So, hey, you posted that ficlet of Alicia the other day and I realised to my shock/horror that I never actually read this. I know I read part of the first part and then something happened and I wasn't online for a while, and when I came back I forgot, and that was stupid but I'm kind of grateful now because this was the best way to spend an hour today, for serious.
I just -- the world you've created here, the danger and the darkness and the way people live in it. That first fucking scene -- how utterly shocking and arresting it is, and it's a kind of writing bravery to start a story off with something that evil and not do it to sideline characters but people who mean something: Pete and Greta and Steve, oh. And it's so big and frightening and real; it's like you can feel the edges of it, where the story ends but the world keeps going. I'm going to be thinking about it all day.
The characters in this, too. I mean, Lindsey is amazing, obviously, I love your narration and her voice and the last line, oh my god. But it's the way she sees the others, too, that makes this so brilliant -- Bob&Brian, Chantal&Jimmy, Bert&Quinn (oh Bert), Mikey&Gerard too, but especially, especially Mikey on his own or with Frank or Lyndsey or Kitty, I just loved him so much in this. Lines like: And if it's your brother, Mikeyway, I will help you burn this fucking city to the ground. -- oh, you kill me sometimes. The way you write -- Change is a tricksy bitch, oh hell yes.
Anyway. I am rambly and incoherent but this was amazing, and I can't believe it took me so long to read it, but I'm grateful for my own foolishness because it made today AWESOME. ♥♥♥
I'm going out now, but I'm wearing my Black Parade jacket in honour. ♥
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Date: 2009-11-27 04:40 am (UTC)I just -- the world you've created here, the danger and the darkness and the way people live in it. That first fucking scene -- how utterly shocking and arresting it is, and it's a kind of writing bravery to start a story off with something that evil and not do it to sideline characters but people who mean something: Pete and Greta and Steve, oh. And it's so big and frightening and real; it's like you can feel the edges of it, where the story ends but the world keeps going. I'm going to be thinking about it all day.
The characters in this, too. I mean, Lindsey is amazing, obviously, I love your narration and her voice and the last line, oh my god. But it's the way she sees the others, too, that makes this so brilliant -- Bob&Brian, Chantal&Jimmy, Bert&Quinn (oh Bert), Mikey&Gerard too, but especially, especially Mikey on his own or with Frank or Lyndsey or Kitty, I just loved him so much in this. Lines like: And if it's your brother, Mikeyway, I will help you burn this fucking city to the ground. -- oh, you kill me sometimes. The way you write -- Change is a tricksy bitch, oh hell yes.
Anyway. I am rambly and incoherent but this was amazing, and I can't believe it took me so long to read it, but I'm grateful for my own foolishness because it made today AWESOME. ♥♥♥
I'm going out now, but I'm wearing my Black Parade jacket in honour. ♥