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Jan. 1st, 2022 10:58 amHappy Yuletide reveals day, everyone! This year, as I mentioned, I am [at least partially] responsible for three works in the archive.
My assigned story was This Episode Brought To You By, for the kdrama Mr. Queen, about a fuckboy chef who transmigrates into the body of a historical king. The show itself does a very skilled job tap-dancing around all the inherent queerness and messy gender stuff in its premise, so the overly-ambitious goal was to actually engage with some of that, while also giving myself the opportunity to write So-yon (the queen) as a real character, while also keeping Bong-hwan's brash and funny voice ... who knows if I succeeded in any of this but at the very least I had a wonderful time writing product placement jokes and researching the history of cheese!
When prompts went out I'd looked up the prompts for the Goes Wrong Show and laughed myself to delighted tears at the incredible Robert/Chris prompt that encouraged soulmate marks, timeloops, curses, etc, so when it went out on the pinch-hit list I immediately put in a call to grab it, then panicked when I realized a.) how little time I had and b.) the fact that I still had not actually finished everything I wanted to do on "This Episode Brought To You By". Fortunately![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
genarti talked me down from the brink and helped me brainstorm plot and jokes all the way up to Vermont, and more or less as soon as her parents went to sleep that night I sat down and bashed out the beginning, ending, and broad plot arc of On The (N)th Day Of Christmas, leaving a big bracketed section in the middle of the Google doc that read "[VARIOUS JOKES AND SLAPSTICK BITS OF BAD CASTING AND WEIRD PERFORMANCES GO HERE]". Then I flung the draft at genarti, innerbrat, and my roommate M who introduced us to the Goes Wrong Show to begin with, all of whom immediately took up the mantle of infusing the fic with the broad and brilliant array of horrible timeloop performance disasters that it needed and deserved -- every joke they wrote is SO funny and I'm deeply grateful for it.
And speaking of brilliant prompts: whengileonnen's unbelievably genius Hamlet request for "Claudius mixes up the poisons on his brother and accidentally turns him into a llam--sheep" hit the pinch-hit list, genarti and I immediately started shouting at each other across the house about it. Neither of us actually grabbed the pinch-hit, but nonetheless Beth slacked me like half an hour later:
And so our fate was sealed. Beth threw up a Google doc with some initial jokes, we both broadly ignored it until December 23rd or so when both of us were finally done editing and tweaking our other Yuletide fics, and then spent the hours between 11 PM and 2 AM on Christmas Eve in a deep iambic frenzy, with the Hamlet script up in one tab and the Emperor's New Groove script up in another, to finish Denmark's New Groove. Deeply rewarding, once again cannot more highly recommend the process of collaborating withgenarti who is, among many other gifts, a comedic genius.
I myself have only read my way through a very little of the Yuletide archive yet, but I am very much hoping to dive into it more over the coming weekend!! (and, let's be real, in accordance with my usual habits, the coming year.)
My assigned story was This Episode Brought To You By, for the kdrama Mr. Queen, about a fuckboy chef who transmigrates into the body of a historical king. The show itself does a very skilled job tap-dancing around all the inherent queerness and messy gender stuff in its premise, so the overly-ambitious goal was to actually engage with some of that, while also giving myself the opportunity to write So-yon (the queen) as a real character, while also keeping Bong-hwan's brash and funny voice ... who knows if I succeeded in any of this but at the very least I had a wonderful time writing product placement jokes and researching the history of cheese!
When prompts went out I'd looked up the prompts for the Goes Wrong Show and laughed myself to delighted tears at the incredible Robert/Chris prompt that encouraged soulmate marks, timeloops, curses, etc, so when it went out on the pinch-hit list I immediately put in a call to grab it, then panicked when I realized a.) how little time I had and b.) the fact that I still had not actually finished everything I wanted to do on "This Episode Brought To You By". Fortunately
genarti talked me down from the brink and helped me brainstorm plot and jokes all the way up to Vermont, and more or less as soon as her parents went to sleep that night I sat down and bashed out the beginning, ending, and broad plot arc of On The (N)th Day Of Christmas, leaving a big bracketed section in the middle of the Google doc that read "[VARIOUS JOKES AND SLAPSTICK BITS OF BAD CASTING AND WEIRD PERFORMANCES GO HERE]". Then I flung the draft at genarti, innerbrat, and my roommate M who introduced us to the Goes Wrong Show to begin with, all of whom immediately took up the mantle of infusing the fic with the broad and brilliant array of horrible timeloop performance disasters that it needed and deserved -- every joke they wrote is SO funny and I'm deeply grateful for it. And speaking of brilliant prompts: when
gileonnen's unbelievably genius Hamlet request for "Claudius mixes up the poisons on his brother and accidentally turns him into a llam--sheep" hit the pinch-hit list, genarti and I immediately started shouting at each other across the house about it. Neither of us actually grabbed the pinch-hit, but nonetheless Beth slacked me like half an hour later:And so our fate was sealed. Beth threw up a Google doc with some initial jokes, we both broadly ignored it until December 23rd or so when both of us were finally done editing and tweaking our other Yuletide fics, and then spent the hours between 11 PM and 2 AM on Christmas Eve in a deep iambic frenzy, with the Hamlet script up in one tab and the Emperor's New Groove script up in another, to finish Denmark's New Groove. Deeply rewarding, once again cannot more highly recommend the process of collaborating with
genarti who is, among many other gifts, a comedic genius. I myself have only read my way through a very little of the Yuletide archive yet, but I am very much hoping to dive into it more over the coming weekend!! (and, let's be real, in accordance with my usual habits, the coming year.)
