Comments | merlinadvent: Day 04: Turn the Corner

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Day 04: Turn the Corner

Dec 04, 2009 23:33

Title: Turn the Corner
Author: anoyo
Prompt: Day 04: Lost
Character(s): Merlin, Arthur
Rating: PG
Words: 2,579
Disclaimer: Does not belong to me.
Spoilers: None.
Notes: Most ridiculously fast and amazing beta ever by vamplover82. Seriously, she deserves a medal. Holy crap. Okay, so, this is another idea that completely got away from me. It's rated PG for not- ( Read more... )

rating: pg, contributor: anoyo, day 4

Comments 32

tetsubinatu December 5 2009, 06:06:06 UTC

*blinks*

Can I try that again under the influence of alcohol? :-D

I like the idea that they have to be together, though, and that Merlin alone is their antithesis.

pyrrhical December 5 2009, 06:42:25 UTC

SURE. Join the 21st birthday party going on in my apartment keeping me from sleeping when I work 09:00 to 22:00 tomorrow. ♥

Glad you liked part of it! /fail

tetsubinatu December 5 2009, 06:53:42 UTC

Nono! I liked it! It's just that I have three children who are putting up the Christmas tree and decorating it and really excited and it was probably the wrong time to try to read it! In fact, they're probably the reason for alcohol, not the fic...

tetsubinatu December 5 2009, 06:55:31 UTC

And congrats on turning 21! Have fun!

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snottygrrl December 5 2009, 08:28:27 UTC

it maybe under the wire, but it's fantastic (a little hard on an already tired brain. but fabulous nonetheless). ♥

pyrrhical December 5 2009, 14:13:31 UTC

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it! ♥

one_dreamery December 5 2009, 19:40:00 UTC

THIS IS EPIC.

I can't even express how much I love this, how much I love you for what you chose to be the expression of the "penultimate."

SERIOUSLY, HOW AMAZING IS THIS?

And you deserve so much ♥ for your love of semantics! ♥ ♥ ♥

pyrrhical December 6 2009, 04:33:45 UTC

Awwww, thank you! I'm glad you liked it! I really enjoyed writing it, and my ridiculous semantic love got a bizarre thrill out of it, too. ♥ Oh, yes. Seriously, glad you liked it!

pyrrhical December 6 2009, 04:40:27 UTC

(Oh, and for the penultimate, I kept thinking, "What would be them without one another? If they never met? But they couldn't ever not meet if they were both there; Destiny wouldn't allow it. So, really, one of them couldn't exist, which would make the other only half of something. Something undefined, because a half is rarely distinguishable on its own." There was way too much metaphysics involved, seriously.)

one_dreamery December 6 2009, 06:29:04 UTC

Yeah! I thought about it a while ago, too, and that was the conclusion I'd come up with back then :D

And I'd thought - well, it has to be Merlin who's left alive, but not really living. I love that you have the alter-ego Merlin stuck in the maze without even really knowing it or even wanting to know about it...nothing's really worth it without Arthur, is it?

Really, this story achieved everything it meant to and more - it shows what their relationship is by showing what it's not. And it does it in such a way that even they don't grasp it, though they kind of do, and I just adore the way you handled everything.

Seriously - ♥ ♥ ♥

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et_cetera55 December 5 2009, 20:09:45 UTC

Wow this was a great (and complicated! ;) ) idea and a really good fic. I liked how you interspersed the metaphysics bits with humour: But not only are we letting you keep this knowledge, we're explaining it to you in full detail. In a magical forest. That's not suspicious at all. Lol!

pyrrhical December 6 2009, 04:42:28 UTC

Thanks! I was like, "WAIT THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOR WHY IS IT SO HEAVY? Here, have metaphysical humor!" And then realized I am a horrible, horrible nerd.

In other news: glad you liked!

norwegianblue47 December 6 2009, 02:29:17 UTC

I had to reread a lot of it a couple of times in order to get what was going on, and I'm still not 100% on it, but once I got the gist, I loved Merlin's thinking of it, and his and Arthur's reactions to it. Nice job.

pyrrhical December 6 2009, 04:44:49 UTC

Oh, man, I'm sorry! It was never meant to be confusing. Feel free to ask me about anything that is incomprehensible. My brain is a strange, strange place, filled with thoughts that frighteningly resemble this fic. Erm. MAYBE I SHOULDN'T ADMIT THAT? I don't know.

But I'm glad you liked it, and thanks for reading!

norwegianblue47 December 6 2009, 13:07:26 UTC

My brain is a pretty strange, frightening place and frankly if I could arrange my thoughts where they would work as a fic, it would be nothing short of miraculous. So kudos to you for that.

But nah, it wasn't so confusing as to take away from the fic, and I actually have the tendency to read really fast, which has it's advantages, to be sure, but I can also miss things. And this isn't really the sort of fic where you can zoom through it, even if I did automatically understand it. So since I had to slow down, I enjoyed it a lot more.

pyrrhical December 6 2009, 18:32:26 UTC

Well, I'm glad you enjoyed it! I sort of zoomed through writing it, to be honest, but it was very fun, and the sort of thing that my brain absorbs like mops absorb water that residents have to clean up when they tip over the mop bucket all over the kitchen floor. ♥