Comments | discoveredinalj: Discovered in the Wrapping Paper

golden_bastet in discoveredinalj

Discovered in the Wrapping Paper - Day 31

Dec 31, 2021 19:11

Well, folks,... I have failed. DDDD ( Read more... )

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byslantedlight January 1 2022, 01:38:54 UTC

Shame about the story, but great post and rec - and I love that story! Definitely worth cosying down with... *vbg* Thank you!

golden_bastet January 3 2022, 05:49:26 UTC

Thanks - this *is* an awesome story. And long enough to get very cozy with!

Hope you're having a great 2022. :-)

heliophile_oxon January 1 2022, 12:37:42 UTC

Oh, a great favourite of mine as well! This is the fic that gets my vote for "should absolutely have been filmed - and would work perfectly - as a (feature-length) ep" :-) HNY to you too!

golden_bastet January 3 2022, 05:53:41 UTC

You know, I could see this being filmed... the missing "58th episode." And I would wear out that disc rewatching it, too! :D

Though it *does* make me wonder if there isn't a way of putting together an animated version, with the right illustrator.... /gets all thinky about it

shooting2kill January 1 2022, 17:07:21 UTC

Great choice.

golden_bastet January 3 2022, 05:54:38 UTC

Thanks! I do love that story, and reread it periodically. :-)

mizrychik62 January 2 2022, 03:29:08 UTC

Great rec and very appreciated! Took me half the day, but a thoroughly fantastic read. Hunting it over at AO3 to leave kudos 💖

golden_bastet January 3 2022, 05:56:55 UTC

Glad to share - it's a fandom classic.

In case you need the AO3 link, it's https://archiveofourown.org/works/26376490/chapters/64246510

mizrychik62 January 3 2022, 19:41:50 UTC

And very rightly so! 💞

f_m_parkinson January 2 2022, 10:29:10 UTC

Even if things didn't turn out the way you'd expected, thank you for prodding me to re-read the story, something I'd been meaning to do for ages. I got out my old paper copy last night and have started it. I remember it was a great read but the details escape me, so it's lovely to go back and lose myself in it.

golden_bastet January 3 2022, 11:40:45 UTC

I'm trying to be optimistic and look at it as getting a jump on the 2022 Xmas story... of course, I'd need to (1) finish it and (2) not forget in 11 months that I'd written it!

Paper copy? Makes sense, but I had no idea! Is there anything materially different? Is it the same text? Are there any illustrations that didn't make it online?

f_m_parkinson January 3 2022, 17:01:54 UTC

Well, my paper copy states that it is number 10 in a limited edition of 40 (!), published by Blue Jay Press in 1984 (which is when I got it). No illustrations, and I assume that the text is the same if photocopies or the online version have been scanned/transcribed correctly. I've just finished it - a super read.

f_m_parkinson January 6 2022, 17:09:04 UTC

You got me wondering whether it was the same text in my paper copy of Tethered Goats as on AO3, and I noticed that Chris Quinton replied in a comment there that she had done some revising before she posted the story. So I asked her what that was, and she replied '...all I did was tweak the punctuation, shorten paragraphs, fix clumsy sentences and sort out word repetition - all purely cosmetic.' So now we both know.