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tamoline

Falling part 1

Jun 10, 2011 01:04

Title: Falling (part 1)
Author: Louisa and Tamoline
Rating: NC-17
Fandom: X-Men/Criminal Minds
Pairing: Emily Prentiss/Emma Frost

Notes: This revolves around the events of Faces, told from Emily's point of view. (We really will get around to the sequel, but Falling is of sufficiently different form that we thought it best to make a seperate story ( Read more... )

criminal minds, emma/emily, fanfic, x-men

Comments 8

jijibebe June 10 2011, 08:45:06 UTC

Very glad to see the companion piece. Really liking Emily's insights and observations--can't wait for the next part!

tamoline June 10 2011, 13:06:20 UTC

Thank you. This has been sitting around for a while, but we started work on it again recently-ish. Much against my normal modus operandi, we *haven't* written 80-90% prior to posting the first piece - we haven't even fully completed part 2! (Though it's not far off.) So the posting rate is likely to be a little slower than previous stories. Sorry!

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tamoline June 10 2011, 13:17:57 UTC

Hope we can continue to please. :)

mauders June 10 2011, 15:43:19 UTC

I'm so pleased to see a companion piece to your faces story. It's interesting to see the story play out from emily's POV and found myself having a little skim over your previous story. As we remember and interpret situations based on our own experiences you never expect the details or nuances to be exactly the same. I enjoy your attention to detail and I also like that it's not just a rehash.

I'm a huge Emma fan and I love this pairing. Great to see more from you guys and look forward to your updates no matter how infrequent!

tamoline June 10 2011, 16:06:52 UTC

That was one of big things that pushed us to this format - we didn't want this to just be a rehash. The framing device of starting with Emma's injury and moving forwards with frequent flashbacks allows us to mix and match new views on old scenes with entirely new ones. (Granted, we haven't really gotten to those yet. But they're coming.)

One thing that might become a problem is that the flashbacks are fairly achronal - the two here are fairly close to the end chronologically - and we will be skipping back and forth a bit during other parts. Do you think that notes at the end giving an idea of where the flashbacks fit in the timeline of Faces would help?

mauders June 11 2011, 01:57:12 UTC

It probably would help but might take something away from the story. It depends whether you want this story to be independent of Faces. I guess that's something that will become apparent as it unfolds.

nonpresence June 15 2011, 18:24:08 UTC

It's great to see more from you two! *waves Emma/Emily flag >.> *

I think this format is going to work very well. And cheers for deciding to do the flashbacks as they occur to Emily rather than bind yourself to the chronological sequence. It's more like a legitimate thought process that way. I for one am a fan of having the reference notes at the end of the chapter. It would be intrusive before the scenes, but afterwards it's nice to have for the sake of revisiting.

Cheers and good luck!

tamoline June 15 2011, 20:30:34 UTC

In case you are interested, we've stalled on the original story for the moment. I completed version 1 of it, and only then realised that I was going to have to completely rewrite over a half of it. Sigh. That's kind of killed my enthusiasm for it for the moment. But there's enough of it that I definitely will go back to it at some point.

The non-chronological order of flashbacks also allows me to give each grouping a linking theme. As well as being good for the story, this also makes a certain amount of sense from a character perspective - Emily thinks of different things when she is in different modes.