LoM Ficathon 2007: At the Round Earth's Imagined Corners

[jamie_dakin]

Title: At the Round Earth's Imagined Corners
Fandom: Life on Mars
Pairing: Sam/Gene, The Test Card Girl
Rating: NC-17
Spoilers: You not see show, you not read fic
Words: 2,457
Disclaimer: Life on Mars belongs to Kudos and the BBC. Title and epigraph come of course from John Donne's Holy Sonnets VII and X, respectively.
A/N: For the 07' Life on

Comments

[m31andy]

Crikey.

Love it, but brain is mashed. I'll comment properly when I can process again!

Thank you.

[jamie_dakin]

Yeah, headaches seem to be the popular reaction to this. I'm beginning to think I should've recommended taking some Advil before reading... ;)

[m31andy]

Right, I’ve taken time to process this and therefore here are my thoughts.

First off, I would like to say that when I found out who was writing for me, I squealed in delight. (Fi can testify to this one!)

Then the fic arrived and oh my. It’s wonderful. A beautiful lyrical quality to it that you can almost *sing*. The bitter/sour back-taste of ‘oh my Gods, this is just so wrong’ just perfectly sits with the vivid richness of the Sam/Gene interaction. Sam feeling so out-of-place, (like the prick should do) and the Test Card Girl. Oh my!

Then you manage to hit my lucid dreaming kink, which I’m pretty sure isn’t common knowledge and the ultimate horror moment, when you think it’s safe to breathe again after Sam has stirred the hornets nest. And the nest isn’t empty. *shudders* and it’s also a perfect explanation for why Sam jumped. Which I always appreciate!

Thank you so much for this, it’s fantastic.

[jamie_dakin]

I wasn't being entirely hyperbolic you know, like I told Fi the other day - I do see you guys as setting the bar that much higher for the fandom.

I'm really truly thrilled that you enjoyed this, god knows I had no idea it would end up the way it did when I started out (not to mention in the middle, when it was breaking my brain with such impressive flourish).

Ooh, I've been obsessed fascinated by lucid dreaming for quite some time now. In fact I suspect it's one of the reasons LoM resonated so deeply with me. That idea of dreaming as... well, just the completely unexplored potential of it all as a tool that can be honed to understand ourselves that much better.

Thanks again for the prompts, I highly suspect I may even end up revisiting them at some point.

[m31andy]

I must get that lucid dream I had about Sam Tyler down on paper at some point...

Lucid dreaming is just amazing. I just wish I could do it more often. It takes quite a lot of work to set up and it's a very fragile state. The idea of Sam's world being nothing more than a more stable form of lucid dreaming is intoxicating (especially as it's most likely true!)

I've got a couple of ideas for prompts from my two recipients which might make the light of day. Plus, it'll be fun to revisit the full list at some point. There's plenty of inspiration to be had there!