*surreptiously sneaks in and starts commenting hurp durp*
I love how you manage to juggle this huge cast. Like, honestly admire it and the way the plot keeps rolling on. I don't think I've mentioned this before, but my god do I love your characterization of Terezi in this fic. I love your transformation of her into a human who actually has to deal with the weight of her disability and the barbed bitterness entailed therein and I love her now that she's remembered her old self, and how she is now both selves at once and she's all "YUP BOYS, GOTTA GO DIE. NO DILLY DALLYING NOW."
Basically I secretly (and not so secretly now that I am telling you in a public comment ha ha ha) think that most people in this fandom kind of....... suck at writing Terezi! (even me sometimes maybe ;__;) and that you have consistently gotten it right in this fic, at least imo.
Also my god, your world-building. I think I keep saying this, maybe not directly to you but holy crap I love your effortless world-building. The troll!kids session here is painted brilliantly, an odd mixture of classic earth mythology and the atmosphere inherent in Hivebent and there are passages of description that I've literally had to go back and re-read because they sort of filled me with a swelling excitement, a sincere and very tangible image and my god, that is so rare and unexpected in fanfic.
Bro, first of all, you cannot even know how much this comment and the ones urban_anchorite left mean to me. Really, I admire and look up to both of you as writers, and to know that you enjoy my work is beyond amazing and entirely inexplicable and endlessly flattering to me. I'm especially glad to hear that you're enjoying Terezi's characterization, since I do think that you are one of the very, very few people in this fandom who can really do her well and consistently. To be honest, I worry about characterization a lot, especially with Dave and Terezi, so this is a large relief!
I am also glad that you are enjoying my imagery, because that IS about the one thing that I think I've really gotten right, and I'm pretty inordinately proud of it. World-building is also my favorite thing, but conversely I was pretty sure I'd been fucking that up, so this is likewise a relief.
Basically I just had to sit here and stare at your comment for like five or ten minutes because it filled me with so much glee, you can't even know. Now would possibly be a good time to mention that I am also like your biggest fan and am violently jealous of your work. It really means a lot to me that you would take the time to give me your thoughts on this, so thank you so, so much. ♥
I love how you manage to juggle this huge cast. Like, honestly admire it and the way the plot keeps rolling on. I don't think I've mentioned this before, but my god do I love your characterization of Terezi in this fic. I love your transformation of her into a human who actually has to deal with the weight of her disability and the barbed bitterness entailed therein and I love her now that she's remembered her old self, and how she is now both selves at once and she's all "YUP BOYS, GOTTA GO DIE. NO DILLY DALLYING NOW."
Basically I secretly (and not so secretly now that I am telling you in a public comment ha ha ha) think that most people in this fandom kind of....... suck at writing Terezi! (even me sometimes maybe ;__;) and that you have consistently gotten it right in this fic, at least imo.
Also my god, your world-building. I think I keep saying this, maybe not directly to you but holy crap I love your effortless world-building. The troll!kids session here is painted brilliantly, an odd mixture of classic earth mythology and the atmosphere inherent in Hivebent and there are passages of description that I've literally had to go back and re-read because they sort of filled me with a swelling excitement, a sincere and very tangible image and my god, that is so rare and unexpected in fanfic.
Anyways, I am as usually Bluh, Bluh, huge fan. ♥
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I am also glad that you are enjoying my imagery, because that IS about the one thing that I think I've really gotten right, and I'm pretty inordinately proud of it. World-building is also my favorite thing, but conversely I was pretty sure I'd been fucking that up, so this is likewise a relief.
Basically I just had to sit here and stare at your comment for like five or ten minutes because it filled me with so much glee, you can't even know. Now would possibly be a good time to mention that I am also like your biggest fan and am violently jealous of your work. It really means a lot to me that you would take the time to give me your thoughts on this, so thank you so, so much. ♥
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