Well, gee, thanks for giving me such an easy act to follow. Only, you know, not. (I kid. Mostly. At least the part where I am bitter instead of admiring is kidding.)

I could start copying favorite lines, but then I'd be here all day. I really love the voice you've got down for this.

Thanks so much! (and I hope I'm not unintentionally stealing anything you were planning on doing with the story, aside from the inevitable "Steve is Gerda & Tony is Kay"). I don't think I can really take credit for the voice, though, since it mostly consists of copying the style from original and a lot of other fairytales. With occasional condescending Victorian-childrens-book-style asides to the reader, just because they're so much fun when Lemony Snicket does them.

There's really no way to write this story and not make Tony be Kay, is there? It's just a Thing Which Is So.

I guess you could draw a parallel between Kay being rescued from thr Snow Queen's palace and Steve being frozen in ice, but yeah, Tony = Kay is just so perfect that it's hard to think of how to do a role reversal -- not like something like Sleeping Beauty, where either one of them could be the sleeping pincess just as easily as the other.