So Many Monsters (the language is leaving me in silence)

[musesfool]

Title: So Many Monsters

Comments

[marag]

Coolo, neato! Now *that's* a nifty crossover. I love how you use the Endless to show the evolution in his thinking and take him to the point where he escapes.

[musesfool]

Thanks so much, Mara. I'm glad it worked for you. I love the Endless. They fit into every 'verse so smoothly. *g*

D is for Delicious

[ranalore]

I've been gafiating like mad for the past month, but it looks like I picked the right day to check in on lj once again. This is...unspeakably gorgeous. The words shimmer in the air like a fever dream, like a faerie tale; they feed a craving for a certain type of story I didn't even know I had, a kind of magic realist Remus/Sirius.

Just one more reason to adore you, I suppose. *g*

Re: D is for Delicious

[musesfool]

Hee!

Thanks so much for the lovely compliments, Rana.

Can you write magic realism in a universe where magic is actually real, though?

Re: D is for Delicious

[ranalore]

I think it depends on how you define "magic realism." I define it as an acceptance on the part of your characters that magic is part of the fabric of life, and that acceptance means that it gets woven seamlessly into the narrative rather than pointed out as something odd or extraordinary. Sirius' reaction to the Endless very much had that feel. He wasn't thrown that abstract concepts like Despair or Delerium could, in fact, be personified, which allowed you to skip the "reaction shots" and move straight to Sirius engaging with the concepts the Endless represented.

Of course, I could be smoking something. *g*

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[musesfool]

I define it as an acceptance on the part of your characters that magic is part of the fabric of life, and that acceptance means that it gets woven seamlessly into the narrative rather than pointed out as something odd or extraordinary.

Interesting. I'd agree with that definition, but I guess I always thought magic realism was more... that people accept the magic in a world that doesn't really acknowledge or have a place for it. So it wouldn't seem to fit the Potterverse, where the people are familiar with magic in the everyday.

Hmmm... I'll have to think more on it.

[cyclogenesis]

Oh, that was great. A brilliant concept, and you executed it really, really well. Excellent.

[musesfool]

Thanks so much! So happy you liked it.

[musesfool]

Hi there. Thanks for reading and commenting. Glad you liked it.

And drawing is cool. *g* I'd love to see what you come up with.

[musesfool]

Thanks! Especially considering you're not a big fan of unfamiliar crossovers. *g*

the way there is no clear idea of time or of the physical space Sirius is in. This works so well to convey what being in Azkaban could be like, how it's really a prison of the mind and emotions.

*nod*

It's all sort of just present - everything is in the here-and-now and so the pain is always immediate. Really, it's an ingeniously cruel method of breaking prisoners' wills.