Poem: Normal written in coffee grounds

[scribblemyname]

Normal written in coffee grounds

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So it took longer to format this than to write it! Ah, well. Inspired by a version of Rachelle and Justus that will never be, as they’ve been commandeered by the Kingdoms and Thorn world. A bit of romance, en brief.

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The way you leaned over the bar / foaming milk, whipped and creamed / eyes intense, and called me barista

   

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[pygmymuse.livejournal.com]

Ah, I'm not the only one wanting alternate versions of my own characters/stories. I was thinking about that earlier as I wrote another bit.

Interesting way of comparing them/their relationship to coffee.

[scribblemyname]

I find the images start coming after the perspective, and she has always been intensely into her coffee. Coffee and books and high windows from skyscraper apartments was her normal before he managed to sneak his way inside it.

And I do alternate universes so much. The key thing to reusing characters for me is to differ the premise, characters focused on, and the props and traits enough to remove them from being in the same framework.

This is a pesky side effect of how I acquire characters, develop premises via post-fandom canon extrapolations and multiple premise merging, and then use more than one premise developed for the same original set of characters. It's also a wee headache inducing. :shakes head at self:

[pygmymuse.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that makes sense about Rachelle.

I'm a big fan of AUs, loved creating them in fandom works because there was just so much potential.

I like potential, and I like exploring new ways of seeing the characters shine and overcome the past and... I need them to have the endings that the shows/books/movies/etc don't give them.

This is a pesky side effect of how I acquire characters, develop premises via post-fandom canon extrapolations and multiple premise merging, and then use more than one premise developed for the same original set of characters. It's also a wee headache inducing. :shakes head at self:

I guess I've done something similar, not so much with same original characters moving universes, but I created Cameron and Ina's story when I wanted to use a plot that didn't fit in The Monster in My Garden Shed and since I didn't get a plot in the Nickel and Dime series, it showed up in two other places. I started a fantasy type story just to explore stuff that I'd done with Garan but couldn't go into again.

I just never thought about it quite the way you describe it. I kept thinking they were all different characters/different stories.

Very similar in a lot of cases, though.

[scribblemyname]

Ah, inspiration is such a many-faceted, splendored thing. It's messy and integrated and too how to box in. Gotta love it.

[pygmymuse.livejournal.com]

Yep.

Or hate it, depending on what it's doing to us.

[scribblemyname]

LOL Yes.