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Date: 02/22/2012 11:03:54 PM Title: Fracture
Well get those muses to work! Great descriptive chapter, dear!
Author's Response: *whips muses hard*
Date: 02/09/2012 3:58:19 PM Title: ... gonna get bit
Scary shit aboundeth here. I lurves it.
~Mia
Author's Response: I could almost use that as a summary for this story 'scary shit aboundeth." I lurve that!
Date: 01/30/2012 1:40:13 AM Title: ... gonna get bit
I've always been more of a large rubber mallet kinda gal, yes. ;)
[Report This]Date: 01/30/2012 1:23:38 AM Title: ... gonna get bit
Diamonds, you say? ;)
Happy to be reading a new chapter. You just keep cranking up the tension. Nice!
Author's Response: So, you don't LIKE being hit over the head with a hammer? :P
[Report This]Date: 01/29/2012 9:31:39 PM Title: ... gonna get bit
So happy this is going again!!!
Author's Response: Glad you are enjoying it! I never planned to leave it unfinished ... just needed to get a few other bits out of my system first!
[Report This]Date: 01/28/2012 8:53:50 PM Title: ... gonna get bit
Hooray for an update, and hooray for Bancainte if she helped make it happen! And, I can't even complain about the time between updates, because it's the perfect excuse to go back and start reading again from the beginning. The backstory is so intriguing...I am dying to see how these pieces come together.
Whatever it takes to keep writing...please do it! This story is worth the wait.
Author's Response: I'm glad the backstory is working. I did feel I was being neglectful in stomping into the action without fully integrating the rest of the in-between times, so I needed to find a way to reintegrate. I WILL keep on writing ... I'm hoping to finish this up fairly soon, to free me up for the Heroine BigBang in March-June. (I'll be writing a Veronica Mars/NCIS crossover ... step over to my LJ if that works for you :D)
[Report This]Date: 01/28/2012 11:16:43 AM Title: ... gonna get bit
So, so glad you picked this back up! Loved it.
Author's Response: Thank you! I promise it was never abandoned, simply delayed.
Date: 11/02/2011 6:17:38 AM Title: Lie down with dogs ...
No need to excuse yourself for thinking, luv; glad the story's still rolling! :-) And it's sure picking up speed. It has me wish the general public would use more sense, for a start: how do you make children "rise up" against their parents on this scale (even mutant children...)? Silly idea, and sadly credible.
Interesting twist about the president prevaricating rather than being clearly committed to one side or the other (which would be unlikely in a high-ranking politician, anyway).
Not sure if I can go with the speed at which Rogue retreats behind her walls. That was not full-out surrender, that situation in the security control room, now was it? I thought she had gained some understanding of her own power, of her own rank with the Wolverine? And this "cagey, mercenary, violent, misanthrope of a man" did tell her now of his assignment, quite without any other need than a moral and/or emotional (!) one.
I notice with interest that is was Marie's name that was on Logan's mind. Rogue hasn't managed to obliterate her in this relationship, has she, for all the sexual abandon. And neither has she done it in herself. Wanting "to float away on a golden cloud of obnoxious bliss" seems to be a very Marie kind of notion to me.
Typically, Rogue reacts in her habitual way: she retreats behind hurt, shame and a sense of loss, conveniently blameable on another. Which must be another Marie trait still alive subliminally, because Rogue has schooled herself to be all about fight. It's intriguing to watch her cheat on herself, and rather sad. Also very true to reality!!!
Anyway, it's time to grow up now, and it is painful to read through her not doing it. "Had she overlooked his motives and their own history all for the sake of a few good fucks?" Well, Logan in her life is way more than hot sex, and a relationship is not about golden bliss. Those are clear-cut and therefore rather unrealistic concepts (Jube's domain, Rogue, haven't you learned ANYTHING from watching your teammates, apart from how to fight them?!?).
Unfortunately, the team have quite a lot on their plates right now, so we probably have to continue stressing over these issues.
In terms of story strategy, if I may be so bold as to give advice, it might in the long run become a little tedious to read, Rogue reverting to the same concepts. Even drama can be repetitive.
