Showing off my banner :-)...

[sigune]

Squee! Tidemark won me a banner at romancingwizard! I'm really happy that it has been so well-received - it does make me feel eager to write again :-). It is nice to be able to upload a new story to my archive accounts... At FA and Petulant Poetess it is still pending, but at Occlumency it is already up, here.

*beams*

Comments

[branquignole.livejournal.com]

Oh, congratulations!

I've just read your fic - very beautifully written. I loved the idea and it really is a memorable fanfiction. :)

[sigune.livejournal.com]

Hee! Thanks a lot - I'm glad you liked it! :D

[zefla.livejournal.com]

Well done!! It was really well written so you deserved to get something.(not that I'm biased because I didn't read any of the other entries..course not :D)

[sigune.livejournal.com]

*g*

Thank you! :D

[msavi.livejournal.com]

ACK, I'm glad you posted this 'cause I'd meant to go back and leave a review when you originally posted the story to your LJ. I liked it a lot, especially Brynhild. The last line of the first paragraph especially made me grin in appreciation. :)

I did have a question for you, though, and it's one of pure curiosity. Do you ever feel like you have an...obligation (for lack of a better word) to acknowledge Snily? I know you've said that you're most comfortable staying as close to canon as you can manage, and I definitely understand that since I often feel that way myself. But I'm wondering why it is that someone like me, who also tends to at least use canon as a guide (sometimes even the bits I dislike), feels absolutely no need to concede Snily in my stories. I don't think it can be simply that I loathe the ship. Maybe you have some insight?

[sigune.livejournal.com]

It's hard to say why I acknowledge Snily... The ship and its prominence in Snape's choices makes me like him a lot less than before, but I can't ignore it. I guess that I must acknowledge it in order to be able to give it a twist that makes me like Snape again. The ship is a given in canon and I can't un-know it. If I want to keep enjoying the character of Snape, I need to find an explanation for his adoration of Lily that makes sense to me and adds depth and complexity (in my eyes) to what seems like a silly teenage infatuation.

I am more or less forced to confront Snily because I write Snape/Brynhild. I don't feel as if I can ignore Snape's obsession with one woman when shipping him with another who isn't even canonical. In fact it makes the new relationship more interesting, I think, because it allows me to explore just why Snape gets involved with Brynhild at all and how his relationship with her differs from that with Lily. Before Snily was official, I gave him a huge unrequited crush on Narcissa Black, which I still think is much more plausible than a crush on Lily Evans - but the effect was very similar. Only, because Lily is dead, that makes the challenge for Brynhild so much the greater - a dead woman is easily idealised.

Still, I do expect to have more problems when I tackle the Snily thing in its own right, as I would have to do in my projected teen!Snape fic... In any case, I don't see how I could possibly pretend it wasn't there :/.

[msavi.livejournal.com]

In any case, I don't see how I could possibly pretend it wasn't there :/

It must be the stubborn child in me who is crossing her arms, stamping her foot and wearing a scowl that says, "That's exactly what I intend to do!" Heh.

::forlorn sigh::

When I think about it, there were 1 or 2 WIPs I had going pre-DH that alluded to Snily in one form or another. So it's not like I wasn't prepared, or hadn't considered it. I think what I wasn't prepared for was how it changed my love of Snape, which was so unacceptable to me that I just chucked the whole idea rather than sacrifice even one iota of admiration for Snape. Which makes me a little ashamed, since I like to think of myself as someone who prefers truth over bliss. And I've tried to incorporate it without sacrificing anything; I wrote a trio of drabbles not long ago, one of which featured Snily. But ergh, what we were given...the image of Snape sobbing over a photo of Lily still repulses me. I guess it wasn't so much the ship itself, but how it was painted that disgusted me so much. So maybe the same colours in the hands of a different artist will paint a much more aesthetically pleasing picture.

Anyway, I'm at least happy to see you working through this to a place where you can enjoy writing Snape again. :)

[sprite6.livejournal.com]

Yay you!

ETA - I posted this and then realized, Duh, I should read your fic first. But I can't tonight, so I'm printing to read on the subway tomorrow. Anyway, kudos on the banner. :)

[sigune.livejournal.com]

;-)

Thanks! I hope you enjoy the story :D.

[redwine333.livejournal.com]

great piece- subtle reworking of the new cannon info, I'm glad you gave snily more depth than the 'teen lurve' portrayed in dh (blech!) which felt so un-Snape to me... :)

[sigune.livejournal.com]

I had the same problem with Snily that you have. That is probably why it took me so long to write a new story - I had to come to terms with the ship :/.

I'm glad you liked the result! :D