Drusilla ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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Anne, that was lovely!
Thanks, guys - I'm kind of reeling. It's a big achievement for me, and I think it's a pretty good story - it's a nice feeling!
Typo - this is my long-ass story. It's a Merlin/Arthurian legends modern AU, set at St Andrews University (alma mater of Prince William of Wales, and my good self), in which Arthur is still a prince, Merlin is still a wizard-in-training, and history has a habit of repeating itself
Thanks Fay. I found it after asking and stayed up way too late cause I could not stop reading. Question, given the AU nature how close are these characters to the TV show? (Never saw TV show, so I can't judge.) Because this is very well written, stands great on its own as a piece of Arthur and Merlin reincarnated fantasy-romance. Are the characters different enough from the TV show that you could submit this to a publisher? Cause the quality is certainly high enough (assuming a certain amount of editing, though to tell you the truth it is already better edited than a lot of stuff on the shelves.)
Crikey! That's a tremendously nice thing to say!
Well, obviously there is teh gay, and there are various nods to TV canon. The characterisation is quite close, I'd say, although Gawain and Kay are my own additions, borrowed from legends.
...food for thought!
And making Mordred a kitten was pure genius, and a way of saying "Arthur is NOT going to end sleeping with his sister in my story".
And making Kay call Arthur "Wart" is borrowed from TH White.
Anne, that was beautiful and heartbreaking in the best way.
This has got to be my very favorite Star Trek vid, ever: [link]
The first 30 seconds is a bit of a love letter to Kirk/McCoy, but the last bit is pure genius.
Yes, Wart's a nod to TH White. Eh - I'm delighted you enjoyed it so much!
Sail, that vid was a rather surprising mesh of two different things, but I did laugh my ass off at the South Park section. Top banana!
I still sort of find RPF embarrassing, but this person is a really good writer, and it's got KO, Rachel Maddow, New Orleans and enough subtext to float a barge. These are all things Buffistas like so I thought you'd like this, too. [link]
I just came across a fic that warned for het. Which always makes me roll my eyes, especially when the het pairs are listed in the pairings section (and pretty much canon, unlike the slash pairing).
But what I really wondered about was how the author listed the pairings. The men were separated with a slash (A/B) and the het pairs with a plus (A+C). Is there a fandom in which that's done conventionally?