FIC: Cat's Cradle

[etherati]

Title: Cat's Cradle
Fandom: Moon
Characters/Pairings: Sam
Date Written: 2010
Summary: When memory runs forwards as well as back, it's called insanity.
Rating/Warnings: PG-13, minor language.
Notes: Short, nothing groundbreaking, just noodling around. Somewhat spoilery, if you can make sense of it. Also, whoa, what the eff, something that isn't

Comments

[lotus0kid]

Wow, Moon fic, I certainly never expected to read that. Beautiful, of course, with an edge of highly appropriate creepiness. And bonus points for referencing a Moby song.

[etherati]

Yeah the fandom is nonexistent as far as I can tell, I just saw the movie and got an itch. ;) Thank you! I totally expects nothing but crickets here, I'm glad some people have seen it, because it's an awesome movie.

[roachpatrol]

This is totally gorgeous. I think you really caught everything that made Moon so sad and beautiful, but I really like that extra redemptive edge you fit in. It's sad, but not crushingly so. It's great.

[etherati]

Thank you, really, I didn't expect to get ANY response to this as there does not seem to exist a fandom and most people have never heard of it. ;)

It was such a sad movie, I don't know how deliberate it was to sneak some hints of redemption in, I sometimes just stick them in without realizing it. But I think it does temper the sadness somewhat, in the movie too.

Thank you again :)

[mad_bertha]

I absolutely loved this film, as much as it was so sad and depressing, it's one of the best science fiction films I've seen in recent years and I am constantly amazed that few people I know have seen it. A fic based on Moon alone would have made me excited--but YOU writing something for it? Wow. And the mood of this fic fits in with the film perfectly, the repetition and the use of the days to indicate the different clones, the references to stars, how there are so many of them (like Sam):

"We are all made of stars, some old, old bit of song, and whatever star he points to could be making the raw materials for a new Sam Bell right now, spinning him into existence on some other world. There could be hundreds of them, millions, connected by their starstuff in a chaotic webbing across galaxies."

Thanks, eth :)

[etherati]

Wow, I never replied to this? I AM EMBARRASS.

Thank you *hugs* it was a lovely movie and I haven't really done it justice here, but all we can do is try.