Go ahead. Ask me.

[resonant]

(meme from hesychasm)

Ask me what happens after the end of any of my stories. (Or tell me what you think.)

Comments

[geoviki.livejournal.com]

Oh, Higher Education!

I adore that fic. In fact, I've got a half-concocted LJ entry in my head about how I think that is one of the most completely realized examples of slash fanfic liek evah. I barely remembered the movie, but after reading your stoyr, I went back and rewatched it. It wasn't the canon that hooked me, but your fanfic! Woot.

[geoviki.livejournal.com]

I fail at Jeopardy. I did not phrase that in the form of a question.

What happens to Brian and John when they go to that wedding?

[moireach.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'd love to know about something that happened after either Repairs or Four and a Half Minutes.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

After "Repairs" ... well, I'm not sure what happens immediately after "Repairs," but eventually, after a year or so, Ron gets another opportunity to go traveling, and he's deeply tempted and therefore kind of surly and difficult, but after a while Hermione finds out and says, "Dominican Republic? Oh, but I've a pen pal there and I've always longed to meet her in person! We could share a flying carpet," and so that's all sorted.

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After "Four and a Half Minutes," Harry and Ron part company for most of the summer, and have the most awkward exchange of correspondence that can be imagined, and then Harry goes to the Burrow at the end of summer as always, and there's lots of blushing and sudden awkward silences, and also lots of lovely necking.

Then they go back to school and have some sort of horrible misunderstand due to the fact that neither of them is what you'd call a great communicator, so that they're still on the outs when an early skirmish in the great war with Voldemort comes, and Voldemort exploits this in subtle ways, sowing mistrust as best he can. But trust ultimately triumphs, and their alliance ends up being critical to defeating Voldemort, because he wasn't expecting it.

[shayheyred.livejournal.com]

"Left."

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Oh, man, throw me a tough one, why don't you?

I think Vecchio had a moment of discovery during "Left," even though Kowalski didn't. In my happier moments, I can see this leading to a good-but-difficult grown-up relationship of the sort Hth (http://gatefiction.com/hth/inthistogether.htm) writes.

In my sadder moments, I see a tentative relationship just getting established and then getting blown out of the water because Fraser comes home. I've never really known how to resolve the threesome there; there's so much love and so much utter dysfunctionality on all sides ...

[pearl_o.livejournal.com]

Oh! What happens after "Loving North"?

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Well, "Loving North" was all about Ray learning to see the North and speak Fraserish, so the logical next step is for Ray to teach Fraser to see the city and understand Ray-ish. After which I suspect something would happen to require them to live someplace where they're both baffled and out of their element, like, in Madrid or West Virginia.

Heh. Or Florida.

[skuf.livejournal.com]

I'd say Exog, except you already mocked me with that one (I tried to find it, too, but it was something about them raising a score of kids. Which would work, too, but I definitely felt a slight hint of sarcasm there :oP).

I'm not sure I'd want to know? Most of your stories, I imagine there are still rivers to cross and kinks to work out for the protagonists, but it's always going to work out fine. That's what I want to believe, kthx :o)

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

I always want it to work out fine. If I think up a story and can't think of any way for it to work out fine, usually I won't write the story.

I'm answering yours first because I already have notes for it.

Fin goes home with Chrt. It's hard for him to do his job, because they don't have enough experience with pollution or energy shortages to make them really value domestic-environment engineering, so it's a struggle for him.

They all work together to build this enormous homestead, with room for 14 adults and all the litters they'll have -- more like a small town than a house. Nobody wants to sleep in the same room with Fin, and Fin hates sleeping alone.

A pregnancy among Chrt's people takes two years -- the first one in the female and the second one in the male. Some other couple has the first pregnancy; Chrt and a female named Trss have the second one. During the first year, the main action going is the mutual hostility between Fin and Trss, but eventually Fin figures out that Trss is xenofreaking -- nobody else has been able to figure that out -- and he figures out some way to help her out. At the end of the year, when it's time for the pups to be transferred to Chrt, she asks Fin to be present, to be part of the mating, and there's a three-way bond formed.

One of the previable pups dies. Chrt is mostly mad because it gives the busybodies an excuse to curtail his movements; his people are very pragmatic about these things, and they say, "It wasn't really alive yet anyway," but it looks almost like an infant, and Fin cries and cries. (On Earth, a miscarriage means the end of your one and only chance to reproduce; it's one of the culture's greatest tragedies.)

