thuvia ptarth

I shouldn't do this meme, since I can't make me write what I want, let alone anyone else, but hey:

If you could force me to write anything you wanted, what would it be?

Or vid, I guess, although I do not think anyone will want me to vid anything yet.

Also, I guess I will throw myself open to the "Guess which story I wrote for Yuletide" contest, although this year it's either so impossible or so obvious that it doesn't seem fair. Answers after the reveal, of course.

"Thuvia Ptarth" is the title of an early draft of Virginia Woolf's first novel, The Voyage Out. I will now reveal that, um, I could not finish reading it (I read the final draft!) because it was full of lovely drifting passages that didn't go anywhere, much like my own fanfiction. ::cough:: I reveal this because I trust you, strangers on the Internet. I trust you to already know I'm pretentious or to just not care anymore.

It's a nonsense word made up of the Greek words for "honey" and "ambrosia." I picked it because it sounded pretty and it seemed unlikely to be confused with anyone else's pseudonym and I love Virginia Woolf.

When I decided to split off my fic journal, I picked "untrue_accounts" because this quote by Marina Warner seemed to me to express the appeal and purpose of fanfiction:

Every telling of a myth is a part of that myth: there is no ur-version, no authentic prototype, no true account.

In retrospect, I should have just gone with "thuviafic."

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