Thank you so much - for reading and for the lovely comments! I'm so glad you got that hint of sweetness to balance all the bitterness.
"You have made a good point: that the life us Sparrabeth shippers wish for them to have cannot be maintained forever." ---- And the thing is, it's not that I think they can't work as a couple in the long-term, but it's that I think that at this point, Lizzie is on the cusp of coming into herself, and for her (as with many people), that's an experience that requires a bit of a break in many senses. Maybe it's my throughly modern brain at work here, but I think that Elizabeth really needs to be alone for a bit. It's something she's coming to realize, but it's a difficult decision to come to when love is in the mix, and I think all of that confusion can easily manifest as misdirected rage. As for Jack, he senses it as well - but there's so much denial for both of them, about wanting to resist change, about the fear of separating.
And I'm rambling. Thanks for reading, again. It means the world to me. *squish*
Well, I didn't mean that they couldn't work forever, I just meant that they could not sail off into the sunset to have OMGZ-PIRATE-ADVENTURES! forever.
Oh no, no darlin - didn't mean my little ramble as a sort of rebuttal. Just took the very valid point you made and ran of on my little excited tangent. Sorry for my bit of inarticulateness. I blame it on a day of laundry. ;)
As a sidenote, I totally agree. I think the most fun is seeing how the OMG-TOTAL-HAPPINESS-AND-LACK-OF-CONFLICT falls apart, how these two are "rea", complex people. Issues are fun! ;)
"You have made a good point: that the life us Sparrabeth shippers wish for them to have cannot be maintained forever."
---- And the thing is, it's not that I think they can't work as a couple in the long-term, but it's that I think that at this point, Lizzie is on the cusp of coming into herself, and for her (as with many people), that's an experience that requires a bit of a break in many senses. Maybe it's my throughly modern brain at work here, but I think that Elizabeth really needs to be alone for a bit. It's something she's coming to realize, but it's a difficult decision to come to when love is in the mix, and I think all of that confusion can easily manifest as misdirected rage. As for Jack, he senses it as well - but there's so much denial for both of them, about wanting to resist change, about the fear of separating.
And I'm rambling. Thanks for reading, again. It means the world to me. *squish*
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As a sidenote, I totally agree. I think the most fun is seeing how the OMG-TOTAL-HAPPINESS-AND-LACK-OF-CONFLICT falls apart, how these two are "rea", complex people. Issues are fun! ;)
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