ShadowLurker13
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Joined 08-05-09, id: 2037727, Profile Updated: 07-20-20
Author has written 15 stories for Labyrinth, Book of Amber, and Phantom of the Opera.

Writing again, albeit more slowly than I would like (although I knocked out another unrelated one-shot on a whim today;)

(you can blame Olga Sluchanko for this Amberfic)(grin)

h t t p s : / / w w w . d e v i a n t a r t . c o m / p t i - s p b / a r t / R a n d o m - 7 2 7 5 9 6 7 9 2

And for those few of you reading Sarah of Shadows, this is the _exact_ head I had imagined on Raven. This guy, but with full wings, sans clothes and human parts. Thirty feet tall. (just delete the spaces, as always)

h t t p : / / c a n y o u a c t u a l l y . c o m / r a v e n - c o s t u m e / ? f b c l i d = I w A R 0 R 8 R Y j C 9 z L k h X A u G U M K C r Y r U c a K O Z f B 0 Q 1 a O E c u 5 e a D 8 p G N Y f F _ b a q y y k


Quick notes for Dream, Gerard

The title is of course a riff off the Traffic song 'Dream Gerard'; no relation to the story, just caught my eye for obvious reasons. :)

Title of chapter 1 is from A Midsummer Night's Dream (Bottom, after he wakes up.)

Title of chapter 3 is from Richard III

Title of chapter 4 is from Hamlet (of course) (and the other part just seemed to fit:)

I don't have many specific song selections for this story, but I was listening to selections from Cusco 'The Ring of the Dolphin' and 'Mystic Island' for chapter two (if you dig it up, they should be obvious to a degree), along with the soundtrack for The Fellowship of the Ring (but I tend to use that for emotional and action sequences just to get the words out on paper.) Chapters 3 and 4 I was listening to 2Cellos 'Let There Be Cello' almost nonstop on loop, as well as selections from their album 'Score' (should also be obvious if listened to at the same time.) I like the idea of the 'older' instrumentation for these 'old-world' guys, but with the newer themes... Also some Karliene covers from Game of Thrones (you can find some of her stuff online for free!)


Sarah of Shadows

Alright, you strictly 'I only read Laby fics with JARETH in them!' Labyrinthians: In Sarah of Shadows, Jareth will be in chapters 'The Two Js', 'Not the Big Apple', 'Worldfall', and the last page of 'Perception'. The title for chapter 6 (5), 'The Two J's', is of course a riff on the title of the Jack Nicholson Chinatown sequel The Two Jakes - totally unrelated, but a film my father is fond of; it just came to mind...

(for the one lonely Zelazny fan who might eventually read this, look for the subtle references to Creatures of Light and Darkness and Roadmarks here and there, and a couple of the other short stories; I read the whole huge compendium over the summer while writing this, trying to absorb more of the author...)


Labyrinth of Chaos (miscellanies and music notes - where to find the rare tracks):

Chapter 2: title from Linkin Park's Runaway (mostly the refrain)

Submersible can be found at h t t p s : / / d r o p b l a c k s k y . b a n d c a m p . c o m / t r a c k / s u b m e r s i b l e - b l i n k - m i x

Holes in Space at h t t p s : / / u r o b o r o s c h o k e . b a n d c a m p . c o m / t r a c k / h o l e s - i n - s p a c e (the graphic seemed oddly fitting, too)

Faces of a Fashion at h t t p : / / t r a s h 8 0 . c o m / # / c o n t e n t / 3 8 / f a c e s - o f - a - f a s h i o n


Chapter 3: title from R.E.M.'s It's the End of the World. Of course.

Sorry folks, but I can't find the hidden track from Trillian Green's Metamorphoses anywhere online, it's like people don't even know it exists because it isn't listed, but it's a fun upbeat fast number that sounds nothing like their normal music, really silly, highly danceable. Go listen to the album for free (it's in several places, just google) and if you like it buy the CD (I know, I'm old-school) - it's track 14 :)


Chapter 4: Excuses at h t t p s : / / w w w . y o u t u b e . c o m / w a t c h ? v = q h - S L L G 6 r x E


Chapter 5: title from Tori Amos' Another Girl's Paradise (the thing one girl fears in the night...)

Impact of Silence at h t t p : / / t r a s h 8 0 . c o m / # / c o n t e n t / 3 7 / m p 3

I didn't plan it this way, but if you pay attention, the food itself turns into it's own motif, almost like a character; it starts giving clues about different people, who's providing what and when. In the books Zelazny doesn't really describe all that much in detail when it comes to food (George R R Martin he wasn't), but it occurred to me that when one of your main characters is interested in this, it has to become a lot more prominent. That and the ubiquitous-seeming rolls at any meal of the day ("he broke and buttered a roll") X) I had to do more.


Chapter 8 title taken from an old samurai proverb about 'the sword (warrior) that cuts itself (a great strength can become a great weakness if it is leaned on too often and your opponents get a feel for it.)


