Memeage

[altariel]

I can't resist this meme, which I have taken from selenak and deborah_judge.

"Invent a fanfiction I wrote and post about it in the comments. It can be anything you want, so long as it is something that I never wrote. Give me feedback! Mention your favorite quote! Flame me! Illustrate it! You know you want to."

Comments

[archbishopm.livejournal.com]

I like the one where the giant Boy Scout rubs the two Ents together until they catch fire. You sick freak.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I only did it to make you feel better.

[kathyh]

I just wanted to write and tell you how much I enjoyed your Gandalf/Denethor slash story Terrible Old Men. It made so much sense of the scenes between Gandalf and Denethor to think of it as a love affair gone wrong. Now I look at them with your story in mind the UST just oozes off every page. I particularly loved the portrait of poor bewildered little Faramir who doesn't understand the undercurrents between his father and his mentor. You charted the G/D relationship brilliantly from first meeting to jealous parting over Denethor's suspicions of Gandalf and Thorongil. The motif of ashes that worked its way through the story was a subtle foreshadowing of Denethor's eventual end and Gandalf's tears over Denethor's pyre. Thanks for an excellent read and a real enhancement of Tolkien canon.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Thank you for your kind words. It was my first genuine attempt at slash, and so was a nerve-wracking experiment. Of course, it had to take the form of a political power-game, counterpointed with the struggle for the redemption of a man's soul. I'm glad the motif worked, although I hope that the chapter titles from Eliot's Ash-Wednesday were not too contrived.

[kathyh]

It was your first attempt at slash!!! I had no idea. I loved the chapter titles and did wonder if the title itself wasn't a reference to Eliot's Hollow Men.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Gandalf's frequent cry throughout of "Alas!" should certainly remind you of Hollow Men. And Goodgulf from Bored of the Rings.

[executrix.livejournal.com]

How could that be your FIRST attempt at slash, when the NC-17 Gandalf/Dumbledore, Now is the Winter of Our Discount Ents was posted three months earlier? And I thought the friendship between Galadriel and Snape, when she became the Marketing Director for Snaple Butterbeer ("Made with the Best Stuff in the WW!"), narrowly defeating Aragorn ("not Marketing Director yet") for the post, was very touching.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

How could that be your FIRST attempt at slash, NC-17 Gandalf/Dumbledore, Now is the Winter of Our Discount Ents was posted three months earlier?

Sssshhh! Posted under a pseud! Don't out me! Or I'll never regain my credibility as the High Queen of Angst!

[executrix.livejournal.com]

I thought the pervywizrdluvr204 pseud was so obvious that no intent at concealment could be assumed.

And how could a story with one wizard throwing himself off a cliff and one wizard + one phoenix throwing themselves on a pyre jeopardize your standing on the Angstometer?

[altariel.livejournal.com]

And how could a story with one wizard throwing himself off a cliff and one wizard + one phoenix throwing themselves on a pyre jeopardize your standing on the Angstometer?

Pah - fluff!

[katlinel.livejournal.com]

It was the one where Buffy steals the One Ring from Frodo and sends it to Angel so he could save the world from the Leather Goddesses of Phobos, which had hatched out from every female main cast member, and female extra that had ever appeared, overusing, yet again, a really lame pregnancy metaphor, while Wes went out there to twat it, Lorne posed with a cocktail glass and wondered if rouge noir would work on his horntips, Gunn wandered round picking up bits of paper, and Angel and Spike were too busy comparing the sizes of their dicks to notice a small, plain band of gold that had all the armies of darkness, light, and old men with long beards pursuing it. Angel was then too scared to use the One Ring to save the world, on account of it reducing him to being the Ultimate Evil, aka Dark Lord of Wolfram and Hart, which would have pissed off The First, causing a pouting overload in its Buffy buffer, as well as being *so* several seasons ago.So Tara, Anya, Eowyn, Faramir and Rosie went out and saved the day, mainly by acting like rational human beings, and telling each other when something went wrong, instead of lamely covering it up. They also made clever use of magic, vengeance, disguises, ability to recognise an ally, and country dancing.

I think the best line was:

"Beh!", said the brown demon.

However, you did say later that you meant to type 'Fuck' instead, and that typo was probably what stopped you from winning the Rory.

