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I started writing it actually beforeee I watched the TV show and then a bit while I was watching its first couple episodes, so it doesn't really follow that closely to the plot and the structure/worldbuilding details of the TV show. I was, ALSO, unfortunately uncharacteristically ambitious when I started writing it (it had a plot 😭 probably to make up for the fact that the worldbuilding didn't align with either novel or show) but what I might do, just to abide by the command of mr apple tv, is tidy up the different parts of it that are written and just publish them as under-contextualized one-shots (as is my habit). So they may be confusing as hell. But I caaan do it...?

Also, tbf, TVzel has always canonically been Daneel. Look at her. Come onnnn.

Aahahaha, the Daneel-Vasilia one is sooo sinister and so fucked up I'm sorry ahaha--but I do think it's totally plausible both in terms of plot elements and characterization.

Part of it definitely stems from my hurt at seeing her ill-used in canon (so many characters are, though, so I'm not offended, it's just the nature of things!), but mostly the plot (if we can call it that) comes from streaming together a few neglected elements:

Giskard's death -- Giskard being (by her opinion alone, because Giskard is not a disordered pervert like our dear Daneel, and even then maybe only on a sensitive & emotive level) her robot, and Daneel being the only person with the knowledge of Giskard's death or the meaning of it. I don't see it outside the range of Daneel's self-considered duties for him to inform her--but not strictly, of course, from his deranged sense of "consciousness" and propriety

Gaia is the product of human experimentation and tampering with people's minds which isss pretty comfortably outside the range of Daneel's permissible behaviors under the Laws... So Daneel either needs some amount of positronic rewiring himself (which is so, so scary, and makes me so queasy), or needs enough plausible deniability for himself to overcome positronic pressure from tampering, which could come from a third-party acting for him; in all likelihood, I'd say it's a combination of both, since an "inculcat[ion] of... the Laws of Robotics" (Foundation and Earth) is the starting point for a Gaian mind.

(He also needs the ability to maintain himself and manufacture other robots, which must be learned somewhere--ergo, Vasilia is his tutor!)

But basically they go on a long miserable sabbatical road trip type thing together after Daneel returns to inform her of Giskard's death and is "released" from Gladia's service. They have a really horrible, terse dynamic, and they're constantly manipulating each other and getting into each other's heads in more or less literal ways. And they wear each other's clothes and he looks just like her father's colleague and they get crazy together and make each other crazier I don't know. It's very scary. The difficult thing with this is balancing their dynamic in terms of how much they need each other/gain from each other; their dependency and mutual interest needs to be approximately equal throughout the whole thing so that they do not break each other, haha. And I do think they would come to some kind of strange understanding... eventually... or at least a toleration where not absolutely everything is so charged and sensitive.

I've also taken advantage of this to meditate a lot on Daneel's gender identity & relationship with sex (in the biological sense and in the sense of the activity), and the further elaboration of Daneel's horrible journey down objectification (of himself and others) and the use of attraction as a tool of influence. And also because I think Vasilia is a lesbian ☝️ These meditations are actually the bulk of the writing, because I always struggle with interstitial elements that like, actually move the plot, lol. It's likely if I do work on this, it'll get broken up into one-shots and probably be published outside of its internal chronological order.

Um but kiss vignettes are cute and (mostly) normal :'3 it's just me inserting a parting kiss ritual that takes on different shades for each time C/Fe meet, some pining and kind of bittersweet and kind of makes you angry at everyone but I think pleasant enough. the first one for Caves is cute--Elijah gets drunk!!--and the second one for Mirror Image is funny, I hope to finish it. It's sitting around 3k words right now--mostly the first and the last vignettes.

RULES: make a new post with the names of all the files in your wip folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! and then tag as many people as you have wips.

Thank you to Fla (@larmegliamori) and Amy (@the-l-spacer) for tagging me and thinking of me ll my WIP's are Untitled document but I do keep a checklist of lots of my WIPs (currently at 92 LOL), so here are some of their names on that from my Asimov section (all very utilitarian):

"daneel on comporellon" / (document is titled "Inertia")

"organize TVzel/baley" (apparently I already wrote like 4k of this and just did nothing with it)

"Daneel fallom"

"kiss vignettes" (with several sub-items)

"mule on gaia"

"Channis Pritcher leisure"

"Channis post-canon"

"Vasilia Daneel fic"

Ask away and maybe if I talk about them a little bit it will fire me up to finish them 🫠 though don't make any bets!

