s one plot. Simon likes this guy, he’s said so, but he is (a) shy, and (b) still not 100% sure how to deal with the whole poly thing. Jamie and Matt are super-enthusiastic about him having a boyfriend, and he feels pressure and regrets mentioning anything at all, because he just wants to be able to mention it; he doesn’t necessarily feel the urge to date other people yet. His plot is his increasing frustration and inability to communicate this to his partners.
Meanwhile, Matt and Simon are living together in Matt’s apartment, which is too small for all three of them, so Karen is busy hunting down a second job so that the three of them can move into a house together, because she’s renting a room in someone’s house a mile away, and it’s fine, but she’s been spending more and more time over at their apartment, to the point that it’s becoming clear that they should get a house. They have their eyes on a house, too, but they don’t have quite enough money to be able to pay the rent comfortably: Jamie’s family is well-off, but estranged; Matt’s family wants him to make his own way in the world; and Simon’s parents would, but he doesn’t think they can really afford it, so he’s not going to ask them. So Karen is searching for another job, because being a waitress only takes up eight hours of her day, and there’s more time in the day, right?
Jamie and Matt are extroverted, gregarious people, and Simon is shyer, more reserved.
Jamie and Simon also don’t have a sexual relationship. They are like the opposite of friends with benefits.
And as for a Matt-centered plot …
I don’t know; I’m torn between wanting to write about a poly triad being their poly selves, or something dreamlike. I could write the Deluge story for class, or rewrite it, or fiddle around with it, or write a different version. Something that involves isolation, and rain.
Noah and Sarah arrive at the fire, and discover Joseph, who is pleased to see them because the only people he’s talked to in the last week or so have been ghosts.
Bridging the Rubicon Muttering
What the hell happened? I think it was that Deanna was in love with Sam, so that when — god DAMMIT, I know I wrote this down somewhere, why can’t I find it? I did something dumb and deleted it, didn’t I. Okay.
1. Deanna is in love with Sam, probably falls in love with her over the first year or so that they’re together again.
2. This prompts her to sell her soul for her.
3. When she gets back and Sam is palling around with Reuben, she is jealous.
4. Then Sam makes bad life choices, and she gets her heart broken as well as having a junkie for a sister. When she leaves the voicemail, she tells her that, that that’s part of it. Sam, of course, never gets this message.
5. Her betrayal after Sam lets out the Devil is correspondingly deeper. The love that she has is twisted and falls apart.
6. When Sam goes away, and she’s hanging out with Cas, they sleep together when they think that Cas is going to die.
7. Even after their reunion, ‘let’s figure this out’ type of hunting, she loves Sam, but as a sister, and always with that bad aftertaste of ‘we could have had it all, but then you fucked a demon and started the apocalypse’ in her mouth. Meanwhile, her relationship with Cas becomes something between ‘guardian angel and ward’ and ‘girlfriends’.
8. As a result, her relationship with Sam is more contentious, built on less trust, and soured with complicated feelings.
I'm doing August Wrimo by means of writing four different things at once, and tallying up how much I write in an unnecessarily complicated spreadsheet. I've got my kink bingo stories, my stupid rule 63'd Supernatural story, a story about Noah's Ark that takes place in a canoe, and the Untitled Novel of Doom. It's ... uh ... going well
Yes, Metric is a fandom. It's a fannish thing, and that's how it shows up in my head.
EDIT:
Yet More Rubicon Muttering plus conversation between Dean and Deanna
It has to do with proximity -- like friction, rubbing the walls thinner by virtue of there being one person on either side at the same time. That's why Sam can hear Other Sam talking to the cashier, because they're only a few feet away from each other on their other planes.
To prevent this from continuing to happen, they do their best to work around each other. 'There's a nest of vampires up in Maine, how does that sound?' 'I talked to the girls this morning, they're taking care of that on their end. Say they'll let us know when it's clear.'
'We think we might have a lead in Texas, we're gonna head there next, okay?'
'Okay, we'll steer clear of there. I've always wanted to see Canada.'
And Other Sam is trying to get her sister to talk to her about the fact that her girlfriend just died, which is not working. Maybe her other part has a better chance of talking to her about it, in their roundabout way. I feel like it'd be good because they'd actually be okay talking to each other - they're on near-identical wavelengths, so they can read between the lines and don't expect each other to adapt their communication styles. So their conversations would be ... stifled, but useful.
-- Hi.
-- Hey. What's going on?
-- We're in Montana right now.
-- Oh, well that's fine. We've got a demonic alligator in Florida.
-- Right, you just happened to find an animal possession in Florida.
-- Hey, a job's a job.
-- I'd sure like to go to Florida this time of year.
-- ...
-- How's Cas?
-- He's ... fine. Back.
-- Good.
-- Question.
-- Yeah?
-- You two, you weren't ...
-- I don't want to talk about it.
-- Sorry. You're dealing with it?
-- Of course I am.
-- Good.
-- What about Sam? How's she holding up?
-- [muffled background voices] She's touched you asked.
-- What are you guys doing?
-- Eating. Food. It's delicious.
-- Bitch. I'm stuck at a zoo.
-- Where's Sam?
-- Hitting up the locals for info.
-- Crap, I gotta go. I think I just ordered a milkshake from Gabriel.
-- What?
-- ...
-- Damn it.
