for thirdbird_fic: An Impossible Shape: the Triangular Geometry of Flawed Hearts

[nox_candida]

Original Author: thirdbird_fic
Original Story Title: Not Your Average Threesome 'Verse: John/Lestrade + Sherlock
Original Story Link: http://archiveofourown.org/series/5799
Original Story Pairings: Sherlock Holmes/Lestrade/John Watson
Original Story Rating: Mature
Original Story Warnings/Content Notes: poly
Remix Author: alltoseek
Remix Story Title: An Impossible Shape

Comments

[thirdbird_fic]

Oh, holy shit, anon, I'm gasping and breathless at this beautiful thing you have done with my fic. I love it. Love love love love love. You snipped them all apart and made this glorious thing out of them - I'm seriously in awe. I need to look at it again for about a day and a half and will undoubtedly come back to say more, but for now, ALL THE HEARTS! All the flawed and warm and aching hearts. <333333

[alltoseek]

:D <3 :D <3 :D <3

I am so glad you like it. I decided that even if it was incomprehensible to anyone else, if you liked it, it would all have been worth it.

If any fic or series is deserving of this treatment, it is this series!

[thirdbird_fic]

Love your angrybeige icon! Aw. That image pretty much sums up my reaction when I saw your remix, actually. It's just a brilliant, original idea and so neatly executed and and and... *FLAIL* Was that super hard to do, lining the verses up so that the names and lines and angles all worked out so neatly??

Anyway, I hope you liked putting this together…I adored the result! I imagine it was tricky to post. Are you going to put it on AO3?

[alltoseek]

Was that super hard to do, lining the verses up so that the names and lines and angles all worked out so neatly??Uh, no. The only reason I was able to do this at all is that Sherlock says himself the angles don't work out right and the shape is impossible, so I didn't have to be perfect

[nox_candida]

This is so fascinating and really amazing. You went to so much effort for this and I think it's really paid off. The graphic, especially, which emphasizes the complicated relationship between the three characters is extremely well done. One of my favorite parts of this are the formulae; I don't have much of a head for math, but I love how the function they have in this piece.

You really went above and beyond for this and I think you've done an amazing job. :)

[alltoseek]

Thank you so much!

I'm glad you approve of the formulae; I expect Sherlock would sneer and point out the inaccuracies, but it was my best attempt to understand his way of thinking, as presented in the series.

They're mostly sort of chemical (Sherlock the chemist, individual atoms joining into molecules, catalysts, etc.) with a few mathematical ones

And thank you for your and unovis' support when I was trying to figure out the format for posting, and forbearance for being late.

[cherrytide]

"Human ears in salt, romance can wait" - LOL. What an interesting and imaginative take on the original story!

[alltoseek]

Thank you!

Those were direct quotes - I loved them so, I couldn't leave them out! :D

[tiltedsyllogism]

What an absolutely extraordinary remix. not only is the found poetry remarkably effective at capturing a vivid slice of the original text, but the visual composition is really striking and does an amazing job of capturing the developments and passages in the arc of the original story, but in a non-chronological way (and so similar, in that respect, to how short poems can work as well). I hope it comes across as the compliment I mean when I say that, looking at what you've done, it's so clearly well-suited to the original that it seems in retrospect obvious: not that it didn't take real creativity to come up with the idea, but that in doing so you've struck some sort of essential nerve. Really amazing.

[alltoseek]

Wow, thanks so much for your thoughtful comment! Yes, exactly, that was what I was trying to do.

And when you say it seems so obvious - that's exactly what I thought too - I'm so glad it makes sense to you as well.

[alltoseek]

Thank you! The equations and the lines were the most fun part :-)