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

[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