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Acceptable Losses

Oct 04, 2011 15:54

Title: Acceptable Losses
Author: frostyblossom
Rating: PG
Challenge: #1 - Sacrifice
Spoilers: For Episode 2.3

( Acceptable Losses )

challenge 01: sacrifice, author: frostyblossom

Comments 12

dizzy_whore October 4 2011, 23:29:06 UTC

Good, just...yeah, I'm super tired and struggling to be articulate, but this is great.

frostyblossom October 6 2011, 04:30:37 UTC

thanks:) glad you like it!

johnjie October 6 2011, 10:42:51 UTC

Oh my god, this is great! It's kinda confusing at first and then when you realise what it's about you're just like 'oh shit!' and it's really super chilling and just very, very good. Congrats!

frostyblossom October 6 2011, 19:19:14 UTC

Thanks so much! I was trying to make it ambiguous at the beginning, so I'm glad it worked out. I have a soft spot for people who die off screen. Poor Branson's cousin!

lianhanshee October 7 2011, 17:20:11 UTC

Wow! I loved the inner monologue and your selection of an event that happened offscreen (I much prefer fic that tells us or shows us something we haven't seen before). Well written and well contained. Great job!

frostyblossom October 7 2011, 17:39:37 UTC

Thank you! I was trying to figure out how a person could justify to themselves shooting a random dude walking down the street.

sheebeen October 7 2011, 18:17:23 UTC

Not that they don’t all deserve it

Are you Irish? That is *so* true to the mindframe at the time. A great take on what was all but a throwaway line, beautifully written and thoughtful and thought-provoking.

Thank you for sharing.

frostyblossom October 7 2011, 18:32:59 UTC

I'm not Irish, but I assumed that the British soldier must have had some kind of deep-seated resentment of the Irish people group to make him capable of murdering Branson's cousin for no real reason. Thanks, glad you liked it!

dizzy_whore October 8 2011, 16:49:06 UTC

Just a word of slight caution here (I did love it, btw!)- with any fic regarding this; especially considering how problematic Irish politics/history in general still remains; make sure to do your research (which I'm sure you did and, secondly, divorce yourself from the "voice" of the piece (I'm sure that makes no sense). It's one of the pitfalls of historical fiction in that we can never truly recreate what happened or say 100% what the "mentalities" were at the time ( ... )

frostyblossom October 8 2011, 17:53:17 UTC

Thanks for the caution, which I appreciate, especially since I'm not very knowledgeable of the complex relations involved. That said, I just want to make it clear that the drabble was not intended as a statement about any general mentalities or prejudices of the time period, but only the internal reasoning of ONE person in particular, namely the man that killed Branson's cousin, who we know for a fact did so on very flimsy logic.

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