tag:dreamwidth.org,2015-07-05:2421873To Cry AboutFanfic, comics, movies, books, and wordsF.A. MacNeil2015-10-21T05:13:22Ztag:dreamwidth.org,2015-07-05:2421873:26165Sunless Sea fic: Whistling Shell2015-10-21T04:49:53Z2015-10-21T05:13:22Zpublic0<a href="http://archiveofourown.org/works/5043175">Whistling Shell</a><br /><b>Fandom:</b> Sunless Sea / Fallen London<br /><b>Characters:</b> Irrepressible Cannoneer, Zee Captain, & others<br /><b>Length:</b> 14,383 (complete)<br /><br />The sacrifices we make for money aren’t always worth it. The Captain wants a piece of the red honey trade, and in order to secure her place with the smugglers, she sells something away that can’t be bought back. Or can it?<br /><br />(Spoilers for the end of Zaira’s and the Irrepressible Cannoneer’s questlines.)<br /><br /><i>There’s a tune the Cannoneer likes to whistle, whenever we’re in sight of the bright green jewel-box of Aestival, or the darker swamp forests of the Sea of Autumn. Not so strange; the other zailors liven up in the air of the Calumnies too, and they all look forward to gathering crates of greens when we sail into port at Mangrove College. But the Cannoneer whistles that same tune when we’re under the hand of the Iron Republic, cutting the prow-light to hide from Unfinished pirates and Republican dreadnoughts…</i><br /><br />Read at ao3: <a href="http://archiveofourown.org/works/5043175">http://archiveofourown.org/works/5043175</a><br /><br />There's also an 8tracks mix to go with it, if you're so inclined: <a href="http://8tracks.com/tocryabout/whistling-shell">http://8tracks.com/tocryabout/whistling-shell</a><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=tocryabout&ditemid=26165" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2015-07-05:2421873:26032Tell me who's that writing? John the Revelator...2015-10-19T07:04:15Z2015-10-19T07:04:15Zpublic0That feel when you decide to write a quick <i>canon-compliant</i> story for another fandom, just as a palate cleanser before launching into X-men Novel #3...and the story gets a little too long...and you come to the end and realise you really need to mirror it with a second one from the opposite perspective in order to make it all hang nicely...and now we're talking about 20K at least...<br /><br />Well, a palate-cleanser is coming shortly, anyway, because the draft is done. It's in <a href="http://www.failbettergames.com/sunless/">Sunless Sea</a>/<a href="http://fallenlondon.com">Fallen London</a> fandom. Completely different from what I usually do, and yet not that different. <br /><br />I'll aim to release the first three chapters of Novel #3 at once, just to be sure that I have all my dominos set up the way I want them to fall. Outlines are outliney, wheels are in motion.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=tocryabout&ditemid=26032" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2015-07-05:2421873:24912Hey, I wrote some canon-compliant fic for once!2015-07-26T13:54:50Z2015-07-26T13:54:50Zpublic0I'm not sure I could really tell you why, but I wrote <i>Wolverine</i> movieverse Sabretooth with the doomed Birdy from the comics, and then I threw in Al Purdy poetry and the possible murder of Tom Thomson because those things go with supervillains, right? Right. Also I'm going to get thrown out of the alumni society for dragging my alma mater this hard.<br /><br />Read on AO3: <a href="http://archiveofourown.org/works/4427702">Happy Hour Is Here</a><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=tocryabout&ditemid=24912" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments