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Where Wind and Water Meet - Chapter 5

Jun 20, 2012 11:03

Title: Where Wind and Water Meet
Artist: morph0fairy
Author: firefly_ca
Rating (art/fic if different): PG
Word Count: 24K
Warnings (if any): Major character death wrapped up in magic realism.
Fic Summary: Inspired by/loosely based on George MacDonald's At The Back of the North Wind. Blaine has never behaved the way normal children do and has always been too ( Read more... )

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Comments 23

OMFG YOU ARE AMAZING! anonymous June 25 2012, 09:40:07 UTC

WOW....this is SO beautifully written, and so refreshingly different and interesting and thought-provoking- I loved it, thank you for writing such a creative masterpiece! I love how Blaine's narration starts out simple like a child's would, and then gradually grows as he gets older. Your attention to detail on that front could knock me over with a feather.

Re: OMFG YOU ARE AMAZING! firefly_ca June 27 2012, 01:48:33 UTC

Thanks so much for the comment! And oh man, I'm so pleased the narration worked for you as he was getting older. I may or may not have harassed my betas in a panic on more than one occasion about the overall tone: "I can't tell if he's growing up or if this is like when an actor's accent starts slipping!"

Thanks again and I'm glad you liked it :)

dareu2beme June 26 2012, 20:22:42 UTC

This story is the most mindboggling of conundrums.
And it also made me cry a lot all throughout.

I love it.

firefly_ca June 27 2012, 01:59:12 UTC

Awww thank you so much! And thanks again for all of your comments. I feel kind of guilty that I made you cry, mostly because this was me trying to write fluff (so of course I make it death fic - I swear to god there's something wrong with me). Oh well. It is what it is, I guess. I'm really pleased that you liked it! :)

dareu2beme June 27 2012, 04:10:15 UTC

I really loved it. Everything that touches me emotionally in any way, happy or sad, makes me cry, though. I'm not saying I cry easy, I'm saying, I cry because of everything that is specially awesome.

kayoko June 30 2012, 22:31:46 UTC

What a beautiful and poetic story! I love the cross between mother nature and the human world. I'm sure there's a deeper meaning to the story, but it's just filled with a sense of magic that makes everything okay. Thank you for sharing!

firefly_ca July 8 2012, 14:25:26 UTC

Thank you so much! I'm really pleased you like it :D

I love stories that personify different aspects of nature, so I'm glad my attempt worked for you.

And sorry for the delay answering - somehow I missed seeing the notification in my inbox :\

manatree July 9 2012, 07:17:49 UTC

Busy wiping the tears from my eyes so that I can see clearly enough to type up my thoughts...

This entire story has a lovely, almost ethereal, quality to it that is hard to describe, but captured wonderfully. Blaine's awkwardness, his other-ness, is very well portrayed. Blaine's true nature is hinted at throughout the stroy, even before he jumps into the water to come back to Kurt, so it didn't surprise me, but somehow Blaine's process of discovering it about himself seemed surprising. I loved Tina's acceptance of Kurt, and Cooper's unusual understanding of who (what?) Blaine was. There's just so many things that this story made me think and feel... I can't possibly convey them through a comment or two :) It left me really curious as to how the others are going to react to Blaine's "death", though, especially Cooper, who seemed so much more perceptive about things.

firefly_ca July 15 2012, 15:16:03 UTC

Thank you so much for the lovely comments! I'm so happy you liked it :D

You know, the first draft of the story had an epilogue that shifted back into past tense, just like the prologue, because I wanted to spend time looking at the reactions to his death, too. It went back to Cooper's perspective, and covered everything that Blaine's friends and family go through after he dies. BUT. It was actually the worst thing I have ever written. No matter how hard I tried, the damn thing refused to come out properly. Eventually I didn't even bother sending it to my betas. I just trashed the entire thing, and when I got the note back that the ending was vague without any explanations, I went back and added the final sections in italics. Basically, everything that Blaine thinks might happen after he dies, is what happens after he dies: Cooper is the one who finds him, the glee club sings at his funeral, his parents are sad, but know that the last time he said he loved them was his way of saying goodbye, and whenever Tina looks at the water, she ( ... )

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firefly_ca October 21 2012, 16:05:13 UTC

Ahhh thank you for commenting!

I remember the first time I read the book I based this story on, I was full-on sobbing when the little boy dies at the end. I was like, "But I'm happy. WHY IS MY FACE LEAKING??" Ultimately I think it was just that no matter how happy you are that the character is where he wants to be, it still really sucks for all the other characters after. I'm glad you had a similar (less angsty 12-year-old unknowingly closing in on her first period OMG that was TMI sorry) response to my take on it.

And yeah, your ideas about Cooper are pretty spot on. I originally wrote an epilogue that had to be scrapped on account of it sucking too much that had a lot of that in it. It was pretty much all about Cooper listening to rain and falling water and thinking about his brother.