[FICATHON] Mine Earthly Joy, for lareinenoire

[angevin2]

Title: Mine Earthly Joy
Author: speak_me_fair
Play: Richard II
Recipient: lareinenoire
Character(s)/Pairing(s): Isabel, Richard.
Warnings: Thoughts of underage sex
Rating: R due to the above
Summary: Isabel knows what she wants, even if she cannot have it. And to know a thing is to make it true.

Comments

[lareinenoire]

Oh, ISABEL.

This fic is so gorgeous and so painful. Also, creepy. VERY CREEPY. I both want to hug her and to back away very quickly. ;) Thank you so much, Mystery Author!

[lareinenoire]

Okay, I have now had time to properly read this again and actually come up with a response that is mostly coherent.

I love how Isabel imagines her relationship with Richard here--in her head, it all exists, and that of course fits beautifully with what we've seen in the play (especially creepy pregnancy metaphors--oh, my goodness, that is so effective here). It doesn't matter what has or has not actually happened; what matters is how she's looking at it and imagining it. Beautifully written and so very, very sad.

[gileonnen]

Why hello there, theology. *___* The prose is gorgeous, but the meditation on thought and action and sin and consummation is particularly striking. Well done!

[likeadeuce]

Beautifully written & very resonant.

[gehayi]

Eerily beautiful. There's a quote from a bad movie called The Dungeonmaster: "I reject your reality and substitute my own." That's Isabel in this, building a reality of future acceptance and love. And I love that her Catholic training about sin convinces her that on a spiritual level, she and Richard really HAVE had sex already; that makes so much sense. Of course she would feel that way.