Quick Recap of the Current GiftFic Docket

[scribblemyname]

This is why I'm a little stretched just now. :grins:

• Short Story: “Justice” for thecatisacritic
• Novel: One Good Storm with thecatisacritic
• Short Story: “Everything is Blood” for lithiumlaughter
• Novel-in-Verse: Blank Verse for lithiumlaughter
• Novelette: Fault Lines for Couples Big Bang
• Meta: Science article series for thecatisacritic

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[scribblemyname]

Though really, after how easily the poetry book came together, I'm really wanting to get back to hammering out a K&T collection I think you'll like.

I still like the angel figurine as a title, but I can make two versions and have good ideas about how to do that. Yours will be "Kingdoms and Thorn," the 'Clean' edition, and I can be a little more broad-spectrum clear in "Glass Angel" and even include some of the K&T poems.

[thecatisacritic.livejournal.com]

It seems like a lot of work to put together a separate collection, especially if it's just for me. You can make whatever you want the one to be and just... consider me not its audience, I guess.

[scribblemyname]

Doesn't work that way when it's giftfic. :rolls eyes amiably:

[thecatisacritic.livejournal.com]

It wasn't all gift fic. I'm not the only one who likes the K&T verse.

I don't like making you do extra work. You shouldn't have to just because I'm picky and neurotic.

[scribblemyname]

I just put together an entire poetry collection in three days flat because I was having a ball and it was designed to please solely two people: me and lithiumlaughter, but her first.

So we have slightly different taste and I have to decide how to work it artistically with Kingdoms and Thorn to please the solely two people I'm concerned about: me and you. I won't be happy unless I succeed. That's how I'm made. It's a gift. I can't unwire my need to get it right.

[scribblemyname]

Speaking of which, a while back you asked for the author's notes that went with "History Lesson on the Night Train" and I couldn't quite get it right. Here's the brief I'm including in the poetry book:

Teller is the speaker in this poem and was a member of team fourteen, ranked second. Her birth name is Alya Shamayes. Other handles include Taker, Blooded, Thief, Breaker, Remaker.

The man being observed is Pieter Andrews, who had been in a relationship with Ashen, another former military operative, for quite some time preceding the incident recorded. Ashen’s name has entered common parlance as a name for the special ability she possesses, the ability to transfer life from one person to another.

The cities mentioned in the poem are Kingdoms Cities. The treaty which ended the Thorn Rebellion ceded the geographical region from the Thorn Republic’s control.


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The Thorn Rebellion in the year 20 was inevitable, as all Kingdoms and Thorn Republic historians agree. The team operatives attached to the Projects were top-secret, genetically-modified special humans belonging to the Thorn Republic military. Nevertheless, they were not volunteers but rather children who had been raised to the life. When they did rebel, the conflict quickly ended in a treaty ceding the western half of the continent from Thorn Republic control but without establishing a new governing body. Eventually the cities became Kingdoms Cities where multiple nations could occupy a single city. All are, however, subject to treaty law, which includes specific human rights granted to special humans.


It's not the history in prose form, but it's something. :shrugs:

[thecatisacritic.livejournal.com]

I guess. It just seems like a lot of extra work.

I don't want to make you do it.