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[sysirauta]

Artfight thing, dragon character named Allumina, belongs to k-eilonwy

I like the shape of this character and I thought that she would work well with my golden paint. I like the results here.

[teaandchess]

Cringing a bit because of that last rude reviewer you posted about, but if it's not a sore spot, I'd love to hear 5+9 for the fic meme for the Alice trilogy!

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*gasp* *stumbles to find list* a question about the Alice trilogy! Oh!

5:What part was hardest to write?

Hands down, for all three novels, it was Hatter’s triggered madness. It was okay to write in Of Tea and Chess but in Wild Cards & Gambits and the beginning of Illusions & Destinies his madness took such a devastating twist in the story itself. Suddenly his madness affects many characters, not just himself. Doing justice to my idea of his madness, harming a character I adored, and making him bear the consequences of something he couldn’t control made me feel a little bit ill writing it. But that being said, I do think it is the best I have ever written in terms of emotional scenes and even, dare I hope, imaginative twisting on the idea of his madness.

9:Were there any alternate versions of this fic?

There was quite a few! Of Tea and Chess began as a three parter that ended with sex on a tea table (yeehaw) but of course it evolved. Wild Cards was set to be a simple journey to South Wonderland (near on level with Hatter & Alice just retrieving Jack’s son). I wrote both of these things out in full before scraping them as, in both times, the story became much much bigger than I ever intended. There are alt scenes that I occasionally posted but usually they were like deleted scenes that I scraped because the whole thing is gigantic already

Thank you so much for asking these questions! I miss talking about my Alice novels sometimes :)

[oodlyenough]

thank you so much for watching iron fist (and blogging about it) so none of us have to. Taking one for the team!

THE CROSS I BEAR. I do get a twisted joy out of recapping terrible things, maybe I’ll do like a cole’s notes version every few episodes. 

I am, admittedly, paying only minimal attention to everyone’s plot machinations, but I feel like I’m getting most of it. The reviews about it being plodding and the characters being paperthin have been imo very accurate.

[ladyofstardust]

Any important meta thoughts on this very important quote from Bowie in the Labyrinth Visual History? "It's so sad, I think, because Sarah really likes Jareth," he said, "but she must get her baby brother Toby back safely. So she has to reject all of Jareth's pleas for companionship in his lonely world."

Yeah!  Definitely!

I’ve always thought that Sarah’s real struggle in the Labyrinth was not to get Toby back (I think given Sarah’s tendency towards narrative self-awareness, she’d just assume that was always going to happen) but instead trying to figure out choices and consequences while still taking ownership of her story.

This is where the “not fair” thing comes into play as well.  Sarah’s thing through the film is that she’s impulsive and strong willed.  She is also 15. This leads her to make a lot of decisions she feels should be excused because “she’s sorry”.  The point of the Labyrinth is to prove that yeah, bad decisions can be unmade, but it won’t be easy.  You don’t get to lash out in anger and expect everyone to let it go because you didn’t mean it.  You have to be conscientious of the world around you and how your choices affect other people. By the end of the film Sarah is still strong willed and impulsive but she’s learned how to turn them into positive traits.  She holds firm in turning down Jareth because she knows that the price of that choice is more than she is willing to pay.   

It’s also why I think Sarah does like Jareth (but definitely not love).  She’s into that shit; Jareth represents the concept of love and sex and that’s why it’s so hard for her to pull away from him in the ballroom.  She does struggle with it and I think it goes beyond ‘because magic’.  It’s so easy to lose yourself in that moment and forget because the idea of love is so intoxicating.  

I also think that’s why the Within You scene is so revealing.  There’s a moment after Jareth tells Sarah that her “eyes can be so cruel” where you kind of see Sarah break out of fight mode.  It’s a tiny moment where she finally realizes that she was right, she *was* always going to get Toby back because it was never about the baby.  It was about her.  She finally got what she wanted, a story all about her and how much the handsome king loves her, and she’s utterly fucked. 

Because now, now she’s got to give up the story and make it about Toby instead.  While she likes Jareth, she likes the story more.  The nameless Goblin King who is handsome and loves her.  But there’s a real, handsome Goblin King standing in front of her telling her he loves her and she doesn’t love him, just the idea of him. Thems the breaks.  

So the price is too high to accept Jareth’s offer which, Sarah doesn’t have the context we do about Jareth.  She does not and cannot trust Jareth at this juncture and rewrites the end of the story to make it about the baby.  Rescue the baby, go home live happily ever after.  Jareth stays villain and Sarah stays a princess, waiting to go rescue a prince and be made queen (spoiler alert: it’ll be Jareth).

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