[Report This]Date: 12/20/2005 03:29 pm Title: Epilogue
Snape as Emilia had me giggling as soon as I realized it.... =D
I really liked this story (here on a reference from uchethegirl) -- it fits so closely to the canon of both, and yet takes and alters it at the same time... You've made me completely reevaluate Lupin and James in all the fics I'm starting now, too, so congrats on that. ;-) I was wondering how you were going to pull off the Lord-Voldemort-kills-parents bit, since it doesn't fit so well into the storyline of Othello per se, but it actually worked out really well, I think.
Some of the dialogue was a bit odd, coming from the Shakespeareness of Othello, but I thought you did a really admirable job of having characters actually notice and mention it -- it saved the fic from some of that unbelievability -- and the direct addresses to the reader rocked my world. The tone was absolutely perfect.
Oh goodness, the implications of what-happens-after.... I really like this interpretation of the Marauders+Lily+Snape dynamic, and it's going to color what I read from now on, I think. The sheer /small/ amount of character bending necessary to make the entire fic come off is hard to believe, and your writing is quite impressive. Thanks!
Author's Response: Thanks for the nice review! It took forever to write this, so I'm delighted people seem to enjoy it. The Voldemort storyline (from HP canon) indeed held up Act V for about six months, while I tried to figure out what to do about it! Eventually I decided to take him out of the equation altogether, since the fic was already labelled AU. While everyone is busy being scared of the Dark Lord... James kills his own wife. Eeeevil and creepy, yes, but I thought it would be interesting to try to pull that off. I'm so glad it worked for you! :) ~Lee
[Report This]Date: 10/16/2005 12:58 am Title: Act V, concluded
Oh, my fucking GOD but this story is amazing. It's horribly fascinating - how on earth did you come up with this? I love Remus in this story, eaten up with jealousy as he is - just three words I've left to say: GREAT BLOODY JOB.
Author's Response: Oh, thank you so much. How did I come up with this... Hmm. I've always been fascinated with the story of Othello, and I thought it might be fun to try it out for the Potterverse. It took me awhile to cast it - Snape is the obvious choice for Iago, but that didn't quite fit the necessary relationships Iago needs to have with Othello and Cassio. In the end, I knew it could only work among the Marauders, and exploiting what we know from canon about their distrust of each other in the first war. I just highlighted the sexual undertones to that distrust. :)
I have a few more story notes about it posted here: http://snegurochka.slashcity.net/commentaries/envy.html - if you are interested. Thanks so much for reading! It took forever to write, so I'm very glad to hear that you enjoyed it. :) ~Lee
[Report This]Date: 08/28/2005 04:14 pm Title: Epilogue
I finished reading this a few days ago, and have only just got round to reviewing *hangs head*
This is an amazing story! I can only imagine how hard you must have worked on this - to make it fit so well with canon and the original play is just incredible. Great job :)
Author's Response: Thanks! It was indeed a challenge to get all the pieces from two canons to fit together, but I'm fairly happy with the results. I'm delighted you enjoyed it. :)
[Report This]Date: 08/25/2005 02:18 pm Title: Epilogue
Wow. Just...wow. This is amazing. You are truly an amazing writer. This was a beautiful blend of Shakespeare and Potterverse. Exquisite barely covers it. If you aren't going to make a living as a professional writer, it will be the world's loss, truly. *nods*
Thank you for sharing this heart-breaking, amazing, and angsty tale with us. It was a truly enjoyable experience.
Author's Response: Oh wow, that is very kind of you. I do make a living as a writer for now, but it's boring academic non-fiction, so I enjoy dabbling in fiction when I can. :) It was indeed a challenge to merge the Shakespeare and Potterverse worlds here, so it's wonderful to hear from readers who thought it worked. Thank you so much.
[Report This]Date: 08/13/2005 12:26 am Title: Act IV, concluded
this is amazing. remus is perfect as iago, and snape is really showing awesome character. interesting twist with peter there.
Author's Response: Thanks! Hope you enjoy Act 5... :)
[Report This]Date: 08/13/2005 12:17 am Title: Act I: Iced Coffee
this is a great start! i want to see more!
Author's Response: It's complete, as you now know! Hope you enjoy the rest.
[Report This]Date: 08/13/2005 12:07 am Title: Act IV: Cloaked and Daggered
this is chilling my blood. i never imagined lupin with this personality. i'm scared for lily, james, snape, and peter.
Author's Response: Oh good; I'm no expert at writing this sort of mystery style, so I'm glad the scariness is coming across. I did want this to encourage readers to think a bit differently about Remus, while still keeping him plausibly "in character." Thanks so much for your comments!
[Report This]Date: 08/12/2005 11:57 pm Title: Act III, concluded
snape is really a cool guy in this part - but i hope he tells the truth about the handkerchief before james goes crazy and kills someone...
