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Friday, May 1st, 2020
9:28 pm	Friends-only post ... Hello any readers out there ... So yeah, I just realized that this lj could be bumping up against Real Life in a singular way. And we can't have that, really ... :/ Sorry if it's an inconvenience, but do please post here, saying why you want in on Subtilior's Assorted Natterings and Ditherings (SAND), and I'd be happy to give you the secret knock. (101 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, November 28th, 2011
4:36 pm	Advent ... Well. Long time no write! Hello everyone ... Yesterday marked the start of Advent, the Christian church season that prepares for Christmas. Some of my fave music @ work; some of the most fun things to do all year (CHOKLIT INNA CALENDAR; WOO); and ... well. I love the cold and snow, so moving closer and closer to the solstice always makes me happy. It's interesting. About this time last year, I was massively bitten by the last Labyrinth plot bunny of my own to possess me completely. It was "Advent," (appropriate title iz appropriate!) Lemme link to it again - ah, shameless self-plugging. (and goodness, that sounds dirty.) "Advent" http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6558596/1/Advent Here is the piece of music that put me in the mood for that fic. An angular modernist setting of a medieval text: 'Jerusalem rejos for joy' - but I suppose that the title is technically "Illuminare, Jerusalem." :) Other creative endeavors in my life. I've been beta-ing Knifeedge's (awesome awesome awesome Spuffy fic) "Dust." Here 'tis: "Dust" http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6958651/1/DUST Shed some love & reviewage upon her! I did not write for the Granger/Snape fic exchange, this year - did some art instead. Unlike last year, when I did a cracked-out "Pride and Prejudice" 'lost in a book' fill! Here 'tis. I'm still rather chuffed about it. "The Apothecary's Assistant; or: Witch Austen's Revenge" http://archiveofourown.org/works/252405/chapters/391608 That last is on Archive of Our Own. I've been gradually posting my fics there, only because I enjoy their ad-free space, and their premise. [ETA: two types of premises, I suppose. ba-dum-THUD!] What's gotten me a bit down, recently, has been the failure of the "import word document" feature to work, connected to the Rich Text Editor. I sit and sigh, staring at the screen while trying to upload ... and then I try and cobble together the correct html from ff.net's editor feature. Only, of course, because coding all of my faaaaavorite italics by hand = a hair-raising trek to the top of Mt. DO NOT WANT. And because, erm. *cough* I may have been cheating on my OTP J/S ... with a slash pairing? Hope that's cool. I suppose one may have four OTPs, yes? het, slash, femmeslash, and 'defies-categorization'.  Thing is, this is a kind of mammoth darkfic "X-Men First Class" AU. Nuclear war and captivity and dubcon - oh my! Be warned for those if you click through - and if you have any passing interest in it, I'd be curious to know what you think. "Nine Eleven Ten" http://archiveofourown.org/works/252402/chapters/391601 Cause yeah, I'm in for the long haul, I guess. Oh. And: ... itmayalsobe200Kwordssofar. Whoooooooops. *flees* ETA: Hi to XMFC peeps! Welcome to my (alternately taciturn and blah-blah-BLAH-ful) LJ! Current Mood: pensive (12 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, December 24th, 2010
7:18 pm	Epilogue Rating: M Thanks so very much to knifeedgefic for the super-speedy beta, and, as well, to lightup_tea and for their feedback. Cross-posted at Labyfic.  ( Epilogue ) (Comment on this)
7:15 pm	Part 9 Rating: M Thanks so very much to knifeedgefic for the super-speedy beta, and, as well, to lightup_tea and for their feedback. Cross-posted at Labyfic.  ( Read more... ) (Comment on this)
7:11 pm	Advent, part 8 Rating: M Thanks so very much to knifeedgefic for the super-speedy beta, and, as well, to lightup_tea and for their feedback. Cross-posted at labyfic. ( Part 8 ) (Comment on this)
