I shall try to actually write this fic, then! Er, no promises. Since my Cordelia/Laura/Susan/Delenn crossover fic has been languishing unwritten for more than a year now...
I figure if you're writing real elves, you might as well crib from Tolkien. Especially the Silmarillion; I mean, it's not like many people besides you and I have even read the damn thing. ;) Unfortunately, my space elves are...well, okay, let's be honest: they're basically the Minbari. Except maybe they're evil! The meme is just to come up with a synopsis/character descriptions for a TV show with cast members given to you by someone else, so I don't actually have to decide for sure whether they're evil or not; that would be the driving conflict of the show, at least at first. (Of course, being me and being unable to write anything until I have all the details straight in my head, I already know that they're...not really EVIL, but maybe too secretive, and perhaps have done bad things in the past, but it's all been in the service of trying to hold off an big, bad, powerful alien race, which of course humans will have to help them do, and it will turn into a shooting war...
Yeah, so, when I actually post this thing, I'm just going to claim "postmodern pastiche!" and run for the hills.)
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Date: 2010-10-24 06:17 am (UTC)I figure if you're writing real elves, you might as well crib from Tolkien. Especially the Silmarillion; I mean, it's not like many people besides you and I have even read the damn thing. ;) Unfortunately, my space elves are...well, okay, let's be honest: they're basically the Minbari. Except maybe they're evil! The meme is just to come up with a synopsis/character descriptions for a TV show with cast members given to you by someone else, so I don't actually have to decide for sure whether they're evil or not; that would be the driving conflict of the show, at least at first. (Of course, being me and being unable to write anything until I have all the details straight in my head, I already know that they're...not really EVIL, but maybe too secretive, and perhaps have done bad things in the past, but it's all been in the service of trying to hold off an big, bad, powerful alien race, which of course humans will have to help them do, and it will turn into a shooting war...
Yeah, so, when I actually post this thing, I'm just going to claim "postmodern pastiche!" and run for the hills.)