OK, I am just going to imagine that Arthur eventually recovered (mostly at least, I doubt a full recovery is possible) because otherwise this is too heartbreakingly bittersweet, between Arthur who is half lost in his own mind and the Arthur on the tape. Brilliant job with this.
You won't BELIEVE how hard I tried to make it a happy ending. Yusuf was meant to do something ninja with chemicals, but it just made Arthur worse. I guess this story was always destined to be angst.
I am glad to make you smile. Some fics just won't allow for an entirely happy ending, though something about my muse almost always allows for hopeful ones.
And Arthur ending up worse? Oh no, no, that would have broken my heart. :(
I wish I didn't delete the .doc file with the "original ending" so I could've shown it. Yusuf actually helped Arthur but then Arthur got addicted to the substance and kind of well... OD'd... Whoops. Ahaha.
Anyway, I was like, NO THIS CAN'T HAPPEN and tried to write an overhaul. I like the new ending with the tape better, so it's good I did that.
Actually I was thinking about how someone is forced to chose between love and what they do best/something only they can do. Kind of like a housewife who had studied to be a doctor and was very very talented in her field before getting knocked up by her very loving husband and knocked down by social pressures.
Well I mean yeah I enjoyed it. I love angst! but it makes me feel bad... but I love it!
I would say that I could imagine that different ending where everything is wonderful but I suck at imagining things so well yeah. Um. A sequel would be well received from this reader haha
And I feel the same way! Sometimes I just love reading fics that make me feel like my insides have been kicked out. :P
As for a sequel... I dunno. I never planned to expand this past where it is. The ambiguous ending is for the reader to come up with their own view of things. :)
I liked this a lot. The idea was really great and the story very sad, but not sappy, which is awesome. It did switch tenses sometimes and that was a little jarring, but not enough to make it that difficult to read and I still liked it.
Haha, yeah. This was a little present tense practice for me. But when Eames was thinking of past events, I had to switch to past tense to make sense. *Sigh*. English is so fiddly sometimes.
And I was not aiming for sappy, so it's good to hear it didn't come across that way. I kind of maybe was aiming for heartwrenchingly sad. XD
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And thank you for commenting. Makes me SMILE. :D
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And Arthur ending up worse? Oh no, no, that would have broken my heart. :(
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Anyway, I was like, NO THIS CAN'T HAPPEN and tried to write an overhaul. I like the new ending with the tape better, so it's good I did that.
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... D:
/trembling lip
duude. why why why.
Actually I was thinking about how someone is forced to chose between love and what they do best/something only they can do. Kind of like a housewife who had studied to be a doctor and was very very talented in her field before getting knocked up by her very loving husband and knocked down by social pressures.
What I mean is, yeah angst, you achieved it.
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And I do love writing angst. Even though I was aiming for a different ending, I did enjoy writing this. :D
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I would say that I could imagine that different ending where everything is wonderful but I suck at imagining things so well yeah. Um. A sequel would be well received from this reader haha
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And I feel the same way! Sometimes I just love reading fics that make me feel like my insides have been kicked out. :P
As for a sequel... I dunno. I never planned to expand this past where it is. The ambiguous ending is for the reader to come up with their own view of things. :)
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And I was not aiming for sappy, so it's good to hear it didn't come across that way. I kind of maybe was aiming for heartwrenchingly sad. XD
Thank you for reviewing! I love hearing feedback. :))
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