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Bonus Fic: Secret Garden for Rosivan

Jan 01, 2010 19:46

Title: Secret Garden
Author: Brighty18
Recipient: Rosivan
Rating: PG-13
Highlight for Warnings: * swearing, over-use of adjectives, frogs, and references to hippogriff feces*
Word Count: About 2,600
Summary: Sirius cultivates many things.
Author's notes: Rosivan, you are made of awesome and ran an awesome fest, as well. You said wanted the two of them in a garden as well ( Read more... )

rated pg13, 2009, fic

Comments 44

dogsunderfoot January 5 2010, 00:44:23 UTC

I have no words. This is truly beautiful, healing, and peaceful. This had love growing all through it.
I wish I had a longer review for you, something to point out what I liked best, but honestly, the whole thing made me breathless. I want this kind of serenity. (But without all the work) :)
Adding this to my memories!

brighty18 January 7 2010, 18:17:52 UTC

Wow! Thank you so much! This had love growing all through it. That is exactly what I was going for. Yay!

Actually, there is something very soothing and psychologically healing about tending garden. Or at least I've found it to me so.

magnetic_pole January 5 2010, 01:10:27 UTC

Ah, I love the idea of hidden rooms at Grimmauld Place, and these rooms especially! This is absolutely, absolutely charming. Enjoyed! M.

brighty18 January 7 2010, 18:18:31 UTC

Thank you!! And sorry I went so very far over the limit. (****looks around sheepishly****)

emilyia January 5 2010, 02:25:47 UTC

Oh, Brighty.

Oh.

The details, the richness of this was just... astounding. It is truly beyond words. Beautiful. Stunning. Memmed so fast I don't know what to do with it.

brighty18 January 7 2010, 18:48:47 UTC

That you so much! That's quite a compliment. As you might have guessed, I actually love gardening myself, but I do think that the process of creating something like that would be healing for Sirius, too.

secretsolitaire January 5 2010, 03:52:09 UTC

This is wonderful -- richly detailed and original and loving. I liked this line a lot:

Sirius found the room overgrown with foliage, as if after his mother’s death, the magic had gone feral.

Very cool concept and I love the way you played it out.

brighty18 January 7 2010, 18:52:53 UTC

Thank you! Part of that came from this book called The World Without Us by Alan Weisman. It's about a vision of what would happen to the world after the potential collapse of humanity, but he describes this amazing ghost town in Cyprus called Varosha. It was once a rather high-class beach resort town, but was abandoned in 1974 to the Turks and it's been empty ever since. Trees and vines are growing through these once-posh hotels and the streets are taken over by plant life. It was really amazing and made me think about what would happen in a magical world.

Sorry, you probably didn't really care about all that.

secretsolitaire January 8 2010, 02:35:34 UTC

Sorry, you probably didn't really care about all that.

LOL, no, it's interesting! :-) It's always kinda cool to hear where plot bunnies come from.

grandilloquism January 5 2010, 08:47:49 UTC

This is beautiful and enchanting and filled with such true emotion and shining flecks of humour. Sirius feeling closer to his mother, maybe finally starting to understand her instead of just stubbornly hating her. The easy relationship and banter between Remus and Sirius is wonderful, you really get a feel of how well they know each other, how long they've spent in each other's company.

The entire tone of this and the imagery is soft and fluid and just magical. Really well done, this is stunning.

brighty18 January 7 2010, 18:56:06 UTC

Thank you so much! What a fantastic comment!

I'm so glad that you picked-up on the banter and ease thing. I do imagine that, with all they'd each been through, they very much understood one another on a profound level.

And your "soft and fluid" thing just made me grin, for I very much wanted this to feel like the rooms themselves.