FIC!

[gaudior]

Right. So, after working on it for a damn year, I am finally, finally, finally posting "Mercy of the Fallen," the third (and last) story in my series of Yami no Matsuei fics. First part of sixteen is here. I'll be posting one part a day for the next two weeks or so (don't want to spam the community by trying to put the whole damn 63,000-word thing up at once (besides which, I am (sometimes) an evil bitch, and want to milk people's suspense for all it's worth)).

Wow. Done. (well, except for some very small last-minute revisions suggested by rushthatspeaks, which I'll do as I go.) Done is good. My beta-readers are so cool. And I'm really looking forward to seeing how people react to it, because this story has been in my head for so long that it's kind of an odd thought to have it out in other people's. But I kind of like this thought.

This'll probably be the last fanfic I write for a while-- I have these ideas for original stories which will probably keep me busy for quite a while, and I'm eager to get cracking on them. But... this was fun to write.

Dude. Done!

Reading: Marge Piercy, The Longings of Women; J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (no, no, it's for class, see. Later this week, I'll report how Harry Potter scores on the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory for Adolescents (my guess being that anyone who believes they can do magic and fly on a broomstick will come out pretty damn psychotic, but the other results should be interesting)).

Comments

[rubyd.livejournal.com]

Oh my God.

I love you.

AND it's done. I can't wait! *dives in to read*

[jain]

my guess being that anyone who believes they can do magic and fly on a broomstick will come out pretty damn psychotic, but the other results should be interesting

It's only psychotic if it's not true.

[gaudior.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but tell the test that... I'm convinced that the reason I came out as mildly schizophrenic when I took the test was that I didn't say "no, it is impossible to affect things with your mind" and such.

I do not like testing.

[fadagaski.livejournal.com]

You must publish your results on Harry Potter's mental health. It may prove amusing.

Also, SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!

Yes, I'm just that coherent.

[marchharetay.livejournal.com]

I await eagerly the test results :)

I suppose it's taken as a given that everyone exists in the same reality, eh?

[gaudior.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, yes. *sigh*

[zdenka]

Okay, I'm curious now -- not only about this fic but about the other two. Remind me to ask you whether or not I should try to read them, if I forget?

[gaudior.livejournal.com]

Indeed! But since I've forgotten, why don't I answer you here:

They require knowledge of the series, but I think that by this point, you've rather got that. The first one is a fairly standard ghost-story-romance-among-the-supernatural-stuff, and the only place it's sexually explicit is in a way which you as the reader are meant to be disturbed by anyway, but is fairly tasteful, so you might like it. It's the least good of the three, I'm afraid.

The second one really is pretty good, but it's very sexually explicit, because it's all about Hisoka dealing with his past trauma and so struggling to learn to connect Tsuzuki (romantically and just emotionally, trust-wise) and taking back his sexuality after Muraki raped and murdered him. I think it's one of the best things I've written, but unfortunately, the sex, as a triumph of the human spirit type thing, is kind of the point.

The current one is mostly plot with some sex, and I could easily give you abridged versions of those chapters if you like. Lila described it as being "grand opera," and a term which I must relearn (the one that talks about impressive drama with real death in). It actually *is* the best thing I've written to date, and if you want to read it, I highly recommend, and would love to hear what you think of it.

[gaudior.livejournal.com]

PS: Given your feelings on Muraki, I think you might particularly like the current one, actually.