Comments | blamebrampton: In which I refuse to sail any ship, but show that years of long-distance swimming were not wasted

blamebrampton

In which I refuse to sail any ship, but show that years of long-distance swimming were not wasted

Aug 22, 2007 23:39

Right, it's time to come clean. After putting a toe into the dark and murky waters or HP fic, then having what was going to be a one-time paddle, I have stripped down to my scanties and thrown myself into the Channel Crossing Swim, and there's no turning back, even if I run out of goose fat and the shark cage comes apart in the waves.

Because, and I ( Read more... )

these fragile bonds, gb's story, fic

Comments 12

snottygrrl September 25 2007, 11:56:33 UTC

i just wanted to note that i should be sleeping, but instead am reading your fic. which i really, really like. especially tonks, and draco and kingsley and harry :D

i've friended you btw so i can keep up on your writing.

and would also like to note i live in wellington, nz and am terribly put out you didn't visit me when you were here, despite the fact that you don't know me. heee!

blamebrampton September 25 2007, 13:05:06 UTC

Hi! And you win, being officially the second person I know of to find this fic on the lj (and the other one is a lovely lj friend, so you're the first one to manage it without feeble whimpering on my part!)

I do have another chapter of this mostly written, but it has been put to one side while HP Next Gen eats my brain (probably another week).

I LOVE Wellington. I pop over quite a bit, actually. After living in Sydney for years I finally started going to New Zealand in 04 and have now been back many many times. There's a bit of work to do there, but it's mainly for pleasure. Your botanic gardens are one of my favourite places on Earth, and the art bridge down near Te Papa and the Museum of Wellington City and Sea sings to me (although that could just be the gales blowing through the structure ...)

Nice to be friended by you! I'll go and chase my partner off the good computer so that I can get back to writing (I'm on the spare G4 with OS9, to think I once thought this was high tech and fast!)

snottygrrl September 26 2007, 00:39:58 UTC

do i win even though i found this through the next gen fic? i lurve that one so much that i went looking to see what else you'd done and found this. was a little baffled as to the lack of comments.

sweet! am rather fond of wellington myself (and te papa, have just arranged to go two lectures on fashion there as well as a tea with the canadian high commissioner as a fund raiser for them. they actually get a good deal of my money throughout the year, but i get a lot of nice things in return so it all comes out fair in the end). maybe we can have tea next time you're in town.

hpstrangelove September 25 2007, 16:10:22 UTC

Well I fell in love with Sins of the Fathers and wanted to see what else you've written...so that's how I got here.

I really like this story a lot - printed it and read it on the beach this week-end, so that's why I'm only commenting on it now. I'm looking forward to the next chapter (after Sins of the Fathers that is ;-)

blamebrampton October 16 2007, 09:11:22 UTC

Hey, just noticed I failed to say thanks for your comment! I blame the rugby. It ate my brain. I'm so glad you liked this, too. This was the story that started as a present for a good friend of mine who was in fandom. And you know how your parents say "Don't even try heroin, because you could become addicted immediately!"* What they should say is: "Fanfiction will inveigle its way into your soul and take over your brain!"

I will update this v soon, promise!

*In actual fact, the drug conversations from my parents were more along the lines of "You should only buy from pharmacology students or medical doctors, because then you know your dosages." But they were rich hippies and I had already turned into the "Seriously, do you think I am ever taking the same drugs that you two did?" pure living child of sober bad behaviour that I still am ...

dumbys_baby October 8 2007, 13:05:21 UTC

I may be only an editor-in-training, but I have a fair idea on how to crack the whip. Since you are writing another fic, I'll be lenient. This time. :P

Besides, I want to see how my story ends!!! :)

blamebrampton October 8 2007, 13:25:07 UTC

Ends? ENDS? Are you mad? The end for this one is MILES away ... although I now know exactly what happens. However there are chapters and chapters and chapters to go before then. And then I was distracted by Sins, not to mention other writing projects. But yes, once Sins is done, there's another chapter of this one all ready to be finished, then many more plotted out. Just needs a snappier title ...

Oh No... anonymous October 15 2007, 19:28:12 UTC

I really like the Draco/Tonks interaction, and your Snape. I hate that now I'm caught following another WIP...it's too good. I'm here by anthimaeria's rec.

Re: Oh No... blamebrampton October 16 2007, 08:49:43 UTC

Sorry ... also YAAAAAAAYYYY!!!!! (Cough. Don't mind me. Shameless ...)

I Love it and want more anonymous November 24 2007, 18:04:59 UTC

I love this story. I tried to send a message asking for a listing of your other stories and where I can find them, but I can't seem to get my email service to find you. I don't want to open a LJ account. Are you archived at FF.net or HPFandom or ANYwhere else?

Re: I Love it and want more blamebrampton November 25 2007, 08:11:27 UTC

Cheers! At the moment I am not anywhere else, mostly because I haven't had time to work my way through the intricacies of getting into the archives. (The last few months disappeared for me, but there is time a-coming!) There is a part three, which I have now linked, or just go to http://blamebrampton.livejournal.com/7555.html
There is also a next-gen AS/S fic that you should be able to find by clicking on the fic tag that I finally remembered to put in above, and it has a HP/DM sequel that is about half-way done and should have a rush towards the end now that life is looking a bit less frantic. Plus there are many many more chapters of this one, many sketched, one or two even mostly written ... I'm sorry I'm so slow! (rushes off to write some more ...)