Three Comments on a Story Meme
There's a meme that's going around, so I'll try it.
I currently have 70 works archived at AO3. Pick a number from 1 (the most recent) to 70 (the first thing I posted there), and I'll tell you three things I currently like about it.
I currently have 70 works archived at AO3. Pick a number from 1 (the most recent) to 70 (the first thing I posted there), and I'll tell you three things I currently like about it.
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In the Company of Monsters! Oh, I enjoyed that one.
1) Long Jeyne Heddle pointing out all the problems ahead for Brienne--and that there was absolutely no way that she could possibly win. It wasn't until I started writing down all the impossibilities and impracticalities that I saw how bad Brienne's situation was.
2) Brienne's battle with Lady Stoneheart. Action scenes are hard for me. I think that I did a good job with this one.
3) The oath to the Seven and my invention of an Old Valyrian word. I really wanted to create little details that could slip into the canon, and while I'm not sure I did that, I do think that knowing both fits Brienne's personality.
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1) I like my depiction of Walburga's abuse of her sons. It's purely emotional abuse, not physical or magical, and the reasons for Regulus's fear of his mother are never specified. Yet it's very clear that he is frightened of his mother's anger and hatred--all the more so because both are so unpredictable, which means that Regulus can't tell what will set her off. He's living in a perpetual state of siege. And he'll do almost anything to appease his mother, because he knows that he can't win.
2) I think that Regulus actually sounds like a kid in this. This pleases me, because kids are very hard to write.
3) The final image. This IS violent--though it's a metaphor rather than a fact--and it upsets practically everyone who reads the story. It's not merely violence, but violence with a deliberate and relentless purpose, juxtaposed with Walburga's sugary insistence that Regulus wants to be her good son, doesn't he? It's unsettling ( ... )
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[Argh! I did it wrong. I meant #52.]
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1) Hrothbert's double aria, Eurydice, which he sings when battling, battering and beseeching Death to let Winifred go. It took me ages to figure out how to craft something as dramatic and intricate as that song, and I'm still pleased that I found a type of aria that combined a chant-like song with a passionate follow-up ( ... )
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This bit, I know, was inspiration to my own little drabble of a fic:
As Hrothbert sings the last note, Matefelun looses an arrow. It is aimed directly at the wizard's heart. Winifred spots it and tries to push Hrothbert out of the way while casting a spell to divert it from Hrothbert. Unfortunately, when Winifred does this, the arrow pierces her own heart.
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As Hrothbert sings the last note, Matefelun looses an arrow. It is aimed directly at the wizard's heart. Winifred spots it and tries to push Hrothbert out of the way while casting a spell to divert it from Hrothbert. Unfortunately, when Winifred does this, the arrow pierces her own heart.
It was! I incorporated your canon...as best I could, anyway.
Also, Matefelun means "kill the felon." I remember spending a LOT of time looking up a period name would sound bad and that would have a negative meaning.
You very much succeeded. I remember being in awe the first time I read it and am still in awe. I love it!
Awwww...thank you! I'm very flattered! *blush*
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