#cave fic

The year is 1991, and we are a few years before the first Canadian Shack challenge in Due South fandom. But the "stranded in a cabin in the woods" trope is a beloved one in fandom, reaching back to Star Trek's "huddling in a cave" stories

Been stalling on writing the actual cave scenes of the cave fic, because here we shift from action elements to the thematic and internal stuff and it would help if I had a stronger handle on what the typically moralistic thing I’m trying to include is. (Just kidding, it’s not so much moralistic as... er... some other word.)

Anyway, I reread Anne Carson’s Gender of Sound (and somehow missed first time around the description of polis that echoes what comes up in Terry Pratchett’s Men at Arms?) and got into that whole olyolyga thing that’s gonna be central to the cave fic... then to the whole “women had two mouths, both called stoma” thing... and the whole repression of outbursts thing... and was just wondering how to massage that into a workable thesis...

...went on tumblr and saw gifs of Ezra Miller giving palpable eye sex to the camera while dropping his hips in a glorious back thrust.

This. This cover: Sons of an Illustrious Father - Don’t Cha [x]

Damn.

The Ancient Greeks would be turning in their graves XD 

Wasn’t going to take the sexual route in this fic, still not planning on it, but am thoroughly derailed now.

I don’t know what possessed me to set this in a cave. I’m claustrophobic and I get panicky if an environment forces me to have tunnel vision. I started this fic while listening to Helena Deland’s “Take it All” and my characters were on a rocky outcrop under the blessed wide sky in a mountain range. But it had to go somewhere from there and so I thought “yes, a cave system”.

Three months later I’m properly working on this now and I’m getting woozy reading article after article on the stunningly well-written StartCaving.com site. Bad enough I started the story in Santander, the city with the lowest crime rate in all of Spain, now I have to squeeze Lara through a cave system while remembering to breathe properly.