Fic: Than Never To Have Loved At All (Dakin/Will)

Dec 11, 2007 14:56

HEY MOOG, HAPPY BIRTHDAY. ♥ I don't even know if anyone else wants to read a relatively nonsensical pairing with awkwardly-fitting timelines, based mostly on the fact that the characters were played by the same actor, BUT I BET YOU DO.

(Due to the ridiculously close-together deadlines of 8th and 11th December for this and martianholiday, this is the first time ( Read more... )

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moogle62 December 11 2007, 17:03:36 UTC
YOU

THIS

I

NNNNGGH MADDIE

(I will come back, and say better things WHEN MY BRAIN HAS STOPPED TRYING TO EXPLODE OUT OF MY EYES IN GLEE)

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strangeumbrella December 11 2007, 17:38:35 UTC
LOL THANKS I THINK.

(ALSO, I AM FINALLY ABOUT TO CATCH UP ON WHAT FEELS LIKE A BAZILLION COMMENTS/POSTS/FLIST/EVERYTHING, BUT IS ACTUALLY JUST A PRODUCT OF, LIKE, THREE DAYS)

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moogle62 December 11 2007, 17:53:01 UTC
Right, here goes. I can't make any claims as to how coherent this will be, because you and Loz have eaten my brain with your loveliness and wonderment, so if I sound all broken and rubbish and overly enthused, I blame you both. Just so we're clear. Also, please marvel at my ability to quote back all your fic because in picking favourite lines, it happened to be the entire fic. So there.

- Frankly, the number of people who seem to be unable to believe that it really has been a thousand years since a thousand years ago leaves Dakin slightly baffled. - lol Dakin you are so right. The saying 'I can't believe it' has always amused me (IT IS A FACT, MOVE ON).

- but is half-proud of refusing to be swept up in celebration just because tradition demands it. But that doesn't, he reasons, mean that he can't watch the fireworks. - Go to the fireworks, Dakin! Go! (Yes, I spent a lot of time here talking to Dakin. Stop judging me).

- which, since the fireworks are presumably going to be above them in the sky and look much the same from wherever ( ... )

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moogle62 December 11 2007, 17:53:55 UTC
Stupid lj comment length restrictions, I mock you. It amuses me that despite not being able to express myself particularly well right now, I seem to have a lot of sheer crap to say!

- "Blimey, good luck," says Dakin, "I can't say I know much about that. Other than that as proverb would have it, laughter is going to be very useful."

"I'll bear that in mind," says Will.

"You've got it all ahead of you, then," says Dakin, partly carrying on with his show, partly really thinking about it. "Medicine, and university, and life. And love," he mentions, as an afterthought, "which is, as they say, all you need. Apparently."

"Or, as they also say, a burning ring of fire," replies Will, fairly seriously.

"Still, as they also also say, better to have loved and lost," counters Dakin, and then adds, "no, you are too young for that." - SHUT UP, THIS IS AN ENTIRELY ACCEPTABLE LENGTH OF THING TO QUOTE AT YOU. I couldn't cut it down any further, being as it is perfect and wonderous and made me grin more than my mouth is actually able to move on my ( ... )

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lo0o0ony_lauren December 12 2007, 22:20:51 UTC
Nnnnnnnnngh, this was wonderful, even though I massively spoiled myself for HDM on several levels. I DON'T CARE, I LOVED THIS.

I am still sickly and possibly hallucinatory, but I'd like to point out that something about the line '"Or, as they also say, a burning ring of fire," replies Will, fairly seriously.' (perhaps the use of the word 'seriously') made me think it was UOGB!WILL, LOL WTF I AM NOT EVEN JOKING. HOWEVER, WILL IS VERY PRETTY AND THE WHOLE THING LEFT ME WITH AN ACE MENTAL IMAGE SO W/E

(LOL WILL)

In the time I've been off college, so since about midday on Monday, I have watched a truly ridiculous amount of Whose Line Is It Anyway? and am on a semi-desperate search for decent Ryan/Colin. COLIN CONFUSES HIM ON A DAILY BASIS. ALSO I DON'T THINK I HAVE MADE ENOUGH OF A POINT OF HOW EXCELLENT THE FIC WAS. ARGH LOSE. BUT ILU OKAY XXXXXXXXXX

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strangeumbrella December 13 2007, 14:51:42 UTC
I FEEL REALLY BAD FOR SPOILING YOU. It didn't spoil you very...specifically, did it? Because I know what happens, I kind of can't remember what you do and don't know and what you would work out if you hadn't read it, and and and. As long as you are still able to read the books one day! Then it's ok. I hope. My fingers are actually seizing up from typing because it's so cold what the hell. I even have the heating on. This is unrelated. I think I meant to also say THANK YOU <33333333333 and also lol UOGB!Will, because now you have said that I can HEAR/PICTURE IT BIZARRELY CLEARLY OMG.

I haven't even seen any Ryan/Colin, let alone decent. Is it out there? It has somehow never occured to me to look. STILL. AREN'T THEY TEN DIFFERENT KINDS OF BRILLIANT KJDHFKJSDF

Are you still ill? DDDDDDDDDDDD: GET WELL SOON, I HAVE A PAIN IN MY HEART FOAR YOU

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lo0o0ony_lauren December 13 2007, 15:06:34 UTC
LOL DW ABOUT SPOILING ME - it's completely my fault in every way and not at all yours. For one, I should've read the bloody books by now, amirite. Anyway, the fic was aces and UOGB!WILL SHOULD BE WRITTEN INTO MOAR THINGS WHETHER OR NOT THAT WAS YOUR INTENTION.

As for Ryan/Colin, well, there's a whoselineslash comm that I found through Mapes, but I've not seen much there and what I have seen is frankly fucking mortifying. D: I'm thinking I might have to write some my damn self. A CLEAR SIGN THAT I HAVE GONE MENTAL*.

still ill as I think you can probably tell DDDDDDDD: xxxxxxxx

*I typed MENLAT, lolwhat

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