Author: Bitterfig

Title: Persephone or Hades

Fandom: Revolutionary Girl Utena

Pairing: Utena/Anthy

Summary: Utena dreamed that she wandered through an underworld of darkness and pain.

Beta Reader: Fedink

Word Count: 354

Rating: R

Warning: Sexual content.

Author’s Note: Written for the porn_battle prompt “Revolutionary Girl Utena, Utena/Anthy, pomegranates.”

Author: Bitterfig

Title: Persephone or Hades

Fandom: Revolutionary Girl Utena

Pairing: Utena/Anthy

Summary: Utena dreamed that she wandered through an underworld of darkness and pain.

Beta Reader: Fedink

Word Count: 354

Rating: R

Warning: Sexual content.

Author’s Note: Written for the porn_battle prompt “Revolutionary Girl Utena, Utena/Anthy, pomegranates.”

Author: Bitterfig

Title: Persephone or Hades

Fandom: Revolutionary Girl Utena

Pairing: Utena/Anthy

Summary: Utena dreamed that she wandered through an underworld of darkness and pain.

Beta Reader: Fedink

Word Count: 354

Rating: R

Warning: Sexual content.

Author’s Note: Written for the porn_battle prompt “Revolutionary Girl Utena, Utena/Anthy, pomegranates.”

http://rebelsom.livejournal.com/20549.html

Title: Yes
Author: amles80
Rating: NC-17, Word count: 758
Characters: Angela Petrelli/Ishi Nakamura
Summary: Two women have made love for the first time. The first time together, that is. Unlike Ishi, Angela is not totally inexperienced, and she’s about to prove it to Ishi…
Prompt: "a woman’s touch"
Written for:  grdnofevrythng 's porn battle .....
Notes: For the background story (the plot…), if you want one, see See You When I Sleep. This could belong there, but it is written (in a rush) yesterday just because I happened to see a prompt written for this pairing! This is the first time I post a story like this…..

My words echo
Thus, in your mind.

But to what purpose

Disturbing the dust on a bowl of rose-leaves
I do not know.

egretplume

In a late-breaking comment it took me a while to spot, Sergio M asks:

What are the sources for your model of story analysis? Is it your personal creation? Where you inspired by any books or whatever? Which?

None of the major concepts are original to me, although I find myself wanting to change their frame of reference as I look further into these issues. It’s an evolving process.

Provenance of story terminology is tough to pin down sometimes.This is particularly an issue with procedural/adventure/serial/adventure fiction, which we are mostly emulating in RPGs. Most writing texts and workshops skew toward the standalone and literary side of things.Terms and concepts of use to working creators percolate out from writer’s rooms into DVD commentaries and out into the blogosphere. Perhaps someday an intrepid scholar will track the origins of such bedrock terms as “laying pipe” for exposition or “backstory” for a character’s past. Like roleplaying practice, it is in large degree an oral tradition which is codified haphazardly and in retrospect, and is subject to ongoing innovation and revision. The movie and TV industries have a several generation head start on us in the generation of useful story-making techniques and the jargon to go with them.

The pass/fail cycle is a well established term for adventure plotting, and not unique to me. I’m now leaning toward hope/fear as more useful for RPG-focused story analysis; that is my variation. Inconveniently, it’s used in other fields as well, and if you Google the term, you get one of my blog posts.

For scene analysis, I draw on a work written for actors, Michael Shurtleff’s Audition. Its analytical techniques were then broken out by acting teachers to be more broadly applicable than its original remit suggested. The book itself focuses on how you break a scene for a dynamic, killer audition. A mutated Shurtleff approach was all the rage in the York University (Toronto) theater department when I was taking a Fine Arts Studies degree there in the mid-80s.

The terms petitioner and granter, for the participants in a dramatic scene, are used by the legendary film editor Walter Murch, as interviewed by Michael Ondaatje in The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film. He doesn’t claim them as unique to himself, but for all I know they're his variation on a familiar concept.

http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp11092009.shtml

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