Ugh, I left a really awkward comment on AO3, but I am just going to say again that I loved this fic. Especially the end. But also all of it. Also, hurrah for martial arts! Now I kind of want to sign up for martial arts courses, but I don't actually have disposable income.
This is the first time I've had disposable income in my adult life, so I just decided to go for it. Can I just say, OUCH. I had no idea I was still capable of doing forty sit-ups.
Also, thank you bb. I loved your awkward comment, because I'm an awkward commenter too, and so I totally understand. THANK YOU.
Bwahahaha. And then when the ambulance brings in my drunk ass alcoholic self to my former place of employment, i can point to the tattoo across my chest and say "See? I make excellent life choices, bitches." :D
I think I kind of I love you for writing this. I'm not sure I can articulate why in a way that does it justice, but ACK!, because it's a love story (duh). That is, a love story with a happy ending for those of us who don't really know how to make those work. For those of us who are better with written words and who are for some stupid reason inclined to confess all our worst faults before...right before... That was my favorite moment, among many. I almost always relate more with Merlin in fic but this Arthur...I had such sympathy. He expects himself to fuck it up and...well, thank fuck for Merlin because he apparently gets that. Mostly I love their connection - as physical as cerebral, but they have to dance there through words to have any chance of ever arriving. I know the feeling
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AHAHA okay so, here is where I show my own ignorance and confess that I haven't actually read Dickens. Never had to read him in school, and have no particular feelings about him either way. Instead, I just asked gollumgollum about what author Arthur should have ~feelings about, who a lot of other folks would hate. Dickens came up, as did the whole "he got paid by the word" thing, and I read up on critiques of him from both sides -- Christopher Hitchens' last column for Vanity Fair was about Dickens. Hitchens loved Dickens, but I think he admitted that the dude was prone to tangents, racism, and sentimentality. (In my defense, reading criticism of Dickens took a lot less time than reading Dickens' actual novels would have
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Well, we're even then, because I've never read Murakami or Zizek. Surrealist fiction scares me the same way horror movies do...if there were some way to read with my fingers over my eyes and with someone to hold my hand, I would. And Zizek! You say you're not an intellectual?! I've read some Lacanian philosophy (mostly to impress a girl) and some Derrida because I wanted to, but I'm much more susceptible to stuffy victorian novelists. Also, Dickens writes love stories with happy endings with witty political satire in the middle (and I do work on prison conditions...so)...maybe what I'm saying is that as I get older I realize I'm much simpler than I once fancied.
I remember that Hitchens' column...vaguely. I think I never got over myself enough to listen to him after certain...things.
And yeah, I'll never figure out how to make relationships work. I think that's why I'm drawn to Merlin fanfic specifically - they are not an easy pair to make work. The way I imagine them anyway.
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Also, thank you bb. I loved your awkward comment, because I'm an awkward commenter too, and so I totally understand. THANK YOU.
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I remember that Hitchens' column...vaguely. I think I never got over myself enough to listen to him after certain...things.
And yeah, I'll never figure out how to make relationships work. I think that's why I'm drawn to Merlin fanfic specifically - they are not an easy pair to make work. The way I imagine them anyway.
Totally made my day :)
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