I just. Yeah, in some ways, I agree. It's just a non-real world, where anything can happen. I think I'm tired, though, of awful fic being written and accepted as canon.
Obsidian's Muse was the final straw, as it were.
I'm feeling very introspective right now, so I plan to ramble a bit. I think.
It came as a shock to realise that I was very unhappy with the way most of the Muse genre has headed within the last year. Most of the stuff pouring out is written by newer people who want to play in the world I helped create--am I being arrogant? Possibly. But you have to remember that (iirc) Lyssie was the second Muse to be written.
Granted, the Captain had been around for a hell of a lot longer. And I made a ton of horrible newbie mistakes. But she was there.
Yasmin and I together birthed the Tapcoterie, and launched a new section of Subreality fic. I credit Yas more, since she'd (as I said) had the Captain in Subreality far longer than I had been around.
She also created Calliope as we know her.
Farli once asked me why we've never finished Operation: Ultimate Writer. I think it was the backlash that followed the sudden creation of tons of Muses.
Not everyone liked them. Not everyone thought they were niftykeenoneato. For some people they were just a fad whose bandwagon they wanted to jump on, and did.
I'm not saying all Musefic was golden and pure back then, btw. Some of it sucked arse, as Serry would say.
I'm also not saying it was a time of revolution and strife. *snerk*
I am saying it was all new then. We thought we had the world--I remember disliking Farli's Collegium idea at first. And then I realised how fun the whole thing could be--another place for the muses to play!
Nowadays, I feel jaded. Sad, but true. I've seen most kinds of Musefic, and I just don't find most of it to my taste.
I don't think lusting after Muses is cute. I think it's sick and boring. And, yes, I know there's the whole Lyssie/Frank angle. But, that's different (to me), mainly because as much as I adore you dear, I don't think of you in that way.
Maybe that's what it is that really bothers me. There are better things to do with Muses than use them as sex objects, or Ancient Beings Who Know All.
Sidenote: Except Dark River. That fic was terribly amusing.
Yeah, Muses do Know All. But most of the time, they're just living day to day. I think that's why I like sending them to the pub, or just doing completely silly things with them (trenchcoat maffia!).
Because, really, Immortal Beings have to get bored with it after a while.
And they've done the big angsty battle.
*pause* I'd like to note, btw, that I personally think of myself as rather hypocritical on this. I tend to completely Mary Sue my own Muse. Which is probably why I stopped writing so much of her.
Unlike Serry, I'm not planning on leaving Subreality. I still have stories I'd like to write, places I'd like to explore. But I don't think I'll bother posting muse-related stuff anymore. Not because I'm not writing it, but because I don't like what the genre has become.
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Date: 2002-03-24 10:39 am (UTC)I just. Yeah, in some ways, I agree. It's just a non-real world, where anything can happen. I think I'm tired, though, of awful fic being written and accepted as canon.
Obsidian's Muse was the final straw, as it were.
I'm feeling very introspective right now, so I plan to ramble a bit. I think.
It came as a shock to realise that I was very unhappy with the way most of the Muse genre has headed within the last year. Most of the stuff pouring out is written by newer people who want to play in the world I helped create--am I being arrogant? Possibly. But you have to remember that (iirc) Lyssie was the second Muse to be written.
Granted, the Captain had been around for a hell of a lot longer. And I made a ton of horrible newbie mistakes. But she was there.
Yasmin and I together birthed the Tapcoterie, and launched a new section of Subreality fic. I credit Yas more, since she'd (as I said) had the Captain in Subreality far longer than I had been around.
She also created Calliope as we know her.
Farli once asked me why we've never finished Operation: Ultimate Writer. I think it was the backlash that followed the sudden creation of tons of Muses.
Not everyone liked them. Not everyone thought they were niftykeenoneato. For some people they were just a fad whose bandwagon they wanted to jump on, and did.
I'm not saying all Musefic was golden and pure back then, btw. Some of it sucked arse, as Serry would say.
I'm also not saying it was a time of revolution and strife. *snerk*
I am saying it was all new then. We thought we had the world--I remember disliking Farli's Collegium idea at first. And then I realised how fun the whole thing could be--another place for the muses to play!
Nowadays, I feel jaded. Sad, but true. I've seen most kinds of Musefic, and I just don't find most of it to my taste.
I don't think lusting after Muses is cute. I think it's sick and boring. And, yes, I know there's the whole Lyssie/Frank angle. But, that's different (to me), mainly because as much as I adore you dear, I don't think of you in that way.
Maybe that's what it is that really bothers me. There are better things to do with Muses than use them as sex objects, or Ancient Beings Who Know All.
Sidenote: Except Dark River. That fic was terribly amusing.
Yeah, Muses do Know All. But most of the time, they're just living day to day. I think that's why I like sending them to the pub, or just doing completely silly things with them (trenchcoat maffia!).
Because, really, Immortal Beings have to get bored with it after a while.
And they've done the big angsty battle.
*pause* I'd like to note, btw, that I personally think of myself as rather hypocritical on this. I tend to completely Mary Sue my own Muse. Which is probably why I stopped writing so much of her.
Unlike Serry, I'm not planning on leaving Subreality. I still have stories I'd like to write, places I'd like to explore. But I don't think I'll bother posting muse-related stuff anymore. Not because I'm not writing it, but because I don't like what the genre has become.
Very childish, yes. But there it is.
Anyway. I did warn I'd ramble.
hugs, Ana