["Kaleidoscope" update teaser] Porridge

[shimotsuki]

There's a new seasonal drabble/drawble event underway at metamorfic_moon. The last one was a lot of fun, so it's great to see another.

I've sort of cheated this time, actually -- I decided to post an excerpt from a "Kaleidoscope" update I've been working on sporadically this winter. It's kind of a sequel to Messages, in that we see the mirrors again and it deals with the dynamics of the relationship between Remus and Andromeda.

I'm not sure when I'll be able to finish the rest of this story and post it here -- work is really, really crazy right now, and I know I'm always saying that, but I really mean it this time, heh. (This is the first evening I haven't spent working since last Thursday, including the weekend.) But maybe having posted this excerpt will motivate me to finish the story. Especially since the title has nothing to do with this part of it! ;)

Porridge (PG)
( A soft knock on the half-open study door made Andromeda start and look up. )
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Comments

[hrymfaxe.livejournal.com]

I don't think it's cheating - it fits with the month and everything! ;) Plus having something lying around that is ready for posting is just a sign of surplus energy!

I hope work slows down in the foreseeable future - I know that I should know when, but I have forgotten..

[shimotsuki.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the good wishes! I'm hoping to finish up one work project this weekend, another by the end of April, and then overall things should be much less crazy by about the middle of May.

Surplus energy, hee. I wish I had some more!

[mrstater.livejournal.com]

Just wanted to say I'm so glad to see you've taken a break from your work. I know you're way stressed, but isn't it funny how much more stressful things get when you don't take a little time for yourself to decompress and do something you really love? I hope writing this helped you unwind, and hang in there, you're going to make it!

Love the ficlet! You always write such a poignantly strained relationship between Remus and Andromeda. I think there couldn't be anything worse to him than missing the birth of Teddy, could there?

[shimotsuki.livejournal.com]

isn't it funny how much more stressful things get when you don't take a little time for yourself to decompress and do something you really love?

Normally I am pretty protective of my evenings as time for me and not for work, but right now I just have several externally imposed deadlines that I'm not going to make if I don't go all out. It's not that bad in that I know it's only for another month. And I'm not necessarily feeling that stressed (at least not constantly) -- I just have to give up free time for now and keep myself focused on working steadily and getting things done. (Steadiness not being a strong point of mine!)

This ficlet last night wasn't so much writing as cleaning up something I already had for posting, heh. And it's a little choppier-sounding than I would have liked, since I had to cut out 500 characters to get under the comment limit! But thinking about fic for a few minutes certainly was a nice break.

I really appreciate your comment on the relationship between the characters -- I think that's a fascinating dimension, and several of my DH-era Kaleidoscope fics are going to play around with that.

[gilpin25.livejournal.com]

All hail good cheating! ;)

Selfishly, I hope you get the time to finish this as soon as you can, though I know there's other things like fandomfusion to fit in as well. But I've been doing quite a lot of thinking about Andromeda myself lately, and I'd love to see where you go with this. I always like the strain you have between Remus and Andromeda (and that slight air of haughtiness you capture with her) because they're not entirely dissimilar, so that I have the feeling that actually these two would get on extremely well in different circumstances. As it is, they both mirror (ha, ha;)) each other's faults to a degree here, and I would if anyone would like looking at that. I'm rather hoping Remus letting his guard down for once, and Andromeda showing her vulnerability, also for once, might lead to some kind of understanding...

Aside from anything else, I just want to know what you're going to do with the title!:D

[shimotsuki.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the kind words and the encouragement -- you've just made my lunch break. :)

I'm glad you think the angle I'm taking with Andromeda, that she's not all that different from Remus in some ways, seems to work. I think she's a really interesting character. (And I much prefer an AU future for her as well, poor thing! But I digress.) I'll be very much looking forward to seeing what ideas you have for Andromeda.

I'm rather hoping Remus letting his guard down for once, and Andromeda showing her vulnerability, also for once, might lead to some kind of understanding...

*whistles innocently* ;)

And the title relates to something I've been planning to do with this fic since well before DH, and now what we know of Ted's fate makes it a little more poignant, so I'm looking forward to writing that scene, heh.

[gilpin25.livejournal.com]

and I would if anyone would like looking at that.

That's supposed to be I wonder, btw. *headdesk* The only consolation with doing embarrassing typos to you is that at least I can console myself with the fact that a linguistics expert will probably decipher what I'm on about!

Am very encouraged by the 'innocent' whistling. ;)