She has one great disadvantage (speaking from her perspective) that alters her familiar game: she has grown part of a team, a family. They might not be all friendly, she will lose the relationships built on her persona of Rogue, but Gambit and Hank, Ororo and Jubes are around. They are players in this game, too, and they will very efefctively block the retreat into the Rogue persona. That's shattered for good, I think, though the shards might serve as a temporary armour of sorts while the global mutant emergency has to be taken care of.
As for the action part of the story, I'm curious to learn why none of the team have been affected yet. And what's Mystique up to? (I was quite intrigued by her take on the mutant in-fighting; hadn't pegged her as the rreflective type.)
Glad you manage such a fine balance between different character's views, and between action among(and within) characters and out in the world.
[I'm off work at the moment and can co-beta, if you like. That's not to say I think you can't do it on your own!!!! Just thought it might help to toss ideas off someone else... :-)
[Report This]Date: 10/25/2011 3:13:57 PM Title: Lie down with dogs ...
Wow! Welcome back! Ive missed you! lol Ive missed this story! Great update
Date: 10/24/2011 11:20:52 PM Title: Lie down with dogs ...
It must be my birthday or something! Cuz what a great present that was!
[Report This]Date: 10/24/2011 3:23:31 PM Title: Lie down with dogs ...
Ouch. Like, stabby stabby stabby kind of ouch. The engines, Cap'n, they canna take the strain. Which is to say, you keep cranking up the tension and something's gonna blow. Can't wait. ;) Overall, awesome chapter. The only thing that was a little jarring was Logan's dirty talk; the repetition of "over and over" somehow felt not quite right. But that's a tiny, tiny quibble over an excellent chapter.
Author's Response: I promise, I promise we are moving towards resolution here. The engines, they are busting wide open! Kaboom! Thanks for your honesty re the dirty talk section, I did feel it wasn't quite right, but after nearly two months without and update I decided to bite the bullet and just post already. Sorry if it was rougher than usual as a result.
Date: 10/24/2011 2:38:51 PM Title: Lie down with dogs ...
Way to go Logan. LOL he does know how to pull the rug from under Marie. I hope he can fix this.
Author's Response: I hope I can fix it! (Just joking :D) Without giving too much away, this leads us right back to the theme of the fic ... Sleeping Dogs. Let them lie. Rogue's on a journey ...
Date: 10/24/2011 1:33:12 PM Title: Lie down with dogs ...
Wanna hug Rogue.
Author's Response: Awww. Wonder if she'd let you? Prickly, that girl. *shakes head*
Date: 10/24/2011 11:15:45 AM Title: Lie down with dogs ...
Urggh, I hate angst, I am soooo sooo glad he told her but really? right then? And I think Logan is wrong about his assignment not being part of the crazy. I soooo want this to be a happy ending but I am worried, really worried.
Author's Response: I guess it depends on your definition of "happy". It might not be a glorious, upbeat, all's-right-with-the-world kind of happy, but they should be able to manage their own, slightly dark, we've-sorted-out-our-crap-and-promise-to-try type of happy. I think.
[Report This]Date: 08/31/2011 1:47:18 PM Title: Three little words
Sometimes I think whooop we're getting there and other times I think fuck, there’s a long way to go yet! Frustrating in a very good way! It’s a good job I’m not impatient. So… you know, take your time, no worries as long as the next instalments up tomorrow ;)
Author's Response: You're so kind ;) I'm thinking of these two chapters (17 and 18) as the "shit hits the fan" type moment, the creation of chaos that requires action to move our protagonists towards resolution. Does that help?
[Report This]Date: 08/29/2011 4:12:31 PM Title: Three little words
OH MAN!! Hahaha, im pretty much speechless. But I had to leave a comment. Lets just say that I am thoroughly satisfied with the yummy Rogan smut and the great plot. More soon please!
Author's Response: Smut is pretty much what I do best (no false modesty here!) but this story seems to have been kidnapped by its plot. The plot is running off with the smut, dammit! Methinks I need a chat with my muses to get things back on the right track ;)
[Report This]Date: 08/28/2011 12:38:22 PM Title: Three little words
“He said 'start the war'. He told us to start the war.”
Hands are covering my eyes in horror but I'm peeking through fingers...ohboyohboyohboy...
