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Fic: Though Thou Repent [Slings & Arrows]

Sep 18, 2007 22:18

Title: Though Thou Repent
Author: absinthe_shadow
Fandom and characters: Slings & Arrows, Geoffrey and Ellen
Rating: R for very disturbing and potentially triggering content. Please read the warnings and consider them seriously, ( even though I’m cutting them for those who really don’t want the story spoiled - no canon spoilers in the warnings. )

fandom: slings & arrows, rating: r

Comments 2

loneraven September 18 2007, 22:22:00 UTC

...wow. I understand now why you thought this might be particularly upsetting for me, and thank you for the warning. But, honestly? I'm happy to take that reminder just for the beauty of your writing, the perfect, vivid lucidity of your prose. Your Ellen voice is impeccable, poetic and suffused with love, and just that little bit whiny, too, and oh, Geoffrey. It's made all the powerful by the fact we never hear his voice. (Well, we do - but only saying other people's words, and that's so telling. Oh, Geoffrey.)

Isn't it strange, though? That shock and grief in their reality are so beyond words, and here you are giving that self-same scenario shape with words, and I'm struck with the beauty of the words, rather than with the memory?

Have I mentioned how glad I am you're watching this show? I am so glad you're watching this show.

In somewhat lighter news, guess what play Pat and I are marketing for the Playhouse in Michaelmas. King John. Oh god. I've never even read the play, but somehow I think billing it as "Shakespeare's least ( ... )

highfantastical September 19 2007, 09:14:46 UTC

I just can't tell you how pleased I am that you liked it. (Even if 'liked' is perhaps not the right word - I don't know how it turned out so gruelling, really.) And of course, being you, you picked up on all the significant bits including non-speaking!Geoffrey, which gives me that great authorial pleasure of knowing that someone really Gets It.

And, of course, I'm forever in your debt for introducing me to S&A. I'm really still finding my way into it fannishly - one reason for a quiet Geoffrey is that I can't get his voice yet - but I've rarely found any television that was so blisteringly painful and yet also warm and funny and imbued with a sense of the hope that can follow disaster.

And, OH WOW. Seriously? KJ at the Playhouse? I've never seen it! I must see it! Constance. (Whom I adore - you don't need to read the whole play to appreciate the speech I quoted above, it's just the most incredible evocation of grief ( ... )