Pico day 9

[el-staplador.livejournal.com]

Here is the post for any comments, snippets or thoughts.

May the magic be with us all!

Comments

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

About 400 words... this is partly older ones, partly new :)

Rodney looked slightly ill. "Radek, look here -"

"What?"

Radek tried to peer into the murky console interior to what Rodney was pointing out with his flashlight. There was a long, jagged fracture across the dingy coil of something less like metal than... unfleshlike flesh. Uncannily if vaguely like a tear across some sort of unknown and unthinkable... he couldn't help but think it, muscle. Black and scabby, pockmarked and oddly...

"Putrescent," Daniel murmured.

One could always count of Doctor Jackson for the words, Radek thought -

"Like some form of decomposing organic technology. "

- could always count on him for words that would bring up an image they didn't want to think about.

"Or synthetic biology," he offered, as a somewhat less not-to-be-thought-about idea.

"But very very dead and not so very decayed."

"Yes," Rodney's face, in the dim light, looked even more ill, he obviously and for once agreed with Radek. "That's not it - though thank you for that image."

I've found some piccies that I am using for alien inspiration, may put them up tomorrow :)

[saki101.livejournal.com]

Excellent word count and very unsettling and evocative excerpt.

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

They're used to alieness, so I'm trying to push the even more than USUAL alieness...

[elmey.livejournal.com]

Good job on the words, and good job on this excerpt--it really call us some very visceral images.

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

SOrganic technology is something of an SF cliche, but I thought combining it with horror elements could be fun :)

[avon7.livejournal.com]

I read your snippets on Pico and really like them - even though I know nada about the fandom - do you have whole stories somewhere?

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

Thank you! All of my little stories are on my own LJ (sticky at the top) and on A03 (http://archiveofourown.org/users/sallymn)

[akane42me.livejournal.com]

Ewww, this is excellent. Great visuals! Kudos on the great word count, too!

Piccies! Yessss!

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

The room is very clear in my head...

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

That was hysterically funny. I can't wait for the chance to read this story in its entirety!

Do you think that you could, you know, perhaps post a link to those piccies? Alien inspiration is something I'm looking out for all the time. I promise I won't steal your part of inspiration...

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

I harvested them and will put them up, and see if I can recall some of the good websites :)

[stevie-carroll.livejournal.com]

Not an image I want to contemplate either ;-)

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

{grin} They've canonically all (IIRC) run into organic technology... and it's invariably not very nice. Add Lovecraft...?

[el-staplador.livejournal.com]

This is both funny and grotesque - love it!

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

Thankee!

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

Great progress!

Good scene - the descriptions of the technology are great, really shows what they are seeing. (and their reactions to the description are wonderful).

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

Thanks - I want to build it so it is believable that Rodney (who pretty much IS the genius he says he is) finds it very alien, comes close to grasping it but can't quite get there...