Multifaceted Awards

[sigune]

Right. I'll follow aerynstales's example and pimp my own Multifaceted nomination :-). Voting for the Awards is now open, so if you feel like wasting a vote on my As She Likes It (for the really innocent readers among you, it's R-rated and SS/OFC) in the Endurance category for challenge entries, then please be my guest and go here. I'll never know if you don't, and I won't win anyway, but if you haven't done your good deed for today, you might consider this ;-).

I have just got my very own computer since Sunday, and moving all my files I started to dip into my fics again. The number of unfinished stories on my hard drive is depressing ;-). Anyway - I have come to think that Mirror Mirror is really one of the best things I ever wrote; but I suppose that now that HBP overtook it, it is doomed to oblivion. Too bad.

If anyone here is interested in letting me know their opinion, I'd love to hear which of my stories (or art, if you like that better) you liked best, and why... Just curiosity :-).

Comments

[penguin2006.livejournal.com]

Hello Sigune.... it's Penguin2006 from DeviantArt. Well, it's so hard to believe that English isn't your first language. My Dutch husband has been in the UK for 6 years and he doesn't speak as fluid English as you yet... come to think of it, I don't either and it's my first language! I've just read one of your stories, The Good-Morrow, and I loved it. Very different from any other fanfic I have read so far, very immediate and crystalline. I registered here yesterday so I could post comments on your journal....

Is there one place where I can read all your stories? You seem to have posted them in quite a few places and I need to log on to the sites for the rated ones. I don't want to have to register to a whole lot of different sites, so which one would you recommend?

I was interested in some of the replies to your mini-essay about Snape and his connection with Harry. One person commented about what a vile, cowardly character he really is. It's true! You've mentioned it yourself - if we met him in real life, we would want to definitely stay at a distance from this unpleasant man. One of the least attractive things about him is that he is an adult man who gets off on bullying little children. It's just pathetic. Not to speak of his downright evil past. Yet we are all so fascinated by him. I blame JKR for writing him with such obvious enjoyment. She has admitted that he is a detestable character but she loves to write him because he is such fun, and it really shows. Perhaps we have all been drawn into this passion she has for the writing itself? All I know is that I am slightly obsessed.

I'm off to read more of your stories now, starting with the ones mentioned above...

Oh, and by the way, if anyone wants something checked for British usage, you can send it to me because I'm always seeing mistakes of that sort in fanfic (but I'm not a writer so I couldn't betaread). You can pass that on if you want. (Not in yours Sigune, The Good-Morrow was b-e-a-u-t-i-f-u-l.)

[sigune.livejournal.com]

Hello Penguin, welcome to my journal! I'll have to alert my friend _vocalion_ to your icon - her ship is Potions & Pineapples :-)...

Wheee! you like my writing too! That makes my day. As for my English, you haven't heard me yet; writing does come easier to me than speaking, and for my stories I have a wonderful beta.

'Slightly obsessed' doesn't cover my 'affair' with Snape in the slightest, I fear :D. After the stories I've written and the pictures I've drawn I'm not inclined to call him vile and evil; I adore him - though, as you say, I wouldn't want to meet him, LOL. As a fictional figure, and a fictional mask to use in writing, he is really great and exciting. I think that is what JKR means: when you write Snape, you know you are being base and mean, but it's wonderful to have a mouthpiece that allows you to discard the restrictions of who you are in real life. Mind you - I say 'wonderful', but I felt really bad after writing "As She Likes It". It has my nastiest Snape ever, and it was hard to come to terms with the fact that he came out of my head. Fortunately I'm very different from him in real life ;-).

My stories are indeed posted at several sites. Occlumency holds them all, without exception, and in the most recent versions - that would be here (http://occlumency.sycophanthex.com/viewuser.php?uid=367). The only story you won't be able to access via this page is "As She Likes It", because of the R-rating. In case you really want to read that story, I'll have to redirect you to FictionAlley, here (http://www.fictionalley.org/authors/sigune/). That site holds all my stories (and my HBP Snape essay) as well, but the ones written before OotP haven't been updated. FA has all the original versions.

Thanks so much for the praise! *floats away on a pink cloud*

[penguin2006.livejournal.com]

I just read 'As She Likes It'. Wheee! Snape was very vindictive and gloating towards Sirius - but it was all in his head. He didn't say anything. The venom was fantastic. It was actually very funny, reading someone being that sarcastic and malicious. You just didn't want to be on the receiving end of it!

I have registered on Occlumency, and I am working my way through all your stories now. Joy unconfined! I'm enjoying reviewing them too because I'm very opinionated.