I need to learn more about that fic digesting thing. I guess I'm just a little insatiable: I always want a little more. But it's funny how reading certain authors all at once can change the experience of reading one invidually. I read Marguerite (I think?) all at once, and while her stories are different plot-wise, they were very thematically similar, so it was very easy to get sick of them after awhile.
(But yeah, looking at her site? (GAH, even the site design is brilliant!) I FIND IT TOTALLY UNFAIR when you get people who are brilliant writers and talented designers. Talk about unfair talent distribution!
And one day -- ONE DAY -- I hope "Upsidasium" surfaces somewhere. I've never read it, and I don't think I know anyone who has. SOMEDAY. There's little more frustrating to me than lost fic! I just! Ugh.
Totally agreed! I have a lot of respect for happy!fic that's good, because in many ways, with such an emotional and often angsty show like XF, happy!fic is probably the hardest to write in a manner that doesn't come across as trite or false. Yes exactly! I think it's a lot easier to take a sad song (er... show) and make it sadder than to turn it around and make it happy again. I think a lot of the angst fic in this fandom, however well written, gets tired pretty fast because it's so easy to work with that. Don't get me wrong though, some of my favorite favorites are built around the angst of everything, it's just... nice to find something that can make you smile without making you gag.
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(But yeah, looking at her site? (GAH, even the site design is brilliant!)
I FIND IT TOTALLY UNFAIR when you get people who are brilliant writers and talented designers. Talk about unfair talent distribution!
And one day -- ONE DAY -- I hope "Upsidasium" surfaces somewhere. I've never read it, and I don't think I know anyone who has. SOMEDAY.
There's little more frustrating to me than lost fic! I just! Ugh.
Totally agreed! I have a lot of respect for happy!fic that's good, because in many ways, with such an emotional and often angsty show like XF, happy!fic is probably the hardest to write in a manner that doesn't come across as trite or false.
Yes exactly! I think it's a lot easier to take a sad song (er... show) and make it sadder than to turn it around and make it happy again. I think a lot of the angst fic in this fandom, however well written, gets tired pretty fast because it's so easy to work with that. Don't get me wrong though, some of my favorite favorites are built around the angst of everything, it's just... nice to find something that can make you smile without making you gag.