the shore [parts five to seven]

[ladyapplesauce]

Title: The Shore
Series: Doctor Who
Characters/Pairing: Rose Tyler & the Doctor
Word Count: 5,000 (total length is 13,000)

Continued from here

Comments

[mad_teagirl]

OH MY GOD!!!!! OH MY GOD!!!! OH MY GOD! THIS IS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL THING I HAVE EVER READ IN MY ENTIRE LIFE!!!!

THE E.E.CUMMINGS POEM! THE BAD WOLF BAY SYMMETRY! ROSE EXPELLING THE TARDIS GLOW IN HER SLEEP! I HAVE HEARTS IN MY EYES! HEARTS IN MY EYES!!!!!

YOU'RE THE BEST AND THIS WAS ONE HUNDRED PERCENT WORTH THE WAIT!!! I LOVE IT AND I LOVE YOU

[ladyapplesauce]

OH MY GOOOOOOOODNESS!!! I AM JUST SO EXCITED THAT YOU LIKE IT!!!

Honestly, I was so nervous. I'm not sure I've ever been as nervous as I was last night, waiting for you two to read it. It started as such a small project and turned into an entity all on its own. An obsession, even!

I have no idea how it happened, but my all-time favorite poem just seemed to fit so well, I couldn't resist! The Bad Wolf Bay symmetry and Rose expelling the TARDIS glow in her sleep were both your wife's concepts, and I just went with them! I HAD HEARTS IN MY EYES WHILE WRITING!

I am so happy it was worth the wait, because you had to wait sooooooo long! I've never made anything quite like this -- it's been ages since I've written fiction and even longer since I've written dialogue. But it was just pure magic being immersed in this world and of course the attachment to the characters was overwhelming.

I love YOU and you were totally worth it! Happy veryveryvery belated birthday <3 <3 <3

[peskywhistpaw]

Oh man, oh man, oh man, this is so amazing! I pretty much had to keep from crying throughout the whole thing. I just love how you had them come together, slowly - but at the pace they were meant to, because they're meant to find each other. *melts*

Guh. So lovely.

[ladyapplesauce]

Guhhhhh thank you SO much! I'm so speechless that someone read it and thought is was lovely. It was first attempt to write fic EVER. So... yeah. Your comments mean the world to me. And I'm thrilled you like the pacing -- I was really careful about the way I bounced between the two of them until they finally find each other. *Sigh* I only finished this a bit over a day ago and I already miss being immersed in their world <3

[ladyapplesauce]

Eeeeeee! A million, million thank yous for your sweet words. Putting this out into the universe was THE most nerve-wracking experience. I've never put myself out there like this, and I've never written fic. I am so excited that you enjoyed it <3

[ladyapplesauce]

Thank you so so so much! Ahhhh, "TARDIS-sized ton of hangups"... how true is that?! And my Rose for sure has a lot of her own issues, she's a century older than we've ever known her. I tried to really blend this idea of her being borderline Time Lady and still fundamentally very, very human. I'm a total sucker for Eleven/Rose (and of course, the Doctor/Rose in general, too!) And it was so very important for me to really draw out that space between them before letting them reconnect. I thought of them like their own galaxies, spinning off into space, and yet, something invisible and hidden pulling them back together all the while.

P.S. I'm so excited I've inspired you, new friend! I can't wait to read something of yours :)

[sweetevangeline]

I read this while listening to the companion mix and I didn't cry until “What happens now,” he’s debated this internally more times than he’s debated practically anything, “what happens now has always happened, is always happening, will always happen.”

This is amazing. This is...really, just really amazing. I'm pretty speechless over the whole thing. I...yeah. So this is a thing that exists in the world and you made it and that's amazing.

[ladyapplesauce]

I am so excited that line moved you! It just seemed to fit so well -- two time travelers finally connecting at the exact moment they were always supposed to. It was such a joy to play with that kind of imagery. And I am totally thrilled you were reading while listening to the mix. My sister is so incredibly talented (her fanmixes are some of my most favorite things in the world), and all I could hope was that my story did it justice.

YOU are amazing for giving me such lovely compliments. It's just so overwhelming for me that people are reacting this way to something I wrote. I can't stop smiling <3

[sweetevangeline]

The two things - the story and the mix - perfectly compliment each other. They are both so good and so amazing and so narrative.

I actually just read this again because I couldn't bring myself to close the tab last night and figured that I might as well while it's here... : ) And you should give yourself credit! As something as insomniac, I've read a lot of what's out there over the years and this is definitely one of the best things I've come across. It's quite the debut work, definitely. It's actually so good it gave me that undefinable wibbly feeling.

(Of course, I also have "whatever a moon has always meant" engraved inside my wedding ring so maybe we were meant to be, me and this fic...)

[ladyapplesauce]

Oh goodness, the "wibbly" feeling! That makes me feel wonderful. And that's so awesome that you've already re-read it. Thank you so much. I haven't really spent much time reading what else is out there, but I'm definitely going to start now. This began as a birthday present project and turned into something quite larger than itself, I think.

(And I LOVE that you have "whatever a moon has always meant" engraved inside your wedding band! Holy moly. That's INCREDIBLE!)

[a_phoenixdragon]

Beautifully done dear!! Damn...Eleven/Rose huh? AND IT WORKS. Just...WOW!!

*HUGS*

[ladyapplesauce]

Awww... Thank you so much! I simply adore Rose and the Doctor, period. And thought it was so necessary to see her with Eleven. So, heck, might as well write it myself, right? I am so glad it worked for you!

*HUGS!*