Aletheia

Or, Things Quasi-related to Writing This Fic

(A tad spoilerific, so read the fic first if you would: DW | AO3 )

※ Thanks to symetric, the fic isn't titled "(52 Days of) Arthur and Merlin" =P

♬ The titles of the parts, "Have no story to be told" and "Making a home down there," are from Adele's Rolling in the Deep, which is my ChErik anthem because of this fabulous, fabulous fanvid by arefadedaway. <--Totally worth the download!
(I played that fanvid so often my mom got interested in Adele. Bought her the album for Christmas.)

※ I wanted more screentime for Lancelot, but can't justify having him appear in Part Two.
※ I wish Gwen had interacted more with the other characters, but always thought it weird for X-M:FC's Moira to be so involved (esp. staying in the mansion during training).

♬ Book rec: Jim Grimsley's Comfort and Joy (1999). Gay fiction with a hemophiliac main character. AFAIK it's out of print, but your library might have it. It's atmospheric and ends with a happy/hopeful tone. Warning: allusions to childhood trauma/abuse.
Winter Birds (1997) is the prequel, which tells the story of Danny Crell's childhood. I didn't read WB because traumatic childhood = meep.

※ Pizza Guy is played by Caleb Landry Jones ;-)

♬ Closer's Pizza and a Movie (Suits, Harvey/Mike, AU PizzaDeliveryGuy!Mike, 30 K) was one of the fics I read when writing this story.
My fav. of her Suits fics so far is The New Deal (Gen, Harvey adopts teenage Mike as a brother, 33 K)

※ Gwaine's actor was an Abercrombie & Fitch model.

※ I didn't know "meet violent" isn't a term that cross fandoms until my beta lovely_dusk goes "??"
Is there seriously no "meet violent" couples outside Smallville? (I suppose unless you have superhuman powers you'll die if you get hit by a car, but still.)

♬ But wait. There was that awesome ChErik fic with a "meet violent" beginning!
A Curious Carriage of Crystal and Cold by Etharei (Erik/Charles, AU sci-fi fairytale, 114 K)

※ I wanted to use Japanese archery principles/philosophy for Merlin's pep talk advice friendly instruction to Arthur, but ended up finding inspiration in yoga and Buddhism instead. At least it's not Yoda. Yeah don't think about it too hard.

※ "Mutants: Second Generation" is 200+ words longer than my longest Harry Potter fic. \o/ <--is easily pleased. (When I finish my m/m origific *knocks on wood*, it'll be three times as long.)

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Camelot First Class characters and their Marvel parallel (if any)

★☆ Mutants ( Read more... )

☆★ Humans ( Read more... )

virtually everyone he met to assume he was an American.

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1. Suits. I haven't watched the show but I did read the fic that copperbadge recced and the other one written by the same author where Mike is a natural sub and Harvey is the dommiest dom that doms. X-D (Where had the cover art disappeared to though? Boo.)

2. Why I sometimes avoid watching TV shows even though I read the fanfic: Neal Caffrey is prettier than I could've expected, but Harvey Specter is not as hot as I pictured him to be. Boo.
2 a. Actually, the Wikipedia picture makes me think of Sexy!GrownUp!Privileged!Pureblood!Neville and...Peter Parker. Neville and Spiderman. Together, they fight crime! Weird, I tell you.

3. Sexy!GrownUp!Privileged!Pureblood!Neville is a fun fic premise though. Neville is raised by purebloods who're almost as snobby as the Malfoys! Except they're classier about it! (And did not support the Dark Lord, at least not publicly)

4. I have a Lancelot/Gwen, Morgana/Gwen-ish drabble idea that I haven't fleshed out/written down.

5. I wonder if there are any good Hook/Peter Pan (1993 movie with Jason Isaacs) or Caspian/Edmund fic out there that I haven't read yet...
5 a. Skandar Keynes!111 I shall miss you T_T And Lucy too ;_;
The Eustace actor has potential, but nobody can ever be as pretty as Skandar *wails*

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