fic: [weeds] the unbearable lightness {ensemble; andy/nancy}

[slybrunette]

Title: The Unbearable Lightness
Fandom: Weeds
Characters/Pairings: Ensemble. Andy/Nancy.
Rating: R
Word Count: 3,158
Warnings: Character death.
Author's Note: I've been more or less on the fence about posting this for a day or two but I finally said what the hell and went through with it. All I can say is this is an experiment.
Summary: Future-

Comments

[onlywordsnow]

I can only say that this was awesome and totally worth posting.

[slybrunette]

Well thank you so much! I'm glad you thought so!

[gigglemonster]

Was this the fic you mentioned being worried to post last night on Tumblr? Cuz girrlll it is amazing and you didn't have a damn thing to worry about.
I wanna say that I was surprised the character death was Nancy but...I don't think I was. I mean, when you think about it, it makes a great deal of sense that she could very well end up this way. Breaks my damn heart and this whole second half was like one big huge punch to the gut (ahhhh the phone message. that part omg) but I could totally buy it.
Aside from that I actually really love that this was an ensemble piece. It's not often I read fic like that, but obviously anything you write I know I'll love lol. And I did! I especially liked all the Andy & Silas interaction and how you included little tid-bits from the promo pictures we've seen (like the grey hair). That's one of the things I'm interested in seeing in S7, is more Andy & Silas.

Now I'm getting rambly and off-topic. But basically this was definitely a successful experiment. Those last three lines are just ugh haunting

[slybrunette]

Yeah, this pretty much sat in the recycle bin for an hour last night. Crisis time, girl.

You know I tried to make it surprising and sell it, but then that just did not work, so I just threw out hints here and there and said fuck it. I figure, there's an okay chance that Nancy kicks it by the end of the show, and I kind of wanted to play that out in my head. I still don't know how fine I am with that being an ending for her but it was interesting to play with

[workswithwords]

If the show doesn't end like this, I will feel supremely cheated somehow. Steph, this is absolutely excellent. It's sad and heartbreaking, but its so inherently the characters that we know, they are beautiful and fucked up, and you've captured them SO well.

I'm a little bit speechless to be honest!

[slybrunette]

♥ ♥ ♥

Excuse me, I'll just be over here doing my happy dance of joy.

No, but seriously thank you so much! I have been in panic mode with this thing for days and then I see reviews like this and suddenly think I'm either an idiot or my friends are far too nice to me. I don't know. You flatter me, basically.

I'm so glad you enjoyed this hun!

[slybrunette]

Aw thank you ♥ I actually forgot the summary when I first posted it, so glad I went back and checked, lol. But I'm glad you enjoyed it and thought it was in character. That's always my biggest concern.

[slybrunette]

Haha, I've been pretty solid into reading/writing since about 12 (yikes), but with reading I find that I have to be in a certain mood otherwise I can't get into it, even if it's really well written. I don't know. So I see what you're saying about not having the patience cause sometimes that's me too.

There will be more, I do know that much, lol.

[falseeeyelashes]

Steph, this is STUNNING. My god, rip my heart out haha. I saw this earlier today right before I went for a run, and the warning in the summary -- character death! -- totally lured me in, and mannnnnn, once I started reading I could not stop. You do such a great job of intertwining these different threads of the story set at different times before arriving at such a devastating conclusion. Also, your Andy voice is just so, so great, as is the way you play out the duality of the two brothers -- the good son and Nancy's son.

And! Scrolling back up, the Nancy quote you used to open this with is just SO PERFECT for this, wow. Great, great job, dude. This might be the best Weeds fic I've read yet.

[slybrunette]

I watch those overly censored Weeds marathons on the TV Guide channel and they were airing the back half of S3 on Saturday and I will never pass up the opportunity to rewatch that (the finale, oh my god). But. I saw that episode that quote is from and just about dropped everything for this.

I like how it's the warning that lures you in, lol, because character death seems to be such a huge turnoff for people but I secretly love to see how it plays out. Also, I feel like I could write Andy forever and ever and just be completely content with that choice, so thank you for that. A lot.

I'm seriously thrilled that you liked this! Thank you so much!