Ooh wow. Where to even start? I love so many things about this fic...
Your characterization is amazing. You have clearly done a lot of serious thinking about what it would actually mean to be five-thousand-odd years old and unable to die, it shows beautifully in the way you've written Jack -- and while you've made a very whole-seeming, thoughtful picture of the man he might be in this time frame, he is still immediately recognizable as a growth onward and upward from canon!Jack. This is not easy to accomplish, and I applaud your success. I also applaud (!!) the mature, confident, self-reliant Ianto you've written here. Simply awesome. I admit I have a hard time imagining him getting old (obligatory: if only he'd gotten the chance, WAILY WAILY ;__;) but if he did, I would want to see him like this. Thank you for giving me this image to hold on to. :) (Also should add -- the maturity of Jack and Ianto's relationship here is too lovely for words. Waily, waily... sigh...) And I am unspeakably impressed with how well you've written Alice. You did a really amazing job of getting inside her head, making all her emotions and reasons come through without trying to blunt the edges and make her sympathetic when she really wouldn't be. As a reader I didn't always agree with her, but I always knew exactly where she was coming from; she made so much sense it broke my heart a bit. (more than a bit.) I absolutely love the idea of her and Jenny traveling about saving worlds and wreaking havoc....
I could go on and on -- the plotting (I laughed, I gasped, I covered my face with my hands, even shouted at the monitor a few times), the writing itself (too many perfect turns of phrase for me to count, your Ianto voice especially seemed to have a knack for saying things in the most darkly hilarious ways)... the whole image you present of the universe, as someplace much wider and wilder and stranger and more homely than anyone can quite imagine. (Except maybe the Face of Boe, and that may be not imagination so much as just well-compiled memoirs, lol) (The idea of Jack's memoirs! The excerpts!! I WANT A COPY but I probably wouldn't have space for more than the first few dozen volumes... damnit, I would make space!)
I love your respect for canon, and how you somehow make me forget how infuriating this canon can be. I love that, despite being a "fix-it", this fic is about moving on, not moving backwards.
I feel like I've used up too much space already, so .... thank you very very much for writing and posting this. It is too fucking lovely for words.
I'm so glad the older Jack worked for you. He's hard to get a handle on for me in this time frame, because he's seen and done so much more than when we last saw him, and it's hard to strike a balance between "more mature" and "recognisable as Jack." So thanks, and yay!
The idea of Jack's memoirs! The excerpts!! I WANT A COPY but I probably wouldn't have space for more than the first few dozen volumes... damnit, I would make space!
Hee! I LOVED writing the autobiography bits, because it's equal parts narcissim and good times had by all, you know?
I love that, despite being a "fix-it", this fic is about moving on, not moving backwards.
Thank you! That's kind of the idea behind this particular fanverse (as opposed to the other two TW fanverses I'm writing ... ) because there really is no going back here, just finding out what happens next.
Thanks so much for reading and for taking the time to leave such a sweet comment!
Your characterization is amazing. You have clearly done a lot of serious thinking about what it would actually mean to be five-thousand-odd years old and unable to die, it shows beautifully in the way you've written Jack -- and while you've made a very whole-seeming, thoughtful picture of the man he might be in this time frame, he is still immediately recognizable as a growth onward and upward from canon!Jack. This is not easy to accomplish, and I applaud your success.
I also applaud (!!) the mature, confident, self-reliant Ianto you've written here. Simply awesome. I admit I have a hard time imagining him getting old (obligatory: if only he'd gotten the chance, WAILY WAILY ;__;) but if he did, I would want to see him like this. Thank you for giving me this image to hold on to. :)
(Also should add -- the maturity of Jack and Ianto's relationship here is too lovely for words. Waily, waily... sigh...)
And I am unspeakably impressed with how well you've written Alice. You did a really amazing job of getting inside her head, making all her emotions and reasons come through without trying to blunt the edges and make her sympathetic when she really wouldn't be. As a reader I didn't always agree with her, but I always knew exactly where she was coming from; she made so much sense it broke my heart a bit. (more than a bit.) I absolutely love the idea of her and Jenny traveling about saving worlds and wreaking havoc....
I could go on and on -- the plotting (I laughed, I gasped, I covered my face with my hands, even shouted at the monitor a few times), the writing itself (too many perfect turns of phrase for me to count, your Ianto voice especially seemed to have a knack for saying things in the most darkly hilarious ways)... the whole image you present of the universe, as someplace much wider and wilder and stranger and more homely than anyone can quite imagine. (Except maybe the Face of Boe, and that may be not imagination so much as just well-compiled memoirs, lol) (The idea of Jack's memoirs! The excerpts!! I WANT A COPY but I probably wouldn't have space for more than the first few dozen volumes... damnit, I would make space!)
I love your respect for canon, and how you somehow make me forget how infuriating this canon can be. I love that, despite being a "fix-it", this fic is about moving on, not moving backwards.
I feel like I've used up too much space already, so .... thank you very very much for writing and posting this. It is too fucking lovely for words.
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I'm so glad the older Jack worked for you. He's hard to get a handle on for me in this time frame, because he's seen and done so much more than when we last saw him, and it's hard to strike a balance between "more mature" and "recognisable as Jack." So thanks, and yay!
The idea of Jack's memoirs! The excerpts!! I WANT A COPY but I probably wouldn't have space for more than the first few dozen volumes... damnit, I would make space!
Hee! I LOVED writing the autobiography bits, because it's equal parts narcissim and good times had by all, you know?
I love that, despite being a "fix-it", this fic is about moving on, not moving backwards.
Thank you! That's kind of the idea behind this particular fanverse (as opposed to the other two TW fanverses I'm writing ... ) because there really is no going back here, just finding out what happens next.
Thanks so much for reading and for taking the time to leave such a sweet comment!
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