[drabbles] for gileonnen

[angevin2]

This is in fact not, as the word count reveals, a drabble at all. Also, I think it is the purplest piece of prose I have ever written.

Title: Scarlet Indignation
Fandom: Shakespeare Richard II
Character(s)/Pairing(s): King Richard, solus
Rating: PG
Word Count: 458
Warnings: self-injury, theorizing about kingship, anachronistic heraldry, excessive

Comments

[angevin2]

I think, too, that the original medieval-flavored setting makes it easier to pull out the specifics of the symbolism -- it's at the forefront in that time period in a way it probably wouldn't be for a 20th-century individual. Or something like that.

Also: Shakespeare's Richard is clearly really bothered by the whole King's Two Bodies thing, because the body natural is inconvenient in a way, or it doesn't fit, or whatever. I mean, look at how his most famous speech ends:

I live with bread like you, feel want,
Taste grief, need friends -- subjected thus,
How can you say to me I am a king?

So when I write him he tends to be both frustrated and fascinated by corporeality.

Clearly theirs is a True and Destined Love! (I should totally write you that. Because, as we have previously mentioned, Sex and Epic.)

OMG YES. BECAUSE THAT = SO DAMN HOT.

(Also the POV thing works -- I was just telling lareinenoire -- because they are both doomed, and Hotspur is short-sighted and Richard overanalytical, and those are fairly opposite qualities but both expressed the same way grammatically. Which is neat.)

[gileonnen]

See, all of this is why you are a better academic and a more thoughtful writer than I am. <33

[angevin2]

Oh, I doubt that! I don't theorize fic nearly as much when it's not about my central dissertation text, for one thing!

Also, you may have noticed that I just friended you with my Not-That-Sekrit Writing Journal. :)

[gileonnen]

Aww, you're just saying that. You could totally theorize the heck out of Canterbury Tales.

I may have, yeah. ^_~

[angevin2]

I'm not sure that the Canterbury Tales fic was as theoretical as it was referential!

devisewit consists almost entirely of unfinished Richardfic and things I have posted elsewhere, so if you are interested in my stuff-in-progress, it is the place to be. There's also a newish fic (focused on Henry) that I haven't posted anywhere else. Oh, and all the Elizabethan poets middle-school AU stuff is there too.

[gileonnen]

But it could be. Theory in fic is more a state of mind than a state of text.

I'll check it out! (Maybe I should have somewhere to put all the unfinished nonsense that's hanging around on the hard drive. Hmm.)

[angevin2]

It could be, but actually I decided fairly early on to make it total crackfic so as to minimize the amount of research I had to do during insane-amounts-of-grading time!

Anyway, as the author, I am technically dead or nonexistent, so. ;)