Mad Dogs and Englishmen

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So I finished Nano at 68,000 words. Not finished Temporal just yet, but I’m finally at the last fucking furlong.

If you wondered why I dropped out of DL fandom all those years back? This fic. This fucking fic. Yes, the lack of reviews was annoying and the earlier installments were pretty poorly written compared to what I was doing after I’d finished my Creative Writing degree. But-

This fic.

Holy fuck this fic.

You think I was horrible to Raistlin and Dalamar before? You ain’t seen nothing yet. Everyone is absolutely awful in this story, which the exception of Tasslehoff, who I liked a hell of a lot more on this read-through. Joke’s on him, because the characters I like? Go through hell. Seriously, although he’s not the main character, Tasslehoff’s part of the story is about one half morality pet, one half kick the dog on multiple character’s parts, and entirely Break the Cutie.

Seriously, I have a little epilogue lined up that is just fucking heartbeaking. 

Characters that came off much, much worse in this re-read are mostly Caramon and Tanis. 

Caramon because Raistlin had a sudden wake-up moment of ‘hang on, why did Caramon love hanging out with people who liked beating the snot out of me? Why was he so eager to make friends with kids who’d just stomped on me? There’s a connection there I’m not very comfortable with.’

(I know W&H did it to make Caramon seem more likable, but mostly it made him look like he liked keeping people around Raistlin who’d give him an excuse to be a savior)

(Also what the hell was with this series for showing the Kingpriest as being sort of pathetic and scared? Dude was burning people alive and massacring entire species. It’s like trying to humanise Hitler. I don’t care how he feels about it, I’m not feeling sorry for the fucker)

(Finally, the Gods are dicks in this one. I mean, I think they’re dicks in canon too, but it’s really fucking obvious in this one. Fuck those guys. I’m going full Discworld on their arses. Last Hero Discworld)

Tanis because… handing Kitiara to Lord Soth ftw. Like, there’s a middle ground between continuing to be hung up on your old girlfriend and handing her over to eternal undead shittiness. Tanis just got himself a forever ticket in my ‘not good at all wtf’s wrong with you’ book.

Maybe my Dalamar is way more sensitive to this after the whole Fistandantilus debacle, but holy shit the Majeres (and ust Matars) have a problem with attracting undead.

(Palin, if you meet any nice vampires, run for the fucking hills)

Anyway, finally. Fucking finally. After over sixty thousand words of everything getting progressively worse, Dalamar got his Big Damn Hero moment and we’re finally lurching towards a happy ending. 

For Raistlin and Dalamar anyway. 

Caramon won’t be getting one. 

Tanis is getting an extended buttmonkey ending. 

Crysania has had such a shitty time I don’t feel like putting her though worse. 

Tasslehoff might eventually feel better. 

Maybe. 

After a few years. 

I am so sorry.

I know! It's still alive. I fear that it's gone and then suddenly bam! The bunny bites again (or rather gnaws, it's been biting me since '04 and shows no sign of stopping). I can't help it. I still love this fic. Even though the early bits are some of my worst writing and I can't read them without flinching, and I've long since lost interest in the actual canon characters (except maybe Dalamar, he is still ever-awesome), I just love my Raistlin and Dalamar too much to abandon them. I'm a little unsure about this story still. It is angst on top of angst and I do wonder if it will get too much. All I can do is try not to wallow in it, I guess.

( Valhalla )

 

 

( Hades )

Okay, sorry for a newly long wait, but i hope things will be going better from now on. For now, please enjoy.

 

 

( Temporal 2 )

Yes. I’m alive. Apologies of the obscene wait, but I think it’s to be expected after a major nervous breakdown. Anyway, the update will be faster, although I’m now juggling an original work along with it, so that doesn’t mean they’ll be fast. However, I have the next few chapters plotted out so fingers crossed they’ll come faster. I can’t promise it’ll go on beyond this, but I want to tie up this story on some sort of ending, so as I said, fingers crossed.

 

This has not been beta-read. If anyone feels up for the job, please email me at skullbearer5@yahoo.co.uk

As it is, I apologise for any spelling mistakes the checker has missed.

 

Temporal

 

 

( Limbo )