Comments | anxietygrrl: Fic: ER, "Let the Rest of the World Go By"

anxietygrrl

Fic: ER, "Let the Rest of the World Go By"

May 13, 2015 01:53

"Let the Rest of the World Go By"
Fandom: ER
Pairing: Neela/Ray
AU: London, World War One-ish
Words: ~2500

( Is the struggle and strife we find in this life really worthwhile after all... )

'shipping is for crazy people, otp, fic, er

Comments 14

jesshelga May 13 2015, 16:17:38 UTC

This was really lovely and melancholy and ha ha Archie had flat feet. More comments to come.

anxietygrrl May 14 2015, 01:03:57 UTC

WELL? Jk no rush. Thanks for liking my dumb goof.

I bet if I posted this on ffnet, someone would say a nice thing to me. Right? It's not time for my Lorazepam yet and I need some kind of soothing.

jesshelga May 14 2015, 02:09:57 UTC

Sorry, I was at the gym galumphing my way through 4 miles:
1) I like how you set atmosphere and history and mood with this, particularly how the jokey "Ha ha, Ray is in a ragtime bang" turned into this very tender moment of them sharing a banjo.

2) It seems fitting and frustratingly sad that the Neela of the 1910s and Neela of the 2000s share a very very similar throughline of being stifled by her own oppressive expectations as much as her family's and, like, society's.

3) And they still both have a postcard...awwwwww.

4) Good job only giving Gates the most cursory of mentions.

5) Abby is still great, even in a cameo appearance.

And you should totally post it to FF.net. I imagine there's been a real drought of Ray/Neela the last few years.

anxietygrrl May 14 2015, 04:59:59 UTC

And was she even married to Gallant? I don't know because who cares.

This thing really surprised me. I'm happy it turned into something.

I need a title, but I don't want to google any dumb poetry.

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kirbyfest May 14 2015, 03:41:59 UTC

Oh, oh. This is so lovely. Music threaded throughout, and the voice is so true and bittersweet. This is not dumb nor goof.

anxietygrrl May 14 2015, 04:56:11 UTC

I'm pleased you enjoyed what your influence hath wrought.

anxietygrrl May 14 2015, 06:31:06 UTC

It's got a soundtrack now.

rachel_wilder May 16 2015, 23:09:40 UTC

Thank you for posting it to the Ray and Neela community--so glad to have found the story! I'm not usually much for AUs, but really enjoyed this. Thank you!

anxietygrrl May 17 2015, 00:20:02 UTC

You're very welcome, thanks for commenting! Funnily, I'm not usually into AUs, either; this really came out of the blue. I'm so happy you liked it!

lowriseflare May 20 2015, 16:40:27 UTC

Oh, lady, I love this! It's so richly atmospheric and the translated/transported characters still make so much sense, which is my favorite kind of AU. The descriptions of everyone at the beginning, Archie's flat feet and Gates being dead! Semi-respectable ladies! He never met anybody like her! The SOUNDTRACK! Also, the whole phrase that begins "prowl like a fiend" is just so fantastically, delightfully Neela. Thank you so much for this, friend.

anxietygrrl May 21 2015, 02:26:23 UTC

Oh, YAY, I'm so thrilled you liked this. It started off as jokes ("and then he gets hit by an ice wagon") and turned into this earnest, melancholy thing.

profshallowness December 30 2015, 16:42:08 UTC

This is lovely. I love how you've transplanted them into this period. The Neela/Ray flashback and the way he stopped her from accepting Dubenko's proposal and settling, when she'd fought even harder for everything else was great.

anxietygrrl December 31 2015, 05:17:18 UTC

Thank you!