Schoenberg's Revenge drabbles, and good news in the music world.

[mithrigil]

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So the book that my State of Research was published in? two copies arrived for me today.

This pleases me a lot. I think I want to go to Pitt tomorrow and brag. In fact, I shall.

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Posting those twelve-tone drabbles now, by fandom.

A Song of Ice and Fire

inversion (cersei)

Comments

[tenshi_kain]

You may not be keen on the idea of writing Ice and Fire stuff, but your Cersei is a three-pointer from midcourt.

I like the idea of this bragging, by the way. Once Konami's tapped you for a Suikoden OST, go back to the composition faculty at Pitt and give them an autographed copy of the CD. Really. >=D

[mithrigil]

Oh, that's required. teehee. From your mouth to God's ears.

[xlostgeishax]

These are wonderful.

1000 thanks for invoking my first not-faked smile all day, and for providing me with a good 15 minutes of distraction.

[mithrigil]

::hugs:: I am sorry to hear that the rest of your day sucked. Anything I can do?

[xlostgeishax]

Probably. But I would have trouble accepting anything from you. Except for maybe help on my Japanese homeowrk, but I have no way of asking what I need to know, because I don't have access to a computer with text display.

Honestly, your consideration is enough.

[mithrigil]

All right. :;smiles:: But do feel better.

[byzantienne]

Publication! *cheers!*

And the drabbles are lovely, all the moreso with the way the twelve-tone -- concepts? methods? -- act as a kind of double-reading, so that the drabble itself is itself, and then is something else in the context of its title, something larger.

It's a neat effect.

[mithrigil]

You have no idea how thankful I am that the musicwankery means something to someone. Except maybe you do, because we're the same species. :;smiles:;

[byzantienne]

I think I do. I hope I do.

And I like the musicwankery, species-identification all besides, because it's horribly clever and artful and also reminds me that sometimes I even like twelve-tone. *laughs*

[mithrigil]

I like the principles behind it and what it accomplished, and sometimes I do enjoy listening to it. But it's more fun for me as an object of study. So.

[shahrizai]

So, I've probably missed a drabble or something at some point down the line, but how did he get the nickname Spider?

[mithrigil]

Trim:

Unbidden, or otherwise, she thinks of her dark-haired son, and that he is blessed for having not sat this ritual inside her. So serious, precocious even, stern-lipped and polite, rationing his smiles so that they are a joy to her and his father. The Knights humor him, and he observes them with his white teeth outside his lip, and describes it to his mother as sewing, when she asks him what he sees. And his lord father laughs, and gathers the boy into his arms, for Rasler is Al-Cid’s hope, and he calls the boy “spider”, and the name clings to him.

[zombie_fetus]

FRAN.

And I didn't know you were against writing ASOIAF, but I'm glad I asked for it. Very nice indeed.

[mithrigil]

It's not that I'm against it, it's that I, personally, don't want to write for any fandoms where the author takes the position that Martin has taken. So this makes two drabbles, I think, maybe three? But I'm trying to stay away from real fic.

[zombie_fetus]

Ah! I didn't see his name on the usual no-fly lists, but after searching you are quite right about that. Very understandable, I suppose. After seeing various fanworks on lj, I must've assumed otherwise.