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The Tin Bird by Spikez_tart
Chapter: The Crash
07/11/2009 03:11 am
poor tortured William, now Anglus, Darla and Dru have come to town... off to next chapter...
The forces of darkness are closing in on poor Willy.
01/03/2009 09:42 am
Poor William - I am feeling very sorry for him and his tied up life - wonderful the way you used his mother's needlework to help describe how ordered and prescribed their lives have become. Nice touch with how you are using the tin bird and all that black ribbon and embroidery -
Thanks - Spike's mother is a passive aggressive bitch. I've never believed that once she becomes a vampire and says all those horrible things to William that it was just the demon talking - no, it was Mom.
12/31/2008 03:35 pm
And will there be more of the delightful Miss Harlan? She is intriguing indeed and looking forward to how she figures into the plot further along.
She'll be back in the next chapter. William doesn't get off that easy. Thanks for reviewing.
12/31/2008 01:25 pm
You really captured the stultifying Victorian life with Mum, poor William.
Thanks Lou - William is a big sissy, but you just have to feel sorry for him.
12/31/2008 12:00 am
Were the black ribbons on the bottle and the handle of his hair brush signs for mourning?
Because he said he wasn't dead yet. Alcohol can kill you easily.
William is under a lot of pressure.
Because he said he wasn't dead yet. Alcohol can kill you easily.
William is under a lot of pressure.
Yes - women tied black ribbons around their perfume bottles and junk. They had their stationery printed with black borders and sewed black borders on their handkerchiefs. Even tiny babies wore outfits with black edges and stuff. They loved wearing black (like New Yorkers) and going in for what we would consider excessive mourning practices. I think Queen Victoria never took off mourning for her husband and she outlived him by decades.
For the story purposes, I had William's mother tie ribbons around his stuff, which makes him bonkers and I exaggerated some of the ribbon business, but it's within the realm of possibility. Most men probably wouldn't have put up with that nonsense for long, but William is very devoted to his Mum.
William isn't drinking (he's too up tight for that!) but he feels like he's living in a tomb and yes, he's in a pressure cooker steamed up by Dear Old Mom. Nice old ladies are really scary.
Thanks for reviewing.
For the story purposes, I had William's mother tie ribbons around his stuff, which makes him bonkers and I exaggerated some of the ribbon business, but it's within the realm of possibility. Most men probably wouldn't have put up with that nonsense for long, but William is very devoted to his Mum.
William isn't drinking (he's too up tight for that!) but he feels like he's living in a tomb and yes, he's in a pressure cooker steamed up by Dear Old Mom. Nice old ladies are really scary.
Thanks for reviewing.
All4Spike
12/30/2008 11:50 pm
Poor William, so stifled and determined to 'do the right thing' at the expense of his own happiness. You portray the 'prim and properness' of the Victorian middle class very well.
William is uptight. I doubt most Victorian men were quite so prissy as he is (booze, drugs and sex were certainly around, just hidden), but I was working with the idea of making things really bad for William to explain the total blowout that is Spike. Thanks so much for reviewing.
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