Comments | neathsunnyskies: I literally cannot stop writing random crap

neathsunnyskies

I literally cannot stop writing random crap

Apr 30, 2011 09:26

The King and His Sorcerer - 1500 words, Merlin/Arthur, PG, major character death, written for this KMM prompt - but lest you forget, this is not a fairytale

( Let me tell you a story. )

fic, merlin, merlin/arthur

Comments 46

wordflake May 1 2011, 16:47:55 UTC

OMG, why haven't I read anything written by you before? This fic is glorious.

I love everything about it; the language with its lyrical feeling, the way you build, create and paint with words and sentences and I love the story in itself. I have actually never read anything about the Arthurian legend, just watched the BBC series, but somehow I think (or rather feel) that this is the underlying "theme"; it's just not a funny story about the adventures of two boys where one happens to be the king Arthur and the other one is Merlin, when I read your story I kind of got a feeling about all these numerous legends about the Once and Future King and it felt so much bigger than a silly (but very entertaining) tv-series, you know? gah, I have no idea what I'm writing right now, but I like this fic, really like it ♥

Just ... glorious, glorious.

neathsunnyskies May 1 2011, 18:04:20 UTC

Oh gosh, thank you so much!

Haha, I'm sort of the opposite of you: I have only really seen a handful of episodes from the show, but I love the idea and the characters and I especially love the legends, so that's probably the reason for the fusion of the two. Also I just make stuff up :).

You're absolutely lovely, thank you so much! ♥♥♥

Rambling comment is rambling wordflake May 1 2011, 20:17:45 UTC

To be honest, even though Merlin is the fandom I read most fics in I have only watched like ten episodes of it. The series is very good (and so slash-worthy!) but it isn't anything that change my world. But, it opened up the wonderful world of the Arthurian legends. The Merlin fandom is one of the fandoms where I actually like fanon more, because there are authors out there (like you!) who write all these wonderful, wonderful stories that really want me to start reading T. H. White and Marion Zimmer Bradley and all those other classics. though it will probably take a while before I read them since my to-read-list is of epic proportions and I tend to read like one book every third month when I'm in school, but still!

Re: Rambling comment is rambling neathsunnyskies May 2 2011, 15:10:58 UTC

Yes, exactly. To be honest, I've given up on watching the show (I'm not really one to sit down and watch TV; I'm weird, I know!) but in this fandom, you can definitely get by with sticking to writing and reading canonical or modern AUs. I love The Once and Future King, so I do a lot of stealing from that and my vague understanding of Arthurian legends and I read MZB years and years ago, so I also shamelessly steal from her.

You should definitely read them, but I have a biased, epic love of Arthurian stuff, so possibly you should not take my word for it :).

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owensheart May 1 2011, 17:34:50 UTC

Beautiful. and wonderfully wirtten.

neathsunnyskies May 1 2011, 18:08:52 UTC

Thank you!

caughtfire May 2 2011, 02:29:38 UTC

This reads like beautiful poetry. Gorgeous.

neathsunnyskies May 2 2011, 15:05:23 UTC

Thank you!

ravyn_ashling May 3 2011, 02:41:55 UTC

why do you this? you always make me want to take every single word you write and hold them to my heart and tell the whole world about them as i cry. so many feelings, love, so many feelings. ♥

the greatest of stories have no end. -- dsklfslk yes.

neathsunnyskies May 3 2011, 15:29:45 UTC

Yooooou are so wonderful; I'm thrilled about all the FEELINGS!

Thank you! ♥♥♥

lynnyliz May 4 2011, 04:50:52 UTC

Ho. Ly. Crap.
I don't even-- I can't even-- I--

I LOVED this poem, and those last lines burned themselves into my memory way back when I was still a sophomore in high school.

And you-- you--
I'm tired, sorry, but this is incredible.
(Because, you see, the end of life isn’t death.
And the last page of a book isn’t the end of the story.)
Do you know that I literally got chills? I can see how you tried to make it similar to Cummings's words, AND IT WORKED, but more applicable to me personally and less abstract and so now I love you forever even though I have no idea if I'll like the rest of your writing. This was just... wonderful. <33

neathsunnyskies May 4 2011, 16:11:13 UTC

<3 Thanks so much, I'm so glad this worked for you! I...will admit that I haven't read much of e.e. cummings (see: any) and in fact didn't even read the entire poem until I got your comment (because I am a horrible person), so to hear that the styles were similar is kind of wonderful :).

Thanks for reading!

lynnyliz May 5 2011, 02:07:44 UTC

100% honesty? I'm pretty sure that's the only e.e. cummings I've ever read, too, and I probably never would've heard of him if it wasn't for my English teacher.

But I'm really glad you replied, because right after I checked my inbox I was going to scourge my history files to track this story down again, because I'm not sure I added it to my memories like I was supposed to. And once I do that I'll stalk peruse your journal to see what other lovely things you've written, so you may see more of me.