Fic: Lily of the Valley

[osprey_archer]

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.

Comments

[poeticknowledge.livejournal.com]

Wow! This blew me away! Amazing fanfiction! I love how well you portrayed Nina and Lily -- I could imagine this in the movie. <3 You stayed incredibly true to the characters and did a fantastic job distinguishing fantasy from reality when Nina was hallucinating. Great job! :)

I admit I've been wanting to read your fanfiction for a while, but this is the first one that has popped up so far where I am already familiar with its story and characters, so yay! :D

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you liked it!

Most of the fandoms I've written for are pretty obscure, sadly. Here are a couple from other sources you might know:

Covetous (http://archiveofourown.org/works/139725), which is Anita & Cruella's backstory from 101 Dalmations: apparently they were school friends, which just seems so weird given how different they are.

And Mr. Yunioshi's Photographs (http://archiveofourown.org/works/38014), for Breakfast at Tiffany's, which is my favorite Audrey Hepburn movie except the portrayal of her Japanese landlord Mr. Yunioshi is so racist. This story is an attempt to give him a backstory & reasonable motivations.

[poeticknowledge.livejournal.com]

Interesting. :) I'm definitely familiar with 101 Dalmations (I watched it growing up a lot) but I can't remember whether or not I have seen Breakfast at Tiffany's. I think I have but I'll have to revisit it so that I can read your fanfiction. :)

[poeticknowledge.livejournal.com]

For "Covetous" I loved how it ended! Nice touch with Cruella getting her first fur coat too! Great characterization! :)

[poeticknowledge.livejournal.com]

I just read "Mr. Yunioshi's Photographs" and LOVED it! Such a beautiful story! <3

I'm going to echo the words of FairestCat here because it describes my sentiments very well:

"Oh, I LOVE this backstory for Yunioshi, it's just exactly what I wanted.

I love how completely you've grounded his story in the history of the time, WWII and Hiroshima and the Japanese post-war economic recovery. I love Mari, who is completely real and complex even in just the glimpses of her we have from her brother's memories. And I love Jared and Mr. Yunioshi's friendship, that's just adds a wonderful detail to his life.

Mr. Yunioshi looks at the photograph of Mari and her children standing in front of a far-distant Mount Fuji. He isn't sure what to do with all the money he's saved, if they don't want to come to New York; he figures that not turning Holly Golightly out in the streets like a stray cat is as good as anything else.

This just really speaks to me. Mr. Yunioshi never gets any real motivation in the movie, he's too much of a caricature for that. I love that this gets inside his head, shows us his view of Holly and his connection to her."

Thank you so much for sharing this with me! I didn't even have to watch the movie to understand it either which is a bonus! :) I really, really hope you get published one day! <3 You're a very promising writer. :)

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much!

[poeticknowledge.livejournal.com]

You're very welcome! :)