A fanfic challenge from a very odd source

[matrixrefugee]

From my mom, no less...

Last night, during a discussion about, of all things, sexual harrassment laws in the workplace, my mom challenged me to write a sequel to "Black Swan", in which Thomas, the dance master, winds up getting what's coming to him for messing with his proteges. I said I'd consider it, but I had enough on my plate writing-wise right now, especially since there's another Lonely Prompt Challenge Weekend coming up on comment_fic this weekend, plus I just intro'ed Catherine Morland on carpe_ho_ras and it's shaped up into one of the biggest intros I've had since I intro'ed Ryuk.

But then this morning, as I was looking out the window at the fresh coat of snow that's falling, the idea came back to me, and the plot spread itself in front of me:

"Black Swan Continues: The Snow Queen". In which Nina is recovering from her horrible mental ordeal, a mysterious albino Japanese surgeon ("Hmmm... I wonder who that could be.") is treating the brain tumors that caused her madness, and Thomas is trying to launch a radical new production of "The Snow Queen". Mom wanted it to be more of a legal thriller, but I explained to her that the adult fairy tale gone horribly wrong in all the right ways is the way to go. Even if it means it includes slash (Muraki/Thomas and it's rather unsettling), which she isn't big on. I'm now researching the Snow Queen, looking to see if it's been done as a ballet and by whom, and if I can find the score on CD. I may fall back on the soundtrack from "Black Swan", which I utterly love anyway: too bad said score has been disqualified from the Academy Awards on the grounds of it being a heavy adaptation of Tschaikovsky's score for "Swan Lake".

Comments

[tomboy-typist.livejournal.com]

I really need to see this movie! WILL TELL YOU WHEN I DO ^^

Still on the wrong account,,,

[silvereyedphage.livejournal.com]

You doooo... it's dark as hell, but it is very well made -- Just found the score on YouTube and I should be making a playlist of it soon, to keep it looping while I write. And I have the ending almost written as of now.

[tomboy-typist.livejournal.com]

<3 <3 <3 Remind me to read it when I've seen the movie! Which I will, sometime this month, I think.

Your productivity always amazes me. <3

[silvereyedphage.livejournal.com]

I'm shocked at how this fic is writing itself: it's like I'm just the channel for it to flow through, but I have no qualms about that at all. It's likely to be stronger writing that way (then again, any thing I write which involves a certain Japanese albino, I try to be as unobtrusive as possible as a writer: he dun like it when I get too writery :: laughs:: ). Also, remind me to toss you said playlist when I get it put together: It's one of the better new film scores I've heard, part orchestral, part hallucinatory synthinstrumental, like a remix of the Tchaikovsky score...

Ohay, look who's using a pup account on your journal!

[belize-queen.livejournal.com]

That all sounds delicious, and I look forward to it! ^^ <3 :D

[northernwalker]

That sounds really interesting- I'll keep an eye out for it!