touch the sky with two arms - for animus_wyrmis

[nfe_gremlin]

Title: touch the sky with two arms
Author: ilysia_039
Recipient: animus_wyrmis
Rating: PG
Possible Spoilers/Warnings: None to speak of.
Summary: Susan has never had the greatest respect for linear time. Now, slipping through it like water through a sieve, she wonders if it hasn’t just stuck around because no one’s bothered to point out how ridiculous it actually is.

Comments

[animus_wyrmis]

BACK AS PROMISED, NO LESS CAPSLOCKY.

ANNE CARSON IS THE BEST SAPPHO TRANSLATOR EVER WE MUST TALK MORE ABOUT THIS.

ASKDJA;LSKDJAK;LSDJAL;SKDJASKDJ;ALSKJD AGAIN, OMG.

Things I loved even more upon reread!
-IT IS NOT CLEAR WHICH DOCTOR THIS IS BUT IT IS CLEARLY A NEW DOCTOR WE DON'T KNOW YET AND SUSAN THE GRANDDAUGHTER AND THE GHOST AND OH MY GOD. OH MY GOD.

NEITHER TRANSLATE OR SPEAK THE WORDS OF THEIR HOMES BUT THEY LOOK AT THEM TOGETHER.

SUSAN COMING INTO HER OWN AGAIN. SUSAN GETTING OLDER AND HARDER AND SOFTER AND HAPPIER.

The days here in Polly Plummer’s old cottage are slower than they were when she traveled by police box, but Susan doesn’t mind, at first. And by the time she does mind, they begin find her, all of the things on Earth that, like her, are not truly of it. They come at night, on wing and water and land and it is not long before she takes to disappearing from the cottage for stretches of time, and if she is on Earth during these periods, it is not within the scope of human knowledge to find her.

When she is at home, though, she sleeps deeply, dreaming of the smell of lightning and the sea, and the sound of the wind between the stars and the harmonics of the sun. Susan lives in the sky, now, in the spaces between; she’s put a crack in each door and found a place in each world and, while she may not have everything, she’s a long damn way from having nothing.
YES YES OH GOD THIS YES FOREVER YES.

Your icon is making me feel like they probably met River and that would be the thing about marrying a time traveler, she might pop up ANYWHERE, ANYWHEN, and then she and Susan can compare lipsticks.

Perhaps they invite Sarah Jane in on this discussion. Sonic lipstick? Hallucinogenic lipstick? Nylons and lipstick?

And just, omg, just the story of Susan moving onto other universes, going forward but never going back, being Queen Susan the Gentle in worlds so far away.

<333333333333333333333 omg this story.

[ilysia_039]

Oh my God, it's you again! Again, I'm so, so SO glad that you enjoyed this story. I so hoped you would!

AND ANNE CARSON IS AMAZING. SHE MAKES ME FEEL SO- SO- SO... YES.

Just... just... SUSAN AND THE DOCTOR ARE SO GOOD FOR EACH OTHER BECAUSE THEY'RE BOTH LIKE: YES, THIS HURTS, BUT REALLY GUYS, UNIVERSE TO EXPLORE.

Sorry for the capslock explosion. Just... so glad you like it!