Day 04: Turn the Corner

Dec 04, 2009 23:33

Title: Turn the Corner
Author: anoyo
Prompt: Day 04: Lost
Character(s): Merlin, Arthur
Rating: PG
Words: 2,579
Disclaimer: Does not belong to me.
Spoilers: None.
Notes: Most ridiculously fast and amazing beta ever by vamplover82. Seriously, she deserves a medal. Holy crap. Okay, so, this is another idea that completely got away from me. It's rated PG for not- ( Read more... )

rating: pg, contributor: anoyo, day 4

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one_dreamery December 5 2009, 19:40:00 UTC
THIS IS EPIC.

I can't even express how much I love this, how much I love you for what you chose to be the expression of the "penultimate."

SERIOUSLY, HOW AMAZING IS THIS?

And you deserve so much ♥ for your love of semantics! ♥ ♥ ♥

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pyrrhical December 6 2009, 04:33:45 UTC
Awwww, thank you! I'm glad you liked it! I really enjoyed writing it, and my ridiculous semantic love got a bizarre thrill out of it, too. ♥ Oh, yes. Seriously, glad you liked it!

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pyrrhical December 6 2009, 04:40:27 UTC
(Oh, and for the penultimate, I kept thinking, "What would be them without one another? If they never met? But they couldn't ever not meet if they were both there; Destiny wouldn't allow it. So, really, one of them couldn't exist, which would make the other only half of something. Something undefined, because a half is rarely distinguishable on its own." There was way too much metaphysics involved, seriously.)

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one_dreamery December 6 2009, 06:29:04 UTC
Yeah! I thought about it a while ago, too, and that was the conclusion I'd come up with back then :D

And I'd thought - well, it has to be Merlin who's left alive, but not really living. I love that you have the alter-ego Merlin stuck in the maze without even really knowing it or even wanting to know about it...nothing's really worth it without Arthur, is it?

Really, this story achieved everything it meant to and more - it shows what their relationship is by showing what it's not. And it does it in such a way that even they don't grasp it, though they kind of do, and I just adore the way you handled everything.

Seriously - ♥ ♥ ♥

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pyrrhical December 6 2009, 07:50:39 UTC
Thanks! That's sort of precisely what I was trying to do. The boy's deadpan, academic delivery isn't the spell, it's what he's like in this iteration of reality. I mean, I was ridiculous in my thinking about this.

I actually have a much-much-much-actually-present-post-series fic planned for post-this-season that sort of uses the concept of this and the series canon and a REALLY BIZARRE IDEA I had while I was at work the other day. I'm not sure how it will go, BUT IT WILL BE FUN. If the Morgana idea I have doesn't eat me alive first. Or law school. You know, something like that.

Thank you so much! I've gotten a lot of "I don't know what this was saying, but it was interesting!" comments about this, which makes me wonder if I was just horribly confusing in what I was saying (and I feel as though I must have been, if so many people were confused), and it's very comforting that someone understood what I was trying to do. ♥♥ I really love writing things like this -- it's probably my favorite kind of thing to write, really. I ( ... )

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one_dreamery December 6 2009, 16:30:18 UTC
I actually have a much-much-much-actually-present-post-series fic planned for post-this-season that sort of uses the concept of this and the series canon and a REALLY BIZARRE IDEA I had while I was at work the other day.
♥! I can't wait to read these :D

And those comments about not understanding - yes, this is one fic that just can't be read too lightly/quickly. I think for me, I was so interested from the beginning, and then you sealed my love eternal with your use of semantics combined with metaphysics ♥ I'm an applied linguistics nerd, so after always reading papers about linguistics in dry formats, reading a story using parts of linguistics with MERLIN/ARTHUR WAS AMAZING ♥ plus it worked out so well and is so beautiful and gah.

I JUST LOVE IT.

[and aww. hope you get much more sleep! I know how you feel :(]

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pyrrhical December 6 2009, 18:38:36 UTC
♥ Hopefully I am able to write it with any sort of grace. I know what it's about, and I'm sort of starting to understand how I want to do it, and there are concepts that I want to do that might be Shocking As All Hell (and I think I might do it for Big Bang, since I'm nearly 100% positive we'll do one this Spring/off-season), but there are still things-that-have-to-happen that my brain hasn't quite worked out. Which is fine, I suppose; I have a ridiculous amount of fic to write between now and Christmas, anyway. Hahaha!

