What a lovely comment and we do appreciate it (notwithstanding the emotional effect the ep had!). Yeah, this is what we've been leading up to and teasing, and even as one of the people who wrote it I think it's heartbreaking and powerful stuff. Sword and I just went all-out with it, and we sorta complete each other as a writing team. That sounds odd, but I don't think this would be what it is if I had written it with anyone else, and I know she would say the same.
When I flagged this update at Tumblr it was odd because there was a little flurry of OMGs and then dead silence, for more than a half-hour. Which is unusual and I did actually worry (and also got an overly-passionate anon really ripping into me - but in a way that thrilled me, because it shows how much impact the words had). But I think the silence was genuine shock actually, and when people started reappearing they were very complimentary albeit horrified and shaken (and ordering us to fix it, natch!).
Stunning in the most vicious of ways is exactly what we were going for, you know. And we were hoping to achieve it in a way that was powerful and sad without being sentimental. So yeah, I think we did that and I think my contributions to these three eps are going to stand as my best writing in this fandom.
I do thank you for your comment! I looked in here after it posted and I think at the time yours was the only comment and when I read it I knew this ep was really going to hit readers...
When I flagged this update at Tumblr it was odd because there was a little flurry of OMGs and then dead silence, for more than a half-hour. Which is unusual and I did actually worry (and also got an overly-passionate anon really ripping into me - but in a way that thrilled me, because it shows how much impact the words had). But I think the silence was genuine shock actually, and when people started reappearing they were very complimentary albeit horrified and shaken (and ordering us to fix it, natch!).
Stunning in the most vicious of ways is exactly what we were going for, you know. And we were hoping to achieve it in a way that was powerful and sad without being sentimental. So yeah, I think we did that and I think my contributions to these three eps are going to stand as my best writing in this fandom.
I do thank you for your comment! I looked in here after it posted and I think at the time yours was the only comment and when I read it I knew this ep was really going to hit readers...
;-)
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