Anniversary suggestions?

[resonant]

I just realized that next month marks my fourth anniversary as a slasher.

It was on August 11, 1999, that I (terrified, heart pounding, with a newly chosen pseudonym that I wasn't even quite sure I liked) hit Send on the message that put a Sentinel PWP called "Anoint" out on the SXF mailing list.

I feel like I should do something to commemorate the anniversary, but I don't know what. I'd write an anniversary story, but I already wrote a story about anniversaries. I'd revisit the scene of the story, but writing Sentinel is now beyond my abilities.

One thing I should do, now that I think of it, is do a really minimal edit on a few of the scenes I wrote for "Six Weeks," which was going to be a sequel to "Anoint" and "Midnight Oil," and put them up. Not that they're that great, but there's sex, which I always hate to see go to waste.

Anybody have any other suggestions?

Comments

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

write another anniversary story.

i'd have thought that was obvious. :-)

[vickita.livejournal.com]

Four years, huh?

Wow. Oddly, I find myself thinking, "Is that all? Only four years?" Like I've been reading Resonant stories forever or something. I mean, it just doesn't really seem like all that long, for all of the fabulous stuff you've done.

Okay, I went and looked (http://www.chipublib.org/008subject/005genref/giswedding.html), and the traditional fourth anniversary gift is linen or silk. Anything you want to do with that? (Hey, whatever you do, I have faith in you. It'll be great.)

Happy Almost-Anniversary!

[xoverau.livejournal.com]

No suggestions, really, but congratulations! I think I started in early '99 myself, so...yeah. Rock on with y' bad self!

[destina.livejournal.com]

Wow, four years. It was four years in May, for me. Here I was thinking that you'd been around forever, long before I came on the scene. Just shows how much I know. *g*

[shayheyred.livejournal.com]

Just feel compelled to say that your anniversary story, Sixteenth of June, was the first story I ever printed out for DS. So it's kind of an anniversary for me. As for my short slash career, it started sometime last fall, so four years is pretty impressive to me. Now go write more.

[tinderblast.livejournal.com]

It's probably inappropriate, and selfish, AND fandom-jumping, but ... 'The Familiar' is probably my all-time favourite story in the entired HP-fandom, it's the most lovely, delicately structured, romantic story with impeccable comic timing, and I was always curious about what happened After to Snape and Harry. Not that the story felt unfinished, but that of all the Harry/Snape combinations I've read, they seemed like the ones most likely to actually be able to live together without killing each other eventually.

brodie

anniversary

[patk.livejournal.com]

>I'd revisit the scene of the story, but writing Sentinel is now >beyond my abilities.

Hey, why? I really liked your stories very much and always hoped to see more. :-)

>One thing I should do, now that I think of it, is do a really minimal >edit on a few of the scenes I wrote for "Six Weeks," which was going >to be a sequel to "Anoint" and "Midnight Oil," and put them up. Not >that they're that great, but there's sex, which I always hate to see >go to waste.

>Anybody have any other suggestions?

No other suggestions needed. Your idea is just fine. *g* So, do it, I'm eager to see the outcome. :-)

*Hmmm* maybe I could bribe you into it? *g*

Pat

:-)

[fabularasa.livejournal.com]

Hear, hear. Hurrah for selfishness and inappropriateness, and fandom-jumping, and everything she said about The Familiar, which is about the only Snape/Harry I don't have to swallow quickly. So how about an anniversary re-visitation?

Four years? I feel like such a baby. Congratulations. Now I'm off to go find out what the Sentinel is, so I can read some more of your wonderful stuff.

[tobyfan.livejournal.com]

Congrats! ``Anoint'' is quite an impressive first story. And ``Midnight Oil'' has, in my opinion, the hottest kiss ever to appear in fanfic!

I'd love to read Six Weeks!

[tinderblast.livejournal.com]

Now I'm off to go find out what the Sentinel is, so I can read some more of your wonderful stuff.


*sighs*

Yeah, I wish that I wasn't such a one-fandom kind of reader as most authors tend to get write in several fandoms and I just can't get into their non-HP material.

brodie

[pushdragon.livejournal.com]

Hey, I'm so behind the play here, but I wanted to let you know how much I enjoyed Transfigurations, which I have *finally* finished (it's a tricky beast when you can only read at internet cafes!). Now I can throw off the stigma of being the only person in the fandom not to have squeed over it!

I loved:

* Draco's wardrobe and jewellery (I don't claim to be deep)
* The way you sprang Sunday-is-a-boy on us (I didn't see it, and felt silly!)
* All the detail of the way the mines work, from the idea of having direct objects to ... just brilliant! And, of course, the more complex they were, the cleverer Draco and Hermione looked when figuring them out!
* The first moment of lust in the toilet cubicle. Beautifully lacking in fanfare, anticlimactic, simple but sizzling hot.
* Your brilliant supporting characters, Sophia especially, complete with her accent.
* How you have the balls to write Hagrid's dialogue, along with the skill to do it convincingly.
* Draco's relationship with Kitty. Oh! Just heart-wrenching!
* Oliver proposing toasts to fireplaces.
* And there was not a single Draco line that did not ring true for me. And that's no faint praise. It's very easy to misjudge the balance between nasty and elegant and have him sounding pretentious without the cool, but you hit it right on every time. You could compile a quote-book out of the lines you gave him! Remind me never to taunt you in a public place :)

I do believe that a well-crafted fic deserves a coherent review and certainly something more articulate than this, but, sorry, said cafe is about to close!

