wow, ive read fics that have certain similarities to this type of plot you're cooking up here but none of them have been as eerie as this one. this was just a brain fuck type of fic really. it's amazing. at some points, before the idea of the writer hadn't shown up yet, i myself was having trouble distinguishing where reality and the 'other' reality stopped and the other ebgan. youd id an amazing job by more or less blending the two of them really well. it was a more than interesting read and ugh, so happy it's for my otp.
and the line about dongwoo's eyes just knowing, fuck my life that was it. it was just perfect, and ugh my heart. the whole of th fic just broke down to that line right there for me.
thank you. i'm pleased that you enjoyed the metatextual aspect, including recognizing the boundaries between "author" and "writing". i was torn whether to reply to this comment seriously or not, or immerse myself in the falsity of the narrative once again, remembering that i had indeed allowed for the wiggle room with "a future he knows ends with a lemniscate, an author’s note, and a string of comments," but i did honestly wish to thank you.
ah, to clarify, my comment was not existing within the text of the narrative. i've broken form with the story completely, here, in replying to you. i had originally hoped to create some sort of dialogue within the story and extend that dialogue into the comments with those who read it, possibly having a metatextual discussion about the story as a story, but unfortunately from the fairly nasty formspring messages i've been getting, i did not succeed in creating that dynamic.
i am truly pleased that you enjoyed the narrative, though. and i might be shooting myself in the foot by admitting that i found it very interesting that you liked that line, since it's certainly up for review in a few hours.
oh man, this story and that author's note... asdfghjkl ヽ(；▽；)ノ the concept and execution of this is really quite refreshing; there are times when authors try to make their characters aware they're in a story, but i don't think it's ever quite been done like this. brilliant brilliant brilliantly done. the title (i had to look this word up; thank you for expanding my vocabulary, haha) makes me curious. is there a message subtly weaved through your words that i can't seem to find? does it have to do with the mysterious author note? hmmm... in any case, amazing/mind-boggling/wonderful fic as usual, dear. i'm going to have to check back on this fic later to see how it changes, eheheheh~
thank you so very much. i'll admit not to have known that it'd been done before, or i may have scaled back on the intensity with which i pursued the idea, in all honesty.
there is a story woven into a series of clues throughout the fic; i am inordinately thrilled by your comment.
what, no, keep on intensely pursuing all your ideas! hahaha, they're always wonderful though. i have a feeling you could take any cliche and somehow spin it around onto its head \O/
Hoya is a bit sick of unhappy endings, he realizes, when he slurs back into fiction and feels Dongwoo stirring against him, WAIT WAIT WHAT OMG WAIT. HOLY SHI- ('kay, i just reread this fic twice over after seeing some of your comments to others) forgive me if i come off sounding like an utter fool, lol, but but... could it be that... um... maybe... er... the hidden story... is... the previous fic you wrote? with all the different endings? *^* maybe? *^*
you're welcome, but thank you for always writing work deserving of compliments ♥
Oh God as always you're brilliant and you're giving us a masterpiece which is beautiful and amazing and I love the way you jump in between and mingle realities~ Wish I was conscious enough to actually understand your message and all but I'm not. This is gonna be something never done before and don't listen to people- if it's you doing it it's gonna come off great dear ^^ You skills are something constant and they can only rise but not ever fall down because you have already achieved this certain level when your works are almost genius.
I shall continue to check this in the next few days and of course at the end of this week because I still have that little hope that my tiny, good-for-nothing brain will actually comprehend your hidden message.
No one should be that comfortable enclosed in a fortress of unstructured imagination.
There's something in that promise. It sounds eerily like a warning. Hoya looks back at the posters on the walls. He notices that he's never even heard of most of these bands. That some of the paper has
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don't put yourself down--it's nor a trashy thought at all. i was hoping to weave the story into the comments as well, actually, but you're seriously onto something. the writer in the story is intensely fictional, but the story she's writing has been written. in fact, i've already written it.
that's the logogriph! i was going to be less obvious, but judging from the response on formspring, people would prefer if i was a lot less subtle.
thank you very much for your compliments. i don't think i'm brilliant--i know i have a long way to go before anything i write is even conceivably passable, but your flattery is truly touching.
Alright so I think I'm dropping this comment after the first edit has already happened.
So my first job- find the differences.
"Easily. Quickly. I promise."This I am certain of. It has been changed. And there are a few other lines I'm doubting over but I don't wanna come out as a fool. The ending is a little bit changed I think though I'm not sure and as for this one part I have the lingering sense of something missing. We'll see one way or another anyways
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No one should be that comfortable enclosed in a fortress of unstructured imagination.this was my favorite line. and the character of the writer (who i will not assume is you, because you are way too talented for mary sue bullshit, and that's not even a mary sue, to be perfectly honest, since she's painted as the villain, almost) was really disturbing to me, like one of the demented kids from a pixar film (darla from finding nemo, maybe, or sid from toy story). it is REALLY WEIRD to write RPF/RPS, and i think people are too easily offended by that implication. i think it's weird, and i write it. and frankly i find it embarrassing that people are super open about it to the point of telling THE SUBJECT OF THE STORY about it. why are you tweeting your fanfic to your bias/favorite band member/favorite actor/etc??? STOPPPPPP. so thank you for acknowledging the absurdity of that
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thank you very much--it was definitely my favorite line as well. as you said, it's the line where the writer is clearly painted as (one of) the villain(s) of the story. and that was very important to me.
