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After a year and a half glutting myself on Chinese dramas, I've decided I need a break from all the pretty young things.
These past couple months I've been all about the midlife crisis ships. Cobra Kai, Supernatural, and IT Chapter Two. I got my first gray pubic hair several weeks ago, so I guess this is me having my own midlife crisis vicariously via fictional characters.
I'm actually 6000 words deep into writing an It Chapter Two fic.
One of the characters is a stand-up comedian. Several people have attempted to write said character's post-film gay coming out stand-up act. I feel like the fanfic I've read kind of played it safe, avoiding humor that was too raunchy or too dark. I'm doing my own, edgier take.
I mean I think being a gay comedian and getting nearly impaled by an eldritch creature that feeds on your internalized homophobia entitles you to at least one monsterfucking joke, right?
I've actually been watching a ton of stand-up comedy on Netflix for inspiration. Usually watching tv does nothing to help me write, but I think it's actually helped a lot this time. Comedy writing is weird. Usually I'm worried about, like, maximizing the emotional impact of an intense moment, and trying to make the reader feel like they're in the moment, living it.
Here, I'm doing the opposite. I'm trying to turn horror into comedy, so I'm purposely going off on distracting tangents to *minimize* the intensity of the subject matter. I'm building up a protective layer of fluff, actively trying to prevent the audience from getting sucked in to the experience, so that the audience can laugh at the surrealism of the situation from a distance, instead of getting caught up in the trauma and the terror.
These past couple months I've been all about the midlife crisis ships. Cobra Kai, Supernatural, and IT Chapter Two. I got my first gray pubic hair several weeks ago, so I guess this is me having my own midlife crisis vicariously via fictional characters.
I'm actually 6000 words deep into writing an It Chapter Two fic.
One of the characters is a stand-up comedian. Several people have attempted to write said character's post-film gay coming out stand-up act. I feel like the fanfic I've read kind of played it safe, avoiding humor that was too raunchy or too dark. I'm doing my own, edgier take.
I mean I think being a gay comedian and getting nearly impaled by an eldritch creature that feeds on your internalized homophobia entitles you to at least one monsterfucking joke, right?
I've actually been watching a ton of stand-up comedy on Netflix for inspiration. Usually watching tv does nothing to help me write, but I think it's actually helped a lot this time. Comedy writing is weird. Usually I'm worried about, like, maximizing the emotional impact of an intense moment, and trying to make the reader feel like they're in the moment, living it.
Here, I'm doing the opposite. I'm trying to turn horror into comedy, so I'm purposely going off on distracting tangents to *minimize* the intensity of the subject matter. I'm building up a protective layer of fluff, actively trying to prevent the audience from getting sucked in to the experience, so that the audience can laugh at the surrealism of the situation from a distance, instead of getting caught up in the trauma and the terror.