for writers_muses: Marriage

[rude_not_ginger]

"She's getting married soon, you know," Jack says. "Or didn't she tell you

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[handysparehand]

Oh, gosh, you know I love this. I will not waste space and go into a ramble, but I love the entire idea of this, and FIRST PERSON. I didn't even think 'I' was part of your narrative vocab. I love it. Very much. Beautiful. <3

[rude_not_ginger]

*shame* Me and first person had a fight back when I was very young. We're trying to reconcile. IT IS TAKING SOME TIME!

Thank you so much! <3<3

[rude_not_ginger]

Thank you so much!

And that scene in Neverending Story (in your icon) makes me cry EVERY DAMN TIME.

[itsthecoat]

No no do not let the sadness pull you down into the swamp D: LIVE FOR ONCE

[rude_not_ginger]

HE NEVER DOES AND THEN THERE'S A SPOT IN THE SWAMP AND YOU JUST KNOW!!!!!

[itsthecoat]

I feel like I should not have to point out how amazing this is. Because it is.

Also, very welcomed distraction from paper typing ♥

[rude_not_ginger]

Thank you so much, that means so much to me!

<3<3 DISTRACTIONS RULE!

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[marthajonesmd]

I teared up a bit, and I don't know why. Brilliant!

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[marthajonesmd]

Pretend that comment was coherent because ffff it's 3 AM here.

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[rude_not_ginger]

It made sense to me! Thank you! <3<3

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[marthajonesmd]

I just live in this happy state of denial where none of the companions ever age or move on to have semi-normal lives or anything, and your fic sort of forced me outside of my comfort zone. Which is a good thing!

Also, like everybody else said, omg first person! I'm too scared of first person to use it. Or to actually use different narrative techniques. *shame*

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[watch_is_me]

Really beautiful. Made me go a little misty there. Good work with the first person (you're right, it's odd to read first person for the Doctor, I can understand why you use second most of the time, hard to imagine him self-assessing on the fly, but it works here).

it bleeds green onto his lapel<---particularly liked. It's always fun to read a phrase or word, like "bleeds" that goes so strongly with one thing (red/animal life) and then have it turned on its side like that (green/plant life).

The Doctor makes such a good fixed-point. Ye olde "human condition outside observer" character.

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[rude_not_ginger]

First person is SO hard for me, this took a lot of work. I kept going back and forth between this and third, but I really wanted Tom to be the "he" and Martha to be the "she". I'm so glad you think it works!

That part I was actually pretty concerned about. The image is one that sticks in my mind because a white tuxedo (oh, so the rage at the moment, apparently) could have almost anything stain it. But the staining isn't what's important to Tom, it's the moving forward.

I'm so glad you liked it! <3<3

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[watch_is_me]

I think it did. I never went "Erm, he wouldn't think *that,* wut?"

Really? It worked nicely--and I got that, yeah, the whole "It doesn't matter if my clothes get smudged or it rains, it's Martha I care about." Also, just the word "bleeding" in a wedding scene is interesting.