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Nov. 21st, 2011 03:02 pmI received a Dhalgren story for Kaleidoscope. "Optic/Nerve" is the title and I confess that since my request had suggested that a Wolverine&Kidd crackfic adventure would be fun, I thought when I saw the title we might see Scott Summers make an appearance. No matter, the story was wonderful despite its total lack of X-Men jokes.
I first read it at about 7am Sunday morning from my hotel room at Philcon while various other people snored or grumbled angrily at the morning sun. Reading it in that setting was a blissful, meditative experience. The story is subtle and extremely thoughtful and I love the way it cheats by relying on tiny allusions to the source material to tell an expansive and large story in only 1300 words. That's really beautiful technical execution, especially for a Dhalgren story. I have reread the story several times since then. I keep finding more in it.
Mostly what I keep finding is more and more love. This story is a revelation about the depths of the feelings Denny and Lanya and Kidd share. Dhalgren itself is so muddled on the question. The characters are confused about their feelings, confused about what commitment means when everything could change at any minute. It is one of fanfiction's most sacred jobs to ship characters that canon is unwilling to commit to shipping. This story makes Denny/Lanya/Kidd about more than just desperate, incoherent sex.
In any case, I think I would say I would be unsurprised if![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
starlady wrote this story, but I don't feel confident in that guess. Meanwhile, my story is about as guessable as anything I've ever written. sanguinity guessed pretty instantly. I pretty much just crammed the story with all of the hallmarks of a seekingferret story, until it overflowed.
I first read it at about 7am Sunday morning from my hotel room at Philcon while various other people snored or grumbled angrily at the morning sun. Reading it in that setting was a blissful, meditative experience. The story is subtle and extremely thoughtful and I love the way it cheats by relying on tiny allusions to the source material to tell an expansive and large story in only 1300 words. That's really beautiful technical execution, especially for a Dhalgren story. I have reread the story several times since then. I keep finding more in it.
Mostly what I keep finding is more and more love. This story is a revelation about the depths of the feelings Denny and Lanya and Kidd share. Dhalgren itself is so muddled on the question. The characters are confused about their feelings, confused about what commitment means when everything could change at any minute. It is one of fanfiction's most sacred jobs to ship characters that canon is unwilling to commit to shipping. This story makes Denny/Lanya/Kidd about more than just desperate, incoherent sex.
In any case, I think I would say I would be unsurprised if
starlady wrote this story, but I don't feel confident in that guess. Meanwhile, my story is about as guessable as anything I've ever written. sanguinity guessed pretty instantly. I pretty much just crammed the story with all of the hallmarks of a seekingferret story, until it overflowed.