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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[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.

[bonnieslasher]

Hee, thanks!

It being a big, serious deal works with the tone of the book, but I still can't help imagining that Igorina was ready to take Mal off to the side for a nice, tidy slaying. Igorina would know when she was right at the point of no return. Then Mal would sit around in a jar or something until such a time as she could be reconstituted in the center of an arcane vampire symbol/circle dotted with espresso shots.