Comments | nos4a2no9: Okay, here we go...

nos4a2no9

Okay, here we go...

Feb 18, 2008 13:05

Title: Quiet in Drowning
Fandom: Wilby Wonderful
Characters: Duck, Buddy, OMCs
Rating: NC-17
Length: 8,495 words
Author's Notes: Many thanks to zabira, ignazwisdom, secretlybronte and isiscolo for hanging tough and completing a very difficult beta. You're all troopers, and I promise to send you something warm and fluffy next time.
Warnings: This story contains graphic, violent and ( Read more... )

my fic, wilby wonderful, 6degrees, nc-17

Comments 47

ruthless1 February 19 2008, 18:36:00 UTC

oh oh oh. That was just so in character. I can totally see this happening. Great great voices. But SO sad.
*sniffles a bit*

nos4a2no9 February 21 2008, 22:02:11 UTC

Thank you! I'm glad you liked the story, despite all the tears. *hands you a tissue*

pir8fancier February 19 2008, 22:22:32 UTC

Stunning story. Really stunning.

nos4a2no9 February 21 2008, 22:02:39 UTC

Thanks, Chief! And you certainly know from stunning, given your own knock-my-socks-off stories. I'm very glad you liked this one!

claudieanne February 19 2008, 22:27:00 UTC

This was a powerful story but the saddest part for me was not the destruction of young man but the loss of his painting which seemed more important to him than how miserable his life was - peeling it off and putting in the rubbish warns how desperate it was going to get. So sad and so good.

nos4a2no9 February 21 2008, 22:03:40 UTC

Thank you! Yeah, I think as a creative type that loss of the painting cuts more deeply than anything else - it's Duck's one mode of expression and Tommy ruins that for him, maybe for good. (Although I don't think so). Thank you very much for your comments, and I'm glad you liked the story!

vsee February 21 2008, 00:22:03 UTC

Oh, Nos ( ... )

nos4a2no9 February 21 2008, 22:42:38 UTC

V, I'm so glad you offered feedback even if you had a difficult time reading the story - it means a lot to me that you came back and let me in on your reaction to the story.

I have never been able to handle this level of intensity as a reader and (potentially) as a writer, not because I don't think it is plausible, or that I think certain kinds of stories should not be told. Of course they should be told. I just fear them a little not for the idea that they will be too sad on a temporary basis, but they will be too good, too real, too true, and they will become part of my interior canon.Oh yes, I totally understand that. I'm reluctant to read these kinds of stories myself, if only because, yep, I don't really want them to affect how I see the character. I hoped to negate that problem by setting this in Duck's past rather than in his adult life: if it happened twenty years prior to the film I think it's a little easier to separate that Duck from the guy we know and love in the movie ( ... )

arrow00 February 21 2008, 21:47:29 UTC

You have made me snifl. God, there is such a feel of history, here, all the small town shit in the world sketched in the emotions of Duck's experiences. I weep for him and especially those who don't have anyone at all. Buddy's name is so apropos. He's a tiny pool of calm and sanity and caring in the cold, wet rains.

And I loved loved the touch about helping someone else down the line, which, of course, Duck does in the film. It's like he soaked up some of that calm through the years. It gives depth to his wisdom and patience in the film.

You are brilliant.

nos4a2no9 February 21 2008, 22:44:41 UTC

Awww, thanks! I think you're pretty brilliant too, as I may have mentioned once or twice ;-) And it's so touching that you watched the movie to read this story! And yay! I'm glad those elements worked for you - I think the person Duck is in the film starts not during that horrible rape, but after, in the rain, with Buddy. I'm so glad you liked that element. Thank you so much for your feedback, m'dear!