Chapter 9: Pain Fade Down at h t t p : / / t r a s h 8 0 . c o m / # / c o n t e n t / 5 7 / p a i n - f a d e - d o w n

Checkmated at h t t p s : / / u r o b o r o s c h o k e . b a n d c a m p . c o m / t r a c k / c h e c k m a t e d

Bread Death Sex & Masks at h t t p s : / / u r o b o r o s c h o k e . b a n d c a m p . c o m / t r a c k / b r e a d - d e a t h - s e x - m a s k s


Chapter 13 title is a tongue-in-cheek riff on Vladimir Nabokov's King Queen Knave, a book my father really likes (no literary connection, just sounds similar.)


Chapter 14 title is a double (if not triple) entendre, of course: the city of Amber, the code for 'missing child' in the United States, and the 'terror level' color!

Mine or Major at h t t p : / / t r a s h 8 0 . c o m / # / c o n t e n t / 5 5 / m i n e - o r - m a j o r

More that It Is at h t t p : / / t r a s h 8 0 . c o m / # / c o n t e n t / 5 6 / m o r e - t h a n - i t - i s

Nobody at h t t p s : / / w e b . a r c h i v e . o r g / w e b / 2 0 0 6 0 5 0 7 1 7 1 3 1 2 / h t t p : / / w w w . t r a s h 8 0 . n e t : 8 0 / m p 3 s / t r a s h 8 0 _ - _ n o b o d y . m p 3

(I know that last one's funky, but this is really old)


Chapter 15 title a tongue-in-cheek reference to the song of the same name by Al Jolson (I think that's it)


Veneration: Earthship at h t t p s : / / w w w . y o u t u b e . c o m / w a t c h ? v = k j 9 g 1 q g s d C k


If somebody ever manages to get around the legal problems in Zelazny's will that have been tying up producers for years and finally make a decent cable series out of the Chronicles (genuinely excited about the current attempt from the Game of Thrones people), "Blue Monday" should be the theme song, any version of it - too many sadistic montage possibilities... :)

'Let's Talk' - Coldplay (seems Amberish to me). As does 'Saturn's Children' by Timothy Lamb (Trash80) - so epic and sad. (didn't realize how hard that was to find - here.)

h t t p s : / / w e b . a r c h i v e . o r g / w e b / 2 0 0 6 0 5 0 7 1 7 1 6 4 4 / h t t p : / / w w w . t r a s h 8 0 . n e t : 8 0 / m p 3 s / t r e s k _ - w e e k l i e s - _ s a t u r n s - c h i l d r e n . m p 3

One for Chaos (or, really, all of them): 'Way Down We Go', Kaleo.


h t t p s : / / w e b . a r c h i v e . o r g / w e b / 2 0 0 6 1 1 0 4 0 5 2 9 0 4 / h t t p : / / w w w . t r a s h 8 0 . n e t / m p 3 s /

Adding to the playlist: Uroboros Choke h t t p : / / u r o b o r o s c h o k e . b a n d c a m p . c o m /

(Nailed to the Sky - all of it's free and now the missing lyrics from Checkmated are partially back, how annoying. Keeps playing around with them.)


I've been in the Laby fandom since late 2002 and I've been staving off the inevitable burnout from reading too much fanfiction!

(guess I need to mention this, too, now) Was introduced to Zelazny's Amber around the same time - found it working in the college library, under the new acquisitions of all things X) It was definitely a shock at first - never read anything like it, and certainly nothing as scary (sci-fi horror is not my cup of tea)... and yet I was hooked. Read them all (including the prequels)... and then sort of left it behind for a while, liked but not obsessively loved. Until the movie version of Neil Gaiman's Stardust came out five years later and reminded me of those bickering princes and the magical ruby and kingdom they're all fighting over. Simmering interest, but still more involved in Labyrinth. Finally picked up a copy of the big tome at ye olde used book shop for just ten bucks a few years after that... and couldn't put it down for months. And by the end I had a story idea...

Not much to know about me: worthless college degree, unemployed for over nine years now but finally found an alternative therapy for my condition that seems to be helping, albeit _very_ slowly (my body can't tolerate much all at once it would seem). My writing and my craft projects are keeping me relatively sane. Big Labyrinth of Jareth Masquerade fan (been twice). Guess that's about it for now. Laters!

-Shadow (I haven't actively been Tink pretty much anywhere in years now, maybe on one old forum yet)

