This is astounding. Just, completely fucking astounding, and incredible, and brilliant, and marvelous, and astonishing, and basically everything good in the world. I can't believe this story is real, I can't believe you are real, that this much talent and empathy and a mindblowing amount of caring could exist in one person to be able to write a story like this. What an incredible journey.
"I wanted to feel like there was more to my life than what he's made of it."
"I'm just... really tired of other people telling me who I am. I'm ready to find out for myself."
There were so many lines and passages wherein I had to stop reading to pull myself together (Dr. Hong and Cynthia and DETECTIVE BECKETT WARREN!!! YES!!!), but these ones in particular nearly knocked me down from where I was sitting. Blaine. This wonderful boy. This brave, brave man. (Dumbledore, 1997) (lol) Your character work with him is a work of art, you never tiptoed around the most difficult shit, and you masterfully acknowledged and broke down every single thread of the complicated knot of emotions he was going through at any point in time. Blaine has had to do a lot of growing up way too fast - during his time of captivity, yes, but even more so during his recovery, and he has been absolutely stunning throughout all of it. So much resilience, and strength, to even be able to get up in the morning; and here, wanting to claim his life as his own, fighting to take control, still so afraid but bearing it all so beautifully. Flawless arc is flawless.
You should be so proud of what you've accomplished here, I'd take you out for a drink and hug the life out of you if I could. Instead, i am sending you buckets and buckets of love and awe and pure respect through the power of the internet, hats off to you. <3 <3 <3
Thank you! And I'm glad you liked Detective Not-Beckett haha. I kept telling myself I would not do any crossovers for this story, but I still couldn't stop from moving her to NY and imagining her future fighting crime with Not-Castle in the end xD
And yes, he really did have to grow up a lot during his recovery, which is something that I hadn't really been expecting when I started to write this. I don't know why I wasn't expecting it, but maybe I hadn't thought about it quite in those terms? But I think one of the reasons this story is so much longer than the first one is because it took so much to get him to a place where he could start to work through what happened. This whole thing got a little unwieldy by the end haha.
I am proud of what I've written but I'll not lie, I'm also really proud that I wrote something that made someone want to go out drinking with me, as that's my default response whenever I read anything I like. In a weird way I feel like I've arrived :p
"I wanted to feel like there was more to my life than what he's made of it."
"I'm just... really tired of other people telling me who I am. I'm ready to find out for myself."
There were so many lines and passages wherein I had to stop reading to pull myself together (Dr. Hong and Cynthia and DETECTIVE BECKETT WARREN!!! YES!!!), but these ones in particular nearly knocked me down from where I was sitting. Blaine. This wonderful boy. This brave, brave man. (Dumbledore, 1997) (lol) Your character work with him is a work of art, you never tiptoed around the most difficult shit, and you masterfully acknowledged and broke down every single thread of the complicated knot of emotions he was going through at any point in time. Blaine has had to do a lot of growing up way too fast - during his time of captivity, yes, but even more so during his recovery, and he has been absolutely stunning throughout all of it. So much resilience, and strength, to even be able to get up in the morning; and here, wanting to claim his life as his own, fighting to take control, still so afraid but bearing it all so beautifully. Flawless arc is flawless.
You should be so proud of what you've accomplished here, I'd take you out for a drink and hug the life out of you if I could. Instead, i am sending you buckets and buckets of love and awe and pure respect through the power of the internet, hats off to you. <3 <3 <3
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And yes, he really did have to grow up a lot during his recovery, which is something that I hadn't really been expecting when I started to write this. I don't know why I wasn't expecting it, but maybe I hadn't thought about it quite in those terms? But I think one of the reasons this story is so much longer than the first one is because it took so much to get him to a place where he could start to work through what happened. This whole thing got a little unwieldy by the end haha.
I am proud of what I've written but I'll not lie, I'm also really proud that I wrote something that made someone want to go out drinking with me, as that's my default response whenever I read anything I like. In a weird way I feel like I've arrived :p
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