Comments | demonqueen666: Dollhouse Fic: "Written In Ink, Carved In Stone" (Dominic/DeWitt, ensemble, PG-13)

demonqueen666

Dollhouse Fic: "Written In Ink, Carved In Stone" (Dominic/DeWitt, ensemble, PG-13)

May 10, 2009 16:57

Okay, so from here on out, we're calling this the Waking 'verse. Sigh.
Also, this part started out very character and emotion-driven, and then toward the end it suddenly got all narrative and plot-y. Wtf?

Title: Written In Ink, Carved In Stone
Characters/Pairings: Dominic/DeWitt, Ballard, Topher, Claire, Victor, Boyd, Ivy
Rating: PG-13 for sex, ( Read more... )

dollhouse, fanfic

Comments 24

kgx2001 May 10 2009, 22:09:04 UTC

I absolutely love this! Very well written.

demonqueen666 May 10 2009, 22:26:53 UTC

Thank you! That's very nice of you to say.

raincitygirl May 10 2009, 22:19:16 UTC

Topher turns around, holding it up with all the overwhelmed incredulity owed to finding an unlikely coffee mug shaped like a classic cartoon character’s head.

“What’s this?”

“It’s Snoopy.” Dominic gives him a scowl that blatantly accuses him of being a moron. “Haven’t you ever seen Snoopy before?”

“Well, yes - yes, I have. But what are you doing with it?”

“I happen to like Snoopy.” The scowl becomes a very deadly glare. “Something wrong with liking Snoopy?”

“Oh - no, of course not,” Topher backpedals: “He’s certainly the most manly of all the animated dogs…”

Helpless, HELPLESS laughter here.

demonqueen666 May 10 2009, 22:32:53 UTC

Hee hee - I really agonized over that part. Like, I had the idea, and thought it was hilarious, but then after writing it I was torn whether or not to leave it in, because I wasn't sure if it wasn't too cracky or only funny to me.

I had to leave it, though, in the end. So I'm glad to hear at least one other person is laughing.

dollsome May 10 2009, 22:20:17 UTC

1. alkdfjlakdsjfldsakjfalkj:! ♥

2. YOU KNOW THAT YOU CAN'T STOP NOW. THIS SERIES NEEDS TO LIVE ON FOR ALWAYS.

I will be back with an actual comment that means things! But as of right now: asdjfl;adkjfdalskfjaldkjsalkfjalk!

demonqueen666 May 10 2009, 22:35:45 UTC

Well, I look forward to your actual commenting, then. But for now, I will quite gladly settle for your flurry of excited consonants.

(I think it's safe to say, from the very ending section, that something more has to happen with this series. Baby Sister Nicole and SpyDaddy Dominic kind of make that a must. SIGH.)

aka_katya May 10 2009, 22:31:59 UTC

*dies from the massive amount of awesome in this fic!*

Allow me to express my undying love for Waking 'verse! It must continue on into forever ^_^

demonqueen666 May 10 2009, 22:36:50 UTC

Well, I don't know about FOREVER. But I expect it to linger on for awhile...

Thanks for the comment :D

dollsome May 10 2009, 22:34:21 UTC

COHERENTISH NOW! (Or, well, we shall see.)

Oh, God, I love this, I love this, I love this! Mere words cannot convey. What with the show's future being tragically iffy and all that, I can now imagine a world in which this series of fanfictions goes on forever, and my heart is even a little okay, because this is exactly, exactly how I would want the show to go. (The fact that Echo did not even make an appearance is maybe telling. Oh, Eliza, you are good, but not as good as absolutely everybody else.) The way that you portray all the relationships progressing just makes me want to FREAK OUT WITH LOVE, because we all know the real magic of Whedon is in the characters, and the way you portray them connecting here, it's all so spot-on and natural and perfect and gets me all weirdly emotional ( ... )

demonqueen666 May 11 2009, 03:01:02 UTC

The fact that Echo did not even make an appearance is maybe telling.

Hey, FWW, I actually do like Echo, it's just that she's almost not so much a character as she is a prop, and while I do love the recurrent Actives dearly, they're not so easy to write for me because...I like characters. And as cute as they all are, their base is pretty empty.
There actually was a whole other scene I was going to do in this particular story with Dominic and Echo, that basically wound up on the cutting room floor because when I went to start writing it I realized it didn't fit. However, I'm probably going to end up writing it anyway as it's own seperate thing, because it's kind of necessary for their interactions later on. SO.

DOMINIC AND TOPHER, DOMINIC AND TOPHER! Seeing their enmity develop into this weird, reluctant understanding is so wonderful beyond words.

See, I don't want to be accused of thinking I know what Joss Whedon is planning, but I feel like if they continued from where we first saw it, that'd almost be the way it'd have to go. It's ( ... )

demonqueen666 May 11 2009, 03:01:57 UTC

(Two comments, because I had WAY too much to say - and this is the edited version. Yikes.)

a lot of the focus in fanfiction is inevitably going to be on how messed up this relationship is -- because, ya know, it is a lot -- but pre-1x09, there was that wonderful unstated cameraderie between them, and I just love seeing that get to flourish.

I love the angst. I want to marry angst and have little half-angst, half-human babies...the fact that THIS pairing magically leapt from "not even on my radar" to "Dollhouse OTP" in the course of an episode where he betrayed her, she had him tortured, he shot her and she gave him a fate worse than death...really speaks for itself. But clearly, I could never be an actual Whedon writer, because I love to make my characters cry and THEN give them fuzzy magic kittens and rainbow cake to make up for it. So, my take on D/D is pretty much always going to be this weird fro-yo blend of delicious angst and your aforementioned sweet camradarie...because try as I might, I can never make myself too cruel ( ... )