MOAR FIC

[lilliburlero.livejournal.com]

Thanks to everyone who responded to my post yesterday about writing a post-canon Twelfth Night party. I've loads of ideas to work with, now: perhaps more than I can squeeze into the fic, but I will try to write a few words for everyone.

It reminds me that there really is a Forest fandom out there, albeit limited by the availability of the books and I for one would really love to see more fic. I'm also trying to get a bit of a Tumblr fandom going, if anyone is over there; I quite often ramble about Antonia Forest on my Tumblr.

Thanks again!

Comments

[ratfan.livejournal.com]

I was wondering at work yesterday about your choice to write the fic set in the late '50s. I would have included the Catholic upheavals (1960s?) myself so am curious as to why you chose not to. Not criticising, just wondering.

Also wondering if Patrick will ever realise that he's been rather unthinking towards Nicola, basically dumping the friendship because of Ginty. You said two years after the party set in Peter's Room, so I take it there's already been one party, though Ginty wouldn't have gone. Does someone ever make it clear to Patrick?

Alex

[lilliburlero.livejournal.com]

It's a crossover, and while the Marlows canon has lots of time-variability built in, the crossover canon has virtually none: the early 50s is the only time that will do. I am of course sorry to lose Patrick's wranglings with Vatican II, but I think there's a small compensation in that the very flimsiness of the reason for him being expelled asked to leave school is misinterpreted by a crossover character in a way that's thematically central to the crossover canon.

Though both Nicola and Patrick are important characters in the fic, the focus is on their relationships with other characters rather than with each other. My feeling is that though in canon (RAH) Patrick makes it clear that his closeness with Ginty is at an end, and Nicola intuits that the telephone huha is the reason, he never actually apologises, and though this perhaps rankles with Nicola a bit, she writes it off in her practical way. I've never found a Patrick / Nicola romance very likely, I'm afraid, and much prefer writing them as friends. The fic does have Nicola reflecting on her personal life in the future, and she explicitly rejects Patrick as a prospect because of the Ginty huha and his failure adequately to atone for it (and other reasons).

[ratfan.livejournal.com]

It sounds really intriguing; I look forward to reading it.