7 days of self-promotion meme
Jun. 17th, 2014 12:58 pmNo one ever said they had to be consecutive days, right?
Day 2: Something new! (i.e. a new fanwork of mine)
Since I am not prolific, I'm interpreting "new" as "written within the last year."
Buttons and Bayonets: A Small History of the Great War (5505 words) by kindkit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Lord Peter Wimsey - Dorothy L. Sayers
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Mervyn Bunter/Peter Wimsey
Additional Tags: World War I, War, Shell Shock
Summary: Peter and Bunter, surviving the war together.
This was my 2013 Yuletide story.![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
lilliburlero had offered some really interesting prompts: she mentioned a WWI-era story (how could I resist that?) and also said that she was interested in the material details of the books, like clothes etc. The latter gave this story its structure: the sections are organized around physical objects. My original title was "A History of the Great War in Ten Objects," but then I revised a section to feature letters, and since there were multiple letters it threw off my count, plus I got hung up on whether letters are objects in the same way that a button or a pen is an object, and thus a new title happened.
The structure allowed me to use multiple narrative voices, which I was pleased about; the primary voice is Lord Peter's but I like the way it's sometimes interrupted, muted, or challenged. That was important to me because a Peter/Bunter story can never not be, to some degree, about power. There's a huge power imbalance between them, which is complicated--increased in one way because Peter is Bunter's commanding officer, lessened I think in others--by the war. Playing with narrative voice a bit let me, I hope, consider issues of power in a way that wouldn't have been possible if the only POV had been Peter's.
Peter/Bunter is not every Wimsey fan's cup of tea, but I'll note that there's nothing in the story that necessarily contradicts later canon. (Peter/Bunter fans, of course, are at liberty to make their own interpretations.)
Day 2: Something new! (i.e. a new fanwork of mine)
Since I am not prolific, I'm interpreting "new" as "written within the last year."
Buttons and Bayonets: A Small History of the Great War (5505 words) by kindkit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Lord Peter Wimsey - Dorothy L. Sayers
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Mervyn Bunter/Peter Wimsey
Additional Tags: World War I, War, Shell Shock
Summary: Peter and Bunter, surviving the war together.
This was my 2013 Yuletide story.
lilliburlero had offered some really interesting prompts: she mentioned a WWI-era story (how could I resist that?) and also said that she was interested in the material details of the books, like clothes etc. The latter gave this story its structure: the sections are organized around physical objects. My original title was "A History of the Great War in Ten Objects," but then I revised a section to feature letters, and since there were multiple letters it threw off my count, plus I got hung up on whether letters are objects in the same way that a button or a pen is an object, and thus a new title happened. The structure allowed me to use multiple narrative voices, which I was pleased about; the primary voice is Lord Peter's but I like the way it's sometimes interrupted, muted, or challenged. That was important to me because a Peter/Bunter story can never not be, to some degree, about power. There's a huge power imbalance between them, which is complicated--increased in one way because Peter is Bunter's commanding officer, lessened I think in others--by the war. Playing with narrative voice a bit let me, I hope, consider issues of power in a way that wouldn't have been possible if the only POV had been Peter's.
Peter/Bunter is not every Wimsey fan's cup of tea, but I'll note that there's nothing in the story that necessarily contradicts later canon. (Peter/Bunter fans, of course, are at liberty to make their own interpretations.)