Author's Response: Well, I suspect you already know how 'Othello' ends... and this is as faithful a recreation as I could manage for the Potterverse, so... Eep!
[Report This]Date: 08/12/2005 11:48 pm Title: Act III: Torment
snape fits right into the role of emilia, iago's wife. never would have guessed it! this is really coming along nicely.
Author's Response: I never would have guessed it either. I played around with the casting quite a bit at first, and actually began with Snape as Iago, but that didn't quite work. And as a Snupin shipper, I couldn't resist casting Snape as Lupin's 'wife'... Glad it works for you.
[Report This]Date: 08/12/2005 11:44 pm Title: Act II: The Warehouse
Wow! This is good. Great retelling of Shakespeare's Othello.
Author's Response: Thanks!
[Report This]Date: 07/26/2005 07:34 am Title: Act IV: Cloaked and Daggered
OMG, that was a brilliant chapter! On to the next...
Author's Response: Thanks! This one is one of my favourites. :)
[Report This]Date: 07/24/2005 07:39 am Title: Epilogue
Wow. This is a truly amazing fic, and the way you pull it all together truly awes me, I could never manage to do this, I can understand why you had such problems with act 5, but it worked wonderfully. I am awed!
Author's Response: Oh, thanks honey. I'm glad you got to read it; I was curious about what you would think. Yay. :)
[Report This]Date: 07/15/2005 06:34 pm Title: Epilogue
Wow...you didn't take this where I thought you might, but very, very enjoyable. Adds a whole new layer on WHY Snape hates REmus in PoA, heh.
Author's Response: And on why Snape hates *Harry*! That's more what I was thinking. :) But now I'm curious as to where you thought it would go. Feel free to email me if you want to chat more about it. Thanks so much for reading. :)
[Report This]Date: 07/14/2005 09:23 pm Title: Epilogue
Wow! That was amazing. It was, dare I say it...better than cannon!
I've also been reading Metamorphoses and I am very interested in an update!
Author's Response: Oh, thank you! We shall have to wait one more day to find out what book 6 has to tell us about this situation! I'm delighted you've been enjoying Metamorphoses. We wanted to get a new chapter up this week, but I'm afraid I got carried away with my own fics. :( Soon after HBP, though, we shall continue posting!
[Report This]Date: 07/14/2005 04:13 pm Title: Epilogue
Oh my dear...I shudder at the genius that is your Treacherous!Lupin. This is a wonderful departure for you, who usually champions the human complexities of the beloved Remusly one at every turn. What a delight to see you pull all the threads together with such diabolical cleverness and fidelity to canon. I know we're all sitting around a-quiver with anticipation for HBP to come out, so the timing may not have been fortuitious for "Envy" to receive the attention it truly deserves, but this is a marvellous bit of work, my dear. Now that the play is over, it's time for a curtain call - Brava, bravissima! Author, AUTHOR!!
Author's Response: Oh, thank you sweetie, I'm glad you enjoyed it. You're right - my release timing may have left this overshadowed by new canon, but I also wanted to push to get it out before book 6... sure, it's already AU, but just in case we do get some key Godric's Hollow information, I wanted to be able to say that this was completed beforehand! :) Thanks so much for the nice review.
[Report This]Date: 07/12/2005 11:53 am Title: Act III: Torment
This just gets better and better :)
Author's Response: Thanks!
[Report This]Date: 07/12/2005 11:37 am Title: Act II: The Warehouse
Oh, just what is our evil Remus setting up here? Whoever would have guessed he could be such a scheming bastard ;)
"Moody’s got a stash of firewhisky at the back of this cupboard, I know he does, but he’s Transfigured it to look like air." *dies*
The new parents among this tale’s gentle readers may sympathise with the difficulties of attending to one’s carnal desires when one is up half the night calming an upset infant, not to mention when one’s wife is suffering from chafed nipples and has the sex drive of an elderly Flobberworm.
LOL! I think you hit the nail right on the head with that one!
Author's Response: Aha! I thought you might note that line! One of my betas read that and noted, "This makes me wonder what the sex drive of a *young* Flobberworm is like..." :) Thanks for reading.
[Report This]Date: 07/10/2005 11:07 am Title: Act IV, concluded
Wow, still going strong. The talk between Snape and Lily was especially heart-wrenching. It make sense, especially from what we saw in OoP, that Snape would have seen this before and doesn't want to see history repeat itself--very insightful! Beautiful way to explain his motivations.
Author's Response: Thanks! That scene was actually written months and months and months ago - long before I realised that abused!Snape is pretty cliche in fanfic. But, it worked here, so I kept it. I thought it would be a powerful incentive for him to help Lily - I'm glad that came across. Thanks for sticking with this, and for another nice review! :)
[Report This]Date: 07/09/2005 06:11 am Title: Act IV, continued
Deerst, this is getting more and more thrilling. Chilling even.
