this is kind of crazy; I don't know if it's because it's this pairing, and therefore rather Chinesey, and therefore, it's like I could make a ten-year-long laundry list of everything I felt I knew, Eva Green and tea and prosciutto and crumbs underfoot in the kitchen and grocery store paperback romances and Heechul as a foreign taste. And Heechul is six which is a nine that is flipped, and the nine wears his plaid and is cocky but unsure, but is the least judgmental because they are, unthinkably, similar. (also, nine is my lucky number
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It's probably the fact that I am super Taiwanese! haha. I mean, in Chinese culture, the number nine is the lucky number: there are lucky numbers, and then there's nine. Amber.
I think the way I see them happening is this mutual, not-fully-understood magnetism - like act first, work it out later. A time when "don't think, just feel" actually happens outside of romantic theory/drivel? Pretty magical. I mean, I'm still working them out, but: I get Han Geng (maddeningly enough, all this shit blows up and he's still a perfect Chinese boy, how does that even work), and I get Amber, her Californian bravado despite being sure of so little. The kid's all faith. It kind of makes you want to make things happen for her. For him. They both deserve the best, so it makes sense, basic algebra/logic/what have you.
My jet lag is showing, so just, hey, j'adore, I'm so glad you liked it! ♥ and I'll let you know when I get it/move in, for sure :)
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August 23 2010, 02:31:56 UTC
Ahhhh to be honest I was so afraid of reading this because I worried it'd make me feel like shit, haha, and now that I've read it I'm really glad I did :) This was so lovely, and at times I felt you were an extension of Jeny's voice or something, the way Amber spoke, her "you know?"s.
You could've stopped at the first paragraph and I would've been sold. Hanchul, god, no I mean Heechul. I want to believe Han Geng's POV here so badly. And I think that post-Geng we're always gonna want to write hanchul from his POV just because we'll never fucking know. We write into existence what we want to believe. I want to believe this!
I couldn't not have Heechul in this because like, a universe where Heechul didn't fit into the picture in one way or another is practically unimaginable. It's actually a little relieving that the way I've written them is now sort of AU, what with the both of them mentioning how they've been in contact and on good terms.
I'm glad Amber was believable, though, as I just fell back on my own voice (minus all the extra "like"s) and experiences while writing her. Thank you for reading, especially since you had so many reservations! ♥
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adored the number metaphor, and actually didn't mind hanchul this time :D
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I think the way I see them happening is this mutual, not-fully-understood magnetism - like act first, work it out later. A time when "don't think, just feel" actually happens outside of romantic theory/drivel? Pretty magical. I mean, I'm still working them out, but: I get Han Geng (maddeningly enough, all this shit blows up and he's still a perfect Chinese boy, how does that even work), and I get Amber, her Californian bravado despite being sure of so little. The kid's all faith. It kind of makes you want to make things happen for her. For him. They both deserve the best, so it makes sense, basic algebra/logic/what have you.
My jet lag is showing, so just, hey, j'adore, I'm so glad you liked it! ♥ and I'll let you know when I get it/move in, for sure :)
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You could've stopped at the first paragraph and I would've been sold. Hanchul, god, no I mean Heechul. I want to believe Han Geng's POV here so badly. And I think that post-Geng we're always gonna want to write hanchul from his POV just because we'll never fucking know. We write into existence what we want to believe. I want to believe this!
Oh, and the JSF quote slayed. ♥
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I'm glad Amber was believable, though, as I just fell back on my own voice (minus all the extra "like"s) and experiences while writing her. Thank you for reading, especially since you had so many reservations! ♥
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