a rec
Everyone should go and read 
raven's the winter here is cold, and bitter, which is not-really-a-remix of my Aptitude. She takes the rather thin plot I came up with about Simon staging a rift between himself and Aral so that Miles becomes suspicious of him, and recreates it as an epic spy adventure all about Simon and his loyalties. As I said to her when betaing it, I feel like someone who composed an advertising jingle and had it transformed into an opera, the themes still recognisable, but on a far grander and also more intricate scale. And the dynamic between Aral and Simon is beautiful and spot-on, ownership and love and duty and blood and bone, and is really what the story is all about. Which suits me fine :-).
I wanted to pick out a quote for this rec, but really, it's best if you read it all in the order it comes. Suffice to say, I love it to pieces.
Crossposted at http://philomytha.dreamwidth.org/90343.html
raven's the winter here is cold, and bitter, which is not-really-a-remix of my Aptitude. She takes the rather thin plot I came up with about Simon staging a rift between himself and Aral so that Miles becomes suspicious of him, and recreates it as an epic spy adventure all about Simon and his loyalties. As I said to her when betaing it, I feel like someone who composed an advertising jingle and had it transformed into an opera, the themes still recognisable, but on a far grander and also more intricate scale. And the dynamic between Aral and Simon is beautiful and spot-on, ownership and love and duty and blood and bone, and is really what the story is all about. Which suits me fine :-).
I wanted to pick out a quote for this rec, but really, it's best if you read it all in the order it comes. Suffice to say, I love it to pieces.
Crossposted at http://philomytha.dreamwidth.org/90343.html