joysweeper

I blame

kirskipkat for this. I really do. Apparently, though I've been collaborating on a story which involves genderswappage and two young men who were turned into a telepathic bunny rabbit and an AT-AT, respectively, that wasn't weird enough for me, so I had to write about someone who'd turned into a flag.

Inspired by this conversation, which was sparked by "the stars and stripes come to life to defend us". Written in one marathon session. I don't do that anymore... I've been trying to avoid this kind of story recently. It's good to have structure, not just "Oh hey wouldn't it be cool if [blank]?"

It is of course a Xanadu story. They're rather formulatic unless effort is made to apply plot. Someone makes a costume, someone wears it at Xanadu, the Event happens, there is freaking out, there is a detailed explanation of what looks like what and so on, sometimes "What now?" gets answered. Some of those elements are reduced or absent depending on the story, but there is always what looks like what. Always. I've been trying to move away from that.

I get the impression that it was expected to be very zany, but I don't know how to write zany, so... yeah. Aaaand I mention Cap. Why do I keep doing that. Seriously. I've cameoed him in like four works-in-progress by now.

*horrified stare* So many parentheses. And I can see it dropping in quality towards the end, where I'm reeling in exhaustion. Boy, do I need to work on this.

And I kind of forgot. LadyTragic on the kfanmedia fora drew this for me! She admitted herself that the anatomy is wonky, but the speech bubble made me laugh.