Halfway in Shadow, Halfway in Light

If you don't follow me over on AO3 or Fanfiction.net (why NOT?), I just posted a Labyrinth fandom one-shot yesterday. It's about 10K words and a pretty complete read on its own, though I might give it a sequel eventually. I brain vomited it out a couple of weekends ago after reading almost every single Labyrinth fanfic I could find and realizing a couple of things that drive me crazy about my first fandom:

1. Labyrinth fans, for some odd reason, write Hoggle like he lives in the Bronx or Jersey. Seriously, every single time I read Hoggle dialogue where he says "yous" instead of "you" I want to punch something.

2. Some Labyrinth fans really, really romanticize abusive relationships. They love to write Jareth as if he's been in love with Sarah since she was fourteen years old, when he spent a grand total of mmmaaaaaybe an hour in her presence. But that's obviously enough to justify him stalking her and being creepy and manipulative. And of course in the end Sarah usually rewards him by falling in love with him in spite of, and sometimes (revoltingly) because of, all of that.

Obviously, I'm not a fan of those sorts of stories.

Because ... ew.

So I wrote Monsters, as a break from the long multi-chapter fanfic I've been working on, as a sort of antidote. I don't want to give away the ending or anything, but if you're a Labyrinth fan who HATES the abusive Jareth trope, I think you'll dig it.

You can find it here:

Monsters by KnifeEdge

Comments are always appreciated, of course.

It's a little weird to be coming back to fanfic after so long away. The last thing I wrote and published was back in 2013, and I'm fairly certain a lot of people thought I'd dropped off the face of the planet, unless you follow my main tumblr (And possibly even then).

I didn't, obviously.

I've been trying to work on writing some original stuff. My writing partner and I have been plugging away at world building and rough drafts for several original novels over the past five years or so, although none of it's really close to ready for any kind of publication. We're still working on it. Just taking a break for a bit to focus on some fan fiction things for a while and get the brain juices flowing again.

Speaking of:

I'd like to plug a story by my writing partner, 3Hours. She just started writing in the Dragon Age fandom (but previously wrote a lot of Buffy fan fiction). If you're into REALLY smutty Dragon Age M!Hawke/Fenris fics you should definitely check it out and leave her a comment or two. It's a three chapter fic, with two already posted. Third chapter is already complete.

I’ve been diving back into fandom lately. Specifically Labyrinth fan fiction. I’ve been “gone” from it now for over ten years and it’s interesting to see what has built up, in the meantime. I suppose I’m one of the old women of the fandom now, remembering the old days when DanseMacabre and ScatteredLogic and KLMorgan were the queens of Labyrinth fanfic. Back when Pika was only just starting to sketch out her first few Girls Next Door comics. Back before gender confused Goblins and the “chicken revolution” was just a crazy idea in Lixxle’s head. I’ve been lucky, over the years, to get to know so many of these amazing women, to be part of the unofficial Goblin Court, as it were.  Of course, many of us wandered off and did other things. I went on to write Buffy and Once Upon a Time fan fiction, which I’m probably better known for than my Labyrinth fics, even though that’s where I started. And then for a little while I tried my hand at some original stuff, which is still under development, but not quite ready to see the light of day.

But, as we say in the Labyrinth fandom: sometimes the way forward is the way back. As always, when I’m feeling a little lost in life, I turn back to Labyrinth. It’s my lodestone in all of my creative endeavors, and even though we now live in a world without David Bowie (don’t get me started), I know that he will always live on, immortal and beautiful, in our little corner of the universe. 

I’ve been dusting off some old, unfinished Labyrinth fan fiction. Not, unfortunately for those who remember it, the sequel to Immortal Love (and I am going to cringe in embarrassment for the rest of eternity over that particular title). Instead I picked up an old multi-chapter fanfic I started over ten years ago that I never finished, realized it was good, and now I’m determined to see it through and hopefully post it sometime in the next century. I also just vomited out a one-shot story the other day that will probably get posted sometime in the next few days.  I don’t know if anyone even remembers that I’m still around. I’m not even sure if I want to revive my old LiveJournal. I hear the Russians run it now, like everything else in this country, apparently. 

I should put together a fic-rec page. :) Maybe I'll do that. 

And yes, when I update DUST there will be notifications here. 

Yep, you found me. Though I'm going to be moving most of my fan fiction updates over to a side tumblr eventually (I'll link it from my fanfiction.net account when I do). 

Chapters: 1/34 Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer Rating: Mature Warnings: Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Spike/Buffy Summers, Buffy/Mr. Gordo Characters: Buffy Summers, Spike (BtVS), Mr. Gordo, Willow Rosenberg, Xander Harris, Rupert Giles, Joyce Summers, Tara Maclay, Anya Jenkins, Original Demon Character(s), Riley Finn, Angel (BtVS), Drusilla (BtVS) Additional Tags: Season/Series 05, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, No Glory, No Dawn, Mythical Beings & Creatures, Norse Mythology - Freeform, Scandinavian mythology - Freeform, Greek Mythology - Freeform, POV First Person Series: Part 1 of West of the Moon, East of the Sun Summary:

Every night Buffy Summers goes to sleep and wakes up in a big bed, in a dark room, with a vampire in it. Is she dreaming or is it real? Meanwhile, life as the Slayer goes on as Buffy juggles college life, friends, her boyfriend, vampires, demons, family -- and a prophecy that could change everything.

Set in an alternate Season 5 with no Glory, and no Dawn. Deviates partially from canon just after the Season 4 finale. Deviates entirely from canon post-"Intervention." Epic length fic.