Year in Review (2008)

[ravenbell]

Upon reflection, there really isn't much to sum up.

Everything I wrote this year:

Avatar: The Last Airbender:
"If We Don't Kill Each Other First" (Mai/Jet) - PG

Darker than Black:
"Exception to the Rule" (November 11/Misaki Kirihara) - PG

Death Note:
"In Service of the New God" (Light/Matsuda) - PG-13

Eureka 7:
"Sweetest Tongue and Sharpest

Comments

[p_zeitgeist]

One thing about this meme: it gives me the courage to make a comment I was afraid would be offensive at the time, because sometimes I am clueless about other people's likely emotions.

And that is, I did want to tell you that I admired the hell out of "The Devil You Know." And that when I realized where it was going and thought I'd be a happier girl if I stopped where I was, it was no diminishment of admiration that prompted it; if I had thought less of the work, I would not have had any concerns about being depressed over the fate of the characters at the end.

Since it's hard to write a comment that says, "This is really great! I didn't finish it, because I have Issues, but the goodness should not go unrecognized just because I bailed!" I said nothing at all. But it bothered me to say nothing. And if you felt bad for Muraki at the end of it yourself, I hope and trust that you will not be hurt to hear that I was afraid that I would, too. So now I can tell you how terrific I thought it was.

[veleda_k]

Now I feel a little bad for not feeling bad for him. I was more, "Oh, god, yes, finally. Yay!" Then again, I have never hidden the fact that one of my greatest YnM wishes is to see Muraki have something very heavy dropped on his head.

But I definitely know what you mean when you talk about the "this is brilliant, but I cannot enjoy it due to my Issues" problem.

[p_zeitgeist]

I don't see why you should feel compelled to feel bad for him. And I did enjoy it! All the way up to the point where I began to have an ugly (for me) feeling that Saki, or at least a set of Saki-issues, was about to make an appearance; and then, rather than let it spoil my appreciation of a wonderful story, I bailed.

Thus the comment problem. It wasn't and isn't so much, "This is brilliant but I cannot enjoy it due to my issues" as it is, "I thought this was great! Um, hope you don't mind that I stopped reading it before the end, really, I mean it as a total compliment!"

[ravenbell]

Well, I only felt a *little* bad for him.

[veleda_k]

A story I want remembered

Would it be completely, utterly, and in all other ways totally predictable if I said "Better the Devil You Know"? Because, uh, you may not have noticed this, but I really like that story.

[ravenbell]

My god, that DVD meme was EPIC! And the FST! I feel bad about not fangirling you back as hard, because I really do, but I suck at it. ;)