on triumphant(?) returns

[well_ladeedah]

How long since I posted actual fic? Oy.

So. I'm not a HUGE Lady Antebellum fan, but I enjoy a couple of their songs. "I Run to You" got me thinking about Shizuka, and after that I sort of blinked and this thing was staring back at me from my laptop. I've got REAL WORK to do, dammit. Why does fandom rear its head at the worst possible times

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[nebulia]

Wow. This is lovely and sad and all sorts of wonderful. Usually I don't ship Shizuka/Himawari, but like this I do. xD

[well_ladeedah]

See, the thing is, I'm not certain this is a shippy fic. I can't convince myself they actually slept together and didn't just...sleep together. You know? It can be read both ways. I think. ...?

And thank you, by the way. ♥

[xturncoatxiii]

I want to hug them ;_; It hurt to see Himawari so sad and broken and jgdsdajsd Shizuka will never change but it's so tragic

AND THEN I WANNA SHAKE WATANUKI

THESE ARE YOUR FRIENDS DAMMIT THEY LOVE YOU

stop being dumb :(

[well_ladeedah]

I HAVE WANTED TO SHAKE HIM AND SHAKE HIM SINCE HE PUT ON THAT DAMN YUKATA.

this scenario never leaves my mind: with watanuki at the shop and shizuka in school, himawari leaves and then has no one. absolutely no one. they are her lifeline, and they virtually cut her off. this is the reason i'm a platonic shizuka/himawari shipper. (does that make sense even, i don't know) because it's in shizuka's nature to save people, to fix what's broken, and himawari won't ask, not really, but - you know?

the dumb, it is intrinsic. it will never fade.

[ophelietta]

Wow, WOW! This is eerie - am I in your head, or are you in mine? XD There is some incredibly cool synchronicity at work here, since I was writing "Payphones" at around the same time you posted this (hitsuzen!?), and I'm just blown away at the point and counterpoint, the contrast and the similiarities between our two fics (I think it is safe to say that we occupy the same fanon universe :D).

I find it notoriously difficult to write from Shizuka's POV, but you did it so gracefully here, and it was just so lovely and felt oddly like "coming home" to see a spring fic that felt very much like it could've been continued from the winter fic that was "Payphones". :D There were just so many inherently thoughtful details in here that just felt so right - like the meal they shared together

[well_ladeedah]

Thank you, thank you, thank you for getting it. That is the most perfect response I could have hoped for. Whether you're in my head or vice versa, we are clearly Meant To Be. It's hitsuzen, my dear.

You. You with the ShizuHima fetish. Let's hook up and make lovely ShizuHima together. We can have funtimes.

[ophelietta]

!!! I am glad you were not afrightened away from my massively long word vomitty comment. (I would blame this on evil_whimsey because we get, um, very enthusiastic about epic long comments but it takes two to tango. ;D)

Oh my goshers, we totally will. We can't deny hitsuzen or else rocks will FALL and we will DIE or something terrible like that. Oh man, how do you feel about writing one of those flipped perspective kind of things, except intentionally this time? Like, oh holy hell, I would love to write a Himawari POV of this, maybe just leading up to her phone call. This is so bad, I have so many fics on my plate right now. Thoughts?

[well_ladeedah]

Oh, word-vomitty comments are my favorite kind. :D ♥

Like - yes. I mean - oh my god. Write it. Please write it. For me? For love? FOR GREAT JUSTICE. And I have other ideas, too, that I'd like to talk to you about.

THESE TWO, they can be so epic. And together, so can we. Y/Y?