Well, anyway, I AM RIDICULOUSLY GLAD THAT YOU LOVE IT, and that you love applied linguistics, because, I mean, it is pretty much the best thing since real-life conversations about metaphysics as represented by applied linguistics (which I totally dominated my AP Chemistry class with, back in high school, for a good two days, oops; space simply can't be made up on nothing, because, semantically speaking, it then wouldn't exist). I have a Critical Theory class I'm in right now in undergrad that's basically repeated ( ... )

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one_dreamery December 6 2009, 18:56:10 UTC
YES applied linguistics is definitely the best :D

Heehee I don't envy your AP Chem classmates, having to be up against such deep thinking in high school lmao. I'm seriously in awe of how you manage to tie language and the deeper meaning of grammar with almost unrelated subjects like chem or metaphysics. ♥

I don't believe I've come across Austin yet, as I've been more focused on the functional side of linguistics. I probably will soon, though, so I'm looking forward to it :D

[and LOL. I was thinking about friending you too, except I'm horribly passive & shy about these things XD friending you now ♥]

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pyrrhical December 6 2009, 19:10:26 UTC
SO MUCH SO. Oh, man.

I was sort of well-known in high school for talking constantly and only rarely making any sense whatsoever except to the people that I was friends with (who were on the same page as I was) and people that I knew pretty well. My high school was actually really high up there in "ridiculously good educations," so it's not as frightening as it seems, honestly. (And it was a public school in a small town. We've been referred to as the twilight zone, once or twice or a zillion times.)

Ooooooh. Look up J.L. Austin "How to Do Things With Words." Excellent. His manner of describing things is a little dense, and it might take some slow, concise reading, but it's so much fun. Oh, man. (If you can't find it, I can, erm, oh-so-legally-obtain-it, haha ( ... )

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one_dreamery December 6 2009, 19:46:41 UTC
Haha ♥

Ah! I looked him up (I thought you were talking about a Peter Austin in linguistics) and I believe I'd read a bit by Austin by proxy, through Searle's own similar thoughts. So I will definitely be looking him up soon, and I'm excited - it looks to be a similar collection of lectures like the one Searle gave while he was at Harvard. And ha! no need for oh-so-legally-obtaining-it, I'm sure I can find a copy at my univ. library next week.

[LOL oh wow. Hilarious but so dangerous :D]

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pyrrhical December 6 2009, 20:16:56 UTC
Austin is sort of rockin'. ♥ Personally, I'm also a fan of Italo Calvino's theory, though it's not necessarily linguistic theory (though it is linguistic aesthetic theory), and from what I've read of Julia Kristeva, her feminist linguistic theory is fascinating. Oh, man. I love new theorists. ♥

(Yes, so much, oh man. How I'm still alive, sometimes, I have no idea. But, well, not being shy is awfully handy in being an advocate and public speaker, haha.)

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one_dreamery December 7 2009, 00:53:58 UTC
Hahaha you're opening my eyes! Okay, I'm adding both of them to my reading list. Any feminist is GOOD BY ME ♥

And you're an advocate/public speaker? How awesome ♥ although that makes sense, lol.

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pyrrhical December 7 2009, 01:37:54 UTC
8D Well, I'd be happy to give you my Critical Theory reading list, haha. ♥ It was definitely a fun class (I only say "was" because I have one week of class left before finals, and I must say: aaaaaaaaaaah! and also, my final is at 07:30, which is just cruel).

Well, technically, I will be an advocate/public speaker, but I certainly get plenty of practice now, too. ♥ I am giving a presentation on the state of the Des Moines foster care system as evidenced by the opinion and interaction of those who experience it on a daily basis in a week, actually, which is fairly frightening. Egads! I'm a child advocate, really; or, again, will be. I'll be attending law school next year.

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one_dreamery December 8 2009, 15:12:29 UTC
LOL I'd love to see the Critical Theory reading list :D Won't be able to read anything until after I've submitted all my papers, so take your time with it! & thanks ♥

Good luck on your finals :O And UGH early morning finals suck so bad.

And good luck on your presentation! Child advocacy is wonderful and it's great that you're shedding some light on the foster care system ♥

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pyrrhical December 8 2009, 18:23:04 UTC
Okay! He keeps changing it, so I'll get it to you once the semester's up and he's MADE UP HIS DAMN MIND and can't change it any more, haha!

Well, I love it and it's important to me, so it's sort of like, "DO THIS OR BE A DUMBASS WHO DOESN'T DO ANYTHING" because I'm really very unmotivated when it comes to, ah, everything else ever. Oops?

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