see the sun again

[quigonejinn]

- 5 Things: HH is a chick
- 5 Things: Richard Arthur
- Not-5-Things-AU, post-LH happy ending RA visiting story
- Not-5-Things-AU, Marie story
- Crackville Bush and HH eat Chinese food. Involve awful offal.
- Bush/Hammond
- Bush/Pellew
- Signal the Fleet.
- Barbarafic, no seriously
- Biscuit crate!
- Mariafic.
- possible either HH/WB or HH/EP collab with K

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1. Ellipses are sinful. So are exclamation marks. No Irishmen or dogs allowed.
   
2. Dialogue is the cousin of the devil.
   
3. Appositive phrases, quite frequently, ahoy!
   
4. Adverb abuse! Vaguely, obscurely, quickly, avastly me mateys.
   
5. Who the fuck needs descriptions? Or setting? This is fanfic. You know what the fuck these people look like, as well as what Naboo/Corsucant/Tatooine/Portsmouth/Gracay/HMS Buttfuck look like.
   
6. _________, however, is a big dude with big hands and scars, who dies sudden end on the verge of what seems like it ought to be a golden age. He was orthodox in his bones, but still never fits in with the powers that be because of social/political factors. OMG plebz0r <3 <3 <3.
   
7. The names place of place are invoked cheap angst-o-meter points. Naboo! Caudebec! Corsucant! Sheerness! Kingston!
   
8. Behaviors that you will find: dramatic closings of the eyes, careful lip-biting, nine months pregnant silences, listening to the heartbeat or breathing of a cared-for other party, undressing your lovers, breaking down the facial components of the other party into physical elemets because you can't figure out what they're feeling, filthy sex with no verbal leadup.
   
9. Either third person limited or aggressive second person. At least I'm starting to use past tense with some degree of naturaless.
   
10. The story follows this general outline:

    "This is how it is" intro line/section on theme A that is heavy on the punchy structure but short on scene-setting.
    
    Introduction of theme B
    
    Introduction of theme C to distract you from the fact that I have no idea what is going on
    
    Expansion of theme B to keep you ditracted some more
    
    Tie theme B to theme C
    
    Tie theme B/C to theme A, introduce super-sad variant of theme A in relation to the new connection, throw in a name-drop reference Caudebec, Sheerness, the Loire, Corsucant, or Naboo, and BLAMMO! We're done except for smirking excessively when the too-kind readers are like OMG THAT IS SUCH A GREAT LAST LINE and pretending that you haven't done the exact same thing twelve times before.
    

Comments

[randomalia.livejournal.com]

Formula what? I love you like I'm blind! *roboclaws*

You know, I don't even think I could make a ten-point list. Mine is like: character observes weather, makes obscure remarks, nothing happens, THE END! Over and over again.

[black-hound.livejournal.com]

That icon of yours?

*ahem*

*hopes that bodes well*

[randomalia.livejournal.com]

Cotard has to pay the toll before he can pass. On your knees, Monseer Le Frog. :>

[black-hound.livejournal.com]

Yep. That bodes well. XD

Heeellllloooooo, Porn.

[quigonejinn.livejournal.com]

THE ICON, THE ICON, *SCREAMS IN LOVE, RESIST URGE TO PINCH HIS CHEEKS* IT'S LIKE THE ANTI-CAUDEBEC OMG.

[quigonejinn.livejournal.com]

Are you an angel?

Ten Things I Find Much to My Delight to in a randomalia Fic of the Biscuit Variety With Which I am Mot Familiar, in No Particular Order

1. Assonance and consonance. I don't know if those are the right word, but you always have the most wonderful ways of hooking words up so that the phrases that jut glow and exist beautifully by themselves. the old oil used on the surface and whose hands are shoving at his naked hips
   
   
2. Especially in your Hornblower fic: the presence of family bonds. Cotard has his brother; Kennedy, in "Men Who Follow Spring" has the family and the family vacation home; Parker in "Blessings" has his aunts and brothers, and of course, Jack in "Hornblower" has his uncle and mother.
   
   
3. The way you move across time. A lot of writers would, I think, stumble at breaking a narrative up into single, gemlike scenes the way you do, but man. I love how, if we stopped reading at the end of each individual section, we'd still feel like we'd still gained something wonderful and lovely.
   
   
4. Quotations! I'm too stupid to understand them half the time, but I love how they fit around your fic. They're never extraneous or weird. They're there, and they make sense, and they provide this wonder sense of balance. <3
   
   
5. The contrast between what you tell us and what you don't. You have plenty of rich language in your stories. There are lots of described objects, brilliant phrases, similes and metaphors and all that, but at the same time, there's always an undercurrent. There's always something important that you're not putting into words despite the fact that you very obviously could if you wanted to because you're just that good. Goddamn, I love the fact that there are two layers in your fics.
   
   
6. Brilliantly still endings. I have to call out the Marine Reserve Band in order to get a proper ending to a story, but there's always such a sense of possession and control with your writing that you can conclude things beautifully with a fragment, the way you do for "Alchemy" and still leave me all breathless.
   
   
7. Porn that is Super-Hot because it is so underwritten. Jesus, yeah, Alchemy, and that oblique description of Bush on his stomach, flushed, and getting rimmed until he comes in the sheets. It's sixteen times hotter because we have to put the pieces together, pick them up here and there, and then BAM! Suddenly, we have the image in our heads, and we're the ones blushing. The same goes for "Hornblower," which contains probably about six of the hottest ten sentences ever written in this fandom.
   
   
8. Dialogue. OMFG. The way you nail Movie-Bush's speaking cadences in "Hornblower" makes me peagreen, and how I love, love, love the way you've developed Lt. Kennedy's speech patterns for the older, harder Captain Kennedy in "Blessings."
   
   
9. I love the way you talk about weather, damn you. In fact, I love the way you talk about all the vivid, wonderfully evoked things that populate your stories -- the weather in "Blessings," the tub of water in "Alchemy," the table in "Men Who Follow Spring," not to mention that loch. By the end of that paragraph where you describe, I could practically feel it on my skin.
   
   
10. The role that ambition always plays in your stories. It's the Age of Sail, dammit, and these are Navy officers. Kennedy and his thirst for heroism, Hammond and his desire to be a man, and how it's so wonderfully and powerfully brought out in your writing.

<3 <3 <3 OMG <3 <3 <3

[randomalia.livejournal.com]

You're breaking my heart! *falls over* (And because you used that icon, and that line, I'm stuck imagining boy!Anakin comically going OOPS! in response. ROTS would have been so much funnier if they'd swapped the Anakins around.)

Um, which is to say, this is the best and kindest list in the history of ever, and you are too lovely, thank you. :D :D :D

I always read your fic and, without fail, wish I could write an actual story like you do, where the characters are so vivid and present, and they develop and you draw the reader along through that with them.