No worries! You're getting a quick reply, though, because you happened to catch me at an idle time. :) Excellent! Ditto. :)
I bounced off that one pretty quickly, I'm afraid. [...] I found I just didn't have the patience to sit through all the stuff I find unconvincing or sloggy to get to the good stuff again. I can confirm that it's been v v slow, but it looks like it's now taking off (Chapter 12?). Also not fluff. *g*
But one of the reasons I ended up not doing it is because it might look like a fix-it, but it would still leave certain now-obvious things about Aziraphale and his feelings about Heaven unaddressed and unresolved in a way that seems like it'd fester. The only truthful-feeling way I could think of ending it was with a nagging feeling in the back of Crowley's mind that there's another shoe still waiting to drop sometime, and that lacked appeal, somehow. I hear ya. Proton, Owls & I have the beginning of a draft for a [crack] fic, but alas getting 3 people together to write is not working very well. But if we do it, it'll be fab.
Fair enough. I think there's a certain element of personal taste there, as well as a question of how much we as readers can be satisfied bringing stuff into a particular story when it's not explicit on the page. Which is something that I find varies a lot for me just from one story to another, really. Oh totally. But Raphael is SO well done, Crowley seems almost an afterthought. I mean, obviously he isn't, but... how does Crowley feel about Raphael? Do they integrate? Can Crowley trade on Raphael's self-confidence and self-assurance? He lost a huge chunk of himself [according to this fic] and getting that back should *matter*. From a personal perspective, The Fic very much turned around Thirteen's mindwipe and Crowley getting those memories back and how pivotal that was to his character development/making peace with his Fall/understanding that the Emperor God was 'naked'. And here just... crickets. Why go to all that truly amazing effort without doing anything with it? (I'll stop now. *g*)
I found myself able to forgive those without too much difficulty, although in a lesser fic (or, for that matter, a shorter one) they probably would have bothered me a lot more. I didn't mind them much (they clearly were just typos, the author could WRITE), but again it highlighted the speed.
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Excellent! Ditto. :)
I bounced off that one pretty quickly, I'm afraid. [...] I found I just didn't have the patience to sit through all the stuff I find unconvincing or sloggy to get to the good stuff again.
I can confirm that it's been v v slow, but it looks like it's now taking off (Chapter 12?). Also not fluff. *g*
But one of the reasons I ended up not doing it is because it might look like a fix-it, but it would still leave certain now-obvious things about Aziraphale and his feelings about Heaven unaddressed and unresolved in a way that seems like it'd fester. The only truthful-feeling way I could think of ending it was with a nagging feeling in the back of Crowley's mind that there's another shoe still waiting to drop sometime, and that lacked appeal, somehow.
I hear ya. Proton, Owls & I have the beginning of a draft for a [crack] fic, but alas getting 3 people together to write is not working very well. But if we do it, it'll be fab.
Fair enough. I think there's a certain element of personal taste there, as well as a question of how much we as readers can be satisfied bringing stuff into a particular story when it's not explicit on the page. Which is something that I find varies a lot for me just from one story to another, really.
Oh totally. But Raphael is SO well done, Crowley seems almost an afterthought. I mean, obviously he isn't, but... how does Crowley feel about Raphael? Do they integrate? Can Crowley trade on Raphael's self-confidence and self-assurance? He lost a huge chunk of himself [according to this fic] and getting that back should *matter*. From a personal perspective, The Fic very much turned around Thirteen's mindwipe and Crowley getting those memories back and how pivotal that was to his character development/making peace with his Fall/understanding that
the EmperorGod was 'naked'. And here just... crickets. Why go to all that truly amazing effort without doing anything with it? (I'll stop now. *g*)I found myself able to forgive those without too much difficulty, although in a lesser fic (or, for that matter, a shorter one) they probably would have bothered me a lot more.
I didn't mind them much (they clearly were just typos, the author could WRITE), but again it highlighted the speed.