What Polly Did Next: Autumn (i)

[7tree_hugger]

What Polly Did Next

Summary: If Monstrous Regiment could be filed under “What Polly Did” this would fall under the remit of “What Polly Did Next” covering as it does the joys trials and tribulations of our eponymous heroine, picking up sometime in the year following the final paragraph of MR. Will contain Polly/Mal, but not yet. All you can hope

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[latin_doll]

Just had comment eaten by wonky internet connection. V. annoying. Let's see. It definitely started with "yaaaaaaaaaay" and went on to compliment you on your characterisation of Mal; who I got a definite 'bit of an ass' impression before she came out and said so herself, so yay. It then got a little wordy, I think, on the subject of how characters so often come across as jerks when the author means them to be totally awesome. so this is a very nice change.

It also contained squeeing about cuteness! Reading this was rather like watching a bunch of kittens play in someone else's craft store. Especially them sleeping together, love this trope (is it a trope already? Fandom's so small...)

Also there was something about commata. As in, e.g., "Why are you here Polly" lacks a comma in front of Polly.

It concluded in a plea for more chapters, I think, and assured you I'd be looking forward to reading them.

[7tree_hugger]

Bad internet for eating comment! Bad! No cookie!

I'll take the second hand squeeing and yay non-the-less. Glad you liked it. (Yes it is a trope - but almost everything is these days and darn it I'm having it anyway!)

Thanks for commata commentary - copying it into html may have frustrated the author such that she just hit "submit" without doing that last vital check of editory errors. I'll give it a nudge.

Fear ye not - never mind more chapters - there's still 2 parts of this chapter to come (Autumn got to 15 pages and I almost died of shock so cut off the first chunk and posted it while I worked out more words for sword). You'll be glad to know I cut the annoying gramaphone in the end, shunting it off into the next chapter. It may get shunted again, moving constantly from chapter to chapter until it falls off the end of the tale to crash, unmourned, into the valleys below.

[bonnieslasher]

Don't make me link to the 'tropes are not bad' page. I'll do it.

Not to much more to say for now, I've only read about half of this chapter ^_^; I shall be reading the rest tomorrow. Do have to say though, I'm liking Polly wondering about the vampire-influence thing. I've had extremely silly day dreams involving her coming onto random vampires just to see if she is able to detect the thrall if/when it happens, thus confusing and torturing Mal.

[7tree_hugger]

Linking to TV Tropes is not advised. I almost went in there to get a link for the "sleeping together but not "sleeping together" trope. Then I remembered just in time what a timesuck that might have been. Lo did Nuggan command thee, Link Not There. Especially for the two people who have thesies to write (yes of course it's not finished, who'd write about graphs when one can write about people?) :D

These dreams... ever considered writing them down and passing them round at all? They sound somewhat intriguing.

[morthel]

Wonderful! I loved the footnotes, and the story is really sweet. I hope we don't have to wait as long for the next part!

[7tree_hugger]

Thanks for commenting, glad you liked it!

Author apologises for pesky perfectionist streak and demands of thesis that prevent quicker updating.

[morthel]

Reader finds author's excuses acceptable, and will be as patient as possible while waiting for more Mal/Polly goodness.

[minimepez]

It's odd, but somehow it's the little placed sentences that you write that really draws my attention. This time it was "There may have been flailing."

hyper!Mal was hilarious.

Anywho, very lovely. Can't wait for the rest :D

[7tree_hugger]

Thanks for commenting! Glad you liked it.

Hyper!Mal was extremely fun to write. Originally she splurged for another couple of pages (perhaps indicative of the authors state at the time of typing) but I managed to cut her down to the salient points. Eventually.

[minimepez]

Well with wasps, and beans, and corporals who can't hold their drink I'm left wondering what else was covered in those couple of pages.

[bonnieslasher]

Finished! And I have to agree, caffeinated-past-coherency Mal is fantastic (all chocolate covered espresso beans ever did to me was make me have to pee constantly >.< ) The way you've got their friendship building, so much fun to read. Really funny, and the pacing and flow got even better toward the end.

Now I need to go read the first part, as I seem to have missed it.

As for my daydreams, gah, I let myself get distracted enough with fan art -_- I just did a really sloppy comic thingy on DA that I took more time on than I should have.

[7tree_hugger]

I was introduced to chocolate flavoured expresso beans many years ago whilst attempting to complete mine and a friend's Christmas Shopping in Manchester. Never willing shoppers, we took a detour into Whittards and I don't think the city ever really recovered. Neither did my sleep patterns for a while. They're good stuff :D

Might there be a link to this wonderous comic? Inquiring minds are somewhat intrigued...

[bonnieslasher]

http://bonnieslashfiend.deviantart.com/art/Pol-and-Mal-have-a-talk-135367398 - Very sloppy.

Mmm, caffeinated store molestation, that does sound good.

[7tree_hugger]

Sloppy? You call that sloppy? It's Genius!

It's a good point you bring up about the narrative need to have it be a bad thing that Mal should get staked. I had real trouble with it when I was sketching out an "epilogue" for On Her Majesties Postal Service. Why would the Igors work so hard over a vampire if Mal could just be revived by a drop of blood. In the end I just didn't address it but left it to the reader to assume what they willed.

It's an annoying problem to be sure.