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Playing Father reviews
A quick one-shot on Erik's dubious decision to impersonate a young Christine Daae's recently deceased father. (Not quite an Erik/Antoinette, but almost.)
Phantom of the Opera - Rated: T - English - Angst/Hurt/Comfort - Chapters: 1 - Words: 3,208 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: 7/20 - Madame Giry, Erik - Complete
Dream, Gérard reviews
And then everyone went off to the Patternfall War and the big climax at the end of book five of the series... but what happened to Gérard during his regency? Did they just hand him the keys and say 'be good with our world? I think not. And maybe - just maybe - there's a lot more to the 'big guy' than he usually lets on... (In-canon extension set during Courts of Chaos)
Book of Amber - Rated: T - English - Adventure/Fantasy - Chapters: 4 - Words: 64,344 - Reviews: 1 - Follows: 1 - Updated: 2/25/2019 - Published: 2/24/2019 - Complete
Sarah of Shadows
In the words of Mandor Sawall, it is difficult to extricate oneself once made a piece in the game of the Powers. The struggle of Order and Disorder continues under the radar in spite of the Concord between Amber and Chaos, and Sarah Williams always seems to be in the wrong place at the right time...
Crossover - Labyrinth & Book of Amber - Rated: T - English - Fantasy/Adventure - Chapters: 10 - Words: 136,791 - Favs: 2 - Follows: 3 - Updated: 12/27/2018 - Published: 12/21/2018 - Jareth, Sarah - Complete
Unlock This Door! reviews
Summary: An alternate ending with a dubiously amiable twist - is it worth the risk with Faerie? You never really know…
Labyrinth - Rated: T - English - Chapters: 8 - Words: 50,815 - Reviews: 22 - Favs: 24 - Follows: 13 - Updated: 8/9/2017 - Published: 8/1/2015 - Jareth, Sarah - Complete
Veneration
A short vignette of faith lost... and found. Mandor/Fiona; really this is chapter 7.5 'easter egg' of the Labyrinth crossover 'Labyrinth of Chaos', but it's a story in itself.
Book of Amber - Rated: T - English - Romance/Hurt/Comfort - Chapters: 1 - Words: 5,728 - Follows: 1 - Published: 6/7/2017
Labyrinth of Chaos reviews
Sarah Williams thought she was through with her Labyrinth problems. They were only just beginning...good thing help is on the way. Or is it? Crossover with Roger Zelazny's 'Chronicles of Amber' series, adventure/fantasy/sci-fi.
Crossover - Labyrinth & Book of Amber - Rated: T - English - Adventure/Fantasy - Chapters: 17 - Words: 248,900 - Reviews: 5 - Favs: 8 - Follows: 6 - Updated: 6/7/2017 - Published: 5/22/2017 - Jareth, Sarah - Complete
The Rat Who Calls Himself Jareth reviews
Sarah defeated the king, but can she defeat Jareth? And what does Sir Didymus have to do with this mess?
Labyrinth - Rated: T - English - Fantasy/Adventure - Chapters: 10 - Words: 26,063 - Reviews: 14 - Favs: 5 - Follows: 8 - Updated: 10/5/2015 - Published: 9/26/2015 - Hoggle, Jareth, Sarah, S. Didymus - Complete
The Present reviews
A relatively fluffy redo of the Tunnel Scene, inspired by Jane Eyre.
Labyrinth - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,353 - Reviews: 5 - Favs: 17 - Follows: 4 - Published: 2/18/2015 - Hoggle, Jareth, Sarah - Complete
Within You (or, The Drosselmeier Effect) reviews
An experimental, psychological retelling of the story. Or perhaps just a different camera angle. It all depends on your point of view. One-shot.
Labyrinth - Rated: T - English - Supernatural/Hurt/Comfort - Chapters: 1 - Words: 4,953 - Reviews: 5 - Favs: 5 - Follows: 2 - Published: 9/1/2014 - Jareth, Sarah - Complete
3,564 Clappers Later reviews
There are finally enough listians (Labyrinthians) to change our favorite fluffy owl back into His Gorgeousness. And he knows why he's back. J/S Comedy/Romance/Angst/some supernatural. (Remember that whole clapping Tinker Bell back to life thing?)
Labyrinth - Rated: T - English - Romance/Humor - Chapters: 28 - Words: 169,937 - Reviews: 80 - Favs: 38 - Follows: 22 - Updated: 7/19/2014 - Published: 6/22/2014 - Complete
Straight Line Curved reviews
A flashback to the middle ages and a singular incident that alters the Goblin King's outlook on the human race.
Labyrinth - Rated: T - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,930 - Reviews: 4 - Favs: 3 - Follows: 1 - Published: 8/9/2013 - Jareth - Complete
Turn Back reviews
A desperate plea to an unlikely source. This is dedicated to everyone who's never had a chance and made it anyway.
Labyrinth - Rated: T - English - Hurt/Comfort/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 6,562 - Reviews: 3 - Favs: 6 - Published: 7/17/2013 - Jareth - Complete
Side Effects reviews
This is an alternate outcome with (what else?) the infamous peach. I suspect that this incident is something that the Goblin Army would find funny (and - privately, of course - Jareth does, too)
Labyrinth - Rated: T - English - Humor/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,516 - Reviews: 4 - Favs: 6 - Published: 5/13/2013 - Jareth, Sarah - Complete
Formal Separates, Part 2 reviews
This is the second of two completely unrelated ballroom sequences. Is Sarah really as good an actress as she thinks she is? Can she take Jareth unawares? We hope so ;
Labyrinth - Rated: T - English - Adventure/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 9,660 - Reviews: 5 - Favs: 7 - Follows: 2 - Published: 7/26/2010 - Jareth, Sarah - Complete
Formal Separates: part 1 reviews
This is the first of two completely unrelated takes on the infamous ballroom scene. I thought it would be interesting switching things around a bit and this was the result. Oh, the things we think of while bored at work.
Labyrinth - Rated: T - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,182 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Follows: 1 - Published: 10/27/2009 - Jareth, Sarah - Complete