fic/fanmix: beginning after the end (dw; martha jones)

[builtofsorrow]

title: Beginning After the End
characters: Martha Jones; appearances by Jack Harkness, Tish Jones, the Doctor, and various others.
rating: G (maybe thematically PG?) pretty much, though the song Dust of Ages has one use of the word 'f---ing'.
spoilers: To be safe, all of S3, and references to what I've read in interview spoilers about what Martha's

Comments

[safebox]

Um. This is quite embarrassing, but I'm a little teary right now. This is just wonderful, I'm not sure if I can formulate a comment to do justice to it.I am downloading the mix with great excitement, and from the snippets of lyrics it looks like it fits this story beautifully.

But oh, this story. It fits my own personal canon so well it's almost unnerving, and I love the scenes you've chosen and the guest appearances by Tish and Jack (oh, Jack, their relationship was so perfect in this), and even a cameo by Donna, hee!

The way you portray Martha is amazing, you manage to show all her strength and grit and all the emotion running underneath that, which nearly breaks my heart. I loved seeing her leaving the TARDIS from her point of view, because that made all kinds of sense to me here, as did her fears about her motivations for joining UNIT, and oh, the whole thing, really.

I could flail about this for ages, but I shall only embarrass myself. However, I would like to say that this bit was especially gorgeous:

(There's really no

[builtofsorrow]

Amy! ♥!

I've had this tab open since yesterday afternoon, and I don't even know what to say. Thank you is so inadequate, but thank you. I can't say what it means to have you say such kind things about this (I realised to my horror that I've been extremely neglectful in commenting on a couple of your fics that I read and cried over, which I bring up just to say that it's lovely to hear things like this from someone as brilliant as you (and also I am going to remedy my neglect soon, yessss).). (I don't even know what's going on with that punctuation.)

But yes. I'm so glad you liked it (and I do hope you enjoy (/are enjoying?) the music; I nearly died when I discovered Anna Ternheim), which sounds so trite, but I don't mean it that way.

And to date, that's probably one of my favourite sentences I've ever written.

So thank you. ♥♥♥!!!

[lexiedoh]

Honestly? You're brilliant. Most everything you write is brilliant. But I think this might be very close to your best, darling. This is beautiful and fantastic and you have captured each and every character perfectly, and for all your angst about how they so rarely cooperate, all the evidence is quite to the contrary. I adore each and every bit, and and I cannot express how honoured I was and am to have beta-ed it.

I love you. So much more than a lot.

[builtofsorrow]

-cuddles- You're too wonderful (shut up; you are), but I'm glad of it.

♥&infin

[faeriemaiden]

So, omg. You are made of win. I haven't actually downloaded the mix yet, because Moony and the computer are currently at odds, but the fic. THE FIC. IS AMAZING AND GORGEOUS AND *FLAILS*. And the last bit made me melty (quite a lot of it was imagining the expressions on Ten's face), and if I had a brain today I would offer you a scintillatingly witty comment, but I can only make happy noises and read the fic thrice. ♥

[builtofsorrow]

Ah, thank you. That means especially a lot if you're not totally familiar with the fandom.

And I'd love to! I can't believe I didn't know about the existence of that community before; it's lovely.

[norinoricat]

Oh my. I'm not one to read so much and I first planned at just looking over the tracks but the writing was gorgeous. I think it really managed to capture the essence of all of the characters.

[builtofsorrow]

Thank you so much! I'm glad you got sucked in. :P (No, but really, thank you.)