no small feat when people like shalott and Speranza and Minnow and Consuela are contributing to the fandom
!!!
Matt, I can't say what an honor it is to have my name listed in that company.
You're dead wrong, you realize, but it's very kind of you to say so.
t grins
And yeah, I shoulda recced "Freedom" here yesterday after I read it, I'm sorry I forgot. Fabulous story, although it's one of the most interesting ones, from a story-telling point of view. Because it's almost all telling, rather than showing. Lots of exposition, very little immediacy, and yet it all works so very well. Really impressive.
So, is the First Rule of Slash Club "Don't talk about slash to the actors"?
(sparked by a comment here [link] )
Oh, dear God, yes, it is, but I think we've know that for years. At the very least, you wait for them to bring it up.
Also depends on the actor, doesn't it? I mean, everyone with a Mutant Enemy pedigree knows better than to be shocked, and Browder was joking about slashy subtext with Michael Shanks even before he started acting on Stargate.
That's sort of what I meant by waiting for them to bring it up.
Rosenbaum also falls into that category, I think.
Freedom
was a pretty good story, but I hated the title. Also, I'm unclear on why the framing device of the grave was necessary. (I mean, I know that spoily events occur, etc., but, said events didn't figure nearly as heavily into the resulting story as they might have.)
Still, yes, good story -- and very much a telling story rather than an intimate one. I find the fannish attachment to viewpoint character intimacy (and, oft-times, to lyric excess in prose) kind of overwhelming, so this story came across as -- minimalist. Good style.
Oh, I'm so glad I'm not the only one thrown off by the title. I thought it was kind of over-dramatic.
...or that could actually *be* Syn's big epic SGA fic and I've just not checked my livejournal all weekend. Anyway, yeah. Yay for you guys liking it.
I always feel like such a baby when stories like this come around, but...I don't want to read it. I was pretty sure what happened in the story, and I peeked, and...I don't wanna.
You know I'll read it for you.
