What Happened When The World Fell Apart
boxofmagic has gone live! For those of you not in the know, the Box of Magic is the Merlin Big Bang challenge, which means oodles of longfic. There was a pretty big dropout rate - out of 127 starting writers, only 23 pulled through - including me, by the skin of my teeth.
Title: What Happened When The World Fell Apart
Fandom: Merlin
Warning?s: Consent ( Read more... )
Title: What Happened When The World Fell Apart
Fandom: Merlin
Warning?s: Consent ( Read more... )
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But the fic that made it through should be a pretty great read. :D
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I also think it's honestly really commendable that you're willing to not just kill characters but to keep them so in character that they'll do things the reader doesn't necessarily want them to do. I am saying that poorly but it is a good thing. Basically what I mean is: At the end, I was like D: but also like oh shit I love this.
MORGANAS ON MOTORCYCLES, OH, FUCK, MOTORCYCLES <--- My version of a DVD Review.
Things I should probably point out: You've got three p's in "Happening" on the boxofmagic page.
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The one thing I value above all other things in fic is honesty in characterisation. Not just good characterisation, but acknowledging and accepting that in a given situation, characters will sometimes do things that we don't want them to. And sometimes that's what makes the story. I always strive to make sure I allow this to take place, and I admit I took certain pleasure in having Merlin do what he did. Thank you, I'm glad you noticed and appreciated this.
Best DVD review ever, by the way.
Oh, whoops. I dunno if I can fix that at this point.
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I know what you mean, there's a perverse author's pleasure in knowing that you're doing it right and people will be upset.
Best your face ever by the way. I shouldn't check my inbox so early in the morning, huh.
Oh lol well I noticed it after a day of staring at it, so maybe people won't see it.
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it's. i mean. it's just left me utterly speechless. i don't even know. but. i loved it. i love it. so, so much, in so many ways. and. just, wow. wow.
i love that it was one of those fics you can't step away from, one of those where you start reading and can't stop, because it's all so incredibly intriguing and compelling, and sometimes you feel like stepping away, taking a breath, because it's all so very sudden and harsh and beautiful but you don't, because in the end, you don't want to. and this is exactly like that.
before reading it, i read your notes, which obviously spoiled me of it's not-so-happy-ending. but. nevertheless. it did come as a shock. merlin's descent into madness, arthur, morgana. gwen, even, because i hadn't known what to expect of her death. and i loved that, all of it, because despite their actions, despite what they did, they still remained very much in character. they were so real, still the characters of merlin, only harsher, darker, jaded with their ( ... )
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http://audiofic.jinjurly.com/what-happened-when-world-fell-apart
http://audiofic.jinjurly.com/what-happened-when-world-fell-apart-audiobook
:-)
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Happy Christmas, or whatever you celebrate!
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Christmas all the way!
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