Sex, Drugs and Death Eater Rock

[icarus]

So at long last, after much soul-searching, banging my head on the keyboard, decorating tboy's office and my last temp assignment... two Beta's dead and one gasping, a story that has passed through six people... the cursed fic is done. I spent two weeks doing inserts to balance the story. One Beta loved them, as it was done to resolve an issue with the story. Then she told me 'bear in mind I don't like rambling PWPs'. Oh. We both agreed we had been working on this story until we were blind. We needed a fresh point of view. Lovely, lovely switchknife volunteered. And says: "Leave it alone! Let it breathe! No inserts. They don't add to the plot and are sometimes jarring."

Sigh. Time to call it done. I will post both versions on my website, but the version of 'Sex, Drugs and Death Eater Rock' (part two of the 'Beg Me For It' story arc) without inserts goes up on the Boozefest. Now.

Okay. I'm off to write "SNAFU - Situation Normal: All Fucked Up," part three of my Ron/Draco 'Beg Me For It' series. And to write Hagrid/Buckbeak, to be Blamed on gmth. Urgh.

Edit: Whoops. Typo on the Boozefest address. But it's just been submitted. Unless tboy moves at the speed of light, it's probably not up yet. (So in the meantime read 'Mai Tai of Doom' and 'Man, Being Reasonable.' Oh, and 'Drunken Domesticity.' 'Pale Green' is good, too. 'Oral Sex.')

Comments

Re: Guilty joy...

[switchknife.livejournal.com]

You know, that's what actually makes this series interesting... That it does change tone. It looks at the same two people, but explores different parts of them... Makes them more 'whole' somehow, as people, to see both the darkness and the light (or gleeful kink, as the case may be!).

BMFI was dark, indeed, and... er... 'up my alley' as you so... um... wonderfully put it. (Sorry--am dosed up on so much kink, after both SDDADER and the Hagrid/Buckbeak piece that I'm fucking thinking in Freudian symbolism.)

However, everyone needs the glittering, shameless humor of domestic bliss/sex/safety that you so lovingly put together here. Life's both ridiculous and serious, no? A tragicomedy... Which is why I still think the final 'construction' would be better off WITHOUT the inserts. All you need is a brief 'Author's Note' at the top, declaring the change in tone. I know I'm being a pain, but I really do think the inserts detracted from the tone of the story. From its delirious and happily drunken pace. BMFI is all the background the reader needs.

You know that I don't go for humor that is completely devoid of some depth, some grounding humanity... And it is there, in SDADER. It's unspoken--and it's largely in retrospect, yes, but it's there. Once one knows the events of BMFI, there's this constant shadow to the otherwise sweet intimacy between these two--and it surfaces twice in SDADER (during the post-bathtub fight, and when Ron mentions the Crabbe|Goyle virginity thing). Not only this, but there is a certain fierce protectiveness (also unspoken) with which Ron views Draco, and this is very serious indeed, and underlies the otherwise frivolous things they do together. The humor's made more... I don't know... potent?... because of the not-so-humorous past. All those comments Ron makes in his mind--about Draco being tiny, being fragile, being fierce--and how he holds Draco tighter for that brief moment in the dance--all these things, you know? Make SDADER lovely to me. And prove that the inserts aren't needed, after all...

*blushes* I think I've proved just how much of a romantic sap I am, despite all my vociferous cynical musings at the best of times. Gawd. *blushes harder* But what can I say? This was sweet laughter that was grounded in something deeper, something beautiful, and that's what I like.

So... I'm off now. Before you think I need to be hospitalized for being obsessive, or something...

The fact that you've already written the sequels of the sequel is simply criminal. *squirms* Finish SNAFU, please!!!

Re: Guilty joy...

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Wow.

Wow.

Okay. I'll leave it alone. It did exactly what I wanted it to do in that case.

Time to work on 'SNAFU.'

~Icarus

Re: Guilty joy...

[switchknife.livejournal.com]

*leers* Gimme SNAFU!

YESS!!! I managed to convince you to leave out the inserts! Yay!! :D :D :D