unplanned hiatus is hiatus-y! also, fic rec!
Evidently I'm on hiatus right now, who knew? ;p Yeah, I'll try to un-hiatus at some point *waves hands vaguely into the future* (I'm fine, just busy. Really really busy.)
To tide you over until actual content resumes, would you like to read a story written for me for help-pakistan? Correct answer: Yes! It's for a song, one that's fairly old-- it's thought to be a variant of one of the Child ballads. (And at some point I'll put actual links in here.) I love the song and I love where
snow has taken this story. ETA: The fic would probably make much more sense if you've heard the song or at least read the lyrics. (A lyrics link can be found in the author notes.) /ETA
Fic: Jane Barbour or To Hell With All Your Land
by:
Snow //
snow // snowishness
Fandom: John Barbour (Song)
Etc.: General Audiences, No Archive Warnings Apply (no Fish-specific warnings apply either), Jane Barbour/John Barbour, 766 words
Summary: "I would if I could," I say, knowing as I do it that it's not good enough. "But she chose to marry a sailor, and that's what I am." // "Decide what's more important to you, your wife's health or your sailing."
My notes: HELL FUCKING YEAH! Anything else would be spoilery. (I'll try to come up with an actual note when I repost this to my recs comm, but in the meantime, I'm too busy going :D about the final line to say anything else.)
Because I am horribly indecisive sometimes, I ended up giving Snow ten billion songs to choose amongst for her prompt (which I then subdivided into two separate playlists, because I may have been indecisive, but at least I was indecisive in categories!). Would people be interested in seeing those playlists?
View poll: #5192
This entry was originally posted at http://fish-echo.dreamwidth.org/67191.html.
To tide you over until actual content resumes, would you like to read a story written for me for help-pakistan? Correct answer: Yes! It's for a song, one that's fairly old-- it's thought to be a variant of one of the Child ballads. (And at some point I'll put actual links in here.) I love the song and I love where
snow has taken this story. ETA: The fic would probably make much more sense if you've heard the song or at least read the lyrics. (A lyrics link can be found in the author notes.) /ETA
Fic: Jane Barbour or To Hell With All Your Land
by:
Snow //
snow // snowishness
Fandom: John Barbour (Song)
Etc.: General Audiences, No Archive Warnings Apply (no Fish-specific warnings apply either), Jane Barbour/John Barbour, 766 words
Summary: "I would if I could," I say, knowing as I do it that it's not good enough. "But she chose to marry a sailor, and that's what I am." // "Decide what's more important to you, your wife's health or your sailing."
My notes: HELL FUCKING YEAH! Anything else would be spoilery. (I'll try to come up with an actual note when I repost this to my recs comm, but in the meantime, I'm too busy going :D about the final line to say anything else.)
Because I am horribly indecisive sometimes, I ended up giving Snow ten billion songs to choose amongst for her prompt (which I then subdivided into two separate playlists, because I may have been indecisive, but at least I was indecisive in categories!). Would people be interested in seeing those playlists?
View poll: #5192
This entry was originally posted at http://fish-echo.dreamwidth.org/67191.html.