RPF/RPS is, as you said, a frustrating issue to tackle. the division between "onlooker" and "participant" disintegrates as we fans begin to communicate with our favorite actor/singer/etc on twitter. we begin to lose sight of what's real, what's fictional, and what to believe. we start to write "meta" for these...characters. we try and figure out what's real so we can write more fiction for them.
the act of writing is really interesting, and i've had a lot of fun with this story thus far.
OH GOD MY HEART. i just. fuck, i love how this starts with hoya being so unwilling, and now that he has real feelings for dongwoo, the author won't give him the satisfaction. it just makes all the options in the wavefunction collapse more heartrendingly awful. they can't be together in reality and they can't even be together in fiction.
Btw, looking at that crap on formspring. Just. Omg. Ignore it. I will never understand the depths of stupidity that some humans seem capable of reaching. Like. Really. Going out of their way just to be mean. And they don't even have the huevos to face you with an actual account. Kudos to you for not bitching them out, because I totally would have. I have to struggle against doing it anyway, because that kind of stuff really gets under my skin. You can't even comprehend. But I'm sure you can fight your own battles. And people like that aren't really worth the time and energy anyway.
Regardless, I still love you and your writing is indisputably awe inspiring.
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thank you very much for your kind words. i truly regret possibly having hurt people by my comments, and i definitely understand how they might have felt, now, in light of their replies (if those were representative of their feelings). i will do my best not to joke around anymore, i guess.
thank you so, so much. i often feel like i don't have the right words to say at the right time, especially when it comes to speaking with other people, hence my reticence, but i really do thank you.
awww I really like your sense of humor. It's quirky lol. I have to stare at it a minute before I get the joke (ffffff what is my life) but when I do it's like an "aha!" moment kind of laugh lol. It's endearing, don't be self conscious about it!
It's a shame that someone had to go and make you feel all insecure about the way you address people. How you choose to speak and how you're comfortable speaking is your business and whoever is going to take it so seriously as to get offended is (not to sound high and mighty or anything) probably just not intelligent (or sensible, or patient, or any of those other nice qualities people should have) enough to understand what it is you're really trying to say.
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and the line about dongwoo's eyes just knowing, fuck my life that was it. it was just perfect, and ugh my heart. the whole of th fic just broke down to that line right there for me.
just, lovely
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i am truly pleased that you enjoyed the narrative, though. and i might be shooting myself in the foot by admitting that i found it very interesting that you liked that line, since it's certainly up for review in a few hours.
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the concept and execution of this is really quite refreshing; there are times when authors try to make their characters aware they're in a story, but i don't think it's ever quite been done like this. brilliant brilliant brilliantly done.
the title (i had to look this word up; thank you for expanding my vocabulary, haha) makes me curious. is there a message subtly weaved through your words that i can't seem to find? does it have to do with the mysterious author note? hmmm...
in any case, amazing/mind-boggling/wonderful fic as usual, dear. i'm going to have to check back on this fic later to see how it changes, eheheheh~
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there is a story woven into a series of clues throughout the fic; i am inordinately thrilled by your comment.
thank you for your compliments.
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Hoya is a bit sick of unhappy endings, he realizes, when he slurs back into fiction and feels Dongwoo stirring against him,
WAIT WAIT WHAT OMG WAIT.
HOLY SHI-
('kay, i just reread this fic twice over after seeing some of your comments to others)
forgive me if i come off sounding like an utter fool, lol, but but... could it be that... um... maybe... er... the hidden story... is... the previous fic you wrote? with all the different endings? *^*
maybe? *^*
you're welcome, but thank you for always writing work deserving of compliments ♥
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thank you so much.
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I shall continue to check this in the next few days and of course at the end of this week because I still have that little hope that my tiny, good-for-nothing brain will actually comprehend your hidden message.
No one should be that comfortable enclosed in a fortress of unstructured imagination.
There's something in that promise. It sounds eerily like a warning. Hoya looks back at the posters on the walls. He notices that he's never even heard of most of these bands. That some of the paper has ( ... )
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that's the logogriph! i was going to be less obvious, but judging from the response on formspring, people would prefer if i was a lot less subtle.
thank you very much for your compliments. i don't think i'm brilliant--i know i have a long way to go before anything i write is even conceivably passable, but your flattery is truly touching.
those are my favorite lines, actually.
thanks again.
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So my first job- find the differences.
"Easily. Quickly. I promise."This I am certain of. It has been changed. And there are a few other lines I'm doubting over but I don't wanna come out as a fool. The ending is a little bit changed I think though I'm not sure and as for this one part I have the lingering sense of something missing. We'll see one way or another anyways ( ... )
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*an idiot (i am honestly)
*i'm
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RPF/RPS is, as you said, a frustrating issue to tackle. the division between "onlooker" and "participant" disintegrates as we fans begin to communicate with our favorite actor/singer/etc on twitter. we begin to lose sight of what's real, what's fictional, and what to believe. we start to write "meta" for these...characters. we try and figure out what's real so we can write more fiction for them.
the act of writing is really interesting, and i've had a lot of fun with this story thus far.
thank you so much.
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i sort of hate the author right now. ;~;
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thank you!
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Regardless, I still love you and your writing is indisputably awe inspiring.
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thank you so, so much. i often feel like i don't have the right words to say at the right time, especially when it comes to speaking with other people, hence my reticence, but i really do thank you.
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It's a shame that someone had to go and make you feel all insecure about the way you address people. How you choose to speak and how you're comfortable speaking is your business and whoever is going to take it so seriously as to get offended is (not to sound high and mighty or anything) probably just not intelligent (or sensible, or patient, or any of those other nice qualities people should have) enough to understand what it is you're really trying to say.
Feel free to joke with me ;~~~~;
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