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Fic: Broceliande for oh_peccadillo

Nov 21, 2016 08:27

Title: Broceliande
Author/Artist: ghosttt
Recipient: oh_peccadillo
Rating: R
Contents or warnings (highlight to view): *sex, drugs and drinking, mentions of violence*
Word count: 4,345 words
Summary: Penrith, 1978. At the Blacks' most squalorous remaining estate, Sirius and Remus make an attempt to escape the war.
Notes: thank you oh_peccadillo for this amazing prompt and license ( Read more... )

rated r, 2016, fic

Comments 41

imochan December 2 2016, 15:10:42 UTC

But it was either he think about fucking or he think about the war.

Like as soon as I read this I was already yelling because somehow this is the most Sirius Black line ever written, folded in among all the other brilliant, sad, beautiful, heartsick lines. I love him here, so unmoored and scrabbling for a handhold, denying the truth at every turn like he might be able to change the tide of things simply through force of will and deliberate ignorance. It's so perfect.

I can't even talk about Remus here because if I do I think I might get teary-eyed again. What a brilliant, gorgeous story. I'm in love and I'm so upset.

ghosttt December 5 2016, 01:03:53 UTC

thank you buddy :) so so so glad you like this. in some ways (down to the title, lol) it was my attempt to write a story like longsdune... You're My Inspiration, forever and always etc....

abradystrix December 2 2016, 15:45:10 UTC

This is wonderful: so brooding and dark but gloriously /them/. I loved the details about Alphard and young Sirius as well. What a fantastic second day!

ghosttt December 5 2016, 01:04:31 UTC

thank you for reading and commenting! i love sneaking alphard into Black Family History stories....

cevennes December 2 2016, 20:40:37 UTC

Saying this is beautiful would be a serious understatement and maybe even inappropriate given the doomed, fraught nature of it, but it is beautiful through and through in spite (or maybe because of) that irresistible darkness. You absolutely get the sense that this was destined to crash and burn before it even started, and you're left wondering if it would have or should have started were it not for the war, which is so irrevocably, ingeniously at the heart of everything here; even those brief glimpses of genuine happiness are always tinged with the war, and it all makes that last paragraph--especially the last line--resonate for hours after you read it. It's incredible.

This is a deeply painful, difficult, insanely gorgeous story--even the brilliant structure of it, the way it all unwinds, builds this dread/unease in you til the very end, it's breathtaking; I can tell it'll haunt me for a long while, especially that ending--what rough beast etc. Thank you for writing such a shatteringly beautiful thing!

ghosttt December 5 2016, 01:06:37 UTC

thank you so much bud. part of why i keep returning to this era in AUs and otherwise is that there's so much there and so many ways to interpret this moment - like i feel like whenever you and i talk about it, i get more ideas, and different ones...
thank you for everything, and for always picking up on my yeats references, but mostly for everything always <3<3<3

kingzgurl December 3 2016, 02:56:03 UTC

I... Words utterly fail me. This is so raw, so real... It hurts in it's perfection.

ghosttt December 5 2016, 01:06:55 UTC

thank you for reading and commenting <3<3

magnetic_pole December 3 2016, 04:59:56 UTC

So lovely! It's got that heady, hedonistic, moment-out-of-time quality that Brideshead Revisited had--had the war and their years at college intersected as they did for Remus and Sirius, and had the two main characters just *done* it, for heaven's sake. Enjoyed! M.

ruinsplume December 4 2016, 00:56:34 UTC

magnetic pole, I'm completely hijacking this comment to say that Sebastian and Charles were totally doing it. There's (albeit subtle) proof in the text. And the 1980's tv miniseries completely ships them, too!

magnetic_pole December 4 2016, 19:44:44 UTC

Ha! Brideshead Revisited was my introduction to the concept of slash--I turned on the TV one day back in the 80s or early 90s to a rerun of the PBS version, and I managed to hit a scene that was so homoerotic I went out and bought the book just to see where it all came from. I was shocked (and delighted) that something like that would show up on TV--but imagine how happy I was to find the book was just as queer! M.

ruinsplume December 5 2016, 00:22:05 UTC

Ooh, which scene was it? the two that spring to mind for me are the one in Venice where they're standing on the beach with their arms around each other, or the one where they're waltzing together at Brideshead....or maybe I'm forgetting and there's an even better one, the one you're thinking of! C/S was my first experience of shipping, though as it was 1983, there wasn't a word for it then. I didn't find out what slash was until THIS YEAR.

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