FIC: (Bandom) Bring me that horizon - William/Pete

[cupiscent]

TITLE: Bring me that horizon
AUTHOR: Dee

PAIRING: William/Pete
RATING: Adult (language, themes)
SUMMARY: As a resource for introduction to new planets, William has seen more than his fair share of golden visions for bright new worlds. He hasn't seen anything like Pete Wentz.
NOTES: For the " Alternate Line-Ups" challenge/ficathon, prompt #67:

Comments

[romanticalgirl]

::flappy hands::

God, I love the way you weave together worlds and words so perfectly. You just have lush, gorgeous language, and I want there to be *more* of this and just...ah. It's amazing.

[cupiscent]

Ohgosh, thank you so much! I'm especially feeling the compliment because I feel a lot weaker at sci-fi than I do at fantasy, so your lovely feedback makes me a happy girl!

[harborshore]

No, I think brevity is what makes this--not that I don't want another 50K, but the way it weaves together like this, just enough detail, it's fucking gorgeous. Awesomely done.

[cupiscent]

Thanks so much! That's really a weight off my mind to hear, in a number of directions, so thank you, seriously, for letting me know. Now I will commence happy wriggling. *G*

[ghostrunner7]

This. Is so. Cool.

[cupiscent]

\o/

By which I mean: Hee, awesome, thank you!

[toucanpie]

Okay, you have no idea how hard it was to hold myself back from reading this at 1am last night. VERY HARD. But I'm so glad I did because there are so many amazing details here I wouldn't have been able to appreciate half asleep and it would have been an absolute crime to short change this story. Because oh god, I don't even know what to mention first. Possibly the fact that you took a completely random prompt and turned into something chock full of the most amazingly beautiful and original set of concepts (they're possums with a non-spoken language and William downloads details of the cultures and languages into his brain (!!) and they have an outpost waiting for them all man-made and kind of foreboding and then planet shares and the tea [telepathy-inducing? advanced hearing? do tell, I'm intrigued]) and ugh, just everythingThe descriptions totally blew me away as well, especially at the waterfall and at the beginning with William leaning against the bulkhead (that totally fired my synapses and is going to be sticking with me for

[cupiscent]

Long comment is awesome, and caused me to almost sprain something trying to restrain my glee-fit to office-acceptable levels. *G* I'm seriously delighted, because wow, is sci-fi not my comfort zone, and I was so worried this - especially condensed - would not hit for you. But YAY! \o

[toucanpie]

Oh nope, it absolutely hit, have no worries at all there :D And sci-fi should totally be a comfort zone because it was wonderful and you really left me wanting to climb into the universe and explore as well as covering the social/political/technical stuff that makes sci-fi so interesting.

AND AHAHA, I KNEW IT. Telepathic tea, that is the best ever. Excuse me while I just go imagine their faces the first time they realise what's going on and Pippin and Whiteface looking at them innocently when they turn up *g*

I am bemused too! Though that's kind of great, high five indeed. Maybe it's the idea of his ultra long legs as he leans. Though the bulkhead totally helped for me. I've been wanting to write him at a space cadet camp for awhile with Gabe and co. so nnnh, it totally fired all my images of crisp military whites and fighting in sims and sweating over taken-apart ships in the sun. But I digress. If you ever feel like writing that side of the story I would be a gleeful reader of it :D :D

[cupiscent]

...it totally fired all my images of crisp military whites and fighting in sims and sweating over taken-apart ships in the sun. But I digress.
DIGRESS LIKE MAD OMG, that is all that is most excellent! (Also hits me in my Star Wars fannishness, but just because I once made Jack Sparrow a Jedi doesn't mean even I could make Gabe Saporta into one. Though he could totally be the Han Solo of the piece, I suppose. William's a bit bitchy for a Jedi, but if Obi-Wan can make it through... OMGWHATSHUTUP)

But I think the point, really, is ultra long legs as he leans. Mmmmm, yes, make mine a double!

[greedy_dancer]

OMG, that was beautiful! Someone said above they wouldn't mind another 50,000 words of it, and that's definitely the case. There are many questions I want to ask about this, because you set up such an intriguing case and the planet just begs to be explored more, but it makes such a cool, interesting story as is ...

And your William, and your Pete, and Gabe, Mikey and Travis!

Thank you for sharing this :)

[cupiscent]

Thank you so much! That's all just so marvellous to hear, soothing all my little niggly uncertainties! So delightful, seriously, thank you for letting me know.