FIC: The Tongueless Caverns of the Earth, Part 3

[annakovsky]

See the masterpost for header with warnings & information, or go back to Part 1 or Part 2.

Comments

[inthenameofjuc]

YEP, I JUST GOT MOTHERFUCKING RUN OVER BY A MACK TRUCK.

I LITERALLY DON'T KNOW HOW TO FEEL ABOUT THIS.

OMG.

[annakovsky]

Oh man! Haha, I'm sorry. I mean, I'm glad it had an effect on you, b-but sorry about that whole thing. This one was a little intense.

Thanks for reading!

[annakovsky]

Oh man, THANK YOU SO MUCH, this is such great feedback! I'm glad you thought that ending was the right one -- I agonized over the stupid ending SO MUCH. It took me forever to decide how it should end and then even after I'd decided Joe had to die, which was no small decision, I wrote THREE VERY DIFFERENT VERSIONS, and the current one, like, THE DAY OF. Haha, oh my god, but at least I felt like it was finally the right one. Even though it is a lit-tle bit of a bummer.

But YES! Nix and Winters! How transparent am I! Haha, this whole thing was actually conceived as the prequel to a h/c Nick/Nix/Winters vampire hunting AU. I just... decided to write ALL THE HURT AND NONE OF THE COMFORT. Good job, self. Good job. Cheery.

[cereal]

Oh man, so I should've gone to bed because, like, you know, work in the morning, but I really, really wanted to finish this AND I DID AND IT WAS AMAZING. And heart-wrenching and vivid and tragic and beautiful and just SOMEONE SHOULD THROW YOU A PARADE, SOMEONE SHOULD THROW YOU ALL THE PARADES. SAY THE WORD AND I WILL DO IT! A parade will march about just playing music about how reading fic from you is a terrific use of time and, I really, really should give you all the quotes lines you deserve and break out sections I liked and sections that made me sad or happy or whatever, but it was just all so fluid, like I was watching, if that makes sense, that I don't even know if I could call out a specific part, without actually just referring to THE WHOLE DAMN THING.

THIS WAS GREAT AND YOU SHOULD FEEL GREAT! Thank you for writing it!

[annakovsky]

Thank youuuuuuuuu! I'm so psyched you liked it! Your feedback totally made my night.

[tellcincinnati]

Okay, I've been trying to sleep for half an hour and I can't after reading this. This is maybe the best and worst fic I've ever read and I want you to know I think you are amazing and I'm so upset and if I'm never happy again I'm actually suing you.

But, mostly, I just needed something to do because I CAN'T SLEEP. (Tomorrow I'm sure I'll give you a fucking mammoth comment but only after hugging my entire family 186 times. Once for each time you made give up on humanity. I am almost not exaggerating.)

[annakovsky]

Oh man, I'm so sorry! Haha, it's so dumb, because I knew I was writing a horror story, but somehow it didn't occur to me that therefore if I did it right the response would be... horrified? SO I FEEL WEIRD. SORRY ABOUT THE WHOLE NOT SLEEPING THING.

Anyway, thank youuuuuu! This is a huge compliment, even though I'm sorry it was so upsetting. (I don't know what's wrong with me, ha.)

go away character limits

[tellcincinnati]

Hahaha, oh my goodness, this is such weird timing. I was in the middle of writing out my ACTUAL comment for this fic when I saw you’d responded. I was upset at first that you’d responded before I could, but then I was like, oh hey, it’s been, uh, t-three weeks? Is that true? Oh, okay, I guess this is acceptable then. Whatever, I am a notoriously awful commenter, so the fact that I was even writing this out at all is a big deal. It’s just, this fic is SO GOOD and it deserves so much more than me angsting about my lack of sleep

[tellcincinnati]

4) Related to Joe being NOT Joe. I love the scene where they first speak and Joe is just WEIRD, like, you can so tell he’s not himself, the way he looks, the way he acts, everything. Some of the things he chooses to say are so strange, this weird misplaced hurt, the way he can’t at all connect with Nick’s emotions when it would be pretty obvious to a human why Nick would be freaking the fuck out. Augh, again, it was HARD because it was that mix of seeing that Joe can never be the real Joe, the one that Nick actually wants, but he’s still so close, still so caring in his own fucked up way. It’s better just the two of them, no Kevin, OH MY GOD, crying everywhere

[annakovsky]

Thanks so much! Yeah, this one was kind of rough to write.