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Oct. 17th, 2006 01:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
commotiocordisWhoa. Just read a fic. And I thought I recognized it. And I do. It's almost the exact same fic as a Babylon 5 one I read a while back (and was really excited about because it was Delenn/Susan/Talia) just for Farscape. Interesting. I wonder if the original author knows.
Oh, nevermind. Same author. Even more interesting.
My computer is being really slow and freezing. Which is bad. I'm sort of worried. I don't have that much stuff open. 11 IE windows, okay, maybe that's a lot, but I've often had more with no problems. But now that I'm down to 4, it's not so bad. I don't like it that there is that problem, though.
I got untired somewhere. Like, I was exhausted a couple of hours ago, and then I found some fic, and then from that I found other fic, and just now realized that I had wanted to be in bed like 2 hours ago. And of course, thinking about it makes me tired again. But I've got more to read still! But I'm not going to. Because of my exhaustedness. I'm needing my ritalin just to stay awake now, and I'm feeling like I need to sleep all the time. Bad.
There's a scab on my arm that's trying to fall off from when I skinned part of my forearm during the reinstallation of the back seat of the van after the previously mentioned freezer escapade. It's loose on the edges and all, and I have to keep telling myself not to mess with it, because I've got enough scars already, thanks. But the edges are catching on things, like when you put on a shirt, and then it pulls, and so I want to get rid of the hangy off bit, but I don't want to do even that for fear that I'll pull too much off, and it will bleed, and scar, and bad. /slightlygrossstory
Oh, nevermind. Same author. Even more interesting.
My computer is being really slow and freezing. Which is bad. I'm sort of worried. I don't have that much stuff open. 11 IE windows, okay, maybe that's a lot, but I've often had more with no problems. But now that I'm down to 4, it's not so bad. I don't like it that there is that problem, though.
I got untired somewhere. Like, I was exhausted a couple of hours ago, and then I found some fic, and then from that I found other fic, and just now realized that I had wanted to be in bed like 2 hours ago. And of course, thinking about it makes me tired again. But I've got more to read still! But I'm not going to. Because of my exhaustedness. I'm needing my ritalin just to stay awake now, and I'm feeling like I need to sleep all the time. Bad.
There's a scab on my arm that's trying to fall off from when I skinned part of my forearm during the reinstallation of the back seat of the van after the previously mentioned freezer escapade. It's loose on the edges and all, and I have to keep telling myself not to mess with it, because I've got enough scars already, thanks. But the edges are catching on things, like when you put on a shirt, and then it pulls, and so I want to get rid of the hangy off bit, but I don't want to do even that for fear that I'll pull too much off, and it will bleed, and scar, and bad. /slightlygrossstory
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Date: 2006-10-17 06:19 am (UTC)Oh, nevermind. Same author. Even more interesting.
That's just... laaaazy. *G*
*tries to imagine who the Farscape characters were. Delenn would be Zhaan? Susan is Aeryn, I suppose, although Aeryn was much more growly than Susan (Susan SMILED, at least ;-D) and Talia... Talia... Who on Farscape could be Talia...?
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Date: 2006-10-18 04:13 am (UTC)That's pretty much what I thought. I'm loath to criticize anybody that writes regularly, as I don't at all, but if I just wrote the same story for two different fandoms, I would feel cheated myself. Like I didn't actually do the work. I was considering using very much the same scene in two fics; once as a one-shot more or less in a 5 things fic and then in one with a longer and slightly different backstory, and even that made me feel like I was cheating. (The feeling of which is my current excuse for not progressing on either.)
*tries to imagine who the Farscape characters were*
Well, just judging by the first line (I didn't actually read the whole Farscape one once I realized that lots of it was word for word) Susan is Chiana, Delenn is indeed Zhaan, and Talia is Aeryn. Crazy. There are differences to make it specific to the characters, but here's the first line from the Babylon 5 one:
Susan brought the vodka. Only the best from her personal supply. She never disclosed just how she got such a regular supply on the station nor how much she paid for it. And they didn't ask. Delenn did not as a rule consume alcohol so that left Susan and Talia to share the bottle between them. Not a problem.
And from the Farscape one:
Chiana had brought Razlak. Two flasks, probably from Rygel's personal stash though she didn't say where it had come from exactly. And they didn't ask. Zhaan did not as a rule consume alcohol so that left Chiana and Aeryn with a flask each. Not a problem.
The sex scene also has some different (added, really, the main stuff is still the same) bits, but the dialogue during (which is what popped out at me first) is the same. And just by skimming through the Farscape one, I noticed some interesting and character specific bits that weren't in the other, but I didn't really feel like reading them because 2/3 of the paragraphs I've already read.