'The Professionals' Slash Proliferation Challenge

[kiwisue]

Monday 26th: M. Fae Glasgow

"To be honest, I don't even identify with any of the characters. I'm just fascinated by them. Plus, I'm prurient and salacious and simply adore to watch."
Quoted in "Normal Female Interest in Men Bonking": Selections from The Terra Nostra Underground and Strange Bedfellows


'Doyle was glancing at him, carefully casual. "Don't know about you, but I want to go to bed."

Bodie blinked at that. Then his eyes were unflinching, all his courage piled high to build either bonfire or pyre: one or the other - it no longer mattered which - but he had to bring it out, hadto let it out to say to Doyle, to show him what they could be. He was too tired of being lonely in crowded rooms, too tired of being alone when he was fucking his girls, and so tired that he was exhausted of all fear. He warned Doyle with the expression in his eyes, meeting Doyle's caginess with a cutting honesty of his own.

"Yeh, I'd like to go to bed." A heartbeat. "With you." (On Christmas Day in the morning)'

from
I Saw Three Ships by Gael X. Ile (M. Fae Glasgow)

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Comments

[heliophile-oxon.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for posting this, it's really fascinating (and I'm still dipping into the TNU / SB page when I'm supposed to be working ...)

PS I tried to answer your message but couldn't get my email to send, for some reason (it asked me for a password?!? - I probably have something set up wrong at my end) so just in case here is a cc:

Hi kiwisue!
good to hear from you. I'd love to have a chat about the sentences - I'm here on apostil aaat gmail dooot commm, adjust as appropriate (couldn't get emailing you directly to work for some reason).
17th century gear???? hmm, acting? or maybe reconstruction? My curiosity is piqued!
best,
Heliophile

[kiwisue.livejournal.com]

The article is a little old now (it's been reprinted in a more recent Henry Jenkins book) Interesting to see how ideas have evolved, no?

Reenactment is the name of the game - some of my earlyer journal entries have pics (I should do tags - maybe one day!).

I've been sick over the past day or so, will try to get emails answered today.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

I've just been re-reading M.Fae - not got to that one yet though... How do people forget that she's one of the amazing Pros writers? We hardly hear anything about how good she is these days, though people list the gamut of other authors from around her time..! So thank you for posting more M.Fae!

[kiwisue.livejournal.com]

I think people are put off a little by her reputation. She has written some very dark stories but also some that are, if not exactly light, very optimistic. And I like her style as well, the rhythm, the story-telling cadence, although I know others who find some of her quirks (flipping POVs for eg) a little too confusing.

Read more! (oops, I forget, you don't have time!).

[paris7am.livejournal.com]

I *love* I Saw Three Ships.
Perfect!

[kiwisue.livejournal.com]

See - warm & cosy MFae. Nothing like it :-)

[callistosh65.livejournal.com]

Thanks for posting that rec up, I hadn't read it before, and it was absolutely wonderful. I love that I read, read, read and *still* there are superb writers out there to stumble across.

[kiwisue.livejournal.com]

Do read some others of hers (or her pseuds). There are some unhappy ones, but a lot aren't. Try "Wrong End of the Stick" or "Wish I Wasn't Here" or "The High Road".

[moth2fic.livejournal.com]

Thanks for reccing that! I'd read some of her other stories but not that one. Lovely! How does one send feedback? Or isn't she around any more?

[kiwisue.livejournal.com]

I'm really not sure - AFAIK she went away from Pros to Due South & Smallville. You might be able to reach her through Oblique, although that site hasn't been updated for a few years.

[moth2fic.livejournal.com]

I think I might just have to hope I come across her somewhere, though I don't read in either of those fandoms! I hope she knows how much people enjoyed her work!

[faramir-boromir.livejournal.com]

Yup. I remember this...and I **love** it. Thanks for the repost!

[kiwisue.livejournal.com]

You're welcome. M Fae doesn't get read often enough IMHO.