Author's Response: I could apologise for doing that to you, but ... not sorry! I'll try not to leave you on the edge off that seat for too much longer :)
Date: 08/28/2011 4:27:20 AM Title: Three little words
*speechless*
Author's Response: *evil cackle*
[Report This]Date: 08/27/2011 11:15:45 PM Title: Three little words
Yep, definitely scarred. In a good way!
You just keep cranking up the tension, and I keep coming back because it's just that good. Loved the glimpse inside Mystique's mind and life.
So, uh... I guess that only leaves one culprit? (She said, uncertainly.) Unless there's someone lurking offscreen whom we haven't met yet. In which case I might have to fling fruit. ^_^
Author's Response: If its any help, I hate simple. I don't do simple, or clearcut, or even right and wrong. And I never, EVER do obvious ....
Date: 08/27/2011 10:36:58 PM Title: Three little words
Okay. I'm shaking right now. I want to know what the hell is going on so bad. The most potent part of this though, to me anyway, was the segment about Mystique in the beginning. This part of it made me really feel for her and made me want to cry because of how messed up life can be.
"About Raven loves Charles and Charles loves Erik and Erik doesn't know how to love but can only come when she wears Charles' face."
:( This was so sad but so good at the same time. Can't wait to read more.
Author's Response: So glad you picked up on that. For me, that's the saddest bit too. Because she has the burden of knowledge - there are only three people who know what it's REALLY all about between the Brotherhood and the Xmen, and Raven's the only one who appreciates its fully. I really enjoyed First Class and that glimpse of all their possibilities and the people they were before ... I didn't want it to take over here, but all of a sudden THAT was my Mystique, you know?
Date: 08/27/2011 10:28:33 PM Title: Three little words
This is really interesting. It all seems to be coming together and blowing apart at the same time...I am intrigued.
Author's Response: Intrigued is good. I am very happy with intrigued ... hope I don't let you down!
Date: 08/11/2011 5:10:36 PM Title: Black as sorrow
Holy fetch!
~Mia
[Report This]Date: 08/02/2011 9:43:00 AM Title: Black as sorrow
‘Berate me. Curse me! Chastise me. You know you want to’ - now you know I would never do such a thing ;) well not today anyway. I took your advise, Jaq’s therapy lesson no 1. Grit teeth – check! then I took a deep breath, ensured that calmness had surrounded me and that my patience was in place before I started. So here I am perfectly content with the twists taken in this chappie, that it left more questions than gave answers and with the fact that I will be doing the waiting thing all over again! Genius! You should charge, although we’ve already established I’m on the poorer scale of poor, although I have 1 hubby and 2 adult (debatable) teenagers all going cheap!
‘The world was slumbering, the telepath thought. Time to wake it up.’ Little did we know the significance/impact of this line. 'Leaving their corpses behind her as their tiny hearts stuttered and stilled in her wake.’ Talk about lull us into a false sense of security then hit us round the head with a 4 by 4! Great stuff!! You really are good at this you know that right?
Date: 07/31/2011 3:10:34 AM Title: Black as sorrow
Oh, good, so the ending itself won't be a thing of woe, just parts of the journey to get there. There's that. :)
[Report This]Date: 07/30/2011 1:31:49 PM Title: Black as sorrow
I don't know what to write. Stunned, yes, I am that, but the word doesn't come close to what I feel right now.
Short chapter? Oh, I don't think so. I don't remember ever reading something that took hold of me so emotionally and smacked me around like a rag doll.
You lull us in with the idyllic scene of satiated lovers, give us fair warning with the introduction of the cold calculation of the puppetmaster initiating this nightmare only to whip us unmercifully into this massacre.
The mundane school day turned to a slaughter, the chore of going to the bank transformed into blunt murder, the execution of innocents by the physician that previously lived only to save them, the realization from a good man that things were darker than he could have ever imagined...
I don't know what to think, Ms. Jaq. Only you could make macabre into something so piercingly real and breath-stealing. So very, very well done.
Author's Response: I'm so relieved ... I wasn't sure about the choppiness of it all, whether or not I pulled off the quick swings from one perspective to the next. I wanted that almost surreal feel, that sense of the macabre juxtaposed with the domestic! Thank you, times a million!