Ah, the tyrrany of WIPs. Though I agree, Neal and Diana are a really kickass team – then again, Diana and pretty much anyone would be a really kickass team; she's so damn competent, and her areas of competence are sufficiently different from the people around her that her skillsets complement just about everyone's. (Which is one of the nice things about the White Collar team; they all have their areas of strength, and can support each other where they need to.)
As for what I like writing... hrm. It might be simpler to list what I don't like: most things having to do with sex and traditional romantic tropes, fluff and waff and bashing? Emotional conversations are also not my forte, unless they're happening under duress.
I like experimenting with stuff, I like trying to subvert expectations, and I like poking characters with pointy things. I have special fondness for pushing characters way past the supposed bounds of their endurance and making them keep going. I also like taking people who deal with their emotions by locking them in a closet and telling them to sit quietly and then ignoring them, and having those emotions go "NO" and break out and start smashing things until they get some attention. Moral complexity, also good, as well as What The Hell, Hero moments.
...I'm looking back at a conversation I had with a friend about fiction kinks, and yeah, a lot of mine are thematic rather than situational. (Teams working together, hidden dark sides, hidden light sides, optimistic views on technology and science, obligations and responsibilities between superiors and subordinates, protective folk, protective folk who occasionally veer into the really scary when they're protecting someone, protective folk who drag people through really unpleasant stuff because they need to get to the other side even if the journey is painful, duty, loyalty, people who have the capacity to seriously damage other people but restrain themselves from doing so, people who have psychological programming of some sort (intentionally trained or accidentally learned) who have trouble escaping from that mindset, people going to insane lengths in a half-rational attempt to show/demonstrate to someone who/what they are, externalization of inner demons, people who can see each other in pain (physical, emotional, psychological) and respect that pain and have their back even if they can't fix it, solid multilayered plot, subtext and implication.) (I feel like you can kinda tell that most of my writing has been for fandoms with military/paramilitary characters who don't always get the psychological support they need. Also, that I enjoy darkfic.)
(And then I tried to look over my body of extant work for firmer answers, and things got even more confused. You could probably boil it down to "I LIKE MESSING WITH MY CHARACTERS' BRAINS, OKAY" and get pretty close, though.)
As for drugged!Neal, one of my big WIPs is actually Neal running around, injured and off-anklet and hallucinating the crap out of everything, and having trouble working out how to get himself out of this situation because his reality is too confused for him to know what he's running from, what he's running to, or who his allies and enemies are.
So, er, yes. I enjoy drugged!Neal. :)
I feel like I should acquire a Teal Deer icon at some point.
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Date: 2013-06-12 07:41 pm (UTC)As for what I like writing... hrm. It might be simpler to list what I don't like: most things having to do with sex and traditional romantic tropes, fluff and waff and bashing? Emotional conversations are also not my forte, unless they're happening under duress.
I like experimenting with stuff, I like trying to subvert expectations, and I like poking characters with pointy things. I have special fondness for pushing characters way past the supposed bounds of their endurance and making them keep going. I also like taking people who deal with their emotions by locking them in a closet and telling them to sit quietly and then ignoring them, and having those emotions go "NO" and break out and start smashing things until they get some attention. Moral complexity, also good, as well as What The Hell, Hero moments.
...I'm looking back at a conversation I had with a friend about fiction kinks, and yeah, a lot of mine are thematic rather than situational. (Teams working together, hidden dark sides, hidden light sides, optimistic views on technology and science, obligations and responsibilities between superiors and subordinates, protective folk, protective folk who occasionally veer into the really scary when they're protecting someone, protective folk who drag people through really unpleasant stuff because they need to get to the other side even if the journey is painful, duty, loyalty, people who have the capacity to seriously damage other people but restrain themselves from doing so, people who have psychological programming of some sort (intentionally trained or accidentally learned) who have trouble escaping from that mindset, people going to insane lengths in a half-rational attempt to show/demonstrate to someone who/what they are, externalization of inner demons, people who can see each other in pain (physical, emotional, psychological) and respect that pain and have their back even if they can't fix it, solid multilayered plot, subtext and implication.) (I feel like you can kinda tell that most of my writing has been for fandoms with military/paramilitary characters who don't always get the psychological support they need. Also, that I enjoy darkfic.)
(And then I tried to look over my body of extant work for firmer answers, and things got even more confused. You could probably boil it down to "I LIKE MESSING WITH MY CHARACTERS' BRAINS, OKAY" and get pretty close, though.)
As for drugged!Neal, one of my big WIPs is actually Neal running around, injured and off-anklet and hallucinating the crap out of everything, and having trouble working out how to get himself out of this situation because his reality is too confused for him to know what he's running from, what he's running to, or who his allies and enemies are.
So, er, yes. I enjoy drugged!Neal. :)
I feel like I should acquire a Teal Deer icon at some point.