scribblemyname | Miscellany No. 1

Reviews, Reviews, and More Reviews
Or on the matter of all those outstanding review replies.

It goes like this. I brace myself. I reply to somewhere between thirty and fifty reviews. I recover by writing and posting more chapters for a week. The thirty to fifty are back again. :groans: I'm a review lover, I'll admit. I need reviews to thrive. But responding is driving me nuts!

I'm about to declare review reply bankruptcy on Moments, unless something strikes me as needing an answer.

The Trifling Matter of Remaining Chapters
Or, in short, the tale of my rather excessively profligate muse (who shows no signs of improvement either!).

I was sitting there, minding my own business the other evening, and putting in a good attempt to keep Requital out of my head (it sings to me like a siren on the rocks of too many chapters), when it suddenly occurred to me that I have a lot of fics going. Curious, I sat up and scribbled down the following.

Chapters left to write:

Whisper: 86, Moments: 63, In Love and War: 29, All's Fair: ~ 116, Fight and Shadow: ~ 35, The Way of the Rogue: 12, Without a Trace: ~ 46, Sunders: 3, Going Omega: ~ 12, Son o' de Guild: ~26, Carnal: ~ 20, Old New England Saw: 3.5, Tears of the Goddess: 4, Skin: 4, Ember: 19, Broken Time: ~ 80, Traiteur: ~ 5

Grand Total is an estimated 560 chapters. :headdesk:

And in the middle of this, my muse wants to do this!

Requital and the Story That Just Won't Leave Me Alone
Or the tale of eight to twelve chapters that is set in a world worse than The Burning or Broken, apparently my muse's response to the problem of Remy.

Okay. I should explain that. I will.

When I read fics, including Silver Nitte Iz's awesome Giddy, that deal with Rogue absorbing Remy in the same manner that she absorbed Carol, they do not handle it in the manner that she absorbed Carol. When Rogue passed through the Siege Perilous and was separated from Carol at last, Ms. Marvel retained her memory of what had happened to her. Remy forgetting because it's all in Rogue's head doesn't work for me.

Further, in Ultimate X-Men, Rogue absorbs Remy completely, killing him, and yet his powers and psyche eventually fade. Guess what? I don't buy that either. Rogue NEVER lost access to Carol's powers until they were separated into two separate bodies, and she also retained Carol's psyche, even if it was generally locked away.

So Requital seems determined to pester me. In chapter one, "Mercy," Rogue absorbs Gambit, killing him. Unlike with other psyches, however, she does not block him off (thus, indicating she can gain control of her powers with him in her head, see Legacy #224). The range of emotion in this piece haunts me.

But I have too much else to write. I'm trying to hold it at bay.

Please?