SBB 2016 Entry #13: liminality (2/2)

[replaymods]

Title: liminality
Pairing: key/onew, key/taemin
Rating: PG
Genre: fantasy
Warnings: none
Final Word Count: 15k

Comments

[imvus]

What an interesting world you have woven. I never knew there could be so many different kinds of fairies. Since i dont know much...is there a difference between the spelling of faeries and fairies? ( i guess i could google but i would like to hear your prespective since you seem to have a wonderful knowledge of them)

I enjoyed this story with its vivid descriptions of their surroundings, it made it very easy to visualize it as I read the story.

[anonymous]

ahhh this was such a lovely fic! The world you created was so enchanting, I got so caught up in the story and was left wanting more. I honestly wished i didnt read it so voraciously, so that i could have spent more time immersing myself in the story and fully appreciate how you wrote it with skill and such a beautiful artfulness. I loved the characters and the personalities, they felt natural and organic, it was refreshing. The way kibum was naive and inexperienced, how he saw the world and experienced everything as new was so endearing. I loved his character, to be honest. He was mysterious, innocent, haughty at times and funny and I really just thought the way you wrote him was lovely. The amount of effort it must've taken to create such a world with the amount of detail you did is really amazing. The way you wrote and how the story played out had me feeling fully immersed within the story and the world of the story. You really did a fantastic job on this fic, everything from the characters to the setting, the syntax, and

[queerkibum]

congratulations you’re going to get every thought i have on this fic in one messy liveblog sort of style uwu

kibum was lying, stretched out, on an oyster mushroom that grew out of the side of his favourite tree.

thank you for setting the scene so exquisitely. i already love kibum and his oyster mushroom.

the court attendant, who was barely visible, her form made up of soft gusts of wind. her outlines only became apparent whenever her body picked up small flurries of pollen and dandelion seeds…

MINJEONG MY BELOVED

it was difficult to do business over the rushing of water. intentional pauses on his part would be overlaid with sound, which meant the merchants wouldn’t be as uncomfortable as he wanted them to be. he had found that haggling tended to go smoother when the other party felt ill at ease.

kibum wanting other people to be uncomfortable is my life force

…cups plucked from nearby lily of the valleysthe oyster mushroom, the fairie circle, the tiny flower cups, taemin’s spider pouch, the praying mantis mask - i love all

[queerkibum]

the king considered jinki a nice enough fae, but he was altogether too noisy.

tag urself im kibum

- it seemed a lot smaller and more insignificant than he’d imagined, and he got a funny feeling in his stomach.

this line!!!! my tiny mildly arrogant son whom i love

- “we are sad you’re catching us on a day like today, our lands are at its most beautiful when it’s raining. the raindrops meeting the ocean are like an endless melody,”

this fairie is clearly jonghyun you can’t convince me otherwise unless you introduce jonghyun later

foraminifera !!! i want one

- what could be fun about a pet the size of a dust particle

u shut ur mouth kibum

he drops the grain of sand!!! christ

- fear of dying shot through him, a sensation he’d been unfamiliar with up until now. he’s been alive for so long but never felt a fear of death until now i love this detail

[queerkibum]

okay time to gather my thoughts into some semblance of order

[pinkpassiontae]

"excuse me?”

“i don’t think i will,” jinki’s blithe response came
-I laughed so hard at this. Cheeky Jinki.

"she had refrained from commenting on his plans, except to note that his willingness to learn from a savage like jinki was what made him a great king, probably. he in turn had confided in her that he was amazed by all she’d achieved, because her mind was made of air, after all."
-This was so perfect & so their relationship

"jinki was still sitting on junebug’s head, looking shocked and slightly fried. the ground surrounding them was covered in dead fleas."
-I laughed an inappropriately long time at this scene.

"the list of Peculiar Things Jinki Did".
-Honestly necessary

This was SO cute! The world you created, the deatails, the gentleness. The unrequited loves without angst, the pain balanced with acceptance, the beauty of the fae world contrasted with the ugliness of humans. This was such a delight: funny, pretty, thought-provoking. So cute, so good.

[jongtaeluv]