I love that story - but, I think, less as a story than as a fanfic. It's also one of those happy cases wherein one can blithely disregard everything the author says about it. (I don't exactly have a grand appreciation of 'there is no such thing as IC/OOC, just different interpretations.') ABF may not have been intended as a response to ASIHC & Friends, but a good deal of my enjoyment comes from reading it as highly subversive - much in the same way that "Mrs Bingley" subverts "Particular Attachments." (Of course, I also think it's rather depressing that between PodPerson!Darcy Dark!Darcy and Decent!Darcy, this is the subversive one
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I didn't tell my take? Oh, I didn't, heh. So, ASIHC.hlbrFebruary 12 2009, 20:36:52 UTC
I like the writing. It's very strong. I remember liking it so much, that I wished to make an adaptation with just the dialogue and the images that put in my head. (Comic or vid, or a mix or whatever.) Rarely a fic puts images in my head. And I've fondness for dark stories, if done well.
I try not to think of it as ff. That is, it is fanfic and all that, but the characters are not the same, and the plot veers into a wildly different direction, so there's not much canon left for the story to cling on
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Re: I didn't tell my take? Oh, I didn't, heh. So, ASIHC.elizabeth_hootFebruary 13 2009, 22:33:26 UTC
Oh, okay. So, sort of along the lines of 'Strange Bedfellows?' I mean, different, obviously, but its merit is not as fanfic(ie interpretation)? I do remember that it was amazingly vibrant, even though I ended up detesting pretty much everyone in it
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Re: I didn't tell my take? Oh, I didn't, heh. So, ASIHC.hlbrFebruary 13 2009, 22:49:59 UTC
(DoA=Depth of Attachments. Which is a story? I think. But I meant PA=Particular Attachments. lol.)
Exactly along the lines of SB. At least for me.
I've never read 'Sarah's Story'! If you're classifying it so high I will.
Very curious about the dark thing. I tend to think it's easier to make an impression with a dark story. Not easy to pull it off, exactly, but easier to make it memorable.
I just like them because they make me suffer. And then, hopefully, give me a happy ending.
But I like so many seriously not dark stories and authors that I don't know if most of the best Austenfic is dark. I have never counted, but I can think of many not dark stories of the top of my head which are on the same level that those you named. (For me!)
I'm now wondering how a response to those fics would look like, if it didn't use pod!canoncharacters. Is it even possible? And have it be a response, I mean.
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Exactly along the lines of SB. At least for me.
I've never read 'Sarah's Story'! If you're classifying it so high I will.
Very curious about the dark thing. I tend to think it's easier to make an impression with a dark story. Not easy to pull it off, exactly, but easier to make it memorable.
I just like them because they make me suffer. And then, hopefully, give me a happy ending.
But I like so many seriously not dark stories and authors that I don't know if most of the best Austenfic is dark. I have never counted, but I can think of many not dark stories of the top of my head which are on the same level that those you named. (For me!)
I'm now wondering how a response to those fics would look like, if it didn't use pod!canoncharacters. Is it even possible? And have it be a response, I mean.
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