Halloween Gift for Dexstarr

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Gift for: dexstarr

From: kellychambliss

Title: Determination
Pairing: Septima Vector/Minerva McGonagall
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: age gap, hints of D/s and mild bondage
Summary: On Samhain night, it's not just the universe that is disordered.
Notes: The prompt asked for "forbidden love, professors, cross-gen, femmeslash, D/s." And I wanted to give you some

Comments

[teddyradiator]

Oh, Kelly, you can say more in 200 words than I can in two hundred thousand. Such lush imagery and intellect and insight. Everything you write is a treasure.

[kellychambliss]

You are too kind, my dear! Thank you. Glad you liked it.

[traintracks]

Boy howdy, YOU WIN!! God, I adore this!!! Do you write like this often? I might have to friend you. :-)

[kellychambliss]

Go right ahead; thanks! So glad you enjoyed it.

[donnaimmaculata]

This is wonderful, you really get a sense of ancient rituals and deep mysticism. The Veil truly does part.

And Minerva, oh, Minerva is such a sensuous woman here, sketched with only a few words. You can feel why her Animagus form is a cat.

[kellychambliss]

Thank you! 200 words actually offers more writing scope than one might think. . .

[dexstarr]

jfsdlfjsdkljdfksl!!

Kelly, thank you SO much. I cannot believe how much you've packed into 200 words... there's so much to love about this drabble. I enjoyed it a ton. You revealed so much about Septima's character, and Minerva's... I love it. I usually think of the Veil as thinning between life and death, but I like how you took that a different way here, and made Samhain a night where the usually impossible could happen.

Now I have a new pairing I want to read more of!

[kellychambliss]

Oh, I'm so glad you liked it! I knew you had a soft spot for Septima, and I've only written her once before, so I was pleased to have the chance to come back to her. I agree -- I think they make an excellent pair.

Thanks for the lovely comment.

[magnetic_pole]

for Headmistress McGonagall is as predictable as Isaac Newton wrongly believed the world to be, and so she worries about the irregularities

Heh heh. Somehow this line made me laugh. I think it's because there's a version of Minerva that really is this consistent, and it's fun to see that turned upside down.

Also, stylistically: I think I must have written three times as many sentences in my 200 words as you do here. I have to remember this is another way to approach the short-fic problem: a slower pace and linguistic richness.

Enjoyed! M.

[kellychambliss]

Thank you, M! I'm glad you felt the consistency of character came through; that can be hard to manage in a drabble. But 200 words offers more scope than one might think.

Glad you enjoyed it.