7:10 pm	Part 7 Rating: M Thanks so very much to knifeedgefic for the super-speedy beta, and, as well, to lightup_tea and for their feedback. Cross-posted at Labyfic.  ( Read more... ) (Comment on this)
7:06 pm	Part 6 Rating: M Thanks so very much to knifeedgefic for the super-speedy beta, and, as well, to lightup_tea and for their feedback. Cross-posted at Labyfic.  ( Part 6 ) (Comment on this)
6:59 pm	Part 5 Rating: M Thanks so very much to knifeedgefic for the super-speedy beta, and, as well, to lightup_tea and for their feedback. Cross-posted at Labyfic.  ( Part 5 ) (Comment on this)
6:54 pm	Advent, part 4 Rating: M Thanks so very much to knifeedgefic for the super-speedy beta, and, as well, to lightup_tea and for their feedback. Cross-posted at Labyfic.  ( Part 4 ) (Comment on this)
6:43 pm	Advent, part 3 Rating: M [cumulative] for: angst, childhood injury, bad language, sexuality, violence & gore. (Please note that most of these appear later on in the fic. Reader discretion is advised. Thanks so very much to knifeedgefic for the super-speedy beta, and, as well, to lightup_tea and for their feedback. Cross-posted at Labyfic. [nb: Labyfic mods - if this ain't permissible, shoot me an message pls.) ( Part 3 ) (Comment on this)
11:44 am	So, yeah ... ahoy hoy, folkes. I ym ywrittin in ye mocke olde Anglys/Scots/whatever, because I am running through (again and again) the weird (wyrd?) text of a carol I get to sing a lot today. Ye firste verse: Jerusalem rejos for joy: Jesus, the sterne of most bewte In thee is rissin as richtous roy, Fro dirknes to illumyne thee. With glorius sound of angell gle Thy prince is borne in Baithlem Quhilk sall the mak or thraldome fre. Illuminare, Jerusalem. It doesn't help that the composer's favorite interval is ... ye Tritone. Blah! Here - you can hear the crazy, if you copy'n'paste. (Ye linke doesnt werke well). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mo4v1wEw_pk So ... for all y'all - fic question! ( What to do? ) (Comment on this)
Tuesday, December 14th, 2010
5:57 am	Advent - part 2 Title: Advent Author:subtilior  Medium: Fanfic Rating: M [cumulative] for: angst, childhood injury, bad language, sexuality, violence & gore. (Please note that most of these appear later on in the fic. Reader discretion is advised. Thanks so very much to knifeedgefic for the super-speedy beta, and, as well, to lightup_tea and for their feedback. Cross-posted at Labyfic. [nb: Labyfic mods - if this ain't permissible, shoot me an message pls.) ( Part 2 ) (Comment on this)
4:35 am	Mai Winterfest Fic. I shows u it. Title: Advent Author:subtilior  Medium: Fanfic Rating: M [cumulative] for: angst, childhood injury, bad language, sexuality, violence & gore. Please note that most of these appear later on in the fic. Reader discretion is advised. Thanks so very much to knifeedgefic for the super-speedy beta, and, as well, to lightup_tea and for their feedback. Cross-posted at Labyfic. [nb: Labyfic mods - if this ain't permissible, shoot me an message pls.) ( Part 1 ) (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, December 6th, 2010
12:32 pm	Yeah, so I'm a dumb cluck. A repost. If you took the poll, pls take again? pls pls? Ahoy hoy, interwebs. So I gotta get something down on (e-)paper for the Labyfic Winterfest ... and I have a few ideas, but no sense of which one to pick! So: which would you prefer? Poll #1653879 Labyfic Winterfest! Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 11 Pick a genre, any genre ... View Answers Angst - with evil!Jareth 3 (15.8%) Angst - unrequited love/the road not taken 2 (10.5%) Drama - with evil!Jareth 6 (31.6%) Drama - no evil, just a good plot. Maybe a mystery? 2 (10.5%) Comedy/Farce - fluffy 5 (26.3%) Comedy/Farce - bitchy 0 (0.0%) Other (nb: please explain in comments!) 1 (5.3%) (1 Comment |Comment on this)
