Re: all your perfectly delivered lies | ranbir/deepika | rpf | pg-13 | 2/2xsinsofglassxFebruary 25 2014, 17:19:18 UTC
OH. MY. GOOD. GOD.
WHAT DID YOU? HOW DID YOU?
This is perfect in more ways than I can count. I absolutely lovelovelove the tone it has been set in and I can really get used to looking at Ranbir like this. He sounds like the saddest man ever.
The sheer angst of this was so palpable. I interpreted it in a way that you might find ridiculous. But, to me he sounds like a hollow shell of a man looking out his window and catching glimpses of someone else's life.
He just seems much like a stranger in his own life, watching it slip past the spaces between his fingers and unable able to do a thing about it. His denial, his hangups and everything basically just creates a stark difference between his perceived notions about himself. It would have been ridiculous if it wasn't so tragic.
OK. I just don't even. I am not able to articulate what I mean to say here but hey you are the talented writer here. Also,this whole thing reminds me of this quote by Yohji Yamamoto: "My whole life is made up of: "I'm sorry". I feel like I have to apologize to people, to things, to life itself. It's like, "I'm sorry to be here". I don't want to disturb anyone."
I kinda dig the fact that Deepika is perfectly happy and over him in this one. Perfect girl deserves a perfectly happy ending.
One more, thing:
He thought he broke her, a little. But she isn't even cracked, and he's barely assembled together anymore
... "You're the biggest mistake I ever made," he manages, instead, because it's true. It's the most honest he's ever been.
"Thanks," she says, dryly, "looking at your film choices this year, that's a pretty heavy mantle you're handing over."
It makes him laugh, out loud. He'd forgotten she could do that. He'd forgotten he could do that.
"I never loved you, you know." he's a bastard, ask him how.
Re: all your perfectly delivered lies | ranbir/deepika | rpf | pg-13 | 2/2youcallitwinterMarch 2 2014, 18:06:57 UTC
LOL, honestly I have never even thought of Ranbir and fandom or even Bollywood!shipping ever before this ficathon. IDEK WHAT THIS FIC IS OMG.
ALSO, I think your interpretation is aces, and probably way better than whatever I was thinking while writing it. But Ranbir does seem to me essentially the type of person (although obv it's a false equivocation since I don't know him at all and cannot correctly judge) who would be lonely. Because he's so much of a persona, I'd imagine it'd hard for him to switch that off and be a real person. And obviously, his reputation and all that his exes say about him, seems to compound that. It's like he is his image. And his relationship with Deepika interests me so much on that count, because she seems really blunt, really in the I-date-for-marriage space, and they seem to be polar opposites in a lot of their world-views, especially relationship-wise, so that they were together and (at least on her part) "madly in love" is so intriguing.
That quote is iiiinteresting, I can see it applying to so many people and situations, seriously.
BUT THANK YOU, for taking the time out to write me such a lovely, thoughtful review, I really appreciate it, and so glad you liked the fic! (Even though I had no idea what I was doing, hee)
WHAT DID YOU? HOW DID YOU?
This is perfect in more ways than I can count. I absolutely lovelovelove the tone it has been set in and I can really get used to looking at Ranbir like this. He sounds like the saddest man ever.
The sheer angst of this was so palpable. I interpreted it in a way that you might find ridiculous. But, to me he sounds like a hollow shell of a man looking out his window and catching glimpses of someone else's life.
He just seems much like a stranger in his own life, watching it slip past the spaces between his fingers and unable able to do a thing about it. His denial, his hangups and everything basically just creates a stark difference between his perceived notions about himself. It would have been ridiculous if it wasn't so tragic.
OK. I just don't even. I am not able to articulate what I mean to say here but hey you are the talented writer here. Also,this whole thing reminds me of this quote by Yohji Yamamoto: "My whole life is made up of: "I'm sorry". I feel like I have to apologize to people, to things, to life itself. It's like, "I'm sorry to be here". I don't want to disturb anyone."
I kinda dig the fact that Deepika is perfectly happy and over him in this one. Perfect girl deserves a perfectly happy ending.
One more, thing:
He thought he broke her, a little. But she isn't even cracked, and he's barely assembled together anymore
...
"You're the biggest mistake I ever made," he manages, instead, because it's true. It's the most honest he's ever been.
"Thanks," she says, dryly, "looking at your film choices this year, that's a pretty heavy mantle you're handing over."
It makes him laugh, out loud. He'd forgotten she could do that. He'd forgotten he could do that.
"I never loved you, you know." he's a bastard, ask him how.
"...okay."
^
I'M SO NOT OKAY. YOU BROKE ME THERE.
NO.
REALLY.
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ALSO, I think your interpretation is aces, and probably way better than whatever I was thinking while writing it. But Ranbir does seem to me essentially the type of person (although obv it's a false equivocation since I don't know him at all and cannot correctly judge) who would be lonely. Because he's so much of a persona, I'd imagine it'd hard for him to switch that off and be a real person. And obviously, his reputation and all that his exes say about him, seems to compound that. It's like he is his image. And his relationship with Deepika interests me so much on that count, because she seems really blunt, really in the I-date-for-marriage space, and they seem to be polar opposites in a lot of their world-views, especially relationship-wise, so that they were together and (at least on her part) "madly in love" is so intriguing.
That quote is iiiinteresting, I can see it applying to so many people and situations, seriously.
BUT THANK YOU, for taking the time out to write me such a lovely, thoughtful review, I really appreciate it, and so glad you liked the fic! (Even though I had no idea what I was doing, hee)
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