I like your use of Narrator speaking directly to the reader. I like your storyline and ideas. The pensieve scene was truly scary and well-written and Lily's characterisation - most interesting. I like it how we see different vision of reality. Remus believes James to be more gay than heterosexual. Lily wants to believe her husband heterosexual. And most likely James is simply capable of fucking all that breaths.
I like it how most of the characters are so terrible. Impossible to like them - save Snape ;) And supposedly you aren't that much of a Snape fan, huh? So why do you keep on writing him so pleasantly? ;)
It's truly a great story.
Greetings from Poland,
Novinha
Author's Response: Thank you, Novinha - what a nice review! I love your characterisation of Remus, Lily, and James - I think you're exactly right. And Snape... huh. It's true: I harbour no real feelings for him, good or bad, but I do seem to write him fairly benevolently most of the time, don't I? Ha. He still has a major role to play here, so stay tuned... Thanks for reading!
[Report This]Date: 07/09/2005 01:26 am Title: Act IV, continued
Oh yeah, I caught a few lines and paraphrases from The Bard. Hmmm...Snape is suspicious of Remus. You know, that's going to be interesting. Wasn't Snape's "counterpart" Iago's wife in "Othello?" It's been a few years. She wasn't suspicious until too late. Now I'm *really* curious as to what will happen. Methinks Remus may have gotten too complacent, may have relaxed too soon.
Author's Response: Yep, you got it: Snape is playing the role of Emilia, Desdemona (Lily)'s maid, and Iago (Remus)'s wife. *snickers* It's a bit of an in-joke, for the Snupin shipper in me, but also I thought that casting would be interesting, in terms of putting Snape and Lily together a bit. You'll have to wait till Act 5 for the real Snape/Remus confrontation, a la the play... Thanks so much for the review! I'm glad you're still along for the ride. :)
[Report This]Date: 07/09/2005 01:09 am Title: Act IV, continued
<~~~~ Running over to your LJ to read the rest because I can't wait for the rest.
Brillant. Simply Brilliant.
Author's Response: Oh, thanks! Haha, yes, Aeryn outed me for the fact that the completed fic is already posted elsewhere, eh? :) I'm hoping to get it all posted here in the next few days as well. Glad you're enjoying it, and thanks for the review!
[Report This]Date: 07/08/2005 12:38 am Title: Act IV: Cloaked and Daggered
Wow, Rosmerta as Bianca -- nice touch!
*"I've got a lot on my mind," he said tersely. "Everywhere around me, everywhere I look, all I see are traitors."* Heh heh, I love the irony of that little line. Of course, he misses the traitor right in front of him...
Interesting twist to the ending! I was wondering if you would wrap this up so it would fit in with canon (albiet in a strange way) but it looks like I guessed wrong. Ah well, I anxiously await the next Act!
Author's Response: Ahaha! Guessed wrong, you think? Not necessarily. :) I actually had to be dragged to this AU label kicking and screaming, because in my head, there isn't anything here that couldn't be explained with canon. You'll have to wait till Act 5 to be the judge. It certainly tips canon on its head, but I'm not deliberately trying to contradict it, if that makes sense. Glad you're still enjoying it! (And who else could have been Bianca?!) Thanks for the review. :)
[Report This]Date: 07/06/2005 12:49 pm Title: Act IV: Cloaked and Daggered
I am scared, thrilled and interested. Most of all, interested. I like it how you twist our perceptions of canon characters here. And, as it's AU, I have no problems whatsoever with your characterisation. It's refreshing to see such a story. The only thing that rasps for me is Lily's behavious - not in the term of your writing, but the female behaviour. I feel strongly about women who stay with abusive partners. IO feel like shaking them until they come to their senses ;)
Terrific, stylish, interesting. I am waiting for more, dearest Snegurochka!
Greetings from your Favourite Pole :)
Author's Response: Thanks, Novinha - I'm glad to see you are still reading it! And I'm *very* glad that you agree this AU label allows me to get away with altering a lot of canon issues! As for Lily... yes. Very, very sad. I almost didn't finish this fic many times, for that reason. I hope future chapters give you a bit more insight into her character. Thanks so much for the review!
[Report This]Date: 07/05/2005 08:17 pm Title: Act IV: Cloaked and Daggered
This is absolutely wicked Snegurochka! I can't wait to see what you do next with this.
Author's Response: Oh! Thank you. It's all written; just getting a tweak here and there as I post. Hoping to get it all up before HBP comes out - 4 more chapters to go. Thanks for reading!
[Report This]Date: 07/02/2005 08:33 pm Title: Act III, concluded
Wow. Well-told tale, very chilling. I love the little asides you do. Waiting anxiously for the rest!
Author's Response: Oh, thanks! Nice to have you on board. This has actually been mostly finished for months, but I hesitated to post it because writers such as yourself do Shakespeare so well! I wasn't sure I could add to the genre, but... yeah, it *was* mostly written, so I thought I'd go ahead with it... :)