[ithilwen.livejournal.com]

I usually loathe AUs and especially crossovers, but I have to admit that your casting Gul Dukat as one of the Blue Wizards was a true stroke of genius! The carefully-orchestrated covert influence of the Cardassians certainly explains why the men of Harad are viewed with such dread by the people of Gondor - but if the Cardassians really wanted to alter human history to prevent the rise of the Federation, wouldn't it have made more sense for them to have chosen a more recent timepoint to intervene? There's no guarantee that if Sauron had won the war at the end of the Third Age, the One Ring wouldn't have been destroyed later, allowing the timestream enough time to slowly slip back toward the "undesirable" (from the Cardassian point of view) original configuration.

[glitterboy1.livejournal.com]

I think that Katlinel has identified something of a theme in your work. I was thinking last night at badminton about the very first of your Who fics that I read, Scream? Not Bloody Likely! I cheered when Jo Grant fixed the TARDIS by dint of reading the instructions, while the Doctor was out fiddling with the car. Then, when she used it to gather up all the other female Companions and save the galaxy, that was just genius. But my favouritest part was where they met up with a new Companion called Anne, and her first words: "The others are still on bloody Kirrin Island clearing up bloody dog poo. Sod them, I'm coming with you. Anyone fancy a picnic?"

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Then, when she used it to gather up all the other female Companions and save the galaxy, that was just genius.

My own favourite bit is when they realize they are lost, and stop immediately to ask for directions. It did mean I had to cut out several pages of text, but I do think it ended up as a tighter narrative and with less goddamn annoying pointless padding as a result.

[iainjcoleman.livejournal.com]

I thought For Dum(b)-mies(?) was a brilliant - and characteristically bold - attempt to provide some much-needed backstory to The Ladybird Book of Post-Structuralism. I'm afraid I was blind to that book's fanfic potential when I read it last year during a particularly tedious bowel movement, and I now feel compelled to revisit it in the light of the layers of meaning you were able to tease out of what at first appears a rather flimsy text. That said, I'm not wholly convinced by the Derrida mpreg concept, as it seems to me to rely just a little too obviously on a strained reading of the source material, and thus doesn't quite maintain suspension of disbelief all the way through. Oh, and I'm not sure you're aware that Foucault's Pendulum refers to a different Foucault, and in its original meaning concerns an experiment in the mechanics of rotating reference frames rather than having any genital connotation.

[hardrada.livejournal.com]

Glad to see you managed to squeeze a knob joke in. (Comment applies equally to iainjcoleman and altariel).

[altariel.livejournal.com]

That's altariel1 to you, matey.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure you're aware that Foucault's Pendulum refers to a different Foucault, and in its original meaning concerns an experiment in the mechanics of rotating reference frames rather than having any genital connotation.

Go back and read more carefully.

[hardrada.livejournal.com]

Go back and read what more carefully?

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Go back and read more carefully the entirely fictional text of mine to which Iain is referring...

I would never mix my Foucaults.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

but if the Cardassians really wanted to alter human history to prevent the rise of the Federation, wouldn't it have made more sense for them to have chosen a more recent timepoint to intervene?

Hm. Hm. That's a good one. There's only one answer - I'll have to write a sequel!

Now where did I leave Garak?

[hardrada.livejournal.com]

I remain unconvinced that there are no genital connotations to the original Foucault's Pendulum.

But the thought is making me wince.

[the-wild-iris.livejournal.com]

I was captivated by your LotR/Earthsea crossover in which Gandalf, spent by his exertions in the War of the Ring, takes up goat-herding in his retirement, whilst meanwhile a rogue wizard joins together the scattered remains of the One Ring so that 'it is as whole as if it had never been broken'. Gandalf's great monologue on the peculiarities of goats is one of those things that separates Literature from mere Fiction.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Tara, Anya, Eowyn, Faramir and Rosie went out and saved the day

How could I resist this wonderful, magical combination of individuals? Rosie, in particular, brought a special something to the mix.


"Beh!", said the brown demon.

Who cares what it cost me - I wouldn't change that line for the world.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Sometimes a pendulum is just a pendulum, H.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

The extensive research I conducted into the habits of goats was deeply and intensely engrossing. You'd be amazed at the source material the UL holds.

[katlinel.livejournal.com]

overusing, yet again, a really lame pregnancy metaphor

What I meant to say there was that your hyperbolic overextension of the pregnancy metaphor brilliantly satirised the lame reliance, in canon, on said metaphor.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

;-D