Family, Meet Fandom

[przed]

The awesome thing about having a laptop is I can work on the latest story when we're up north visiting my mom.

The not-so-awesome thing is my mom is a snoop.

Mom: What are you working on?
Me: Um, nothing.
Mom: ::moves amazingly fast for an 80 year-old recovering from knee surgery and peeks at laptop screen:: Holmes? Watson?
Me: Yeah, I'm writing a Holmes pastiche. Deal with it. ::wipes forehead in relief that the visible scene did not involve Holmes, Watson and a blowjob::
Mom: And who's the guy in that picture. ::points at desktop::
Me: Robert Downey Jr. He's the new Holmes.
Mom: ::gives weirdo daughter a long-suffering look::
Me: ::makes laptop font teeny tiny so 80 year-old eyes will have more difficulty reading it and changes desktop picture temporarily to Hokusai's The Great Wave::

Also, I'm terribly amused that I can call Holmes fanfic "pastiche", like it's almost respectable. *g*

Comments

[ancastar.livejournal.com]

Pastiche

I'm writing that down...

[przed.livejournal.com]

I think we should use pastiche for all fanfic. 'Cause it totally is. *g*

That, or all writers of pastiche should be forced to use the term fanfic. 'Cause it also totally is. *veg*

[ancastar.livejournal.com]

I can go either way.

And often have.

;-)

Hope you're having fun with Mom!

[przed.livejournal.com]

We just got back, which is how I can post this. The Great White North is still a black hole of no internet for us. Maybe some day we'll talk mom into a computer and broadband, but I'm not holding my breath.

The visit was lovely, though. Ros loves the beach park, it's nice to see Mom, and we got to be all productive and help out with odd jobs around the house.

I feel your pain.

[(Anonymous)]

I have resorted to making the text small AND a pale grey colour before *g*

Re: I feel your pain.

[sarren.livejournal.com]

Housesitting Sarren did not know she had been logged out. *sigh*

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

I've always loved the word "pastiche" and use it probably more than I should. *g*

My mother is a world class snoop too... perhaps the skill *cough* kicks in when your child becomes a teenager.

Re: I feel your pain.

[przed.livejournal.com]

If I did that I wouldn't be able to read it. But it's tempting.

Shakes fist at LJ for logging me out more often than not lately.

[przed.livejournal.com]

I'm fond of both the word and the thing. *g*

I'm thinking my mom was always a first class snoop. I was a boring teenager. She wouldn't have found much if she had snooped. Now, however.... Let's just say we call the final cleanup before a parental visit the de-slash.

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

Well, I've always been fond of the thing, I can call witnesses. *g*

My mother could work for the CIA, no problem. I think her skills are what's left me with my lifelong obsession with privacy.

[sc-fossil.livejournal.com]

I thought pastiche was something good to eat. With too many calories and lots of butter. Well... LOL!

[przed.livejournal.com]

Heh.

Re: I feel your pain.

[sarren.livejournal.com]

Eh, I couldn't read it very well, but I was on a plane with people sitting on either side of me! It was actually a good way to just let the sex scene pour out without obsessing about mistyping words.

[ci5mates.livejournal.com]

That is a very humerous little tale, gave me a good old chuckle :-)

[norfolkdumpling.livejournal.com]

I'm reasonably convinced that my Mum wouldn't be able to get past my password, but I make sure never to leave my laptop on if I'm using it at hers and have to go out. She's pretty broad-minded, but she really doesn't need to know about some of my bookmarks... *g*

Pastiche

[heliophile-oxon.livejournal.com]

it totally is. And while most fanfic/pastiche in the world may not be quite up there with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead etc., the essential premise certainly is! (well, Now With More Bigger Added Sex-scenes, of course. Sometimes *g*.) And it's especially the case with the literature-based fandoms such as H/W and P.G. Wodehouse, where striving to capture the writing style is such a delicious (and nigh-impossible) part of the challenge.

As for privacy, that ain't easy! I haz none :((((

[shooting2kill.livejournal.com]

Does your mum ever ask to read your stories?

[miwahni.livejournal.com]

"The hobby that dare not speak its name..." *g*

[potztausend.livejournal.com]

A wonderful little story - I saw it as a mental picture *g*.

Assuming you are busy writing the blowjob scene and your mother is coming around - maybe she shakes her head while reading it: "Lousy technique, my dear daughter" :-)

[saintvic.livejournal.com]

I'll join you in the relief, my parents know I read fanfic but that is about as far as I go in my fandom explanations with them.

makes laptop font teeny tiny so 80 year-old eyes will have more difficulty reading it and changes desktop picture temporarily to Hokusai's The Great Wave

*applauds your quick reflexes*

[przed.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty much depending on my mom's total antipathy towards computers, since I was leaving the file open and the computer only sleeping. If she'd flipped up the lid, she would have gotten an eyeful.

My mom is this odd combination of broad-minded (is totally cool with my gay cousin and his husband) and not (had a huge argument with me, back in the day, about her church's decision to ordain openly gay ministers), so I have no idea which way she'd go if she found out what my hobby really is.

[przed.livejournal.com]

She has read exactly one of my stories, the pro one I sold that was a radical re-write of one of my Pros stories. She liked it, but then while the characters were gay, there wasn't any sex in it. I'd never risk giving her one of my smuttier stories. That way lies madness.

[przed.livejournal.com]

No kidding. I'd never have this problem if my hobby was knitting. *g*

[przed.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that wouldn't be my mom. She would be appalled. Appalled, I tell you.

The Sweetie's favourite story about his mother-in-law happened when we told her we watched Sex in the City every Friday night. Her immediate response: "You don't need any of that!" That's my mom.

[przed.livejournal.com]

My mom knows, vaguely, about fanfic, and I'd more or less like to keep it that way.

The reflexes were quite quick enough, but I did avoid embarrassment. *g*

[przed.livejournal.com]

;-)

Re: Pastiche

[przed.livejournal.com]

Pastiche, with More Bigger Added Sex-scenes, FTW!

I try to maintain what privacy I have with my mom. I've got precious little with my kid. I dread what's going to happen when she learns to read. Or starts going through my slash cabinet. ("Mommy, what are Bodie and Doyle doing on the cover of that book? And wait, is that where you got the name for my stuffies?")

[agentxpndble.livejournal.com]

And you'll be posting this story WHEN??? {{{fidgets impatiently}}}

[przed.livejournal.com]

I finished the first draft last night. I'm doing an edit tonight, and hope to get it to a beta or two in the next 24 hours. So stay tuned.

And you did know I've already written one (smutty) Holmes story?

[stewardess.livejournal.com]

Also, I'm terribly amused that I can call Holmes fanfic "pastiche", like it's almost respectable.

Hey, it worked for Laurie King who was actually writing Mary Sue het. :D

[(Anonymous)]

I know! I read the first four of those, though I think I'm officially done with them. I couldn't handle the Mary Sue-ness, nor the fact that she made Watson an idiot.

[przed.livejournal.com]

That was me, BTW. Stoopid LJ, not accepting my sign-in.