Fic: an exercise in vanity (DW, River/Ace)

[wishfulaces]

Title: an exercise in vanity
Author: aces
Fandom, characters: Doctor Who, River Song/Ace McShane
Rating: Teen and up
Word count: approx. 3500 words
A/N: Written for ionlylurkhere in the dw_femslash ficathon. You give me timestreams-crossing and femslash, of course I’m going to involve Ace somehow. Vague mentions of NAs and BF audios shenanigans, but

Comments

[jenlev]

I love the Timey Wimey-ness of this. Such a wonderful Mobius strip that's also quite fractal. And hopefully that makes some kind of sense as it's rather hard to articulate without gesticulating. ;)

Anyway, fabulous and fun, and also a bit heartbreaking because that kind of time experience seems fantastic but also a bit sad. As if they're all living outside time in relationship with each other but are still held captive by the direction time moves in. Wonderfully written.

[wishfulaces]

Gesticulating seems appropriate when attempting to deal with the timey-wimeyness of this fic. :)

And that's a really cool way of putting it, that I hadn't articulated myself precisely but knew was there--because, yeah, they're not experiencing each other in the linear fashion to which most of us are accustomed, but they're still seeing a progression in time. So, yeah, thanks as always--I'm really glad you enjoyed this. :)

[jenlev]

Cool that it made sense! Sometimes the exercise of typing these thoughts is so much harder than talking.

Your writing is always so gorgeous, a light hand, all the great layers, I'm always so happy to read your stories. I'm just sayin'. *hugs*

[wishfulaces]

Believe me, I understand. (How do you think I felt writing this fic? :p)

And you are always so generous with your feedback, it really is awesome of you. *hugs back*

[jenlev]

Heee! Yes, writing it would have been quite the process. As for feedback, thank you. But I should tell you that it's easy when the stories are that good. I'm afraid though that I'm turning into something of a lurker these days, so it's always happy making to log in and see that you've posted fic. :)