Retrieval progress
24 December 2020 03:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
igenlodeRemoved two; added one (The Detective Who Cried Wolf, although there's a reason why rabidsamfan was in my list of favourite authors rather than having a block of blanket favorites...) The fanfiction.net situation seems to have stabilised, in that I can be reasonably certain of getting to any given page *without* JavaScript if I try often enough while leaving long enough intervals after blockages; the browser that will actually get as far as the captcha (but not allow me to pass it) is another matter.
A more hopeful update is that I have actually finished Chapter 2 of "An Outsider and a Foreigner", and am venturing into the uncharted waters of a Chapter 3 for which I had almost nothing planned; the libretto places 'Il Muto' immediately after the scene in the managers' office the next morning (although of course there would have been a time-lapse for rehearsal in between), so if Hertha is to befriend Christine in time to talk her down from the roof, it will have to take place at this point in the story. A twist I *hadn't* anticipated is that Hertha actually hears the Phantom at the end of Ch2 and is affected by his voice (echoes of Leroux-Raoul after the masquerade), which may well influence future elements in the plot.
Although this entire story is scarily unplotted in comparison to normal proceedings, which means I have very little to go on besides the idea of shoe-horning my OC into canon events without actually changing the outcome significantly -- fortunately this constitutes well-worn tradition in the 'Phantom' fandom :-(
A more hopeful update is that I have actually finished Chapter 2 of "An Outsider and a Foreigner", and am venturing into the uncharted waters of a Chapter 3 for which I had almost nothing planned; the libretto places 'Il Muto' immediately after the scene in the managers' office the next morning (although of course there would have been a time-lapse for rehearsal in between), so if Hertha is to befriend Christine in time to talk her down from the roof, it will have to take place at this point in the story. A twist I *hadn't* anticipated is that Hertha actually hears the Phantom at the end of Ch2 and is affected by his voice (echoes of Leroux-Raoul after the masquerade), which may well influence future elements in the plot.
Although this entire story is scarily unplotted in comparison to normal proceedings, which means I have very little to go on besides the idea of shoe-horning my OC into canon events without actually changing the outcome significantly -- fortunately this constitutes well-worn tradition in the 'Phantom' fandom :-(