Then the first litter of pups are born. (They spend so long in the pouch that at birth they're on the developmental level with toddlers.) Fin freaks out a little at first -- multiple offspring are so taboo -- but while they're still little, they like to sleep in a big pile, and they'll let him sleep with them, and so he's finally comfortable. Little piping voices going, "Pfin! Pfin!"

They're native speakers of the pidgin (so they can communicate with Fin), and since they use it as a language, they begin to change it.

There's no resolution in my notes, so I'm not sure what happens next.

[tofty.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, "Teeth of the Hydra?"

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Well, the first short answer is that canon happens right after "The Teeth of the Hydra," since the historical sections of the story end with Ray in the crypt asking Fraser, "Do you find me attractive?"

And the other short answer is that Display (http://trickster.org/res/display.html) happens right after "The Teeth of the Hydra."

As in Display, I think Vecchio comes back and then Fraser and Ray can go join Jessica's Pink Patrol, buy a house together, and be all Out. Ray probably gets together with Frank and Bev Constantine, which is probably a lot more fun for Frank than it is for Bev, and I suspect that Frank doesn't quite know what to make of Fraser.

They stay with the Pink Patrol for about as long as they can realistically be street-duty cops, and when the force starts making noises about promoting one or both of them to a desk job, they decide, instead, to go teach other towns how to put together anti-hate-crimes squads.

[isilya.livejournal.com]

Hmm, your lj style is broken for me (Safari, Mac OS X) to leave comments from the comment page.

When you said this, I had an immediate flashback to the daydreams I had for weeks about Advantage and John and those khama nuts; in my daydreams, eating the nuts always reactives the slave enzyme. Wouldn't it be incredibly tempting to have a way to overcome your physical limits? (I've always wanted to be able to do the splits, for one thing.) And of course John has this convenient and incredibly inconvenient way to gain new skills (learn karate in a day! surrender your whole being for a day!) Which led, in my mind, to a whole lot of pretty angst and even prettier John-Sheppard-flexibility. Mmmr.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Mmm, that's a very hot idea. If it worked that way, then you'd have to start with Rodney immediately getting rid of all the khama nuts he had, even though they were so delicious and nothing else quite seems to fill the craving -- every time the Daedalus goes out, he requests something (macadamia nuts, Brazil nuts, cashews), but none of them are quite as good.

But John has a stash, and he opens the drawer and looks at them, and at first he's just thinking, Wouldn't it be great to eat one and have Rodney order me to [shoot better or run faster or be able to sense the Wraith coming or be able to do whatever the current Crisis of the Week demands].

But more and more they're just guilty sex fantasies, and then he closes the drawer and goes and tries to prod Rodney into ordering him around, which you'd think Rodney would have a natural aptitude for, but due to Recent Events he feels all guilty and conflicted about it and it tends to either prevent the sex from starting or halt it suddenly in the middle.

Rodney's sort of guilty and conflicted in general. It makes the relationship difficult at times.

And then one day Rodney catches John looking at his stash of nuts, and John, being John, just clams up and refuses to talk. And Rodney says, "Wait, you liked that? That's a good memory for you?"

And then they have hot sex, with Rodney all verbal and demanding and John wildly eager to do anything he says, do anything before he even has a chance to say it. And it's only afterwards that they realize that John never even ate any of the nuts.

(Actually the style won't work for me in that way, either, but I don't know how to fix it.)

[turtlespeaks.livejournal.com]

What happens after Advantage?!

Also, what happens after Thirst? Do they ever get out?

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

One answer to the Advantage question is above. (http://www.livejournal.com/users/resonant8/104077.html?view=2112141#t2112141)

Another possible answer is in my conversation with tinnny here. (http://www.livejournal.com/users/resonant8/94261.html?thread=1859381#t1859381)

Another possibility, of course, given that Pegasus is Pegasus, is that they end up in a place where their survival depends on their being able to fake that Rodney is John's slave. And at first Rodney is secretly kind of relieved, because now he gets to pay John back and then they'll be even, but the thing is that John is really terrible at it! He just can't fake it at all!

So Rodney notices, of course, and it makes his guilt even worse, because he's thinking, God, does he have that much unspoken resentment towards me? Was it that awful, being my slave, that he can't even act the part now for fear of how he'll act?

And they end up in this situation where Rodney's about to be turned over to the village discipline board to be flogged or something, because he's unsubordinate and John does nothing to correct him. And finally John steps up and says, "No, I'll do it, if I have to."

