fic: FORGIVE THE KIDS (another happy day) (3/3)

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[falseeeyelashes]

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, May! YOU ARE MAKING ME BLUSH, HAHA. Thank you, dudette! THANK YOU. LOL this fic, I do not even know! It started as me randomly deciding to even watch this movie, then losing my mind at your LJ and then, like, three weeks later I have a freaking novella of a fic? LOL, MY LIFE. But I really really enjoyed writing this and I am so glad to hear you enjoyed it too!!!!!

I AM JUST SORT OF OBSESSED WITH THESE TWO RIGHT NOW?!?!? I THOUGHT WRITING THIS WOULD CURE ME OF IT, BUT NOPE! I just love the idea of everyone making out Elliot to be The Bad One and Alice is The Good One, and he's the predator and she's the victim, when really! They are both more one of the same! I watched Shame (only whoa boy incestuous undertones movie LOL), and that one line -- "We're not bad people" -- kept going through my head while writing this haahha.

BASICALLY, THIS MOVIE IS HOLDING MY BRAIN HOSTAGE AND REFUSES TO GIVE IT BACK HAHAHA.

YOU ARE A GEM! Bless you for reading this beast of a fic hahaha. LOVE YOU, BOO!

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I don't have time to be more obsessed!! hahahaha. And ahhhhh yes! I keep randomly watching it too! hahaha. The more I watch it, the more I really, really love it. And yessss I love that parking lot scene so much! Where he just keeps talking and talking and goading everyone, while acting like what he's doing is no big deal, and Alice is just crying. And yes! He is kind of a scapegoat! Where everything that's wrong with him is viewed as internal while with Alice, it's external. Like, she's good but bad things happened to her so now she's kinda bad, whereas Elliot is just rotten to the core haha

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I don't even know how I got here. Clicking on the livejournals of friends of friends and then suddenly I was here and reading this and CLUTCHING AT MY FACE AND DYING BECAUSE OF FEELINGS. And am I ever so glad I ended up here. It may be overdramatic to say that reading this was akin to a religious experience but that is what it feels like right now, and probably always. Everything about it is absolutely perfect. Your prose is stunning and the sparseness of it and the descriptions you do include and I just felt like I was on edge the entire time, on this precipice and wanting to go over the edge but also not because what if it was heartbreaking? but what if it wasn't? And then it was both and !!!!!! You've achieved such a great, teetering balance between Alice and Elliot hurting each other and comforting each other, of hating each other and loving each other. Your characterization and the way each of them view each other and themselves! I loved how you used perception. I loved the various themes. I love that I am acting like I have

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Oh man!!! I have been meaning to respond to this for ages it feels like but I am the worst and keep getting busy/distracted! But I have to tell you: this comment totally and completely made my day. I am pretty sure I made embarrassing squeeing faces while reading it. In public. At Starbucks, hahaha.

But in all seriousness: thank you so, so, so much. I am so happy to hear you enjoyed this! I am wholly and completely flattered, and also thrilled that someone else enjoys this movie and these two as much as I do! This was a lot of fun to write (and totally self-indulgent haha), and I gotta say: a comment like this also made it totally worthwhile. Thank you again!

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Christ this is old and you don't know me, but I just watched this and May pointed me over here and PERFECTION. It's all been said by the aforementioned, so yes. Literary classic, not even joking.