Yeah, and couldn't wait for it ;-) (And then read it at work and couldn't take the time to comment or even really savor it! Oy gevalt.)
I honestly love every bit of it, but I want to do the blockquote-compliments anyway.
left flopping like a stranded jellyfish on the sand
One of the things I find most fascinating about this fandom is the juxtaposition of extreme sorrow/angst with a kind of zany "we know this is all for pretend" sense of humor. It's like Brokeback meets Python? This line of yours achieves that perfectly. And it's as ridiculous as the stuff he says in canon.
out of the limited vault of tribal features of the Chosen People
LOLOLOL and this is why he looks like my dad! Ha. Anyway, I love your example of Stephen's ethnocentrism :P
although heavily fictionalized in a way that only makes sense to Stephen.
I LOOOOVE that kind of thing. I grew up on an opera called The Tales of Hoffmann, one interpretation of which is that all three of his "lost loves" are really just personified iterations of the aspects of his mistress that are dooming their relationship. And in the movie of Chicago, there's the whole "nightclub revue in Roxie's head" thing. Although with Stephen, I'm sure you meant that he really does think it's more real than either Hoffmann or Roxie did.
coo over Jon's well-oiled television-producing machine like it's a school science project
I likes the way you writes. :-)
Anyway, I like the way you "translated" Stephen's fantasy into the more prosaic reality.
"2005" was really interesting. It's almost like a fic all by itself in its own right.
Meanwhile, the last two… !!!!!!!!!!!! and here's some more: !!!!!
Stephen doesn't feel like explaining the intricacies of his plan.
Heheheheh. And the entire paragraph that comes after this is genius and sounds exactly like the stuff he was saying. (I guess I mean that your character-voice is spot on?)
It's impressive, his ability to stay in character
META META META
It's called a fugue state
I've actually never heard of that before and now I'm all curious.
The paragraph that starts with "Jonathan" is such sweet, sweet agony. YES YESYES.
"You're not Jonathan," he croaks. "Jonathan had brown hair."
This was adorably funny and simple-minded of Stephen--and the beard comment was HYSTERICAL. Remember what I said about pathos mixed with goofy?
a hundred separate memories, from the wholesome-as-a-Christmas-card to the not-fit-for-print.
GOOOD WRIIIITING
This is all just so good. Now I want to see it all cartooned. :D (Back before I got married and didn't have any idea what a 'budget' was, I used to take my then-favorite fan-artist out to dinner and make her draw chibis for me the entire time. I'm beginning to wish I could do that now, or some more mature, fair version thereof.)
Seriously, this is one of the best J/"S" fics in existence. I know part of it is the source material, but plenty of people would take one look at canon that good and run away in the other direction, intimidated. And plenty of people write completely mediocre stories based on the most slashy moments in my old fandom, so fantastic slashy canon is no guarantee of fabulous fic. It takes a great writer to do that, and THAT HAS BEEN YOU.
long-winded complimentary babbling and drooling
Yeah, and couldn't wait for it ;-) (And then read it at work and couldn't take the time to comment or even really savor it! Oy gevalt.)
I honestly love every bit of it, but I want to do the blockquote-compliments anyway.
left flopping like a stranded jellyfish on the sand
One of the things I find most fascinating about this fandom is the juxtaposition of extreme sorrow/angst with a kind of zany "we know this is all for pretend" sense of humor. It's like Brokeback meets Python? This line of yours achieves that perfectly. And it's as ridiculous as the stuff he says in canon.
out of the limited vault of tribal features of the Chosen People
LOLOLOL and this is why he looks like my dad! Ha. Anyway, I love your example of Stephen's ethnocentrism :P
although heavily fictionalized in a way that only makes sense to Stephen.
I LOOOOVE that kind of thing. I grew up on an opera called The Tales of Hoffmann, one interpretation of which is that all three of his "lost loves" are really just personified iterations of the aspects of his mistress that are dooming their relationship. And in the movie of Chicago, there's the whole "nightclub revue in Roxie's head" thing. Although with Stephen, I'm sure you meant that he really does think it's more real than either Hoffmann or Roxie did.
coo over Jon's well-oiled television-producing machine like it's a school science project
I likes the way you writes. :-)
Anyway, I like the way you "translated" Stephen's fantasy into the more prosaic reality.
"2005" was really interesting. It's almost like a fic all by itself in its own right.
Meanwhile, the last two… !!!!!!!!!!!! and here's some more: !!!!!
Stephen doesn't feel like explaining the intricacies of his plan.
Heheheheh. And the entire paragraph that comes after this is genius and sounds exactly like the stuff he was saying. (I guess I mean that your character-voice is spot on?)
It's impressive, his ability to stay in character
META META META
It's called a fugue state
I've actually never heard of that before and now I'm all curious.
The paragraph that starts with "Jonathan" is such sweet, sweet agony. YES YESYES.
"You're not Jonathan," he croaks. "Jonathan had brown hair."
This was adorably funny and simple-minded of Stephen--and the beard comment was HYSTERICAL. Remember what I said about pathos mixed with goofy?
a hundred separate memories, from the wholesome-as-a-Christmas-card to the not-fit-for-print.
GOOOD WRIIIITING
This is all just so good. Now I want to see it all cartooned. :D (Back before I got married and didn't have any idea what a 'budget' was, I used to take my then-favorite fan-artist out to dinner and make her draw chibis for me the entire time. I'm beginning to wish I could do that now, or some more mature, fair version thereof.)
Seriously, this is one of the best J/"S" fics in existence. I know part of it is the source material, but plenty of people would take one look at canon that good and run away in the other direction, intimidated. And plenty of people write completely mediocre stories based on the most slashy moments in my old fandom, so fantastic slashy canon is no guarantee of fabulous fic. It takes a great writer to do that, and THAT HAS BEEN YOU.
Thank you for the fix.