Next up on the Duelling Fics... McTabby!
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icarusIn every test, there must be one easy question. Every contest should have one round where the winner is obvious... or is it?
Our next contest is tougher than you think. Flip Humour vs Serious Fics, WiPs vs Completed Work, Poetry vs Fiction.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mctabby is known for making people laugh till they wet their pants, and for starting a cult with TWIB.
Which will win?
Wet Pants, or Cult?
The polls are now closed. The results are posted here.
Two Worlds And In Between
That Potter Slash
Write-ins galore!
Head Of Slytherin (direct link - Head of Slytherin
Got a MALFOY as my SEX TOY
PtQ in a Nutshell
You Look Tired, Harry Potter
Remember, tell us why you like it, no fic bashing (take it over tohpbnfdm_lives where everyone is armed and dangerous), and thanks to amanuensis1 I do accept write-ins.
The fine print:
Previous votes are Anna, Minx, Maya, Amanuensis, Rushlight, Sushi, Aspen, Cybele, and Cassandra Claire.
Void where prohibited.
Our next contest is tougher than you think. Flip Humour vs Serious Fics, WiPs vs Completed Work, Poetry vs Fiction.
mctabby is known for making people laugh till they wet their pants, and for starting a cult with TWIB.Which will win?
Wet Pants, or Cult?
The polls are now closed. The results are posted here.
Two Worlds And In Between
That Potter Slash
Write-ins galore!
Head Of Slytherin (direct link - Head of Slytherin
Got a MALFOY as my SEX TOY
PtQ in a Nutshell
You Look Tired, Harry Potter
Remember, tell us why you like it, no fic bashing (take it over to
hpbnfdm_lives where everyone is armed and dangerous), and thanks to amanuensis1 I do accept write-ins.The fine print:
Previous votes are Anna, Minx, Maya, Amanuensis, Rushlight, Sushi, Aspen, Cybele, and Cassandra Claire.
Void where prohibited.
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Date: 2004-01-23 12:57 am (UTC)When I read the first chapter of this fic, my heartrate went crazy with the power of her descriptions and the vividness of the world she creates and the sheer unmatchable charisma of her characters. Even now, my pulse is speeding up with the memory of it. It left me shellshocked, that fic, and nothing has ever quite been able to touch it since.
It's a beautifully crafted story, which I could read again and again just appreciating the grace of how it's put together: what McTabby reveals and what she conceals, and the tiny, bleak hints she gives us of what is to come. You can *feel* how intricately it's been constructed. Ooh, be still my beating heart!
But what (on my shallow reading level) grabs me most is that, by making her characters so swoon-inducingly well-spoken, and just a touch foppish with their lute playing and their absinthe habit, and emphasising the solidness of their group of four, and cunningly removing all women from their world, she has created the most erotic and slashiest slash I have seen ... all without ever needing to reveal naked flesh.
This is not, of course, a vote *against* McTabby's poetry. You Look Tired, Harry Potter is a gorgeous thing. Short and funny, yes, but showing the same perfectionism and love of form that makes TWIB such an elegant creature.
[I am distraught to have missed Amanuensis and Maya and Ms Claire!! I will never go offline again!!!]