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Open Door | in_the_blue

There's something lyrical about this one. It just draws you in and lets you swim around. It's the first story I've ever seen without any quotation marks for the dialogue. I'm tempted to say, just leave them out, this lyrical, dream-like quality is just that good.

Wow. Am I really only six pages in? This is where I remark to myself, I'm sitting in the hands of an author who knows what they're doing.

Twelve pages: still hooked.

Wow. (I'm saying that a lot.) On page seventeen, and I'm genuinely awed at how real this is, how it handles these deep, crazy hurts and makes me feel them but not die with them; it's not drama; it's poetry, and it's perfect.

I don't think I'd care if there were chapter breaks. I could keep reading this without them until I hit the end (don't end).

It ended. You better be reading this, in_the_blue, 'cause I expect you to get back on it.


Just Written

Drabble: Just Desserts
Fandom: X-Men: Evolution
Pairings: Romy/Kiotr
[LJ | FF]

Drabble: Sacrilege
Fandom: Excalibur
Pairing: Pryde/Wisdom
[LJ | FF]


And now, I have to go transcribe...

More Thinky, Thinky...

I'm shy against taking on tooooooooo many more major projects (let's not walk down that list again), but still I see these Superman fic awards and I keep thinking we need an award community for X-Men (split out by 'verse).

Ideas for Categories:

• Best Completed Novel
• Best Completed Multi-Chapter Fic (not a novel)
• Best Completed One-Shot
• Best Completed Drabble
• Best Completed Series
• Best WIP Novel
• Best WIP Multi-Chapter Fic (not a novel)
• Best WIP Series

• Best Humor Fic
• Best Romance Fic
• Best Action/Adventure Fic
• Best Friendship Fic

• Best Fight Scene
• Best Love Scene
• Best One-Liner
• Best Original Character

And we could give them in Evoverse, Comicverse (including ancillary comics, like Excalibur), and Movieverse.

Just thinking. And wishing. I'm almost scared to put it out there, for fear I'll do it.

On My Shelf ~ Sorry for spamming, just really active today

Reading Now

Just a Whim | pygmymuse
I'm still in love. Digging into chapter 4.


Awesome Stuff I Just Read

xenokattz | D'Ancanto X-Men: The Movieverse
Cadet!Rogue Drabble
Kissing Her Feet Drabble

Check out the rest of the entry too. Awesome stuff.


karabair | Emma Frost in X-Men: The Movieverse
Brief Kissing Incidents
Mitzvah


Lady Sidereal | Origins Included X-Men: The Movieverse
Better Left Forgotten