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matt_doyle) wrote2014-01-01 11:13 am
matt_doyle) wrote2014-01-01 11:13 am
Yuletide Reveals! And also Happy New Year!
This year, I wrote two stories!
The first was Hunting the Phoenix, historical RPF about Antinous and his affair with the Roman Emperor Hadrian. It's kind of... a meditation on the unknowability of Antinous while he was a live, from Antinous' perspective. The more I researched this story the more I had questions with no answers, and I wanted to write something that reflected that rather than putting in my own glib answers. Of course, I did put in my own glib answers, too. But I tried to be subtle about it, to the point where my primary beta reader missed them entirely. Readers, I ask: what did you see me say on the matter?
The second was The Child Eaters, Greek mythology/Greek drama fic about Electra, Orestes, and Pylades after the murder of Clytemnestra. The idea was to blend the wrenching verisimilitude of Sophocles with the over-the-top cynical strangeness of Euripides and add a soupcon on Tarantino, and I'mm not quite sure if it worked, but I had fun trying and I might want to tamper with it a little more.
The first was Hunting the Phoenix, historical RPF about Antinous and his affair with the Roman Emperor Hadrian. It's kind of... a meditation on the unknowability of Antinous while he was a live, from Antinous' perspective. The more I researched this story the more I had questions with no answers, and I wanted to write something that reflected that rather than putting in my own glib answers. Of course, I did put in my own glib answers, too. But I tried to be subtle about it, to the point where my primary beta reader missed them entirely. Readers, I ask: what did you see me say on the matter?
The second was The Child Eaters, Greek mythology/Greek drama fic about Electra, Orestes, and Pylades after the murder of Clytemnestra. The idea was to blend the wrenching verisimilitude of Sophocles with the over-the-top cynical strangeness of Euripides and add a soupcon on Tarantino, and I'mm not quite sure if it worked, but I had fun trying and I might want to tamper with it a little more.