Oh my god, I just wrote a huge reply to this and then my computer ate it DDD: Let me see if I can remember what I said.
Thanks so much for the comment, first of all! It's amazing. I went back and corrected those two typos, so thanks for that too - I've spent so long going through this fic that fic-blindness has sort of set in, you know?
Then I think I said something along the lines of YES YOU MUST REREAD DROP DEAD GORGEOUS, it is my absolute favourite H/D fic. A close favourite is The Quality of Mercy by the same author. Amazing. I didn't realise quite how literally I meant that it had become canon in my head until I started writing this and that's how Harry and Draco appeared. Hmm hmm hmm. You must also read The Road, because it is beautifully written and heartbreakingly bleak and devastating and, god, the film gutted me. This fic is about 100% more cheerful, I swear.
I wish I could take full credit for the cannibal house idea! Damn Cormac McCarthy for getting there first :P That was the easiest scene for me to write - I literally haven't changed a word of it beyond typos and needing an extra line since I first wrote it - so I don't know what that says about me, but I'm glad it worked for you. (I was going to say 'I'm glad you liked it' but that didn't seem quite right). I'm also glad that the bleakness worked: I didn't want it to be too, like, BLEAKNESS IN YOUR FACE but it was slightly unavoidable given, you know, the whole post-apocalypse thing.
The ""!sections throughout the fic were intended to be Watson remembering moments from his old Baker Street life on the road, so in a way they are the equivalent of TheRoad!Holmes&Watson because Watson is being reminded of them as he goes, if that makes sense? The ending is definitely meant to be ambiguous as either another flashback or a post-reset scene though, like whichever verse they found themselves in, nothing would change between Holmes and Watson. Oh, boys. (I did also have to fight my instinct to end it happily with snuggles and both of them remembering everything and being perfectly happy, but that refused to happen. I do, however, know whether they remember or not - and I do also sort of want to write the Harry/Draco POV counterpart to this fic - so I guess that just leaves me with more fic to write in the future! ~watch this space~
Anyway, I shall stop typing nonsense now but thanks so much for your amazing comment, and I'm really glad you liked the fic. :D
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Date: 2010-07-07 09:25 pm (UTC)Thanks so much for the comment, first of all! It's amazing. I went back and corrected those two typos, so thanks for that too - I've spent so long going through this fic that fic-blindness has sort of set in, you know?
Then I think I said something along the lines of YES YOU MUST REREAD DROP DEAD GORGEOUS, it is my absolute favourite H/D fic. A close favourite is The Quality of Mercy by the same author. Amazing. I didn't realise quite how literally I meant that it had become canon in my head until I started writing this and that's how Harry and Draco appeared. Hmm hmm hmm. You must also read The Road, because it is beautifully written and heartbreakingly bleak and devastating and, god, the film gutted me. This fic is about 100% more cheerful, I swear.
I wish I could take full credit for the cannibal house idea! Damn Cormac McCarthy for getting there first :P That was the easiest scene for me to write - I literally haven't changed a word of it beyond typos and needing an extra line since I first wrote it - so I don't know what that says about me, but I'm glad it worked for you. (I was going to say 'I'm glad you liked it' but that didn't seem quite right). I'm also glad that the bleakness worked: I didn't want it to be too, like, BLEAKNESS IN YOUR FACE but it was slightly unavoidable given, you know, the whole post-apocalypse thing.
The ""!sections throughout the fic were intended to be Watson remembering moments from his old Baker Street life on the road, so in a way they are the equivalent of TheRoad!Holmes&Watson because Watson is being reminded of them as he goes, if that makes sense? The ending is definitely meant to be ambiguous as either another flashback or a post-reset scene though, like whichever verse they found themselves in, nothing would change between Holmes and Watson. Oh, boys. (I did also have to fight my instinct to end it happily with snuggles and both of them remembering everything and being perfectly happy, but that refused to happen. I do, however, know whether they remember or not - and I do also sort of want to write the Harry/Draco POV counterpart to this fic - so I guess that just leaves me with more fic to write in the future! ~watch this space~
Anyway, I shall stop typing nonsense now but thanks so much for your amazing comment, and I'm really glad you liked the fic. :D