To hezmana with all this perfectionism! FIC POST!

[hmpf]

Okay. This is *slightly* premature, which in Hmpf!speak means it's 'only' been in betaing and revising stage for *gasp* a year! Clearly, that is *much* too short for such a long fic. */sarcasm*

Well, actually, I *am* posting a bit prematurely, because one last issue isn't quite taken care of yet. But, you know... only one of my two betas thought it was an issue in the first place, and while I tend to agree that it is, there is also the possibility that we both just need to... relax a bit or whatever, so... here's me giving in to my impatient side for once!

Anyway, if you read this, remember there's one sentence in there that I'm not entirely happy with, and that may change a bit yet. For what it's worth.

So, here goes. First *really* new HL fic by me since 2002 (I think), and first fic finished since April/May 2007, too.

Title: 68 Wives
Author: Hmpf MacSlow
Betas: amonitrate, beccatoria
Fandom: Highlander
Characters: Methos, OFCs
Wordcount: 1333
Warnings: None, really. Mild references to sex and violence, nothing particularly explicit.
Link: http://www.allabouthmpf.com/68wives.htm

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How to Love a Madman will probably take a couple more days. It's mostly finished, really (I think now), but I still need a medical beta for some details.

Comments

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

Wow, that is gorgeous!

Thank you!

[hmpf.livejournal.com]

:)

[jinxed-wood.livejournal.com]

That was amazing, and the ending was wonderfully perfect - thank you for sharing :-)

Thanks!

[hmpf.livejournal.com]

I'm really happy that people so far seem to be rather enjoying it. :-)

[beccatoria.livejournal.com]

You already know I love it and have since you first showed it to me in hardcopy when I was visiting.

And for the record - the linebreak resolves the issue nicely. Not what I would have done, but then it would have sounded like me, not you, so hooray for sounding like you. :)

:-)

[(Anonymous)]

Hallo Hmpf!
Hat mir gut gefallen, mehr davon! Vor allem das British Museum läßt mein Archäologenherz springen:-)
LG aus der VFG im IGF,
K.

[dune-drd.livejournal.com]

Well, if it's worth anything, I love it to bits. May I pimp it?

Sure!

[hmpf.livejournal.com]

Pimp away!

Yay!

[hmpf.livejournal.com]

Das freut mich.

Und Methos ist doch so oder so der Schutzheilige aller Archäologen, oder? ;-)

Re: Sure!

[dune-drd.livejournal.com]

Done :)

[aeron-lanart.livejournal.com]

That is absolutely lovely. It's so good to see behind the ROG's mask for a little while. Thank you for writing this!

Re: Yay!

[(Anonymous)]

Also, laut Wikipedia haben die Archäologen drei Schutzheilige:
1. Helena, Mutter des röm. Kaisers Konstantin.
2. Barbara von Nikomedien, die u.a. auch für Geologen, Glockengießer, Elektriker und Totengräber zuständig ist.
und
3. Guthlac, ein englischer Heiliger und Einsiedler des späten 7. / frühen 8. Jhs.

.... Methos = Guthlac ????

[aislingde.livejournal.com]

Jetzt verstehe ich deinen Hang zum Perfektionismus... deine Story ist perfekt.

Jedes Wort, jede Betonung passt.

Ich habe es sehr genossen.

[herdivineshadow]

You know, I think this is worth hearing about it for so long and having to wait. AWESOMECAKES.

Thanks!

[hmpf.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Gorgeous Methos nose icon there. :D

Dankeschön.

[hmpf.livejournal.com]

Ich bin gerade wieder in einer 'nee, das ist alles noch nicht *ganz* so wie es sein sollte'-Phase, da tut es gut, gelobt zu werden. :)

Thank you!

[hmpf.livejournal.com]

I do feel a bit guilty, sometimes, at talking about the fics I'm writing for *years* before actually posting them. I imagine that must be annoying to a truly curious reader. *g*

Re: Yay!

[hmpf.livejournal.com]

>.... Methos = Guthlac ????

Fic! *g*

Re: Thank you!

[herdivineshadow]

Heh and then you post like... one tantalising line.

It's not annoying just inspires even mooore curiousity. :D

[calapine.livejournal.com]

That was marvellous indeed, yes.

Thank you!

[hmpf.livejournal.com]

Glad you liked it.

[steelvictory.livejournal.com]

So for some crazy reason, I missed this when you first posted it, so I'm really glad you mentioned it in your journal today.

AMAZING.

I feel like you've been talking about the story for forever, and it definitely lives up to all expectation. Thank you for sharing. :)

Thanks!

[hmpf.livejournal.com]

Heh. All those remarks about how the long wait was worth it, while of course making me proud, also make me feel kind of guilty... *g*

Re: Thank you!

[hmpf.livejournal.com]

And of course when I finally do post the actual fic it's frickin' 1333 words! It's read in like half a minute! ;-)

I really need to learn how to write faster...

[unovis-lj.livejournal.com]

Very nicely done, like beads on a string.
The details he remembers seem to take them all out of time; there's an ancient feel to all of them, though it might just be the false archaeology of memory.

[thoran-ziyal.livejournal.com]

Die ist wirklich total klasse geworden! Ich kann mir vorstellen, wie sehr Du da um jedes Wort geklaubt hast - aber das war es wert!

Thank you!

[hmpf.livejournal.com]

They all will be ancient memories in time... I think for all that Methos lives emphatically in the present, he is also always aware of the present constantly turning into past, and eventually into remote past. (How could he not?)

I have another (fiendishly difficult) fic I'm writing about Methos which contains a bit about that - about trying out the past tense when thinking about people. I wish I could get a handle on that fic. It's been refusing to come together for years now. *sigh*

Dankeschön!

[hmpf.livejournal.com]

Jetzt muß ich das Ding bloß noch ins Deutsche übertragen... ;-)

[amonitrate.livejournal.com]

I'm so happy you posted this at long last. It's beautiful and haunting.

[were-lemur.livejournal.com]

Not my fandom but ... wow.

Thanks!

[hmpf.livejournal.com]

Sorry for the late reply, I've fallen a bit behind on replying to comments in the last two weeks.

Thanks!

[hmpf.livejournal.com]

I love it when my fics also work for non-fen of the source material! :-)