D: Atlas is a bad introduction to...anything, really, have you tried "The Fountainhead"? That one is so much better it's actually disturbing--she stays away from a lot of the malevolence and senselessness present in Atlas, not to mention the econ-babble she knows nothing about, so it's about 35892385 times more readable. And now I'm kind of picturing a bunch of jaded jonin-type people walking around going "What's the use, who is Uchiha Itachi? OMG crossover I think the context of what Mai said was something about Shearwater :D because I found your fic, lost it, and then was all "blah blah blah MadaIta fic with Shearwater lyrics!" to her, so she found it for me again based on that oh-so-excellent description.
Ooh, thank you! I will certainly abuse that download page. I remember the first Okkervil River song I ever heard was "Missing Children," and the lyrics were SO CREEPY I was just caught. Even if the lyrics make no sense for a lot of the songs, you're so right--it's just the diction, and the syntax...Lyricists nowadays seem to forget how much the lyrics are a part of the song, which is just sad :(
Gay angels. Now I want to read it, because it sounds so yummy and slashable EXCEPT the last gay angels I read were in "The Amber Spyglass" and that was a less than pleasurable experience. See I got so lucky on Naruto fic, because I went solely with recs and THEN only was I thrown headfirst into the sea of FFN to fend for myself. Maybe it's because the fandom is younger and hence has no idea what it's doing? Another problem is that I...don'tlikeSasuNaru *flinch* The genfic in the fandom, surprisingly, seems really good thus far (too bad no one reads it...)
Re: Merlin...I have a horrible addiction to Gwen/Morgana, of all things, having wanted to ship the archetypes of these characters ever since I first encountered the shadow of them in "The Mists of Avalon" or hell, "The Once and Future King," although naturally they're TOTALLY different in the actual series. If I ever do write for this fandom, they'll be first on my list :D Too scared to attempt Arthur/Merlin. Too scared by FAR.
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Date: 2010-04-09 10:02 am (UTC)OMG crossoverI think the context of what Mai said was something about Shearwater :D because I found your fic, lost it, and then was all "blah blah blah MadaIta fic with Shearwater lyrics!" to her, so she found it for me again based on that oh-so-excellent description.Ooh, thank you! I will certainly abuse that download page. I remember the first Okkervil River song I ever heard was "Missing Children," and the lyrics were SO CREEPY I was just caught. Even if the lyrics make no sense for a lot of the songs, you're so right--it's just the diction, and the syntax...Lyricists nowadays seem to forget how much the lyrics are a part of the song, which is just sad :(
Gay angels. Now I want to read it, because it sounds so yummy and slashable EXCEPT the last gay angels I read were in "The Amber Spyglass" and that was a less than pleasurable experience. See I got so lucky on Naruto fic, because I went solely with recs and THEN only was I thrown headfirst into the sea of FFN to fend for myself. Maybe it's because the fandom is younger and hence has no idea what it's doing? Another problem is that I...don'tlikeSasuNaru *flinch* The genfic in the fandom, surprisingly, seems really good thus far (too bad no one reads it...)
Re: Merlin...I have a horrible addiction to Gwen/Morgana, of all things, having wanted to ship the archetypes of these characters ever since I first encountered the shadow of them in "The Mists of Avalon" or hell, "The Once and Future King," although naturally they're TOTALLY different in the actual series. If I ever do write for this fandom, they'll be first on my list :D Too scared to attempt Arthur/Merlin. Too scared by FAR.