Comments | tesla321: Fic: Knot For Our Heart, part 17

tesla321

Fic: Knot For Our Heart, part 17

Oct 24, 2007 22:54

Genre: Firefly/Serenity post movie
Pairing: Mal/River, part 17 of a series
a/n: the rest are here:http://www.livejournal.com/tools/memories.bml?user=tesla321&keyword=Firefly/Serenity&filter=all

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Comments 15

willowgreen October 25 2007, 03:59:23 UTC

Wow, that's a truly icky twist on how it feels to suddenly run out of hot water! Thanks for another wonderful chapter. :-)

tesla321 October 25 2007, 04:02:56 UTC

Thanks! It's been brewing for a while, but I had to get it into the proper place.

anonymous October 25 2007, 04:22:14 UTC

You are evil. I'm going to be all nervous at water temp fluctuations in the shower now. Like I didn't already have enough problems with that scene from Psycho.

garnigal October 25 2007, 04:22:47 UTC

Uh, yeah. I've got to learn to log in.

tesla321 October 25 2007, 04:23:24 UTC

Oh, I meant to write about this about seven chapters back. Heh.

sorrelchestnut October 25 2007, 04:24:47 UTC

Whoa. It's not often you really think about the realities- and dangers- of *living* in a spaceship, but this illustrates it really well.

And Inara's continuing blind spot is fascinating. She's very good at the simulation of love, but she's having a little trouble recognizing the real thing when it comes to him, isn't she?

tesla321 October 25 2007, 04:26:46 UTC

See, spaceship life...that's the kind of stuff I think of when I'm saturating myself with watching Nathan Fillion.

gwenfrewi72 October 25 2007, 17:10:44 UTC

Another absolutely lovely chapter and I'm hating Inara more and more with each chapter. Want to hit her upside the head with a big stick.

tesla321 October 25 2007, 18:25:50 UTC

But that's not what I'm intending! Man.

crescentdreams October 25 2007, 21:13:33 UTC

If it helps, you have a non-hating Inara reader, too.

Mostly, at this stage, I just pity her and she makes me sigh and feel a bit tired. I can relate to her frustration and need to talk things out with Mal, but I can completely understand why he doesn't feel the inclination.

And this is from desperately wishing they'd get together, in the series, but knowing it'd probably never work, even if they did. ;)

tesla321 October 26 2007, 00:32:12 UTC

And I was the same. They would intuitively know how to hurt each other in a way that neither could recover from. I felt that in "Heart of Gold" when she told him she was leaving. It would be easy for someone who hadn't really parsed that scene, to agree that Mal had driven her off. I think it's clear that her own fears drove her away from him and the ship.

herself_nyc November 5 2007, 21:28:44 UTC

What a cool idea!
And why does Inara think Mal doesn't love River?
Am I missing something?

tesla321 November 5 2007, 22:38:13 UTC

Maybe back in part 12, which is Kaylee's POV. I haven't written anything explicit from Inara, I think---on purpose, so far.