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Talking about inspirations ...

I just remembered that I haven't yet gone all out over one of my favorite, favorite fics. It's short, it's dark, it makes the skin crawl, it's surreal - all those aspects bleed together to make a fic that just works. I swear, what I tried to do with almost 50,000 words in Erlkoenig, memlu did in 3,000.

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zomg thanks! I'm glad you like it ... and I wish I could convey how cool I find the images in your brief, creepy tale. Jareth's eyes, first "rimmed in black and shining like glass" and then "discolored and flat" ... and his turning the crystal into silver ash ... and, of course: "I would give you the morning made anew every moment you desire it and I ask of you this one thing." CHILLS, I tell you!!

Oh, and re: the pic. Thanks again for the compliments. I have to say, I'm pleased with the way it turned out - and I dare not color it, or ink it, for fear of losing the three things that make me the happiest: the almost-baby roundness still in Sarah's face, the faint streaks of tears on her cheek, and *something* about the way Jareth's eyelash/eyelid falls that makes him look - oh, I don't know - satisfied? quietly content? yet teh evol! That and the slight quirk to his mouth.

I don't know. It's late - and what does it say about me that I can natter on this long about my own doodle? ick - egotistical artiste ...

... Hope you like the fic. Promise not to point and laugh at my smut, OK?