Fic: Laughing With (1/1)

[hitlikehammers]

Title: Laughing With
Rating: R
Character(s)/Pairing(s): Ensemble; Claire/Jack, Sayid/Nadia, Sun/Jin, Juliet/Goodwin
Word Count: 6,938
Summary: It’s hard to tell if you fixed it, when you can’t remember it being broken. For emiliglia, who requested “S6 speculation” at The lostsquee 2009 Lost Summer Luau, and for the 18coda Prompt #3 - Canon. Warnings for suicidal thoughts

Comments

[missy_useless]

This is absolutely brilliant. I wish I had the time to leave proper feedback now - I promise I'll be back as soon as possible to write a better and more sufficient comment. I loved this! Wow.

[hitlikehammers]

Thank you! I'm really glad you enjoyed this, and that you're willing to try and pop back with more feedback, even!

[missy_useless]

So here I am again, sorry it took me so long.

As I have already said, this is brilliant. And all kinds of perfect, really. What a fabulous reset fic! I am in awe at your writing style - as always - and the story itself is so incredibly wonderful and heartbreaking and hopeful and wrong (my favorite parts are the Jack/Claire ones, though everything else is amazing, too). I love this so, so much; I couldn't stop reading for one second and I re-read it just now. Definitely adding this to my memories.

The first part is perfect and pulled me right into the story - I have such a thing for Jack/Claire, it's so beautifully messed-up and wrong and dirty and awww ... *coughs* - and you captured their voices wonderfully. Such a fantastic beginning!

It's a great idea to let Sawyer and Charlie meet in a bar, and to let them become a 'team' in the con-business - it's a nice reference to The Long Con. I really like the scene you painted here, and they both sound very in-character

[hitlikehammers]

I... wow. I'm seriously speechless - I don't know if I've ever received such detailed and flattering and absolutely incredible feedback before... just... wow. I cannot thank you enough, really and truly.

I'm particularly thrilled that the Jack/Claire bits worked for you - I really found myself warming to them as I wrote this story; there's something innocent about it, even as it's wrong, if that makes sense.

And yes - I was definitely thinking "The Long Con" when I wrote Sawyer and Charlie. That was one of the last sections to fall into place, but once it did, I was rather happy with how it came together - glad you thought so too :)

Boone and Shannon and Sayid - guh, I am so glad that you liked them! I've found myself absolutely adoring writing Boone, and even Shannon; and Sayid, I'd never really done much with, so I'm thrilled that he worked, even if he was only involved for a little bit

[aurilly]

This is incredible! All of it was so imaginative and felt so right. I love how you alternated between heartbreaking and hopeful---although even the lovely "hopeful" bit was actually all dirty bad wrong incest. Oy.

I loved the little switch, where Boone is the one sort of affected by Sayid, instead of Shannon. And even though she was barely in it, your characterization of her was great. I laughed out loud... only to then almost cry about my poor Locke.

I had completely forgotten about Ben, but wow, awesome way to sneak him in at the end there. Completely brilliant from beginning to end!

[hitlikehammers]

Goodness - thank you so much! I'm really, really thrilled that you so enjoyed this, and that you felt the sort of balance-imbalance of heartbreaking and hopeful, because that is exactly what I was going for, particularly with Jack and Claire - I was a little iffy on that as I was putting the story together, but for me, no other pairing quite captured the edge of things being really wrong after the reset (and in spite of the reset) quite like they did. And thank you in regards to Shannon! I've found that I rather enjoy writing her; she makes me laugh :) And poor Locke indeed - he made me sad, too :( But yes, thank you again - I'm so glad you liked it!

(And I am so on top of your Queen request, it's not even funny. I hope to have it done today or tomorrow, if things go as planned and I can write during my lunch!)

[angela_weber]

Oh my . . . wow. This is really and truly wonderful. Beautifully written and constructed, and creepy, and sweet, and crazy, and everything that a LOST ensemble/reset fic should be. It is perfect! And I mean that. I am in love with the way that you write, the way you use words to delve so deeply into each character. The Jack/Claire in particular is amazing. I wish I had the time to be more detailed! Absolutely fantastic work.

[hitlikehammers]

Wow - I don't even know what the appropriate response to this should be, but all I really have for you is thank you. So much. I'm absolutely, positively thrilled that you thought this worked, particularly the Jack/Claire bit, which was what I was probably the most concerned about getting across the right way. Again - thank you

[valhalla37]

This is so good. This is so, so, so, so good. I wish I could do this fic justice, and talk about everything I loved -- because there is so much -- but unfortunately I'm pressed for time.

I will say, though, that the moments here are just incredible -- the references and appearances and random interactions, and the way you've dealt with everyone's fates is just so fitting and tragic and sad. The momentum you build is incredible too; it keeps rolling ahead at such great speed and just when you think it can't get any better it does. Great, great work. And the last line -- so haunting!

(Oh, and I adore Regina Spektor, so points for that too! :D)

[hitlikehammers]

Oh my, thank you so much! I can't tell you how happy I am that you enjoyed this, both the situations themselves and the pacing. And you love Regina, which is ever better (so few people I know enjoy her, leaving me rather stuck at the moment to find someone I don't have to drag/coerce against their will to come to her show this fall... alas ;) )

[elliotsmelliot]

This was really good and so honest. I think my favourite part was the Walt and Michael section.

[hitlikehammers]

Thank you! I'm really glad you liked that part - at first, I thought it was kind of random and too short to really mean anything, but as the rest of the story shaped up around it, I found it fit the characters well - so I'm happy that you thought so, too :)