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[Jitter]

But Reynir’s bridesmaid dress is probably cinders, as is Emil’s flame colored outfit. Luckily Emil had several good ones with him!

[dmeck7755]

After a lot of pain and suffering (well, mostly after a lot of procrastination) I have finally finished a story I built around on a series of ficlets I wrote for last year's Yoinktober.

It's complete fluff with no nutritional value: a comedy (of errors) featuring Emil/Lalli and Reynir/Onni, set a few years post-canon, during a wedding in Iceland. And I actually think it might make more sense to read all at once than chapter-by-chapter, as I posted it, because the various heroes stories interlock quite a bit, which will be easier to see in a single reading.

Anyway, it can be found here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/38158930/

And now I can get back to my usual EXTREMELY SERIOUS writing.

A fitting end to a entertaining tale.  Thank you!!

[Grade E cat]

*Emerges from her Ascendance of a Bookworm honeymoon*

*Drops the first results of an idea from 2020*

I'd been toying with the idea with some time and realized I was running out of time to actually do something with it in the light of how fast I tend to lose interest when new material stops showing up. It took so long in part because I wanted to finish it before I started publishing, so no risk of this one lacking an ending.

Show that you care: Chapter 1 "Cracked facade"
Show that you care: Chapter 2 "Compromise"
Show that you care: Chapter 3 "Trust"

[Grade E cat]

Second batch is ready.

Show that you care: Chapter 4 "Investment"
Show that you care: Chapter 5 "Respect"
Show that you care: Chapter 6 "Understanding"

[Jitter]

Hello Cat, long time!

I haven’t read any of your previous stories because I find fanfiction.net very hard to read! I have started something earlier, probably the True Ruler, but didn’t manage at the time. Now I realized you can make rhe font larger, which helps a lot, but it’s still somehow hard for my eyes.

Anyways to the story. I assume it builds on previous stories in the same verse? It was a bit hard to get my head around the setting starting from here. But you present an interesting setting indeed!  I have some questions but I don’t know if they are all answered in earlier stories perhaps. Particularly, why is courtship so formally arranged?

I really like the way everyone, including Stefan who is not family or team, is able (to varying extents) and first of all, willing to accommodate Lalli’s way of seeing the world and explain things to him. The way you describe his musings makes sense to me, and I’m glad to see it seems ro make sense to the other characters too.

[Grade E cat]

It's a new verse, but I do somewhat recyle some original characters I've used before. You may guess why I've needed Cecilia's previous versions in the past (though making her a certain someone's granddaughter is new) and Helena had previous incarnations that make her work well as a childhood friend of Emil's here. As for why courstship is so formally arranged, the reasons are complicated but, any rules are mostly here for bits of characterization than for any in-universe reasons.

For what it's worth, fics for my new favorite work only have their own category on Archive Of Our Own, so I may move there if any of the fanfic ideas I have for it turn into something wortwhile (I'm currently doing the last things I want to do with my SSSS fanfics before I completely lose interest in the webcomic).

[Grade E cat]

Third batch out of the nine it's going to take according to my estimates. Just under a third of the story is now out.

Show that you care: Chapter 7 "Intricacy"
Show that you care: Chapter 8 "Growth"
Show that you care: Chapter 9 "Reciprocity"

[dmeck7755]

Grade E cat

Thank you for the stories.  I am slowly going through them.  I am a bit dyslexic, so the letters keep swimming.  I have to read a little and stop.  So far I am progressing nicely.

[Grade E cat]

Happy to know I'm still getting new readers. I'll just suggest to really read the stories that interest you in the order in which they were first published, partly because I made a verse that includes several stories and partly because my education about LGBTQIA+ identities other than the one I realized I was in late 2021 is very much a work in progress, so some of my early tries didn't grow old well.

Also, don't apologize for your slow reading. I'm dragging my feet in terms of watching all of "The Sandman" despite currently being on vacation because my own sensory issues mean that being too tired to watch a full episode of an "hour-long" show (but not to edit my own writing or read text) is a thing for me.

[Grade E cat]

Batch four.

Show that you care: Chapter 10 "Learning"
Show that you care: Chapter 11 "Protection"
Show that you care: Chapter 12 "Share"

[Grade E cat]

Batch five, which is what I was hoping to get to by the end of my vacation (thanks, religious holiday that showed up on a Monday this year). The story ended up with 28 chapters, so it's just past the halfway point. I'm unfortunately leaving the readers with a small cliffhanger.

Show that you care: Chapter 13 "Gamble"
Show that you care: Chapter 14 "Responsibility"
Show that you care: Chapter 15 "Temper"

[tehta]

Now that I have gotten over my aversion to ffn formatting, I, too, am enjoying this story.

I think the very formal rules of courtship fit the theme of Lalli trying to figure out the rules by which the world works, and how they can work for him rather than against him. (And the setup feels a bit escapist, too: I think many people would prefer it if the rules of courtship, and many other social interactions, were clearer...) The backstory and the Leif subplot are a little less escapist, of course. I admire the way you give very specific and believable examples of Roni's behaviour.

And I, too, started out wondering whether I was stumbling into the middle of a series, but I find that the story works as a standalone: we do get all the relevant information over time.

[Grade E cat]

Batch six is there. If that story has a "make or break" point, it's most likely in that trio of chapters.

Show that you care: Chapter 16 "Breaking point"
Show that you care: Chapter 17 "Reach"
Show that you care: Chapter 15 "Correct"

[Grade E cat]

I had managed to give one last look at batch seven over the weekend, finding time to load, post and announce it here was the tricky part.

Show that you care: Chapter 19 "Communication"
Show that you care: Chapter 20 "Involvement"
Show that you care: Chapter 21 "Drain"

[Grade E cat]

The second to last batch is ready. Last will be four chapters and I have a houseguest next weekend, so I'm not sure how its last edit will go, especially since the newest chapters are the most likely to turn out to need more than light rephrasing and typo corrections.


Show that you care: Chapter 22 "Proof"
Show that you care: Chapter 23 "Support"
Show that you care: Chapter 24 "Help"