Thank you for a *very* entertaining few hours' reading!

Kit

[rhiannon-jehane.livejournal.com]

One thing I should do, now that I think of it, is do a really minimal edit on a few of the scenes I wrote for "Six Weeks," which was going to be a sequel to "Anoint" and "Midnight Oil," and put them up. Not that they're that great, but there's sex, which I always hate to see go to waste.

You mean there’s a sequel to them?? I absolutely adore Anoint and Midnight Oil. I would love to read Six Weeks!

I would be happy to beg, plead, bribe...

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Oddly, I find myself thinking, "Is that all? Only four years?" Like I've been reading Resonant stories forever or something.

And, see, when I looked it up I thought, "That long? Really? It seems like I've been doing this for about a month."

the traditional fourth anniversary gift is linen or silk.

Wow -- that's a great idea. I never would have thought of it.

Linen and silk -- the possibilities!

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

[laughing] and I thought the same thing about you. "Oh, she's one of the established, experienced ones."

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Now I'm off to go find out what the Sentinel is, so I can read some more of your wonderful stuff.

[fear and trembling] Just remember that these were my first fiction of any kind, OK?

What you need to know about The Sentinel:

- Jim, a cop, is a modern superhero with super-enhanced senses.

- Blair, an anthropology graduate student, starts out studying him and ends up living with him. The slash is ready-made, obviously.

- The person you really need to be reading, if you want to read Sentinel slash, isn't me; it's cesperanza, a.k.a. Francesca. (http://trickster.org/francesca)

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Thanks! But unfortunately, I've lost my Jim and Blair voices. They haven't talked to me since I started writing Fraser and Ray; I think they're jealous.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

There isn't a sequel; I planned one, and then lost my Sentinel motivation before I was able to complete it. There are several scenes, though, that might be worth posting on their own. That's on my to-do list for the month.

Re:

[fabularasa.livejournal.com]

-The person you really need to be reading, if you want to read Sentinel slash, isn't me; it's cesperanza, a.k.a. Francesca.

Yeah, right. Whatever. I want your stuff, and I want it now. Sounds like an interesting premise for a show, anyway. Is it ever on re-runs?

Oh, and you'll be amused to know we acquired a frog today. With a smile on my face, and thinking of you, I suggested to my daughter we name it Harry. This was rejected out of hand, as was my next suggestion: Belloc. She decided eventually, though, that this would do, as long as it was shortened to Belle, the frog obviously being, as she solemnly informed me, a girl.

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[patk.livejournal.com]

Jealous? Definitely. *g*

Have a good time. :-)

Pat

:-)

six month

[patk.livejournal.com]

*ggg* Seems like there are a few people out there (including me) who want to squeeze the very last drop of TS-writing out of you. *g*

Really, really too bad your TS muse dropped dead.

Pat

:-)

[nestra.livejournal.com]

And I remember when both of you appeared. I don't know if that makes me old or just persistent.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

[beaming at you] Thanks! I'm glad you liked it.

So. Snape and Harry-the-frog-animagus on their fourth anniversary. Hm. Frighteningly enough, that would make Harry all of 22 years old.

I wonder what they'd be up to?

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Thanks! The two of them embarrass me now -- all that talking! Don't these guys ever shut up? But I'm glad they don't look that awful to anyone but me.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Wow. That was a real ego-boost of a comment! I'm really glad you liked "Transfigurations." I'm especially happy that Draco worked for you -- people seem to either love him or hate him.

Remind me never to taunt you in a public place

Oh, I only wish I had Draco's wit. I'm much more the sort of person who's still going, "Um -- um -- oh, yeah?" half an hour later.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Aww. Thanks! And just wait -- one of these days you'll be saying to someone, "Oh, yes, it's this odd little hobby I've had for a few months ... um, a few years ... oh, my god ..."

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Really, really too bad your TS muse dropped dead.

It is, isn't it? I seem to be cut out for serial fandomonogamy. I'm clinging to Fraser and Ray with both hands to make sure they don't slip out sometime when I'm listening to Snape ...

[(Anonymous)]

It re-runs on Sci-Fi at 10 am on weekdays.

[tinderblast.livejournal.com]

Linen and silk -- the possibilities!

Train of thought: silk, silky, silky-voiced ... yes, all roads lead to Rome, and all smoothness leads to Snape's vocal cords.

*is not obsessed with the thought of you writing more Snape/Harry*

brodie