And now Rodney's actually kind of scared, and when they're taken to some sort of solitary discipline chamber ("Dungeon," Rodney says, and John says, "Shut up"), Rodney starts just spilling at the mouth the way he does: "Oh, god, you've got so much pent-up anger at me that you can't even fake a little spanking or something for fear you'll go all Hulk on me, and now you've got to punish me and you're going to beat me to a pulp because you can't stop yourself!"

And John says, "Anger? What anger?" And Rodney says, "Because you were my slave and I ordered you to get hard five times in one night just because I wanted more!" And John says, very gently like he's talking to an idiot, "Rodney, I liked that."

And then he very slowly and carefully sucks a line of hickies around Rodney's neck and both wrists and both ankles, nice and even to look like rope burn.

[gwendolyn-post.livejournal.com]

Ooh, Resolution please. And Coffee. It's the snippety things that tend to haunt me, because I can't really be sure where the characters are at the end.

Um, hi. I lurk.

[pinkpapyrus.livejournal.com]

Ooh, Resolution please

seconded!

[bluebrocade.livejournal.com]

I love this meme! What happens after "Broadway Hotel"?? I love that fic so much.

I think directly after the ending, they go back to Ray's room andthentheyhavesex. But then going back to their real lives? Ray's definitely got issues with being "openly" gay.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Mmm, yes, definitely some sex is going to happen immediately afterwards.

I can see Ray having the problems you mention (and Fraser being all, "It's perfectly natural, Ray. Even in the animal kingdom ..."). But I can also see Ray going too far in the opposite direction -- like, if I'm gay, I'm gay, boys and girls -- like he wants to hang out in gay bars and put a rainbow sticker on his car and all, and Fraser's embarrassed because he wants something private, something that's just between the two of them.

[sanj.livejournal.com]

I want a middle-of-the-story, actually, in between "Bed and Board" and "Paternity." Tell me about the Trio's adventures on the continent!

...please?

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Hm. I didn't exactly have any plot in mind, just loads of sex.

Like I had in mind one story where Ron comes home exhausted after doing transcontinental Apparition from some match or other, and crawls into bed, and when the sun comes up he begins to have drowsy sleepy sex with someone, and is halfway through before he really knows whether it's Harry or Hermione, because it doesn't really matter all that much ...

Or the one (which I'm sure I've mentioned before) where you've got Harry and Ron trying anal sex for the first time and Hermione, wearing her uniform skirt and nothing else, kneeling beside them on the bed reading instructions to them out of a book ...

Or the one where the boys are both too rough with Hermione, and she keeps saying, "Ow! Not so hard!" the way you do, until finally she makes some Polyjuice and they're all Hermione for the night ...

[panisdead.livejournal.com]

Mmmm. At one point I had a fairly solid idea of what that wedding in Higher Education looked like--not so much dialogue, but visual snippets, if you will. John in the suit with his tie loosened so far the knot's halfway down his chest, leaning back in one of those crappy white folding chairs to prop one foot on the little round skirted table at the reception. Brian next to him, sitting a respectable distance away, somehow managing to sit up very straight and lean his elbows on the table at the same time. The chip on John's shoulder is so enormous as to be practically visible, but Brian's handling the whole situation remarkably well: a little red-faced from the cheap wine, but gamely making conversation with John's curious harpy great-aunts and squeezing John's thigh under the table when he starts to tense visibly.

Then later I figure John pushes him up against a wall near the restroom and shoves a knee between Brian's thighs and kisses him until they're both crazy. And then they drive back to John's place and have amazing tipsy sex and feel, simultaneously, resolved to avoid all family for the next ten thousand years, and kind of liberated for having actually gone through with the wedding. The End.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Wow, I like your visuals -- I can see that posture on Brian.

I think I was writing my version here (http://www.livejournal.com/users/resonant8/104077.html?view=2107533#t2107533) at the same time you were writing this.

[persephone-il.livejournal.com]

I know that Sentinel is kind of a has-been for you, but I always wanted to know what happened to Scott after Nuance.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

You know, I have never come up with a story or a pairing that was worthy of Scott! I liked him so much, and in every fandom I try to find an unattached character to hook him up with, but nothing ever really makes sparks for me.

I'd really like him to have a nice romance with someone, but I just don't know who.

[zedmeister.livejournal.com]

Resolution... because the Hogwarts staff are close enough to be family by the end of the story, but in real life circumstances always end up separating people. I'd like to know who stays at Hogwarts to teach for the rest of their life, who moves on to other things (and what those other things may be).

