[Cable & Deadpool] Let Slip the Dogs of War - Part 8

[rallamajoop]

Since I've consitently forgotten to mention it so far, belated thanks are owed to velithya for finding time to get whole monster betaed for me (in between making last minute arrangements for spending a couple of weeks out of the country, even). <3

Title: Let Slip the Dogs of War
Summary: War wasn't telling the whole truth about what happened to the

Comments

[alternatedoom]

This fic is made of awesome. I got no other words to say it. Thank you again for finishing this story.

I appreciated Deadpool's observation that he needed to make them all see red to keep them from thinking about the original plan to take War down. I had not even thought of that. Deadpool is smart. I love it.

Looking forward to the epilogues, and would greatly enjoy it if you did the War-Deadpool missing scene fic too. The brief interaction between those two in the earliest chapters was v charged.

[rallamajoop]

Thank you again for finishing this story.

Well, I had to, didn't I? All the important bits were at the end. ;) (And you're very welcome. ^_^)

I appreciated Deadpool's observation that he needed to make them all see red to keep them from thinking about the original plan to take War down. I had not even thought of that. Deadpool is smart. I love it.

Heh, much to the Avengers' horror, Wade had it all planned out. (Did I mention even I'm a little amazed how easy it was to justify everything I wanted to happen in this fic? Between the Facade Virus and War's telepathy the combined details from the original drabble and AU in the comic, I hardly had to invent anything that wasn't there in canon already. X3)

Looking forward to the epilogues, and would greatly enjoy it if you did the War-Deadpool missing scene fic too. The brief interaction between those two in the earliest chapters was v charged.I'm pretty sure I will, I've got enough ideas I really want to use in it. Only real question is whether it happens before or after a few other

[alternatedoom]

Well, you'd think, you know, the denouement is a really important part of any fic, but it always astonishes me how many stories never get finished. It probably shouldn't, because people do get distracted by other fandoms or RL stuff, I know. Possibly it's because I'm very much the finishing-before-posting type. I know not everyone's big on that. But it makes me sad how many great fics in kink memes get sort of abandoned.

As to justifying plot twists, I'm put in mind of someone's sentiment from the kink meme commentary--namely, that you write better plot than the canon in which your story is set. XD

[rallamajoop]

I suspect for a lot of fic that gets posted but never finished, we're basically stuck with fic the writer would never have finished either way. So it's a question of whether an unfinished fic we see the first few parts of is better or worse than none at all. :/

I used to be big on finishing fic before anything got posted, but the more I got into writing longer works, the more I found that getting feedback on parts I'd finished so far made a big difference to keeping my momentum going. But I've never had any serious trouble finishing any fic I've started since I started writing fanfic, so I'm probably a pretty atypical example anyway. ^^;

(That said, I really hear you on the kink meme thing. In a lot of ways I'm impressed that there are as many finished fics on it as there are, but there are still at least half a dozen others I'd *love* to see finished, all looking pretty much abandoned at this stage. :/ )

As to justifying plot twists, I'm put in mind of someone's sentiment from the kink meme commentary--namely, that you write

[alternatedoom]

It does help a lot when you only write one-shots. I did NaNoWriMo once, but the longest single piece of fanfic I've ever penned was only 13k words. XD

How long have you been writing fic?

My god it's a sad state of affairs for the comics industry when an evil overlord bondage AU fanfic is getting comments saying it has better plot than the source material.

It IS sad. But then, the Civil War was just awful. I am enjoying Dark Reign considerably more.

[rallamajoop]

My record stands at 90,000 - believe me when I say that was never going to be a one-shot. ^^;

How long have you been writing fic?

Depends how you count it - I wrote a lot of rather miserable crap that never got very far back in my teen years (this is probably for the best), posted my first actual fic in late '04, but I'd really count it from '06, which was when I started posting regularly.

It IS sad. But then, the Civil War was just awful. I am enjoying Dark Reign considerably more.

Yeah, whatever you can say for or against all of the massive crossover events since then, at least none of them have expected us to cheer when the bad guys won. -_- Few other things I've ever read have ever left me feeling that close to physically ill after finishing them.