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alixtii ([personal profile] alixtii) wrote2010-01-01 04:39 pm

Arthurian Legend: "The Orphans"

Title: The Orphans
Fandom: Arthurian myth & legend
Pairing: Arthur Pendragon/Morgan le Fay
Word Count: ~12,000
Summary: The education of Morgan le Fay in the art of sorcery, and her romance with Arthur Pendragon.

( The Orphans )

[identity profile] ladyphoenixmage.livejournal.com 2010-01-02 06:08 pm (UTC)(link)
It's great to see how much this has grown up since I last read it. I noticed that you seem to have confused some of your subjects (in chapter 3, Morgan surely does not grab her own shoulder to prevent her escape). I am definitely loving this story and the knowledge that you are still working on it. I'm also thrilled to see that the "Assimilated with interest" line has completely disappeared. ;) Is this your final draft?

[identity profile] alixtii.livejournal.com 2010-01-07 02:51 am (UTC)(link)
The older portions of this aren't going to be too heavily edited (although I will surely fix things like the pronoun issue you've pointed out); I've found that this simply isn't a story I'm able to tell anymore. I'm not the same person as the person who wrote it; his voice isn't my voice; and the only way I know to respect his vision is to let his choices remain even when I would do things radically differently today. I will thusly never be able to translate it into anything even approaching a salable form, and I've made peace with that fact. Hopefully it will find itself comfortably at home at the Archive of Our Own.