Your attention for a moment?

[nny]

LA LA LA TODAY I AM DEMANDING

Okay, so. So so so. My main mental block with my writing is that I feel that it is forgettable. Pleasant enough to read and everything, but essentially melt-on-the-tongue fluff with no actual substance. Some ridiculously lovely people have helped me to see that this is not necessarily true. So I was wondering (and don't worry, I'm relatively sane, my sense of self worth doesn't hang in the balance I'm just curious) is there anything I've written that's stuck in your mind?

Story, metaphor, turn of phrase, Milliways thread... is there anything you associate with me?

(And dudes, totally meme this if you wanna, I'm curious about what sticks in the head in general, too, and I'd love to respond/see responses you get).

Comments

[silveraspen]

Milliways-related things that leapt to mind so instantly that I didn't even have to THINK about it:

* Aziraphael + Susan Delgado. I can't get the links from here at work, but I have 3 in particular in memories/on file (2 canon, one extracanonical/AU) that will always be part of my comprehensive and formative experience of the whole.

* Aziraphael + Gabriel Tam: "What matters now is what you do next."

There's a depth and an insightfulness and a beautiful handling of relationships and perspective in all of those that I find is a constant presence in your writing as a whole, and is something that I both enjoy and greatly admire.

[nny]

This comment prompted me to go off and read a whole bundle of threads, including the entire backstory that you have memoried of Susan and Aziraphael. It made me cry a little, and it made me sit with a hand over my mouth to hold in the squeaking, and more than anything it made me proud. Thank you. xxx

[happydork]

It's a Good Omens future fic I don't think you ever posted, where one of the characters is listening either to some music that must either be a record (as in an LP) or a really, really good recording of one because of the warmth of the tone. I don't know why that stuck in my mind, but I think of it every so often when I'm listening to music.

[nny]

Wow! I have... no idea what that could be, unless it was the bit where Crowley's in a hotel in World Without End, but I am ridiculously pleased that you've remembered it and continue to think of it! Thanks so much, sweetheart. x

[minkhollow]

CARSTAAAIRS.
Also, you have a real knack for delightfully surreal descriptions.

[nny]

Okay, both of these things are thoroughly awesome, I think the Carstairs thing a little more because there's always that little extra wracking of nerves when it's OCs you're showing people. Thanks so much!

[siegeofangels]

Oh, I remember you did this series of amazing horror snippets and they were so perfect and tiny and creepy, like--a drop of blood in the palm of your hand.

[nny]

Oh man, what a lovely simile! I really loved doing the nightmare drabbles, and they're something that are always wandering around in the back of my mind... some day I'd like to write more of them and see if an artist would like to collaborate on a self-published book of them. :D

[skygiants]

a.) TORQUIL AND PETER. Not just because fandoms of my heart, but also because of the kind of complicated unspoken dynamic you drew out from that. I always think about that whenever I think about Archer's Goon, now, it made me sort of think about Torquil in a new way

b.) the Britain-as-pirate-ship thing, because that was such a NEAT idea, and such a vivid image

c.) well, I mean, Carstairs, because CARSTAIRS. I always think of the Carstairs bits as sort of the platonic ideal of that tone that I feel like so many people strive for and so few achieve

[nny]

This entire comment makes me swoon ridiculously, okay. The fact that two of them are original bits is incredibly delightful to me, because it is so wonderful when people enjoy my writing without that in-built context and fondness, and the pirate ship bit was one of my favourite bits of writing ever. And TORQUIL AND PETER omg. I am still so proud of that, of managing to get it to hang together so well, and of how completely effortlessly it did that. I am so delighted with that piece of writing, and I still love you for requesting it. Along with everything else. :D xxx

[in_the_blue]

CHARLIE CHARLIE CHARLIE. I'll say this every time you ask, he was my favorite favorite. I would get so excited every time you'd play him, which wasn't so very often, so he and Bill could be brotherly together. ♥

[nny]

This delights me. I didn't play him nearly often enough but Charlie is and always has been one of my very favourite character voices, and I love how much leeway I get when shaping him, since JK was gracious enough to completely ignore him, essentially. :D I'm planning a long fic about him that I will someday write.

[in_the_blue]

When you do write it, sign me up now (in dragon's blood) to be your first reader!

[vivien]

In writing, you are forever and always linked to Aziraphael. But in real life, I associate you with excellent hugs. You are very soft and snuggly as I recall.

OH, I also remember the House of Leaves plot and Brian. POOR SWEET BRIAN.

[nny]

Oh man, BRIAN. The urge still hits with regularity to bring his little ghostly self into the bar. XD

[genarti]

Something about how you wrote Brian -- I don't know, I can't pick out any specific words, but you just did so well at portraying a young guy of that precise complex personality in ways that felt human and real and layered all the way down instead of like a stoner stereotype. I really admired that.

Also Aziraphael! He's so associated with your Milliways writings in my head that I almost don't think of him -- like, of course Aziraphael is Nny, that goes without saying, moving on to what she must be actually asking. The warmth both literal and metaphorical, and the uncertainty and edges that slipped out sometimes, and the way that the fussy tweedy tea-drinking angel could sometimes set the tea cup very gently down and stand up and be an entirely different sort of angel with steel all the way down, without ever ceasing to call everyone "my dear" and mean it.

[nny]

Man, you have no idea the utter depths of my delight in this comment, it's so completely beautiful to read that. I'm going to keep coming back to it, just to recreate this smile. Thank you, sweetheart. xxx

[attractivegeekery]

Mike will forever be a devotee of Brian. Always.

I, however, will always associate tweed, tea, and "flasher macs" with you, you gorgeous thing you.

[nny]

I miss Brian's headspace! Also: you. xx