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Naruto Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Hatake Kakashi/Yamato | Tenzou Characters: Hatake Kakashi, Yamato | Tenzou, Sarutobi Asuma Additional Tags: Established Relationship, some innuendo and misunderstandings but nothing explicit, Fluff, a little bit of that involuntary mokuton use because I can't resist, Canon Compliant, Drunkenness Summary:

Yamato presses his face into the crook of Kakashi’s neck, giggling and warm with each outbreath, tickling nerves in a way that sends flush spilling up his collar beneath the mask to settle under each eye, “Missed you, senpai…”

Looks at you with big wet eyes... this is very kind of you, it's always shocking to me when people are compelled not by subject (which is what I use mostly to parse fanfiction, guilty!) but by my style... I think it's just irrational insecurity, but I always think of my style as an obstruction--there's of course an argument that all words are obstructions, but I think that's mistaking their purpose, and wanting them to do the work of the mind--to my content, like something I should get around, but I can't, haha, and so have to deal with, and so the same for anyone who reads something I've written.

So, yes, great to hear you like my turn-of-phrase and diction, especially because she and I have a fraught relationship!

I've said this before, but I don't think synonyms exist in the sense of being able to substitute a word for another--every word has a specific utility formed by the way it is used/has been used/you are presently using it! And the same word in different places always means different things. So for me, it's not about using a more complex or a rarer word, though I admit I am tickled by rare and complex words, but rather a more precise word. Unfortunately, precision requires sometimes obscure or specialist vocabulary, which can be distracting but I generally find refreshing, especially if it can replaces several words... and in this way I comfort myself that I don't violate any rules of concision or needfulness (at least in diction, haha). This is also why occasionally in my writing, you might notice that for certain sensory or emotional details I will lapse into a list of approximates--I'm trying to create and define a field to collect or to distinguish something very specific...

I also have never abandoned the trick of looking up and writing down every word that is new to me, though obviously repeated exposure and repeated use and etymological/positional knowledge is really the only way to begin integrating a word so it can actually be put to work. I also don't use thesauruses unless I have a word already in mind that I can't form, or I have a notion that there's a specialist term that must exist but I don't know. I also am always willing to manipulate and unearth words, though I don't ever really stray into invention.

Hiii, thank you for your interest, it flatters!! I don't do anything of the sort, at least anywhere public. I do keep track of the things I read in personal lists, though! 'nd I'm always happy to talk about what I'm reading ('cuz I'm a square) so it's not too hard to get out of me if you are ever curious 👍

And always happy to hear about what you r reading, my friend anon : )

^^ I typed this reply in June of 2024, and I had a lot of tags I attached it, so I'm going to leave them here below the cut, because I suppose this is equally--probably moreso addressed to the Haze of June 2024 as it is to the present Haze, but present Haze would like that space back, haha.

Thank you so much, I'm glad you like how I write them! They're really special to me, something about their relationship is shockingly mellow and very internally incomplex--in terms of their compatibility, the way they get along and accomodate each other, I don't know, they're sweet to me, something about it is strangely easy between them...

I can't remember exactly having said that, but it doesn't seem out of character for me, haha. I think writing a cerebral characters give me more excuses for my stylistic idiosyncrasies, so Luffy is difficult to integrate ahdufkhf.

I think something that drives the way I write them, which maybe gives them a different flavor than other people, is that I am motivated by the things that make them fundamentally similar to each other--which is actually a lot of things, if you pay attention to them! E.g. I think one of the ways they get flanderized (non-pejorative, it's just how fandom is) is that Luffy is empty-headed, and Law is an over-thinker, but I think when you look at both of them, they actually have their own semi-fixed and relatively narrow internal logics that they rely on, which manifests as their being singular in pursuit, kind of insensitive to certain kinds of social/etc. feedback or pressures that would avert them from their purposes, inventive (by operating on nonconventional logic). Law's is more explicable, and more conscious, but I think they're ultimately both pretty internally consistent. And some of their more superficial similarities seem to come from this place: they easily become the butts of the same kinds of jokes, they're stubborn...

I think when you think of them in terms of their fundamental similarities, it becomes easy to see how delighted they are in each other; what expectations they have of each other (unconventional ones, the kinds that would appall or confuse anyone with standard romantic conceptions), how they meet and exceed them... they're just so compatible....

I hope that answered your question a little bit. I look forward to writing more of them when the inspiration strikes. They're really sweet.