Thank you for giving me such fabulously detailed feedback, starting with the opening! I found it natural to open with the only thing Binns does in canon besides talking, and I trusted this thing would identify him.
It's great to hear that you appreciate my typos, which seem to have slipped into only a few words, longer and less common ones.
Remus surprised me by being already drunk when he arrived. Of course, the bottle I gave him was Firewhiskey, but since he'd emptied it, that was that about fest-approriate activities.
As for the prompts, I kept the list at hand, and made sure to include them – those two, too, which I'd managed to mention early on – just before the end. A somewhat different strategy from the one several other writers used? Nick was the main prompt that inspired me in my choice of protagonist, but he ended up having only a small role and a brief mention.
I must add some disclaimers when I post this thing on AO3. One of your fave lines is – as I hint – a modification of a sentence in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey: "But it's the truth even if it didn't happen."
My Remus has used and reused and abused that T. S. Eliot line several times, starting when he was fourteen and trying to figure out if he could go out with a witch.
And you and I share love for Paul Simon in common?! That fic of yours was titled Father and Child Reunion, right? I've admired Paul Simon's music and lyrics since Graceland came out in 1986, and I happened to hear the title track once again just when I opened my bottle of ouzo.
My artist Remus helped me describe something as a beautiful shimmer, and perhaps a bit of a poetic tone slipped into Binns's voice, too, as I allowed some dialogue tags to continue the thoughts he didn't complete aloud. It's reassuring to learn that you liked also those couple of phrases in particular.
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It's great to hear that you appreciate my typos, which seem to have slipped into only a few words, longer and less common ones.
Remus surprised me by being already drunk when he arrived. Of course, the bottle I gave him was Firewhiskey, but since he'd emptied it, that was that about fest-approriate activities.
As for the prompts, I kept the list at hand, and made sure to include them – those two, too, which I'd managed to mention early on – just before the end. A somewhat different strategy from the one several other writers used? Nick was the main prompt that inspired me in my choice of protagonist, but he ended up having only a small role and a brief mention.
I must add some disclaimers when I post this thing on AO3. One of your fave lines is – as I hint – a modification of a sentence in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey: "But it's the truth even if it didn't happen."
My Remus has used and reused and abused that T. S. Eliot line several times, starting when he was fourteen and trying to figure out if he could go out with a witch.
And you and I share love for Paul Simon in common?! That fic of yours was titled Father and Child Reunion, right? I've admired Paul Simon's music and lyrics since Graceland came out in 1986, and I happened to hear the title track once again just when I opened my bottle of ouzo.
My artist Remus helped me describe something as a beautiful shimmer, and perhaps a bit of a poetic tone slipped into Binns's voice, too, as I allowed some dialogue tags to continue the thoughts he didn't complete aloud. It's reassuring to learn that you liked also those couple of phrases in particular.