[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

[speak_me_fair]

Oh GOD imagery. That is beautiful - for me it's the bay trees, because I've always had a thing for bay tree imagery, but all the Christ parallels and the different thorns are absolutely amazing.

This is the line that caught at me most:

his own voice in his ears, invoking the aid of a barren shore, a revolting land which chokes its own issue.

because for me that was the ultimate twisted mirror to Gaunt's speech, and I adore those 'other perspective' moments.

&hearts

[angevin2]

*blushes* Thank you! The bay trees and the "revolting land" are, of course, right out of the text, but most of the stuff in this fic is, so. I am glad it works for you.

The play is, actually, full of ripostes to Gaunt's speech, I think -- Carlisle has the most obvious one (with 'cursed earth' mirroring 'blessed plot'), but the gardeners as well, and of course even Gaunt's depiction of England is weird and slippery especially when you think of the play's context, where it's an England that is dying and simultaneously doesn't yet exist. OMG PLAY I LOVE YOU.

[speak_me_fair]

Yes, but it's the way you USE all that stuff!

AMAZING PLAY IS AMAZING.

[angevin2]

*grins* Well, thank you! This is one of the nice things about writing fic about one's dissertation texts. Perhaps next I shall write some Woodstock fic. (actually next I am going to write the Aumerle fic I told you I'd write, or some of the other ficlets I owe people from this meme.)

AND YES. YES IT IS. &hearts &hearts &hearts

[speak_me_fair]

Heee, yes I can see that! Also YES PLEASE to the Aumerle fic, I have paper-marking this weekend and could really do with something to look forward to!

The thought of Woodstock fic is kind of awesome, though *G* the potential for sheer crack is just - impressive!

[angevin2]

Oh MAN, I will definitely see what I can do, then!

Also, I have been saying for practically forever that I'm going to write Anne/Philippa Woodstockverse femslash, just to crack the gender section in my diss chapter. It'd be so weird though, because the versions of them in my head are the Big Squishyverse versions, who are both pretty firmly heterosexual.

[speak_me_fair]

I would LOVE to read the femslash if you ever crack that mental barrier. It really would fit in with the whole Woodstock weirdness....