Fic: The Cornfield (S&S)

[thisbluespirit]

I need to make a proper post again, but: I am better than last week, thanks to everyone who commented on the other post! ♥ It's still all been very limiting so I have mostly, when online, lurked, done some wrangling, and continued to edit this in snatches (which I had finished well before last weekend).

So, hopefully, I'll catch up presently, but I'm not sure I've not used up too much brain getting this finished, so I'm posting this now before I'm not even up to posting. (Probably this is unwise, because a thing I mostly wrote while slightly light-headed should have a beta, but I wanted to post and be damned for my typos. I didn't tag it with "Author Wrote This With An Overheated Brain" though. It would have given people the wrong idea altogether.)

Anyway, first trope_bingo fic! It is Very Long for me these days. I'm fairly confident the other squares won't be... It's also very, very weird. (So, seriesfive, I hope you enjoy it! I blame you for everything: aiding and abetting, sharing a brain cell as regards Elements, lending me said brain cell when needed and luring me into trope_bingo via Round 1. And for all the lemurs.)

The Cornfield (7476 words) by lost_spook
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Sapphire and Steel
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Silver/Steel, Sapphire/Silver/Steel
Characters: Sapphire (Sapphire and Steel), Steel (Sapphire and Steel), Silver (Sapphire and Steel)
Additional Tags: Sex Pollen, Telepathy, Trope Bingo Round 2, Elemental Weirdness
Summary:

Time’s latest attack is taking an unusual shape - and Silver and Steel get rather more than they bargained for when they try to deal with it...

Comments

[thisbluespirit]

I shall reply properly soon, but I'm glad you have another beta! I think you mentioned you could get one or something. It was feasible when you asked, but I shall just type up what I've corrected, because it's not much more and send it when I can. And I'll look back over it (*sigh* oh, the hardship!!! :Lol:) and see if there was anything particular that jumped out the first time, but I think that's all I can manage now summer ate me up. I'll get better - but I'm all behind with everything.

I will be up for more beta-ing in the future, but I suppose I had better be a little less ambitious as regards length for the moment! :-)

[thisbluespirit]

I wonder why you think its something that needs actual contact though.

Yes, sorry, that was just me not being clear again - I meant rather that physical contact seems to facilitate the telepathic contact to some extent (or in itself include a telepathic element, which is probably true given the way that they take "readings" of things by touch). So i just meant, that for shipppiness you have this combination of light physical contact, or just closeness, and also even when they're not speaking telepathically, they communicate a lot by look at touch - I think you calling empathic is quite good. Anyway, I find that combination very fascinating and attractive.

It seems quite possible to me that all those elements don't interact with one another between assignments.

Yes, I get that impression too - that they only tend to see each other when they're out on assignment. I also get the impression that Sapphire and Steel (and Lead's the same in Assignment 1) go from one assignment to another, whereas technicians/specialists seem to do that but also canonically spend time waiting (doing nothing, as Steel says). But, yes, when it comes to that, it's so very open to interpretation. I don't have a clue. :-)

,i>Nonetheless I think its an obsession that's quite justifiable. It's great to have a fandom/canon that offers so many enticing hints without giving any reliable answers. I think that's why S&S fascinates me the most, even though I like to dabble in others, too.

♥ Well, yes. Me, too - as you can tell!

[thisbluespirit]

:lol: Basically, S&S is the fandom most guaranteed to turn your head inside out the more you think about it.

*fights to put brain back in the right way round*

What century is this, again?

[thisbluespirit]

:lol:

(Ooh, weren't you going to write an assignment 6 related thing where Silver did get sent to the Triassic and met a dragon-like thing?)

[thisbluespirit]

Oh, no, not a mutant bunny from the darkest corner of the folder!

*trembles in fear*

;-p

(Silver meets a dragon sounded perfectly well thought-out to me.)

[thisbluespirit]

Well, they all sound good to me! I should type up some more of my 100 prompt fics, because I have about 5 or so in my notebook somewhere. :-)

And good luck with the NaNo - it doesn't sound trivial at all. Probably all the stress you've had hasn't helped with getting to grips with it - but I'm sure you will!