A Winter's Tale by Gilpin25

[gilpin25]

Title: A Winter’s Tale
Author: gilpin25
Rating & Warnings: PG-13, for language and sexual implications.
Prompt: "Oh, life is like that. Sometimes, at the height of our revelries, when our joy is at its zenith, when all is most right with the world, the most unthinkable disasters descend upon us." A Christmas Story The word prompt Cooking is only in

Comments

[merryb87]

Such an amazing story! I love how they spent Christmas telling their unborn son their story. It had a nice mixture of romance, humor and angst and everything in between!

Thank you so much for all the wonderful work that you put out! And I'll miss you in 2009! Although if your accepting bribes then I'm willing to offer one naked werewolf to feed you chocolate covered strawberries in the bath.

[gilpin25]

Oh, thanks very much - it's great to hear you enjoyed it, and I did want to leave them in a cheery Christmas place. Or as much as you can with DH! JKR described Tonks as looking radiant when pregnant so I like to think Teddy would have brought her this much happiness and hope for the future, and obviously Remus, too, the minute chapter 11 was out of the way. ;)

Also thank you so much for the kind words: I'll still be around, just reading more at a more leisurely pace, I hope! And I'll still do some R/T stories at my LJ (just shorter ones, is the plan) as I'm far too hooked on them still to stop completely. Especially with offers of chocolate covered strawberries.:D

[chococoffeekiss]

This is astoundingly epic! I'm very, very impressed with the characterizations, they're spot on!
And I'm still not sure how you so neatly wove all the angst and sweetness and love and tension into this fic, but you did! You must be magic;)

I really like the concept too, of the two of them telling the story to Teddy:D This is brilliant.

I'm going to miss your fics! But I am totally on pins and needles to read anything you ever write, ever! Be it fanfic or original!
(happy new year!)

[gilpin25]

It's very nice to hear that the characterisations worked for you, as that's definitely a yay! moment for me. I've written mostly from Remus' POV in fics, but Tonks' voice was much easier for me in this. Mind you, he did have all the angsty stuff to contend with, including some of the jollier times for them in HBP and DH in one section!

Am glad you liked the idea behind it all, too. I like thinking that Teddy did make sense of it all for them and gave them so much happiness and hope for the future together, and a Christmas story seemed the ideal time to tell each other this while telling him as well.

And many thanks for the kind words.:D I'll still be writing R/T on my LJ, just not quite as often and (hopefully, lol) shorter and less epic-like. So we'll see if I can stick to this cunning plan?!

Happy New Year to you, too. :)

[duck_or_rabbit]

So what community do I join to read your original writing? Hmm? Anyway, I'll just harass you by email. Onto your review

[gilpin25]

Re your first comment, I'm thinking I need a community called 'Kick Gilpin every time you see her procrastinating on LJ in 2009' - but with a slightly catchier title!

More seriously, thank you very much for your wonderfully thoughtful and detailed review. As you know yourself, it's so helpful to know what sort of grabs a reader's attention (and what doesn't;)), and this must have taken you ages.

Immediately it struck me you cast two different and distinct voices for Dora and Remus and both of them were moving in their own ways.I found Tonks' voice a lot easier than Remus' in this; mind you, he did get all the angst and neither of us particularly enjoyed the section with HBP and DH in it. Tonks was fun because I did try to write her as the young, feisty girl she is in the OotP part, and then tried to have her sound more mature as we got into HBP when even the not-that observant Harry spots her looking much older. But, as you've said elsewhere, I find it hard to believe an Auror doesn't have a very practical view of life,

[emmacmf]

Beautifully done, you just made me cry. You got both of their voices absolutely spot on.

[gilpin25]

Sorry about the tears, but I hope it was in a good way! Thank you very much for such a lovely comment. :)

[sspring92]

I haven't read this yet, but shall post about it later. Just wanted to say, that you are one of my very favorite R/T writers, and we seem to be losing some of the best! I hope it won't be forever! That would be a very sad way to start 2009 for our little community! Hope to still see you about!

[gilpin25]

Aww, thank you, but I'm not stopping all R/T fic altogether yet. I hope I won't have to as it is such fun and the people around definitely make it so.:D I'll still do some on my own LJ when I can (I owe some birthday ones right now), but these I do here take me the longest time-wise so it makes sense to have a break here and see how that goes. But I wanted to say 'thanks' while I had the chance, rather than just stop them without a word.

So I'll still very much be around, just doing more leisurely R/T reading, I hope! :)