The Eros Affair

[geoviki]

By now you've undoubtedly seen 46+ announcements for this community, The Eros Affair. The story I wrote for it is called The Law of Falling and Catching Up (see, ravurian? I told you I'd write a fic with that title!). I also wrote one of the scenarios in The Finale.

Enjoy all the H/D goodness - 46 authors! There are some real treasures there. But you have to come back here to comment.

Comments

[fungus-files.livejournal.com]

wow! this is a fantastic idea and props to all those who took part AND kept it a secret. I was starting to believe that secrets couldn't be kept on the internets.

have bookmarked the site for reading later. congrats on the publication!

:)

[geoviki.livejournal.com]

Some of the stories have been peeking out from various LJs referring to an unnamed project (all with permission), but no one wanted to spill the beans since so many of us were involved. Me, I barely made the deadline, yikes! I haven't finished reading them all - like a box of chocolates, I must savor them.

[mariannec.livejournal.com]

Reads. Giggles. Frowns. Sighs with delight. Thank you.

[geoviki.livejournal.com]

Cool site, isn't it? The very first one posted (also #1 in the list by rurounihime) was so good, I was intimidated. Lots of goodies there.

[pocketroxy.livejournal.com]

This is so intense and absolutely fabulous! The concept of the dreaming and its effects, and then Harry finally coming thru and making it real is so creative and well done. Bravo!

[geoviki.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I had the idea of addiction the minute I read about that Charm. How could it not be abused, really?

[mechaieh.livejournal.com]

Good stuff. Good work, you.

[geoviki.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I'm tickled you think so, and gave me a feather to tell me so.

[kc-anathema.livejournal.com]

Just finished The Law of Falling on the Eros Affair site. Loved it probably more than the other fics and thought I should let you know I enjoyed it muchly. It even got two tears out of me. A very good story.

[geoviki.livejournal.com]

Thank you. That's very heady praise, because there are so many great stories in the batch - well, great writers, of course, so how can they not be? I appreciate you telling me that!

[indigorhapsody.livejournal.com]

I just read The Law of Falling and Catching Up, and had to say I think it was among the best. I love all your H/D fics, and this is no exception. It's practically canon that the Weasley's inventions are quite dangerous, and it was instantly believable that their Daydream Charms could be addictive. Great idea. I just loved what you did with it.

"That wasn't a half-hour just now," he grumbles aloud.

It was so!

Unless I'm very much mistaken in thinking that was a Flying Circus reference, I'd like to let you know that I caught that, and laughed.

[geoviki.livejournal.com]

Oh, thank you for saying so! There ae quite a lot of nice fics in the batch, so it's very flattering to hear that.

Oh, and it is so Monty Python, isn't it? Probably not appropriate for this fic, but it had to be said.

[geoviki.livejournal.com]

I always seem to squeeze in a happy ending somehow. I've had another plot for a sad angsty thing for over a year, and I just can't bring myself to write it yet. That may be a good thing, though.

[singlewoman.livejournal.com]

Wow, I have just read "The Law of Falling and Catching Up" and it is such a powerful story. I have read most of the other offerings from The Eros Affair, but yours was outstanding, and so different from the usual H/D fics. I have been a long time admirer of your wriitng. Hope to read more from you soon.

[geoviki.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I just finished reading all 46 myself. But there are some really good ones there, don't you think? I need to post about some of the ones I adore.

Wow.

[scoradh.livejournal.com]

I read this then went away to ponder it for a while, so I could decide how to describe it back to you. This was the best I could do: It's like a jigsaw puzzle and all the pieces fit together with perfect symmetry. From the opening quote, which I liked but didn't register when I first read it, to the neatly slotted in plot points. Peter's lechery turning to Peter's molestation of Draco; Draco's boredom turning into Draco's addiction; a harmless product morphing into a drug; dream Harry becoming real Harry; and Draco's real world becoming platable at last.

A sudden stillness captures him. He puzzles over it, until he realizes that his months-long urge to run is finally gone.

