icarus: Snape by mysterious artist (Jack by <lj user="queenofstars">)
icarusancalion ([personal profile] icarus) wrote2007-02-27 12:45 pm

An attempt at a cheerful post.

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. [livejournal.com profile] 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 [livejournal.com profile] 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.

[livejournal.com profile] 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.

[identity profile] mac-tunes.livejournal.com 2007-03-14 08:02 am (UTC)(link)
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?

[identity profile] mac-tunes.livejournal.com 2007-03-14 08:09 am (UTC)(link)
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.