-the title! It comes from one of my very favoritest Edna St. Vincent Millay poems, and it was great to be able to tie it to one of my stories. I like the way the two things are in opposition but also not.
-it's a sort of story I wish I did more of: a fairly immediate post-ep, directly responsive to the show in a pretty straightforward way. I didn't like that they made the weird girl normal; I HATE stories where (girls especially) have to give up fairyland because real life is somehow better or more important. So I fixed it.
-for some reason, I really like the passage that lists all of Elena's cosmetics. I do that sort of thing kind of a lot, but I really let it go to the max here; I think because it's King Arthur-adjacent, and T.H. White, my first Arthurian, does the medieval listing thing all. the. time. I like that the passage feminizes the trope, though - when White does it he's usually listing armor or falconry gear, whereas I think listing women's tools has the additional impact of drawing attention to the sheer effort that women put into living up to cultural standards of beauty.
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Three things I like right now about Teethed on a crucifix and cradled underwater:
-the title! It comes from one of my very favoritest Edna St. Vincent Millay poems, and it was great to be able to tie it to one of my stories. I like the way the two things are in opposition but also not.
-it's a sort of story I wish I did more of: a fairly immediate post-ep, directly responsive to the show in a pretty straightforward way. I didn't like that they made the weird girl normal; I HATE stories where (girls especially) have to give up fairyland because real life is somehow better or more important. So I fixed it.
-for some reason, I really like the passage that lists all of Elena's cosmetics. I do that sort of thing kind of a lot, but I really let it go to the max here; I think because it's King Arthur-adjacent, and T.H. White, my first Arthurian, does the medieval listing thing all. the. time. I like that the passage feminizes the trope, though - when White does it he's usually listing armor or falconry gear, whereas I think listing women's tools has the additional impact of drawing attention to the sheer effort that women put into living up to cultural standards of beauty.