post scriptum.

[sunfright]

THE GODDESSES DANCE

Sorry, I'm just over here, being insanely proud of myself. Yesterday, I wrote a ~2500 word fic and I'm definitely getting closer to a format and a flow that's more like it used to be, when I wrote fic all the time. It's funny how, even in my English writing that's nowhere as fluent as my Danish one, I have a very recognizable style and structure, a way of layering scenes and interweaving them that I have also done with the Danish short stories I have published.

Anyway, I thought this one came out really well, actually. It's a fic for genprompt_bingo's newest round, for the prompt: unreliable narrator, something that's very new to me. I usually write very honest, open, straight-forward characters who say what they mean and don't hide things or lie. Rosalie Leblanc, criticallyendagered, is different and I'm kinda liking it? With her, it's not what she says, but what she doesn't. That's the core of this fic.

It's a historical fic, because apparently that's my jam these days. The parts in the present tense take place during the World Exposition in Paris, 1900, but the rest happens in the years up to that. Like I said, Rosalie is a woman who lives and has lived many lives.

Also, generic warning for period-typical Orientalism, homophobia, cultural appropriation and more.

No, really, I'm just really happy and satisfied with this one.

Comments

[sunfright]

OMG, I'd never seen these clips. They definitely have that frantic feel, huh? I was inspired by Isadora Duncan, because she still has some of those ballet poses incorporated, but her choreography is not nearly as wild as Loie Fuller's and the feeling of that video is much more Rosalie's vibe. Thank you for sharing.

And I'm really glad you liked the fic, too!