FIC: Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage -- an ANTIDOTE TO SORROW story.

[w_a_i_d]

 Author's Notes

I really can't overstate my incredulity at how long this has taken (or just how long it IS , I thought it might be a FICLET, HA. ) but here I am back at last and this... this technically isn't the next part of Antidote to Sorrow. (3rd person POV and present tense ZOMG!) But! Although this is a freestander, and can be read without any

Comments

[w_a_i_d]

Thank you - and thank you so much for the rec too. I'm glad you liked the pacing, because I wanted it to be pretty lean and brutal, but as day after day passed with it getting longer and longer I just couldn't tell if it was coming out like that at all.

[muffinbitch]

You know, this just about moved me to tears. Just amazing. Oh Holmes...

[w_a_i_d]

Oh, thank you! It's lovely to get a reaction like that from something that's a bit different from what I normally do.

[enname]

I have been merrily lurking around in this fandom, reading to my heart's content while trying to decide how to go about leaving comments. Do I do it on older fic, or barge in on something new? It would appear that I have decided that right here and now will do, rather than waste another second without giving some sort of feedback

[w_a_i_d]

Thank you so much. I was once a lurker wondering whether and when to jump in and I'm so flattered you decided to take the plunge here. Your comment is just gorgeous -- it's so lovely to see one's hopes and intentions for a story reflected back so intelligently, (especially when one wasn't all that sure one had even got close to realising them.)

I've had that moment of being unable to remember a word in English without some very complex moves to regain it

I have too -- I was in Italy and the word was subsidise. Although it was even more complicated than I've indicated here -- it was suddenly as if all the Romance words of English had been chopped out leaving me with just the Anglo-Saxon to think in, while the bit of my brain that normally stored my Romance vocabulary was off processing Italian. I had this weird knowledge that the word I wanted meant "under--[something]" and I had to go through Latin before I could get hold of it. It is indeed odd, although it must be a million times worse when one can't go home.

Thanks again.

[enname]

I try to make a point of delurking eventually, because I know that feedback is something of a commodity that should be shared around. Even if it is merely the ability to summarise the piece of work in question. I seem to have lost my ability over the years to articulate how a piece of work makes me feel, although usually there are a lot of frantic flailing gestures and further alliteration

[rabidsamfan]

Oh glory. This is amazing, and gripping and oh, my glory.

You had me at: He can be almost anything - except, he has discovered, unremarkable. But the rest will be haunting me for days, I think. Just wonderful.

[w_a_i_d]

Thank you! Hee -- glory! That's a lovely word to have prompted.

[zauzat]

Beautifully written. A very powerful story.

[w_a_i_d]

Thank you very much.