Ooh, a meme!

[mizzy]

C'mon, guys, I've been pretty good, no memes for a while, and this one can't be much work (I don't think I'll have anything much people would be interested in), so let's goooo for it.

Ganked from lightgetsin.

Pick any passage of 500 words or less from any fanfic I’ve written, and comment to this post with that selection. I will then give you the equivalent of a DVD commentary on that snippet: what I was thinking when I wrote it, why I wrote it in the first place, what’s going on in the character’s heads, why I chose certain words, what this moment means in the context of the rest of the fic, lots of awful puns, and anything else that you’d expect to find on a DVD commentary track.

My fic is here or here.

Comments

[mizzy2k.livejournal.com]

This is one of the fics that I didn't quite know what I wanted from it, apart from this final exchange with Sarah and Mr. Gold. Mr. Gold is such a delightful character, and he has that same compelling charisma that makes him oddly attractive in the same way as Jareth, so it's easy to believe they're the same sort of creature. Rumpelstiltzkin in particular seems bound by consent - it doesn't do to just take Snow's hair, she has to give it willingly - so Sarah repeating her Labyrinth words was the inevitable conclusion of this. She needed to be in a situation where she had maybe forgotten her own power. I love confident, strong female characters - and Sarah in Labyrinth became that - so I guess I was rolling with the idea that sometimes as we grow up we can become jaded and lose some of our imagination and confidence in ourselves. Sarah just had to find it again, and Gold - unfortunately - prompted her to remind herself of her own strength.

I love Labyrinth fanfic, Sarah/Jareth is a great ship, and Return to Labyrinth (the manga) was kind of a disappointment (why focus on Toby? when all the great fanfic have so many better plots??), so this is my way of redeeming those sequels a little. It should have all been about Sarah. We so rarely get strong, female characters - why the manga tried to take that away, I don't know. It's sad.

One day I'll write a long Sarah/Jareth fic. Because it's a fandom that keeps on giving great fics. ♥

[ultra_fic]

I love that so many people see a similarity between Jareth's and Rumpelstiltskin's characters. It makes total sense to me, and the way you wrote this fic? Awesome!

Never read Return to the Labyrinth but I did hear it was all Toby focused. I want a Sarah/Jareth sequel my ownself, so if you write one? You be sure to send me a link, honey, 'cause I'm gonna wanna read that for sure!! ;)

Thanx for the fab 'commentary' :)