Dancing With My Punchlines

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Title: Dancing With My Punchlines
Author(s): LiveOakWithMoss
Date(s): August 2014 -- July 2016
Length: ~319,000 words, 80 chapters
Genre(s): Modern AU
Fandom(s): Silmarillion
Relationship(s):
External Links: Dancing With My Punchlines

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Dancing With My Punchlines (DWMP) is a Silmarillion Modern AU which has inspired a great deal of fan art and spinoff works.[1]

Reception & Reviews

As a WIP

"The fic, the myth, the legend."[2]

"really really au but i love it somehow"[3]

"I spent an entire afternoon reading the first 46 chapters of this one day and now I'm hooked."[4]

After Completion

Critical Commentary

"I'm more eternally sighing [than eternally mad] about this fic, but Dancing to My Punchlines really ended up exemplifying a lot of the trends in the Silmarillion fandom that I disliked before I peaced out of it.(At least, outside the Angbang faction.) It's relatively well-written (but so, so long) but it has little to nothing to do with the Silmarillion. It's a very long piece of original fiction about characters while weird ass names in an American college town."[5]

Positive Commentary

"(I wouldn't normally recommend starting out with a modern AU but Dancing With My Punchlines is a really easy, funny, low-stress way of getting to know all the names and general relationships that each character has to the others in Silm fandom.)"[6]

"[...] I've really loved reading this story. Back in my early days in the Silm fandom, when I was just starting to get invested into the fandom as a whole, DWMP was one of the first fics I read. I think this was really early days, when the chapter count wasn't yet at double digits and I was still cautiously dipping a toe into all the fan stuff. And I liked it. It was funny, it was great. I would keep checking the Silm tag here for an update and that's how I started reading a bunch of other Silmarillion fics and finding other fans but it all started with you and DWMP. You're just such a talented writer and you bring your characters to life and make an old tale new and your own. Reading DWMP has been such a pleasure and an honour, I can honestly say it is the best of its genre I've ever read. DWMP started on a high, was full of multiple highs (both metaphorical and literal), and ended on the best high possible. I'll miss seeing its new chapters and its been a hell of a ride but I look forwards to whatever you come up with next. Thank you for all the amazing writing and all the hard work you've put into this story. I can't begin to express how much appreciation I have for you."[7]

External Links

References

  1. ^ imindhowwelayinjune on Tumblr. DWMP Master Post.
  2. ^ Bookmark by TheSnarkLord on AO3. Bookmark, May 15, 2015. Archived from the original on April 21, 2021.
  3. ^ Bookmark by modernKhione. Bookmark, April 3, 2015. Archived from the original on April 21, 2021.
  4. ^ amyfortuna. Bookmark, April 16, 2015. Archived from the original on April 21, 2021.
  5. ^ Anonymous on fail-fandomanon. Re: Fics you are eternally mad about, April 8, 2017. Archived from the original on April 17, 2021.
  6. ^ Anonymous commenter on fail_fandomanon. Re: Things you never knew before f_fa, May 25, 2017. Archived from the original on July 20, 2020.
  7. ^ ComeBackToTheValley. Comment on Chapter 80, July 14, 2016. Archived from the original on April 21, 2021.
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