Remix

[brigdh]

Remix stories are up!

I got the lovely In the Warmth of the Darkness (The "And One Thing That Did" Remix), which is a remix of Five Things That Never Happened to Hisoka.

It's an awesome story. It gives an explanation for how all the AUs could happen, and includes a creepy Muraki, and is very, very cool.


Of course, I'm very much in the bad place over the stories I wrote myself. Can we just stay anonymous forever?

Comments

[p-zeitgeist.livejournal.com]

I feel sure that yours are better than fine. I understand that you won't until you hear something, and may not believe it when you do, but I have complete faith in you.

Plus, you did two. So you get extra performance points.

But now that the stories are up, I find that there's a whole new set of frustrations to grapple with: we still can't really talk about them without the conversation having implications for the maintaining of anonymity. Because as it stands, the only story the world can be entirely sure each of us did not write is the one written for us -- unless we start talking about one that wasn't, in which case it becomes obvious almost immediately whether or not the person talking wrote the story she's talking about.

So all I can think is that each of us needs to do as you and Rana have done, and immediately post about the ones we received. Then we can all do the discussion thing in comments, and if the actual authors don't want to be conspicuous by their absence, they can possibly fake it in a discussion they didn't lead. It's not the best possible solution, I suppose, but it's all I can think of, short of waiting another week and biting our fingers.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

True, I wrote two, but I can't help but think that I'd have been better off dedicating more time to one. I hope I'm over this by next week, though; I don't want to still be annoyingly self-depricating when I go to post my author's notes.

I think you're right: that's pretty much all we can do for now. On the other hand though, being anonymous has its own advantages. After all, no one is certain who they're talking about when they talk about the stories, so there's sort of a guilty pleasure to listening in to the comments about yourself. I'm amusing myself by stalking the journals of my writers today, to see what they have to say; one tried to guess who the author was, and it's kind of neat to see who they think I sound like.

[p-zeitgeist.livejournal.com]

How could you have devoted more time to one? You had serial deadlines. You gave each all the time available. And they're fine. Really.

How can I be so sure? Beyond my general confidence in you, here's a sad story. I was comfortable with mine, in part because my beta, whom I trust implicitly, had already reassured me, and in part because I've gotten feedback from a person who, unlike my writer, was under no obligation to send any. But then I went and looked at the damn thing.

And it's awful. Awful, awful, awful. It looks completely different in that typeface and size! All kinds of choices I was okay with are obviously, glaringly wrong and idiotic! There are whole chunks I couldn't even look at, and even the parts I liked seem off to me.

Only, logically, I know better. I don't feel better, but I know better. And I kind of suspect something similar is happening to you.

I'd ask who your writer thought you sounded like, but an answer would give the game away before I'd even had a chance to read all the YnM and Saiyuki stories and see whether I could spot anybody I knew. Me, I suspect that I don't know my writer, although I haven't re-read it carefully yet.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

*laughs* I hadn't yet managed to worry about the typeface, but now that you've mentioned it, it seems like the perfect venue for my next attack of doubt.

I wouldn't be surprised if most people are going through something similiar right now, though. I know that I always do it once I've posted something, and it's worse right now since I didn't get to spend as long on the stories as I'd have liked.

I don't think I know my author, either. I might be wrong, but it doesn't feel like a style I recognize. Strange that, when we thought the animanga writers would be such a small group that we'd all get each other.

[p-zeitgeist.livejournal.com]

Actually, I now have a guess at one of yours, although I'm not as certain as I was with yami_valentine last year. (I'm also not all the way through the story, so I could change my mind, or become more certain.) And I have a guess about Rana's, too.

Our writers could be making an effort to be unrecognizable, too. I just realized a moment ago, in looking back over mine, that either there was an amazing coincidence in the matchups, or whoever wrote it made a deliberate nod at my damn semicolons and em-dashes. Which makes me tremendously happy, now that I've slowed down enough to see it.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Really? You're doing much better than me, then. I've been reading through the archive, but I've yet to see one story that I recognize. Maybe I just haven't gotten to the right ones yet.

That's true. I found the discussion in Rana's journal about pseudonyms a few days ago to be very interesting, but it really hadn't occurred to me to use this space as a chance to try something new. But then, I've never felt particularly constrained by having people know who I am, so perhaps that's why it doesn't feel like much of a change for me.

That's so neat. I would never have thought to copy my author's style like that, but it's such an interesting choice.

[animadri.livejournal.com]

*points up* What she said! *g* I'm sure it turned it fine. Even better than fine.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Hee. Thank you.

[b-hallward.livejournal.com]

Dude, that is one nifty remix. The something like tenderness is so, so creepy.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it really is, especially in the context. I'm very happy.

[mistressrenet.livejournal.com]

That was awesome. I liked mine, and yay, my victim writer liked hers a lot, so I feel good now.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Cool! I haven't read yours yet, but I'm looking forward to going through the archive and getting to look at everyone's.

And yes, it's very reassuring to hear from your writer.