fic recs and other things

[luninosity]

Apologies for the less frequent updates! Holiday busy times. Plus end-of-term rapidly approaching. Why does everything always have to be done at once...? Anyway, have some fic recs and some random thoughts!

-if you have somehow not yet heard, Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen are appearing in the next X-Men film! THE UNIVERSE IS EXPLODING WITH

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[luninosity]

Oh, yes. It's a good sort of busy, but, well...time, where have you gone? Partly the Secret Mutant Beast's fault, though. Good heavens. 1k word limit...and here's me writing a 12k and growing story. :-/

Apples and Ink is GORGEOUS. One of those stories I wish I'd written, in the best way. I've had The Winter of Banked Fires kind of lurking in the background, waiting for later, for a long time now! Awesome, is it? (Must finish reading Academic Book on household objects and identity first. And then re-read The Hobbit.)

Yay anniversary! We have Plans. They involve spending the weekend at the historic hotel where we got married. :-)

I love that song. I love Stevie Nicks in general, but that one, the duet...I hear them so clearly as Charles and Erik, it's spooky. And there's such hope. (If it weren't the Foo Fighters, for titles, it might've been Stevie...ah, well.)

I need a Sir Patrick/Sir Ian icon, I think! :D :D (I don't mind Wolverine in cameos, but I don't want it to turn into his movie! I do like Hugh Jackman, though. And the XMFC cameo was perfect.)

I need to post new fantasy fic, actually. It's been a while. I have two more that I might be willing to let people see...

[raffi]

Well, time has a tendency to go by so fast, especially when you don't want it to. That fic sounds monstrous, indeed. In a good way, of course! I can't wait to read it! :DDD And I bet that the requester would be thrilled to read such a long, well-developed fic! ♥

'The Winter of Banked Fires' is extremely good. But I will never, ever get over 'Fool me Once, Fool me Twice'. After finishing the last chapter, I was like 'What now? What am I suppose to do now?' It left me completely heart-broken and lost, but those kind of stories are just as great as fix-it ones, they have a very special place in my heart (since, really, I can't see our boys ending up together in any cannon way..)

Plans are awesome! :DD Have a blast, dear! And oh! A new fantasy fic: YES! Yes x 1000000000!!

Speaking of songs, this is my ChErik song:

I was raised from a broken seed,
I grew up to be an unwanted weed
Ever faster the time exceeds me,
Little harder again to remember…you.

Held a torch for you, when lightning stroke me,
Once again, hope I died for the last time
Only one I have a thing greater than you,
Little light on the sky every night

Morning dew on the field, where I met you
I was frozen a year, couldn´t get through
Got a sign, not a scar, on my shoulder,
I am not quite the man you take me for…

Fell in love with the weakness within me
Tried to force me the Ring and own me
Guess you found what you´d think would oblige me,
Little version of me to consume you…

I´d give my everything to you,
follow you thru the garden of oblivion
If only I could tell you everything, the little things you´ll never
dare to ask me

Do you really know me?…(I might be a God)
Show me that you care and have a cry
How do you see me?…(as the one?)
Can you see my blood when I´m bleeding
How can you love this exile, and how could I desire you?
When my pain is my pain and yours is too…

On this deadwinter´s night
Darkness becomes this child
Bless this night with a tear
For I have none I fear…

Seven lives of a man, passed before me
Seven graves, one for every Love I´ve had
Only once I have broken my so called heart
Only one made me see why they cry

Will I learn how to be one of you someday?
Will I still feel the eyes that behold me?
Will I hear what you think, when you see me?
Will it tear me apart if you feel for me…?

Little broken, always been, a part of you belongs to me
You were never mine to love, but this all has made it easy for me…

[luninosity]

Well...the three hints that I gave to someone else, about the Secret Mutant Beast, are as follows (I couldn't resist; I'm excited, darn it!): 1) I had to look up the year that Bloomingdale's and Sears were founded; 2) I also got to re-read some H.G. Wells; 3) holiday decorations... *tantalizes*

Agreed about "Fool Me Once, Fool Me Twice". *sobs incoherently* Beautiful, but I find that I don't re-read those heartbreaking ones as often--I just can't. (In my head-canon, at some way-off future date, Erik and Charles DO end up together, old and battle-weary and falling at last into compromise, realizing that their lives've only ever been about each other, in opposition or together. But that's a long way ahead.)

New fantasy fic hopefully today. Though that's actually a very old fantasy fic. *laughs* You can all know my shame.

Those are gorgeous lyrics, if a bit heartbreaking! (Which band/songwriter?) Will I learn how to be one of you someday? ...I hope the answer's yes. *wistful expression*

[raffi]

Oh, silly me! The song is 'Broken' by Sonata Arctica. They have other absolutely wonderful songs (well, in my humble opinion), such as 'Shy', 'Kingdom for a Heart' or 'UnOpened'. Speaking of ...

Another misspelled rhyme,
written in the book of time.
In one page I've spent all my life.
Ink ain't even dry. I've been living in a lie?
How could I trust in someone of your kind?

And I got today, another letter in the mail
I can't read it here, not today.
And when years go by,
the unopened letter meets my eye.
I'm older and wiser, but still afraid.

What if I read it and it is - full of love.
How can I face it if I am wrong?

Do you feel? Do you care about me?
Did you wait and love me all this time?

I am here, would you come and find me?
Does your writing guide me through this all (c) UnOpened

Sorry, sorry! I'm just rather passionate about this band. :DD

Hints: Oooooh! ♥ You know, those hints are not helping! I want to read it even more!! (When was the posting time, again?)

I think I won't be able to re-read it, for the sake of my heart. (Hmmm, your head-canon is something that *could* happen, really. But yes, it's a looooong way ahead.)

I can't wait for the new fantasy fic! <3 And no shame! I bet it's marvelous and wonderful and every bit of awesome! ♥