Blue GhostGhost
July 2012
27 posts
Eddie is sexy
chainsawsavvy replied to your link: Chapter 14 of Haunted City is up
I hope i’ve made it clear to you how much i adore Haunted City. Pretty much everything that’s ever appealed to me in fiction is right here and I’m loving every second of it.
Aw. Thank you! It’s endlessly amazing to me that people will share these weird worlds with me. I used to just make stuff up in my head. Learning to turn ideas into prose is really challenging but getting the chance to interact with other people makes it totally worth it.
“In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.”
—Yogi Berra
“With no drinks he was brilliant…with one he was a genius. With two he was insane. And rarely did he stop at one.”
—The MacPhails: Baseball’s First Family of the Front-Office by G. Richard McKelvey
Do you have any more fic/fanfic recs?
YES
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Critics constantly complain that writers are lacking in standards, yet they themselves seem to have no standards other than personal prejudice for literary criticism. (…) such standards do exist. Matthew Arnold set up three criteria for criticism:
1. What is the writer trying to do?
2. How well does he succeed in doing it? (…)
3. Does the work exhibit “high seriousness”? That is, does it touch on basic issues of good and evil, life and death and the human condition.
I would also apply a fourth criterion (…) Write about what you know. More writers fail because they try to write about things they don’t know than for any other reason.
” —William S. Burroughs, “A Review of the Reviewers”LOL. Why would you do that cool artist guy?
It reminds me I should get a frame for your print though, instead of just propping it against a ceramic coffeepot on my bookshelf. Yes.
The Violet and the Tom by Octotillo →
fictionpress.com
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 93k.
Warnings: Institutionalized slavery, reference to underage sex, D/s, Bondage, pain. BDSM FOR REALS FOLKS
Summary: In what might have been the middle ages, had neither Alexander the Great nor Jesus the prophet died young, the Greek State is a powerful economic force in southern Europe, and slavery is a profitable and well-entrenched social institution. Nygell, a Lord of the Northern Isles, is given the gift of a Grecian slave by the King. Nygell wants no such responsibility.
Review: I have put off writing this rec because it is solidly one of my favorite slash stories on the web and I am not sure I can do it justice. I have a real soft spot for stories of people with serious kinks finding a partner that will go there with them. For me it is both deeply romantic and interesting psychologically. In the hands of a less capable writer this story could have been unfortunate, but Octotillo guides the reader through a difficult path with an exceptionally sure hand and bright, believable characters. Exceptional.
chainsawsavvy replied to your post: Ajax and Eli drabble
oh my gawddd i love weird domestic thingssss. Shit i’m feeling the haunted city fanart itch again.
Yess. Do it. You are officially the Art Director of Haunted City.
Ajax and Eli drabble
This ficbit takes place a year or two after the end of Haunted City. My head is a silly place sometimes.
Did I ever mention that someone commissioned me to write a short side story about Jericho and Toby?
Anyway that’s what I’m working on right now in the world of fiction. Those two are strange folks but kind of adorable and also I have a new character named Vesper and she’s not going to be in Haunted City I don’t think but I might give her a short side story of some kind.