Fic: Lily of the Valley

For carmarthen, a fic for Twelfth Night (the holiday, not the play), which got too bloody long for fandom_stocking:

Fic: Lily of the Valley
Fandom: Black Swan
Rating: R for hallucinatory Nina/Lily, blood, weird stuff in mirrors. You know, all the usual Black Swan suspects.
Summary: Nina tells the doctors it was all a drug freakout. “One of the guys had some pills,” she tells her mother, because otherwise her mother won’t let Lily come back, and Lily comes every day with a bouquet. White lilies, tiger lilies, lily-of-the-valley.

Book Review: Blood Feud

Rosemary Sutcliff’s Blood Feud involves Viking and the Kievan Rus and Constantinople, and is pretty entertaining, and fairly un-soul-crushing for one of her books even though a lot of the characters die, in the end. “Character death” and “soul-crushingness” are not particularly correlated in Sutcliff’s work, which is rather odd.

This is not so much a review as musings about Directions One Might Take in Fic, so spoilers ahoy!

( Spoilers )