I always sob about 3/4 of the way through the last part of the Talking Stick/Circle series (The Rose and the Yew Tree). And I've been known to get pleasantly sniffly over Herself's Bittersweets.

I never cry when reading fanfiction.

There's no separation for me between lit fic and fanfic. I've wept at my computer. I cried watching a *vid* the other day.

Grail's <frantically tries to remember the damn title> story about The Big Breakup

Immortality.

BTW-- it's not off-topic because I'm writing the NotSongFic for Jilli for it-- my Rasputinas CDs came today, Jilli. I'm listening to "Gingerbread Coffin" over and over again. Originally I thought I'd have the song actually *in* the story, the way "Like Nobody's Watching" does it, except I thought I'd be tying it in to the way Dru danced to one of their songs (as you mentioned) in S2.

But now that I've actually listened to the song, I think I'm gonna do it differently. I have Plans. I may have Plots, and Contrivances, too.

The only fic that's made me cry is Annie SJ's "Last Summer."

Huh. That was, I mean that affected me a little bit, but it was more of an intellectual way than anything else.

Cryingest story ever: Second of our Reign. And goddamn but is that good writing. It's one of the few stories I've saved a copy of to my own hard drive, so I can read it over and over. And it's *really* had to do that, actually, because it's such a good, good, fine, hard story that it requires really a very deep level of concentration to read. Not that it's hard to understand-- it's just so fucking *good* that I feel I have to be concentrating very deeply to appreciate every bit of it. Like drinking really good alcohol, Plei.

But now that I've actually listened to the song, I think I'm gonna do it differently. I have Plans. I may have Plots, and Contrivances, too.

Yes! See, this is why I wanted someone to write songfic w/ "Gingerbread Coffin". RL, I owe you. Um, I have to may find you an Evil Bunny Alliance minion of your very own.

swoons

I downloaded Gingerbread Coffin and I've been playing it over and over and thinking "hmmm wonder if I take this to my dance instructor if he'll help me find away to do a Showcase piece to this OR freak the hell out."

Also, I think I've maybe cried while reading 3, maybe 4 books. The ones that stand out in my memory are: A Lantern in Her Hand, by Bess Aldrich(I was about 12 when I read it), Peach and Blue (A children's book Mom got me when I was 20 or so, She found a woman in the aisle of Books a Million crying after reading it), after that it's fuzzy. Possible The Diary of Anne Frank.

Although I'm terrible moved to anger by reading books and often feel cold or hot or the grass on my face or other tactile sensations for some reason I'm not moved to tears.

help me find away to do a Showcase piece

image: askye dancing to this? Yum.

Well we'll see how far it gets. I'm not sure if the song is right for what I want to do and after that I'm not sure if the lyrics won't send everyone into some kind of fit. Especially the words "black mass".

But we'll see.

p. s.-- [link] I illustrated it already, kinda. I'm so gun-jumpy.

But on the other hand I really want it all to work out - like watching Troilus and Cressida

Fay, every time you mention Troilus and Cressida in relation to Smallville, my love for you grows.

Is there a comprehensive LOTR fic archive or recs page?