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

You're meaning "Transfigurations," right? That's the only one I've written where people seemed quite like family to me.

Here's what I think will happen.

Draco, of course, will be Headmaster within five years. (Summs will retire and do something wild, though I'm not sure what.) Harry will stick around wherever Draco is, of course; I think he's got the potential to be an excellent teacher, I think.

Ron and Hermione will stick around for a couple of years, but then Ron will get the chance to travel again (see above (http://www.livejournal.com/users/resonant8/104077.html?thread=2102157#t2102157)), and Hermione will go with him.

Oliver and Penelope are headed for romance, as are Remus and Michelle, of course. I will be very surprised if Sofia and Charlie don't spawn within a couple of years.

I think Kat Bonifay will come out to visit at some point. I can actually see her having a whirlwind romance with Ginny Weasley; at the very least, they'd be pretty and dangerous together.

Sunday Coneskey has a journey in front of him; he's going to walk the Trail of Tears and meet his Western Band counterpart in Oklahoma, uniting the two parts of the Cherokee Nation in preparation for ... um, that's as far as I got, actually.

Lark Brown's ghost is going to begin appearing on the grounds, protecting the younger children from anything that threatens them. She may be like the Thestrels -- it's a bittersweet day when you get too old to see Lark.

[teneagles.livejournal.com]

Ooh. "Transfigurations", specifically what happened to Keket. Grand adventures, one assumes.

[chopchica.livejournal.com]

Mmm, Warning - I want to know just what Rodney does to John after they get out of there.

I think in general what I love about your stories is that they all end so *clearly*. Things aren't always clean and perfect, but you can see them getting there, and so usually, I'm not left with a lot of unanswered questions. Or if I am, they've been answered up above.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

For most of the story, I tend to be motivated by a strong desire to make the guys have sex; for what's left, I'm motivated by a strong desire to get them to the point where they can make each other happy.

I'm a big marshmallow, really. When I read other people's stories and they leave the guys in a not-so-happy place? I write happy endings in my head. "Transfigurations" started out that way, actually, but it, uh, sort of grew.

So. Warning.

I'm thinking that that smooth confident dominant Rodney was to a certain extent dependent on a certain idea of what the relationship was here, as in the "so, yes, I'll play" -- now that he's aware that they're not playing, I think that he'll be a little more tentative for a while.

But John is either totally oblivious to any uncertainty on Rodney's part and thinking all along that he and Rodney are on the same page, or else he figures the easiest way to get what he wants is to pretend that's the case (hell, even when he's my POV character, he doesn't tell me very much about what's in his head), so he's going to go on blithely acting as though they have this kind of relationship where Rodney's a sex god and knows it.

So they're going to get out of their locked room and back to John's room (because Rodney will be more nervous there, and naturally the second part needs Rodney POV and Rodney nervousness), and John's puttering about, offering Rodney water, taking off his watch, whatever, while Rodney gets fidgety.

And John's wearing a shirt that Rodney's been thinking about getting his hands on, something unusually soft, with buttons down the front, and he goes to unbutton it, and Rodney without thinking says, "Wait," and John closes his eyes and takes a big deep breath through his nose, like he's wildly turned on just from that.

And Rodney thinks, OK, I can so do this, and he says, nice and low, "Open your eyes."

Well if you don't entirely despise me....

[kulfold.livejournal.com]

After recent e mail re Port.... I have this fond fantasy in which I log on one day to discover that you have a written a sequel to Transfigurations in which shortly after D and H get together Sunday decides to take up Harry's offer and visits him at Hogwarts... and Draco is all insecure etc etc....

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure that Draco is already kind of insecure about Sunday -- he certainly hates to see that speedwell on Harry's ankle. And Sunday is such a big guy ...

[spinfrog.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure that Draco is already kind of insecure about Sunday -- he certainly hates to see that speedwell on Harry's ankle. And Sunday is such a big guy ...

I guess it would have made more sense to reply to this three years and two months ago... heh, I am just lucky my head is attached to my neck.. I keep forgetting what your LJ name is (so I now friended you, hope that's OK)..

I am totally one of the people who had maybe hoped to see more of Sunday at some point. He was such a cool character, and I sort of felt like maybe Harry had been a bit of a dick the way he left, and maybe owed him some kind of a friendlier treatment... Plus, it would have been awesome to see Draco be insecure about being not tall or 'built' enough ;)