I would read mirrorverse Arthur fic if I knew anything at all about the canon. Or, actually, it might be better that I don't, in this case.
Summaries: you write declarative sentences that are true within the story, not statements from outside it or about it. And they're statements. Forged of Gold has a noun phrase as its summary ("a retelling of [...]") and it describes the story itself (a retelling!) rather than sort of... ignoring that it's a story? If you had written "a retelling of Hephaestus' rise to Olympus and the time after, exploring him and his relationships to the important people in his life" (c/p from veilchenjaeger's summary), you would have used a summary like "Hephaestus rises to Olympus" (or some other statement that's true on their side of the fourth wall). Your summaries are like "Odin has wrongs to right" and definitely not like "a retelling in prose of the song Hearthfire". (Though, on combing your AO3 to double-check, I find that Punica Fides doesn't fit this pattern, and arguably neither does In the end, or Spirits of this age, or Two for Joy. Out of 55 works, only 51 fit this pattern. I was overconfident.)
I know little enough about Greek myth that I didn't think about the specific deity in question, just ideas like, you're willing to acknowledge genderqueerness in fiction (which is not a universal trait), and you like mythic fandoms... *shrug* hardly proof, I know, and knew then, too. As I said then, I'd've been moderately surprised to be right with that one.
And I will totally look forward to reading Lies told by firelight in the future. (Just as soon as I've read canon... thanks for the rec!)
(Wait, you can choose who you write for in Yuletide? I thought it was random matches! Maybe I should reconsider maybe doing YT!)
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Date: 2016-01-11 02:14 am (UTC)Summaries: you write declarative sentences that are true within the story, not statements from outside it or about it. And they're statements. Forged of Gold has a noun phrase as its summary ("a retelling of [...]") and it describes the story itself (a retelling!) rather than sort of... ignoring that it's a story? If you had written "a retelling of Hephaestus' rise to Olympus and the time after, exploring him and his relationships to the important people in his life" (c/p from veilchenjaeger's summary), you would have used a summary like "Hephaestus rises to Olympus" (or some other statement that's true on their side of the fourth wall). Your summaries are like "Odin has wrongs to right" and definitely not like "a retelling in prose of the song Hearthfire". (Though, on combing your AO3 to double-check, I find that Punica Fides doesn't fit this pattern, and arguably neither does In the end, or Spirits of this age, or Two for Joy. Out of 55 works, only 51 fit this pattern. I was overconfident.)
I know little enough about Greek myth that I didn't think about the specific deity in question, just ideas like, you're willing to acknowledge genderqueerness in fiction (which is not a universal trait), and you like mythic fandoms... *shrug* hardly proof, I know, and knew then, too. As I said then, I'd've been moderately surprised to be right with that one.
And I will totally look forward to reading Lies told by firelight in the future. (Just as soon as I've read canon... thanks for the rec!)
(Wait, you can choose who you write for in Yuletide? I thought it was random matches! Maybe I should reconsider maybe doing YT!)