#the lack of schoethe tho…

[blankvers]

Finally, I have read „Das Erlkönig-Manöver“ too.

You were all right: It was hella well written, it was emotionally consuming and it didn’t let me go in the final quarter. It was full of unexpectedness and sass, and some scenes were cute, some scenes were funny. And the thing with Alex and Kleist, holy moly! It was the craziest Fanfiction I’ve ever read.

But… Schoethe Fandom, please don’t hate me for this:

All in all, I did not enjoy reading it.

The final quarter of the book was it. Yes, it did hold me tight, but it was way too much at once for me. Too much randomness. Too many incompleted plottwists and hostile turns, it was… Exhausting, in the unsatisfactory way.

The cold, one-sided way Goethe was written bothered me too. The sass was superb, absolutely. But I didn‘t like his flat „old-horny-man“ character. Fuck yes, he was an old horny man. But he kinda was the only person in the story who did not receive a deeper character insight (except for the end). I would have expected more behind-the-shell-scenes of him. He kinda was just there. He was too distanced and casual to Schiller, too anti-social, he was written like a least likable character with low development, so it seemed to me. And the thing with him and Bettine was… extremely uncanny and unfitting.

In general, the entire group dynamic felt off to me.

The (ow, ow, ow) ending didn’t make it better, it abandoned me in an unsatisfactory heart-ouch.

The action at the end was exiting. But still, to much hostility between the main characters and in the story itself. Too much of everything dashing in.

I swear, Manöver-Fans, I’m not a Kunstbanause x,D

It just wasn’t my sauce.

I liked „Durch Nacht Und Wind“ better.

[eolewyn1010]

about the wip ask thingie: i hope it's not too many for one ask but i'd be really interested to see what these are about ? <3

-something something Victorian Steampunk Fantasy AU

-Née en 1789

-Schoethe Prügelei

Nah, it's not too many. I just hope you don't mind that I'm just babbling about them, not giving out snippets, since I'm not yet that comfortable with the scenes I have written for them. Here we go!

The "Victorian Steampunk Fantasy AU" is one of my more out-there Tatort AUs - meaning, I'm borrowing all my Tatort darlings and a crime-related plot, and implant those into a world that leaves me to a bit more creative freedom. In this case, the setting is basically Carnival Row, because the aesthetic is KILLER. It's like a late 19th century industrialization age city with a ton of immigrants, not all of whom are human. And this kind of Urban Fantasy is what I wanted for my Tatort blorbos, changing them into merpeople (who live in the city's canal), harpies (who are mostly exploited as factory workers), werewolves and fauns and fae with their own issues to deal with. Throw in my local high-society dryad wanting to find out who killed her husband in a politically perilous situation, me setting up my idiots to investigate, and some interspecies romance for good measure. Too many characters, too ambitious.

"Née en 1789" is a little less complicated, in that it's just historical without Fantasy aspects. It's original fiction tho, no fanfic, and it's the story of my OC Laurielle de Laine, who started out as a Polly Oliver joining the French army in 1805, dressed up as a young man. By now, I've come to think of Laurie as nonbinary, even though time and age lack the concept as well as appropriate pronouns. Laurie's family has some scars to bear from the revolution, and it has left Laurie with several emotional issues. Eventually, an uneasy relationship between Laurie and Napoleon begins (bc Napoleon is a slut; Laurie shares him with his wife and a polycule of three girlfriends...), but they spend a lot of time yelling at each other, and eventually Napoleon questions Laurie's loyalty as a soldier when there's a Russian officer taking an interest, albeit more of a personal one. After trying out the whole concept of betrayal, Laurie's way leads back to France and then all the way to St. Helena, outliving Napoleon and, years later, fighting in another revolution.

"Schoethe Prügelei" - I think you were around when this idea was born, and fed me material to work with XD Wasn't it one of the early polls that came around and asked which of them would win a brawl in the mall parking lot? And I went, "I need to write this"... and haven't written it so far, even though it shouldn't be more than a little one-shot. It's modern Goethe and Schiller beating the crap out of each other over literacy / philosophical differences, and then going, "huh, he's kinda sexy with blood on his face". They'll go out for a coffee by the end of it, but not before some mutual bitching.