10:45 am	PS Also, for crying out loud. In the previous poll, please know that whichever I pick, I'll go w/ the majority of what people like. i.e.: I didn't restrict all youse to just one answer, of all the possibilities. Genius at wrok. ETA: FOR CRYING OUT LOUD. Polling cannot be restricted to one answer. Or at least, I can't seem to do so. LJ, WHY do you HATE ME SO?! *hits head against monitor* Poll #1653840 PS! Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 21 Damn, Subtilior, what is up with you and evil!Jareth?! View Answers Word. 4 (14.3%) Huh? 0 (0.0%) So what? *I* like it. 12 (42.9%) Well, you gotta dance with the muse that brung ya. 12 (42.9%) (Comment on this)
Wednesday, July 21st, 2010
11:35 pm	For the Labyfic drabble challenge, "Frost" I couldn't resist this one. :) . . . . FROST . . His voice wakes her, when she wanted only to sleep, wrapped warm with frost. “Sarah …” His magic flickers in her blurred vision. (No …) “Slow cold freezes time – or slow time freezes the world – but I have found you …” His breath, slightly less cold, on her eyelids, mouth. “How foolish, to fly away ...” A warmer breath. “You will not do it again.” She feels her lips crack. “Will you.” And when he kisses her, Sarah remembers. The ice on her eyes melts, runs warm down her face. Cold and frost are gentle. The Goblin King: less so. Current Mood: weird (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, April 27th, 2010
11:46 pm	And it's a go! Yay! "Shards of a Dream" is now up; you may find it off the pg. below. www.fanfiction.net/~subtilior The creative juices are flowing! This is lovely (*knock on wood*) b/c it means that painstaking Real Life project o' Doom is going OK, too. I decided to keep some of the ending changes, for SoaD, and to prune some others. Anyway. Enjoy! (7 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, April 4th, 2010
11:06 pm	*croak* Well, a-well - that's all, for Teh Singing. *clears throat* *coughs* ... I maintain that one service's worth of incense, at this gig, is just about on the level of smoking two packs, unfiltered. :)  This isn't my group, obviously, but here's one of the works we sang last night and this morning: Dum Transisset Sabbatum by John Taverner (1490-1545), sung above by the Tallis Scholars. Not sure how much I like Teh Montage-ing ... it undercuts the effect of the music that the youtuber actually picked up on; a culmination in the final "alleluya". That music, though ... If I were a cat, I'd be purring. The week lies before me - LE SIGH. I do not want it to begin. So, in the spirit of sinful indulgence (I should be reading essays), here is "Shards of a Dream" - part 2. ( Click! ) Current Mood: creative (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, April 2nd, 2010
10:03 am	Ugh! and Fic-ness! Hi all! Not to bitch or anything, but MY LIFE = grrrrARRRRRGH! I'm working on a Huge Academic Project of Doom - and by "working," I mean, "spinning my wheels." Also, I've had four rehearsals and three church services already this week, and I have four and three more (respectively) to go. And today's is going to be Hella Long. [/emo bitching] If I clap my paws on a recording device of some sort, maybe I'll try & share some of the music with y'all. Because it's pretty. Anyway, Friday's been Fanday for quite some time, so here's the first chunk of a longer one-shot. Don't you hate it when your PWP acquires a plot? Lousy plot bunnies. Read on! ( Shards of a Dream ) (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, January 18th, 2010
10:58 am	Update: a round of fervent thanks to A Certain LJ User (may I name you?) for the paid account! w00t! Fun online shenanigans await!  Also, Friday was Fanday, but I totes forgot. So here's a (belated) pressie! Recently, there took place a discussion on dmacabre 's lj, about what constitutes canon in the Laby-verse. It's an interesting ongoing back-and-forth, so take a look!  From it: my comment!fic: ( Party like it's ... um. Something unmentionable? ) (6 Comments |Comment on this)