Thank you so much, love! Your compliments really touched me - in no small part because you're such a brilliant writer yourself. :)
I'm thrilled that you responded to the subtlety in the story. It's always a challenge to write these really explosive scenes without telling too much, without robbing the readers of personal interpretation.
"And your Elizabeth is very interesting, ill at ease with her choices and almost seeming, to me, unbalanced." ---- Absolutely unbalanced. For me, it's all about time with these two. Ten years after AWE, they are both very different people, and Lizzie's coming to that place that most women of her time wouldn't be prepared to face: a point at which she realizes she's never been truly alone, truly independant It's an internal battle that I don't think she fully realizes she's fighting yet - but oh, I have fun plans for the time that she does. All of these stories (or almost all of them) exist in the same basic universe for me, so I wanted there to be a bit of dialogue with "Serendib" and "Smoke" here, a kind of middle-piece.
Thanks again, love! *squish*
P.S. And I meant to say, thanks for reccing my work. I am genuinely touched - and truly appreciate it.
You're very sweet. I'm still finding my feet in this fandom, and feel like I'm just warming up. I need to get under the characters' skin a little more before I can really write well.
I love the idea of Elizabeth needing to 'find herself' as we'd say in the twenty-first century! It's very true, especially for a woman who has always had a man to define her role.
But you are going to break Jack's heart, and consequently mine, when she leaves him! That's okay, though, because I'm all for some exquisite pain, just so long as you bring them back together in the end!
This is a wonderful series, you have a great deal of talent. We J/E shippers are lucky indeed!
"I'm still finding my feet in this fandom, and feel like I'm just warming up. I need to get under the characters' skin a little more before I can really write well." --- I second that, and completely understand the feeling. I've actually been meaning, for some time, to go back and comment on all of your stories - and I promise I will soon. You are extremely gifted, and for me, you've already found your way into their brains. It's funny, but the first fic i wrote that had Jack's dialogue in it, I was completely terrified of not portraying him on paper in a fitting fashion. Now, he never shuts up. ;)
"I love the idea of Elizabeth needing to 'find herself' as we'd say in the twenty-first century! It's very true, especially for a woman who has always had a man to define her role." ---- Yay! So glad the idea works for you - and doesn't seem too modern. I think it's a sort of an essential part of growing up, a step that Lizzie's circumvented and is having to face much later than most. If she'd been a traditional woman, I think her coming of age moment would have been marriage and all the challenges therein. However, living a sort of man's life (for her time), it makes sense to me that her journey might parallel a man's (once again for that time period ) - having the need to set out alone, to survive with nothing but herself. I've been in that place myself, and it seems that - for some, at least - you have to leave home in order to understand what home is. And to want to come back. (And there is my verbose, convoluded metaphor for the day).
"But you are going to break Jack's heart, and consequently mine, when she leaves him! That's okay, though, because I'm all for some exquisite pain, just so long as you bring them back together in the end!" ---- Muwahahaha. Oh, I have plans.... ;)
Thank you so much for all of your support and for your amazing comments. I am completely flattered. *squish*
I'm thrilled that you responded to the subtlety in the story. It's always a challenge to write these really explosive scenes without telling too much, without robbing the readers of personal interpretation.
"And your Elizabeth is very interesting, ill at ease with her choices and almost seeming, to me, unbalanced."
---- Absolutely unbalanced. For me, it's all about time with these two. Ten years after AWE, they are both very different people, and Lizzie's coming to that place that most women of her time wouldn't be prepared to face: a point at which she realizes she's never been truly alone, truly independant It's an internal battle that I don't think she fully realizes she's fighting yet - but oh, I have fun plans for the time that she does. All of these stories (or almost all of them) exist in the same basic universe for me, so I wanted there to be a bit of dialogue with "Serendib" and "Smoke" here, a kind of middle-piece.
Thanks again, love! *squish*
P.S. And I meant to say, thanks for reccing my work. I am genuinely touched - and truly appreciate it.
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I love the idea of Elizabeth needing to 'find herself' as we'd say in the twenty-first century! It's very true, especially for a woman who has always had a man to define her role.
But you are going to break Jack's heart, and consequently mine, when she leaves him! That's okay, though, because I'm all for some exquisite pain, just so long as you bring them back together in the end!
This is a wonderful series, you have a great deal of talent. We J/E shippers are lucky indeed!
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--- I second that, and completely understand the feeling. I've actually been meaning, for some time, to go back and comment on all of your stories - and I promise I will soon. You are extremely gifted, and for me, you've already found your way into their brains. It's funny, but the first fic i wrote that had Jack's dialogue in it, I was completely terrified of not portraying him on paper in a fitting fashion. Now, he never shuts up. ;)
"I love the idea of Elizabeth needing to 'find herself' as we'd say in the twenty-first century! It's very true, especially for a woman who has always had a man to define her role."
---- Yay! So glad the idea works for you - and doesn't seem too modern. I think it's a sort of an essential part of growing up, a step that Lizzie's circumvented and is having to face much later than most. If she'd been a traditional woman, I think her coming of age moment would have been marriage and all the challenges therein. However, living a sort of man's life (for her time), it makes sense to me that her journey might parallel a man's (once again for that time period ) - having the need to set out alone, to survive with nothing but herself. I've been in that place myself, and it seems that - for some, at least - you have to leave home in order to understand what home is. And to want to come back. (And there is my verbose, convoluded metaphor for the day).
"But you are going to break Jack's heart, and consequently mine, when she leaves him! That's okay, though, because I'm all for some exquisite pain, just so long as you bring them back together in the end!"
---- Muwahahaha. Oh, I have plans.... ;)
Thank you so much for all of your support and for your amazing comments. I am completely flattered. *squish*
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