Oh elisi, this is so perfect and beautiful and worth waiting for! And the reception is worth all the work! <3
I re-read The Deft, Sweet Gesture Of Your Hand before reading this, and you've continued that story's themes and ideas and characterisation so beautifully. Thank you, that's wonderful to hear. I mean, obviously that was the intention, but what's in my head and what other people see is not necessarily the same thing.
I love everything you've done here! I love all the poetry, I spent a good chunk of my holidays reading the Four Quartets. (And very lovely it was too.)
I love that Crowley's response is Madonna (!) See that came about solely because of 'What Can You Lose', which is quite literally THE song for being too scared to confess one's feelings. And then, well, obviously Crowley would love Madonna generally (as Owls says, the answer is always 'because he's gay'), and then 'Like A Prayer' followed and the rest is history. The religious aspects are... completely incidental, funnily enough. (Apart from all the ones inherent in Like A Prayer, obviously.)
I love the explanation for the 'holy water' I FELT SO CLEVER! (We may have... a great number of [tiny] bottles of Lourdes water in the house, so I can't even remember at what point I thought of it.)
I love the confrontation with Gabriel, I love all of it! I still can't believe that the whole thing came from an idea for a crack!fic which I expected to be about 500 words long. If that.
(I love, for obvious vidding reasons, this line: he smiles as he thinks that they’re like stars orbiting each other, unable to ever escape each other’s gravity <3) !!! I never connected that. (But then I think I wrote that line before you started talking about your vid.) Clearly it's the perfect metaphor. However 'Daring to be like humans, to reach from black & white into dazzling colour…' was totally inspired by such_height's 'Out of the Woods'.
Will definitely be reading this so many times. Thank you for writing it. Thank you for reading and your lovely comments. And I hope it'll keep being a rewarding read. ♥
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And the reception is worth all the work! <3
I re-read The Deft, Sweet Gesture Of Your Hand before reading this, and you've continued that story's themes and ideas and characterisation so beautifully.
Thank you, that's wonderful to hear. I mean, obviously that was the intention, but what's in my head and what other people see is not necessarily the same thing.
I love everything you've done here! I love all the poetry,
I spent a good chunk of my holidays reading the Four Quartets. (And very lovely it was too.)
I love that Crowley's response is Madonna (!)
See that came about solely because of 'What Can You Lose', which is quite literally THE song for being too scared to confess one's feelings. And then, well, obviously Crowley would love Madonna generally (as Owls says, the answer is always 'because he's gay'), and then 'Like A Prayer' followed and the rest is history. The religious aspects are... completely incidental, funnily enough. (Apart from all the ones inherent in Like A Prayer, obviously.)
I love the explanation for the 'holy water'
I FELT SO CLEVER! (We may have... a great number of [tiny] bottles of Lourdes water in the house, so I can't even remember at what point I thought of it.)
I love the confrontation with Gabriel, I love all of it!
I still can't believe that the whole thing came from an idea for a crack!fic which I expected to be about 500 words long. If that.
(I love, for obvious vidding reasons, this line: he smiles as he thinks that they’re like stars orbiting each other, unable to ever escape each other’s gravity <3)
!!! I never connected that. (But then I think I wrote that line before you started talking about your vid.) Clearly it's the perfect metaphor. However 'Daring to be like humans, to reach from black & white into dazzling colour…' was totally inspired by such_height's 'Out of the Woods'.
Will definitely be reading this so many times. Thank you for writing it.
Thank you for reading and your lovely comments. And I hope it'll keep being a rewarding read. ♥