James Tissot
19 December 2021 11:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
igenlodeMy subconscious produced 'Tissot and the English school of art' off the top of my head as a suitable subject for Hertha's mother to discuss at an exhibition, and when I got in from my walk I looked him up and was flattered to discover that he was indeed a French painter who was associated with England (to the degree that he chose to call himself 'James Tissot' rather than 'Jacques' ;-p)
Unfortunately he didn't actually return to exhibit in Paris until 1885, which doesn't quite fit with a story I was setting in the early 1880s! I think the reference can stand; she was said to be talking *about* Tissot in reference to the paintings they were currently looking at, rather than suggesting that any of the pictures on the wall were necessarily by him -- and there's no reason in any case why isolated canvases shouldn't have made their way back to Parisian buyers during the years he spent in England. There's certainly no suggestion that this was an exhibition solely of Tissot's work, which is what did eventually take place in 1885.
I have almost finished gradually converting and uploading all the thirty chapters of my "Yellow Poppy" fic to AO3 (having decided to run each drabble as a separate chapter rather than upload them in sets of chronologically connected groups), where it has to date acquired a total of eleven 'Hits' -- none of which appear to come from me, since the count doesn't increase when I upload new chapters and browse back to check for consistency in formatting. If it did then it would be a great deal higher! I can explainpedanther reading it, but I have to admit being puzzled by ![[archiveofourown.org profile]](https://p.dreamwidth.org/b164c54b26e4/-/archiveofourown.org/favicon.ico)
LadyOfAnfalas, since we don't appear to have any fandoms in common and I have no idea how she could have come across the story... or across me, if she is one of my ten unnamed 'User Subscriptions'!
The "Tale of Two Cities" flashfic -- inasmuch as anything can be deemed 'flash' that takes five hours to complete a total of five hundred words -- I decided to upload under the title "A Thing of Value" (the 'thing' being both Sydney Carton himself and the moments of delay during which he is able to make the reflection), and that also has received 4 hits and 1 kudos, from an unknown user. Somewhat surprisingly, as it's a pretty dead fandom, even if not quite as small as "The Yellow Poppy", which consists of my one story only ;-p
Unsurprisingly my Harry Potter flashfic is by far the most popular story I've uploaded overall, simply because it's much the most active fandom. But the other ones have slowly and gradually accumulated respectable amounts of hits/kudos (even if not comments); it may not be *entirely* a coincidence that the three which have the most bookmarks, hits and kudos between them just happen to be the three which contain slightly-risqué-if-you-look-at-it-sideways content. In fact the top four, if you count Philippe's observations in "The Sons of Éléonore" ;-P
The latter story, after its slow start, has actually ended up with 15 kudos and four bookmarks (of which one is invisible) overall.
Hertha is still making laborious progress through what I think is probably now Chapter 11, although I've really lost count. I couldn't see how I was going to manage a scenario in which she turns up for the première supposedly not knowing anything about Raoul's Phantom-catching plans (because, as was established earlier in this chapter, Raoul hasn't actually *told* her, mainly because they have been avoiding discussing Christine rather than because he consciously considers Hertha a security risk) and with Raoul not knowing anything about her near-miscarriage being attributable to the Phantom (which she has been avoiding talking about for similar reasons, and because she feels guilty about having taken the risk).
So I have now managed to steer them into a situation, thanks to the aforementioned picture gallery, where they can at least come clean with one another and the author doesn't have to worry about who is supposed to know what ;-p I mean, if Hertha doesn't tell him about that graveyard soon she is basically getting herself into a position where she is going to have to cover it up for the rest of her life, and she doesn't want to do that...
The end of the previous chapter and the start of this chapter are both pretty porous, in that they are basically a lot of very brief scenelets, and I may change my mind about which subscenes end up in which chapter in the end.
Unfortunately he didn't actually return to exhibit in Paris until 1885, which doesn't quite fit with a story I was setting in the early 1880s! I think the reference can stand; she was said to be talking *about* Tissot in reference to the paintings they were currently looking at, rather than suggesting that any of the pictures on the wall were necessarily by him -- and there's no reason in any case why isolated canvases shouldn't have made their way back to Parisian buyers during the years he spent in England. There's certainly no suggestion that this was an exhibition solely of Tissot's work, which is what did eventually take place in 1885.
I have almost finished gradually converting and uploading all the thirty chapters of my "Yellow Poppy" fic to AO3 (having decided to run each drabble as a separate chapter rather than upload them in sets of chronologically connected groups), where it has to date acquired a total of eleven 'Hits' -- none of which appear to come from me, since the count doesn't increase when I upload new chapters and browse back to check for consistency in formatting. If it did then it would be a great deal higher! I can explain
pedanther reading it, but I have to admit being puzzled by The "Tale of Two Cities" flashfic -- inasmuch as anything can be deemed 'flash' that takes five hours to complete a total of five hundred words -- I decided to upload under the title "A Thing of Value" (the 'thing' being both Sydney Carton himself and the moments of delay during which he is able to make the reflection), and that also has received 4 hits and 1 kudos, from an unknown user. Somewhat surprisingly, as it's a pretty dead fandom, even if not quite as small as "The Yellow Poppy", which consists of my one story only ;-p
Unsurprisingly my Harry Potter flashfic is by far the most popular story I've uploaded overall, simply because it's much the most active fandom. But the other ones have slowly and gradually accumulated respectable amounts of hits/kudos (even if not comments); it may not be *entirely* a coincidence that the three which have the most bookmarks, hits and kudos between them just happen to be the three which contain slightly-risqué-if-you-look-at-it-sideways content. In fact the top four, if you count Philippe's observations in "The Sons of Éléonore" ;-P
The latter story, after its slow start, has actually ended up with 15 kudos and four bookmarks (of which one is invisible) overall.
Hertha is still making laborious progress through what I think is probably now Chapter 11, although I've really lost count. I couldn't see how I was going to manage a scenario in which she turns up for the première supposedly not knowing anything about Raoul's Phantom-catching plans (because, as was established earlier in this chapter, Raoul hasn't actually *told* her, mainly because they have been avoiding discussing Christine rather than because he consciously considers Hertha a security risk) and with Raoul not knowing anything about her near-miscarriage being attributable to the Phantom (which she has been avoiding talking about for similar reasons, and because she feels guilty about having taken the risk).
So I have now managed to steer them into a situation, thanks to the aforementioned picture gallery, where they can at least come clean with one another and the author doesn't have to worry about who is supposed to know what ;-p I mean, if Hertha doesn't tell him about that graveyard soon she is basically getting herself into a position where she is going to have to cover it up for the rest of her life, and she doesn't want to do that...
The end of the previous chapter and the start of this chapter are both pretty porous, in that they are basically a lot of very brief scenelets, and I may change my mind about which subscenes end up in which chapter in the end.