FIC: All's Well (A Farce in Eight Easy Pieces)

[westwardlee]

Title: All’s Well (A Farce in Eight Easy Pieces)
Author: Lee West (westwardlee)
Rating: R
Warnings: Het and slash; too many pairings.
Challenge: Sirius shows up for his own memorial.
Author's Notes: Tons of thanks to minnow_53 for a very thorough beta job and to xellas for reading and understanding.

The full text of W. H. Auden’s Funeral Blues can be found here

Comments

[sirius_lurking]

That was flippin amazing. *hee*

they could make plans to go to…Siberia. Or hell. Or wherever.

And then the big argument where everyone got outed...“Is that why you married me? For a child? I was nothing more than a sperm donor?”

Tonks snorted. “Obviously you weren’t even that.” ooooh, burn!

Very entertaining ^_^

[westwardlee]

A lot of conflict, yeah? People do say the worst things when they're angry.

Glad it worked for you. I was a little worried about playing with so many emotional characters.

[magnifique]

Oh, that was adorable!
I really love the use of the W.H. Auden poem, for some reason. It fits Remus' reaction to Sirius' death very well.
And the way you wrote Remus and Tonks' relationship was terribly funny; especially how she viewed the relationship. =]
♥

[westwardlee]

I've been dying to use Auden's poem since OotP - finally made it!

I like Tonks - I just don't like her with Remus. I actually LOVE her with Kingsley. In my opinion, at least they have something in common and a reason to interact. She seemed to me the perfect example of someone on the rebound, accepting the first person who shows kindness towards her. I know it's me, but I don't sense love/chemistry at all between R/T. I respect those who do, though. It's only a matter of opinion.

Glad you liked it. :-}

[ukraine_girl]

XD

Genius! <3 it!

Peace + love

[westwardlee]

Thank you! This is a lovely compliment.

♥

[adrenya]

You can take all the time you want on A Tale of Two Wands and Summer of my Discontent II if this is what is taking up all of your time. I nearly cried, I laughed aloud, I even made everyone one in the house read passages of it.

I love you it. It. I meant it. You It is brilliant.

[westwardlee]

And aren't you the loveliest? Thanks a lot, honey - it's really appreciated.

I made an Old Year Resolution - I'll try to finish Tale Seven in 2005. I needed the push you gave me.

Now, Summer II will definitely be a 2006 event. I can't stop taking in challenges. There must be something wrong with me.

♥ U 2.

[goddessofwords]

Fabulous! I wondered why you called it a farce, at first, but by the argument in part 6 I caught on. I really liked the early parts with the psychology of the Remus/Tonks relationship. The whole Kingsley thing makes Tonks's depression more understandable, and the way they both felt about things worked for me. I'm not sure your summary of the HP events quite fits with canon chronology, but close enough. All the characterizations were good, and your writing style is engaging. I would have found it more plausible if not quite everyone was gay, although I did enjoy the Ginny?luna bits. Also, I was a touch put off by Kingsley starting out his and Tonks's engagement by refusing to call her by her chosen name (it comes off as rather controlling, right when you were starting to make me like your Kinglsey). Great story!

[westwardlee]

It doesn't matter if Kingsley has atoned for all his past mistakes - he's still a man and, therefore, controlling :-}. And showing it as a term of endearment, something "just between the two of us". Oh, well!

Thanks for a very good review.