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edenfallingYuletide reveal day!
I made about negative 100% attempt to be anonymous with my assignment this year. On the one hand, it's in a tiny obscure fandom, so who's going to know? On the other hand, so far as I can tell I have either written or been gifted literally half the extant fic for this fandom, so, you know, it's not a huge stretch to compare writing styles and peg me for this story as well. *wry*
Anyway, the story, written for![[archiveofourown.org profile]](https://p.dreamwidth.org/b164c54b26e4/-/archiveofourown.org/favicon.ico)
MarsDragon:
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String New Threads (1202 words) by Elizabeth Culmer
Fandom: Darkangel Trilogy - Meredith Ann Pierce
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Aeriel/Erin (Darkangel Trilogy)
Characters: Aeriel (Darkangel Trilogy), Erin (Darkangel Trilogy)
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Despair, Hope, Misses Clause Challenge, Astronomy
Summary: When the last fragment of the soul of the world was regathered and Aeriel stood in the heart of Crystalglass before the loom where she had learned to weave numbers into truth, she broke the cloth she wove and sank to her knees, weeping.
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MarsDragon's prompts were so entirely up my alley in terms of worldbuilding that it was actually a little tricky to choose one! I also got kind of overwhelmed by December and the posting deadline snuck up on me, so I wrote this in a bit of a rush at the last minute -- if I'd been more organized, I would have tried to write a couple treats as well, and in fact I may raid MarsDragon's prompt for future story ideas.
As for this story specifically, well. Like I said in my post-fic note, the working title was "let's go steal a comet," and I had the damndest time thinking of something that fit even half as well but was more tonally appropriate. It wound up a little bit as a relationship study (because Aeriel is occasionally prone to despair and taking the "freeze" option in a fight-flight scenario, whereas Erin is more likely to fight), but mostly it's an excuse to indulge in a canon-typical blend of science fiction and fairy-tale logic, and tease out some implications of Pierce's worldbuilding related to stars and methods of interplanetary travel.
And also to lay ground for a story about hijacking a comet, which I may go back and explore in more detail someday. :D
I made about negative 100% attempt to be anonymous with my assignment this year. On the one hand, it's in a tiny obscure fandom, so who's going to know? On the other hand, so far as I can tell I have either written or been gifted literally half the extant fic for this fandom, so, you know, it's not a huge stretch to compare writing styles and peg me for this story as well. *wry*
Anyway, the story, written for
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String New Threads (1202 words) by Elizabeth Culmer
Fandom: Darkangel Trilogy - Meredith Ann Pierce
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Aeriel/Erin (Darkangel Trilogy)
Characters: Aeriel (Darkangel Trilogy), Erin (Darkangel Trilogy)
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Despair, Hope, Misses Clause Challenge, Astronomy
Summary: When the last fragment of the soul of the world was regathered and Aeriel stood in the heart of Crystalglass before the loom where she had learned to weave numbers into truth, she broke the cloth she wove and sank to her knees, weeping.
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MarsDragon's prompts were so entirely up my alley in terms of worldbuilding that it was actually a little tricky to choose one! I also got kind of overwhelmed by December and the posting deadline snuck up on me, so I wrote this in a bit of a rush at the last minute -- if I'd been more organized, I would have tried to write a couple treats as well, and in fact I may raid MarsDragon's prompt for future story ideas.
As for this story specifically, well. Like I said in my post-fic note, the working title was "let's go steal a comet," and I had the damndest time thinking of something that fit even half as well but was more tonally appropriate. It wound up a little bit as a relationship study (because Aeriel is occasionally prone to despair and taking the "freeze" option in a fight-flight scenario, whereas Erin is more likely to fight), but mostly it's an excuse to indulge in a canon-typical blend of science fiction and fairy-tale logic, and tease out some implications of Pierce's worldbuilding related to stars and methods of interplanetary travel.
And also to lay ground for a story about hijacking a comet, which I may go back and explore in more detail someday. :D