*dies* Nothing jars, everything seems part of an underlying, non-invasive plan, or something.

The only thing that struck me was the lack of snark or real bitterness between the two before they finally got together; but I take it that Draco's non-killing of Dumbledore and Draco's love for dream!Harry softened them both up a bit, right?

The absolute best and most precious bit of this story is the addiction part. You present it so tellingly, so convincingly, with such need and denial on Draco's part, that I even felt a wrench when he had to give it up.

He wakes up to find Penticoff gone, but Potter is reading a dog-eared magazine from the waiting room. They look at each other for a long moment, before Potter clears his throat.

For some reason, this line conjured up such bleakness on Draco's part for me. I can just picture it so well; Harry with one leg on his knee, a tatty magazine, the utter colourlessness of life without the dream-spell. The whole fic seems to be made up of deceptively simple, evocative pieces like that.

It's very unfair that you can write so well and I can't, basically, nyah. *pouts* Still, that means all the more good writing for me to read! Did you sign up for the second wave?

Re: Wow.

[geoviki.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! Your feedback is always worth waiting for, you know. You always put so much thought into what you say, and I always look forward to that.

Most important: don't for one moment think you can't write well, because I know you can - I've seen the evidence, my dear! And I'm not the only one who thinks so, you realize.

Your point is good, that there's no snark. By this point, I wanted Draco to be numb to anything...he's just lost that edge to him. Well, plus it was a short story, right, and I wanted to keep writing and writing until it was a novel.

The addiction plot - that came to me right away after I read the Charm in HBP. No way could that not be addictive. I knew I had to write that, and poor Draco, my favorite whipping boy, got to play it out for us. The stuff about "if I only do it 6, no 7 times a day, it's okay" and the "I'll wait an hour, no a half-hour"...written from sad experience.

Re: Wow.

[rainspots.livejournal.com]

:P I think I embarrass people sometimes, because frankly I get carried away when I like something. Eh, well. Hyperbolism is love, and all that.

That's true. I have a RL friend who thinks my stuff is interesting, only she wishes I wouldn't keep writing fanfic and/or slash. *wry*

Ah, I see now. I knew there'd be a reason behind it, not just the "I want them to be twu luvvers, so this is how they are now, nyah!" excuse. It was maybe just a little too subtle for me to spot first go, because I need big blaring signs pointing stuff out before it sinks in.

Hah, I find daydreams addictive enough without magic! And, er, I sort of guessed you might be drawing on experience -- it rang to true, if you see what I mean -- only I hoped for your sake it wasn't the case. (Still, technically I'm addicted to the internet, so I can't say anything.)

ANYWAY, one point I forgot to make is related to the coding or whatever -- whether it's just my computer, dialup or lame country, I don't know, but there were random question marks everywhere. Just in case anyone else is having the same problem, you should upload it to SH or somewhere toot sweet so it looks less Spanish and we can enjoy it even more. xD

Re: Wow.

[geoviki.livejournal.com]

That's odd about the ???'s. I didn't do the coding for this fic, reenka and bookshop did. Of course it looks fine to me; I'm using Netscape. I plan to add it to my archive at Skyehawke, but that archive's been acting up for the past few days so I was waiting for some stability.

I didn't sign up for the second wave, since I have a Merry_Smutmas fic I need to be writing. Besides, I'm not proud that I had to slam this fic out quickly after piddling around all summer ignoring it. Bad, bad author! No biscuit!

[rainspots.livejournal.com]

* too true, even. Bugger.

[twigged.livejournal.com]

I just read your eros affair fic, and wow! I loved your premise, and the execution was perfect. <333!

[geoviki.livejournal.com]

Oh, thanks, Shaggy! I'm glad you liked it. I almost didn't make the deadline, and it's not beta'd either (bad, bad me), but I liked the idea of addiction. I saw the possibilities the minute I read about the charm. And our poor Draco makes the perfect victim, don't you think?

[twigged.livejournal.com]

It would take a saint not to want to victimize ickle Draco. And a castrated one at that.