An attempt at a cheerful post.

[icarus]

An attempt at cheer.

Hooray for my f-list, and the new Harry Potter readers on Fiction Alley in this rather, (admittedly) miserable period in my RL. I've learned that death-in-the-family is really not one event. It's a domino-effect continuum. But I'll wax philosophical about that another time.

Thank you guys for sticking around as I flop about like a fish off the hook. And thank you to the Fiction Alley folks for having no clue about what's going on, and therefore reviewing stories I wrote four and five years ago. That's been great, to be in the middle of all this crap, pop open my email and find a review of Guy Talk, or Primer to the Dark Arts, or Cursed Artefacts For Sale or the Beg Me For It series. archae_ology for recognizing me in the SGA fandom as "that one who writes a lot of Percy stories" from Harry Potter. That was neat.

Feeling helpless to do anything? I understand. I feel just as helpless with wildernessguru's inconsolable father right now. I'm trying to write him a letter since with his hearing we can't call.

In my case, read my stories. That makes me happy when nothing else does.

What are my best fics?

In Stargate SGA, I think Necromancy For The Living, for its descriptions and the rare unvarnished but sympathetic portrayal of Caldwell.

The Stars Look Very Different Today is a short, painful deathfic, but it's stayed with me because it's one of those stories in fandom with a "sci-fi" feel; you get that they're in space, and that it's not safe out there.

The ones I re-read myself are Traces Through Time, the rather light but sweet gen-fic Power Napping. The other one I read (and wish it was longer) is Breeding Ground. Usually my humor fics don't get me to laugh since I know the punch lines. This one is an exception.

In Harry Potter, I think the Beg Me For It series is the most technically difficult story I've ever written. After that, a personal favorite is the exploration of moral grey areas and prostitution in A Moment Of Sin. I like Snape here, though, no, he's not a nice man.

First Signs Of Magic: Hermione Granger and Cursed Artefacts For Sale actually make me crack up.

I should put some SG-1 in there, yes? Like Colony Atlantis and the long cultural misadventure fic The Walls Of Jericho? Later. I'll add those later.

wildernessguru likes the Teyla-centric The Quick Bird On Hot Sand, the steamy SG-1 Shy Guy, and the Harry/Snape Primer to the Dark Arts.


How's that for a cheerful post? More or less? I'm trying.

Comments

[piplover.livejournal.com]

(((((HUGS)))))

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Awww....

[winstonmom.livejournal.com]

Hey! I've been missing your posts, I am happy you gave us a shout out!

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Oh. Have I never friended you back? Sorry about that. You've been around a long, long time. I just... filled up at a certain point and couldn't friend anyone else back without cutting other people -- and I just couldn't get up the nerve to decide who should/shouldn't go. :) Just didn't have the heart for it.

I've deleted some people who've unfriended me so... *friends*

[winstonmom.livejournal.com]

*Feels very happy!
I have learned a lot of stuff by reading your journal, and I really like you for who you are :)

[yin-again.livejournal.com]

Uh, I am writing (slowly) a whole story that was spurred by a tiny little bit of Necromancy.

I'm glad you're feeling alittle better, and feedback on older stories is SO cool.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

No kidding, really? I'm dying of curiosity: which aspect (if that won't give too much away)? I must read this.

Ah, intertextuality, how I love thee.

Icarus

[yin-again.livejournal.com]

There's a teensy moment in Necromancy where Caldwell witnesses John looking up at Rodney and Rodney smoothing a lock of John's hair back from his face. That little scene started a story that's probably going to be really long and plotty and angsty. But with, y'know, a hair fetish.

[yin-again.livejournal.com]

This bit: McKay stroked a lock off Sheppard's face, absently tucking it behind an ear, and the colonel didn't even glance up at the gesture.

[mad_maudlin]

Have I mentioned that Traces through Time is seriously becoming a comfort fic for me? All the little glimpses of poor stranded Rodney are amazingly effective and they kill me every time.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Really? I just re-read it (again) (twice). Yep. Definitely a comfort fic for me, too.

[nicocoer.livejournal.com]

I love your stuff. . I've already read all the HP stuff and I simply rarely read any SGA or SG-1 as they aren't my fandoms (though when I do read them, it's your recs or links. . . good fic can com across w/o being in the fandom) and I must say I love your writing. They are more fun and more entertaining for me then alot of stuff out there- I never stopped midway through any of your writing and closed the story out, which is what I've done in the past with some fic. . .

Lots of love to you!!!

~N~

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Thank you. <3

[raveninthewind.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the reminder about Breeding Ground--I wanted to end my month of SGA crack van recs on a light note, so I'll post about it later today.

I have to say that Primer to the Dark Arts and Cursed Artefacts for Sale are two of my favorite HP stories of all time. I've read them both many times times, and I always wish they won't end when I come to the last paragraph.

I do really apreciate the Caldwell voice in Necromancy (he's rarely done so well--you should write more of his POV), but I have a personal squick when it comes to slave fics, so that one makes uneasy, as does Beg Me for It.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Really? Cool!

I have to say that Primer to the Dark Arts and Cursed Artefacts for Sale are two of my favorite HP stories of all time. I've read them both many times times, and I always wish they won't end when I come to the last paragraph.

Thank you. WG won't read the last chapter of Primer because "there isn't any more." He says if I'd written Snape Manor he'd read it.

but I have a personal squick when it comes to slave fics, so that one makes uneasy, as does Beg Me for It.

Ah, I can understand that. My squick is rape-fic, so it's doubly surprising that I ever wrote Beg Me For It.

Icarus

[mac-tunes.livejournal.com]

I just finished reading "Primer to the Dark Arts" but how was I suppose to post a review??? ouch! I wrote one but it kinda went spoof. So...

Would really love it if you would write more on Snape Manor. It looks so promising, with a house that's in mourning and ejecting Snape out irritability... or rather Harry was able to get in the house fine but leaving Snape out in the cold air... since I got a feeling that Harry was more like Snape's grandfather, in personality (seeing that he managed that pure blood thingy) So many things could happen, house shrouded in dark magic... even Voldemort can't get it... wah!!! please?

[mac-tunes.livejournal.com]

Ooops... sorry about not reading the words in the first paragraph... that's a raw pain. I just went through a close friend's death, from cancer. It was hard to see my friend fading away as well. It still pains me when I think about her or when I meet up with close friends when we are meeting up together for small talks etc. I have yet to meet those friends 'coz the pain of meeting up and seeing an empty chair 'coz we talked in a group.

However, people console me that death is but a part of life. We should live with it. And so it goes... i have gone through a few deaths in the family, paternal & maternal grandmas, uncle, favourite aunt... It just went numb on me. However, I have sweet memories whenever I think of them.