Your mutipart commenting was amaaaaaaazing, and somehow I woke up through the night right when you were at the end so I actually got the last few in real time and it was INCREDIBLE. I was grinning so so hard, ♥
The problem is I fucking start crying whenever I read you. I've totally stood there. Why are things so hard, Laura??? I don't know, babes, :( Although, in a needlessly obvious way, I've found it easier now that I live on the sixth floor instead of the 27th.
Your city feels so spacious, so much room, that it forces the characters to look for limits. It hits me so sharp because I've been in Toronto for eight years and I know in my heart it's a great city but I still feel like I've ruined it for myself and I've reached all the limits I can here. That's the weird thing though -- i've heard people say that so many times before, how Toronto is the biggest little city, and ultimately it always ends up feeling like a small world. Thematically, I kind of like that paradox for stories, but I know it sucks in reality, :(
Every time you talk about sex it's so honest. Even though your characters approach it in different ways each time it feels authentic to their character. Sex in your world doesn't swallow everything but it's not nothing either, just woven into the natural ebb and flow of things. It is so awesome that you think that works! It's kind of "easy" to make sex the climax (heh, climax) of a story and have everything leading up to the characters just finally boinking for the first time, and I've definitely done that many times before, but I also don't think that's ever how it goes irl. Sex is how things start, or maybe they're a one off or whatever, but sex never really feels like an ending.
Another thing that is just wonderful about these ensemble casts is you get to see how people calibrate themselves against one another. Lou comparing himself to his mum, and to Liam. So much that he loses the present. When I read this I was thinking of the scene in Sand when Harry holds Zayn's face and tells him he's right there. Your dialogue is so masterful in every respect I just get heart eyes and keel over. Aw, sweetie! That's so lovely of you to say! One million ♥'s!!!!
The problem is I fucking start crying whenever I read you. I've totally stood there. Why are things so hard, Laura???
I don't know, babes, :( Although, in a needlessly obvious way, I've found it easier now that I live on the sixth floor instead of the 27th.
Your city feels so spacious, so much room, that it forces the characters to look for limits. It hits me so sharp because I've been in Toronto for eight years and I know in my heart it's a great city but I still feel like I've ruined it for myself and I've reached all the limits I can here.
That's the weird thing though -- i've heard people say that so many times before, how Toronto is the biggest little city, and ultimately it always ends up feeling like a small world. Thematically, I kind of like that paradox for stories, but I know it sucks in reality, :(
Every time you talk about sex it's so honest. Even though your characters approach it in different ways each time it feels authentic to their character. Sex in your world doesn't swallow everything but it's not nothing either, just woven into the natural ebb and flow of things.
It is so awesome that you think that works! It's kind of "easy" to make sex the climax (heh, climax) of a story and have everything leading up to the characters just finally boinking for the first time, and I've definitely done that many times before, but I also don't think that's ever how it goes irl. Sex is how things start, or maybe they're a one off or whatever, but sex never really feels like an ending.
Another thing that is just wonderful about these ensemble casts is you get to see how people calibrate themselves against one another. Lou comparing himself to his mum, and to Liam. So much that he loses the present. When I read this I was thinking of the scene in Sand when Harry holds Zayn's face and tells him he's right there. Your dialogue is so masterful in every respect I just get heart eyes and keel over.
Aw, sweetie! That's so lovely of you to say! One million ♥'s!!!!
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