Revelations Cycle Tenth Iteration: Under Eyes of Stars and Planets

[half_life_wolf]

Coming up on the end of act one pretty soonish here. Within a few chapters, for sure.

Also third patronized trollkid get. Gamzee and Tavros are both really fun to write, but I swear to god their typing quirks are driving me up the wall.

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Comments

[half_life_wolf]

askjdfajkfhaAKJDSHFAKJFHA you will promise no such thing, I love you and I love this comment and hnnngh yes what was I saying again.

To be honest I've been kind of worried that I've been overdoing it with the Dave and Terezi stuff since this was initially just supposed to be about human Karkat and such, so it's nice to know that someone's been enjoying it. The two of them have my favorite relationship dynamic in Homestuck, as friends or lovers or what have you, and writing them is really fun even if both of them have personalities that I find difficult to write. So I'm glad to hear I've been doing Terezi correctly, too!

I also enjoy writing Nell and Earl because it's fun writing a very close, intimate relationship that absolutely isn't romantic (for humans, anyway); it's something I don't generally get a chance to do, often. I think that's something I like about writing this story, actually-- it gives me an opportunity to expand my horizons a bit and forces me to focus on characters that I don't generally use much.

/tl;dr you don't care about

Anyway my point here essentially boils down to a huge and heartfelt thank you. I sincerely appreciate the time you took to note down what you like and what's working! Reading this comment made me feel all warm and happy inside. ♥

[urban_anchorite]

Oh my goodness, you have not been overdoing it with the Dave and Terezi stuff at all: giving them resonance and weight is just echoing off how much weight Karkat's carrying over John, and it doesn't take away from the narrative. Their friendship-romance is amazing and seeing it here drives me bananas over how good it is. I actually spent most of this chapter, as I said, shrilling, though thankfully my friend also digs this story so we just spent our time screaming at each other over how good it was. Despite how much it reveals me to be a dork, I will quote my exact words.

Friend: I love this version of Terezi so much
uA: i know me too
uA: "If you can't come to me, I'll come to you."
uA: OH MY FUCKING GOD
uA: *FLIPS TABLE*
Friend: I LOVE THIS FIC
uA: I FUCKING LOVE THIS FIC

(We went on for about five pages screaming quotes at each other, then discussed how we love Sollux and Aradia in this, but I won't torture you with that also it undermines how we're both meant to be professional adults)

So know that in any case, you have a spellbound audience. One who quotes it and flips imaginary tables over how good it is.

You're really good at Nell and Earl simply because you get that dynamic of devotion down pat, even seeing it through the POV of other people -- you've characterised them amazingly and I love how Nell interacts with Karl and Teri both. If this is extending you writing them that's awesome. I love it when stories challenge me (except when I don't).

So yeah there is no tl;dr I do not care about, I would read the DVD commentary for this story in a heartbeat. There is so much to appreciate about this narrative and I had to break sometime and tell you about it, because I've been enjoying it in selfish radio silence thus far. Keep up the warm fuzzies as you deserve them. :)

[half_life_wolf]

I love both you and your friend, okay? Okay. Your totally-professional-and-adult enthusiasm is utterly charming and I am grinning like an idiot.

To be perfectly honest I could sit here for hours and talk about my creative process and relationship dynamics and as-yet-unrevealed backstories and about a thousand other things but that would contain SPOILERS and spoilers are BAD so I will just. Sit on my hands quietly I guess, haha. I am beyond thrilled by all these wonderful comments, man. These are the sorts of things that keep me writing instead of doing a couple of chapters and then forgetting all about it for a month and a half. (Also I'm just going to take a moment and inform you that that fic where John and Karkat were making lasagna is hands down my favorite fic of them because I just realized that you also did that one and am kind of spazzing out of my own accord so. You are not alone in the dork boat.)

[urban_anchorite]

that fic where John and Karkat were making lasagna is hands down my favorite fic of them because I just realized that you also did that one and am kind of spazzing out of my own accord so.

You have no idea the amount of teehee I am processing that you read that. Seriously, it's an awful teehee. The laughter equivalent of a Regency titter. You've no idea how much that means, considering it's you and your John/Karkat things were the first stuff I read on the ship (which most people can say afaik).

I love talking with other writers about relationship dynamics and process although I understand the spoilers so I'll just run over to my journal and quiz you about IMs.

[half_life_wolf]

I initially knew you from that one recent Dave and Terezi thing from the kink meme and my original internal reaction to you commenting glowingly on my work was something along the lines of "well okay this is a nice dream but do I wake up now? No? How about now? ...Now? OH MY CHRIST THIS IS A THING THAT IS ACTUALLY HAPPENING." And then I did my research and it turned out that you also did a lot of other stuff I loved and at that point I just lost all sense of composure. I have yet to entirely regain it.

Though dude it is incredibly flattering that I was your introduction to John/KK. If that's true then I am way more well known in this fandom than I ever expected and that's. Both nice and incredibly frightening. In a good way. I am not even that good of an author, what is this even