Comments | yami_valentine: Happy Valentine's Day, Brigdh!

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Happy Valentine's Day, Brigdh!

Feb 14, 2005 00:10

Title: This Unique Distance from Isolation
Author: ???
Recipient’s Name: wordsofastory (Brigdh)
Pairing: Tsuzuki/Hisoka
Summary: It's raining again.
Rating: PG

( This Unique Distance from Isolation )

Comments 18

mistressrenet February 14 2005, 11:16:45 UTC

So sweet and melancholy and beautiful.

b_hallward February 16 2005, 00:18:10 UTC

Thanks -- I was worried about this one.

Someday I may even get off my melancholy kick, and write something not in a minor key. Ah, someday...

mistressrenet February 16 2005, 02:48:12 UTC

oh, but why, when the results are so good?

wordsofastory February 14 2005, 14:38:22 UTC

Oh my God. This is amazing. I feel like I'd have to read it a million times to get everything there is in this story, but I wouldn't mind, because it's so lovely.

And I will say more later, but I have to run off to class now. Still, wow. I am so grateful.

b_hallward February 16 2005, 00:26:11 UTC

*whew* I'm so relieved you like it. You can't imagine how inadequate I've been feeling -- you had only three simple, open-ended requests and for a while I thought I wasn't going to make the deadline.

Really, this story was written on a pile of the corpses of dead and dying failed storied. I was amazed by my inability to write an established Tsusoka fic. Just amazed.

Happy Valentine's Day!

wordsofastory February 16 2005, 04:20:12 UTC

Oh, honey! I *love* it! You shouldn't feel inadequate at all. I adore this story so much- I've been telling everyone about it. And I'm really touched that you put so much effort into it; that means a lot to me. It turned out wonderfully, I have to assure you.

I remember now that I did leave my requests really open, but I'd meant for that to be easier for whoever got my fic. I didn't want to ask for something that you'd have trouble doing. Heh, I guess it was one of those instances where too much choice is just as bad as too little.

boniblithe February 14 2005, 14:39:34 UTC

That was lovely - a quiet, ordinary day at home, but under the surface Tsuzuki's mind is still racing, will he ever feel like he actually deserves to be happy ... time will tell I suppose ... such old pain isn't easy to leave behind, but your story makes me hopeful. *happy sigh*

b_hallward February 16 2005, 00:32:45 UTC

Thanks. It's kind of sad, and a bit pessimistic, but I don't think Tsuzuki will ever really be convinced he can just be happy -- not completely. But if anyone can give him a piece of that contentment, I think it's Hisoka and what they have together.

ranalore February 14 2005, 23:00:25 UTC

This is so delicately beautiful, understated and yearning and so bittersweet. I held my breath through the whole thing, it's that kind of story.

b_hallward February 16 2005, 00:36:32 UTC

Thank you. I'm so glad the sense of yearning came through.

p_zeitgeist February 15 2005, 05:59:58 UTC

This is one scary story, and I mean that in a good way.

Like Brigdh, I have the sense that I need to reread before I'll have gotten a fraction of what's here; and I'm not sure I can comment intelligently until I have. Right now I'm at the stage where all I can really think is, *wow,* with a side of, 'it's too hot in here, and way too quiet, and ohmygod this is the land of the dead, isn't it?'

But inadequate though this may be, I wanted to get it in before writer's names are revealed. Which sounds like it's going to be, any minute now.

b_hallward February 16 2005, 00:44:18 UTC

Thanks. It's nice to get feedback that you know is really just about the story. And while Yami as a series doesn't have a very, well, serious view of the afterlife -- and for some characters (like Hisoka) it's fairly easy to make a case that they're better off dead (which is profoundly sad if you think about it too much) -- I still thought: they're dead. That has to mean something.