I'm gonna be honest here I literally just finished reading this and my brain is just screaming HOLY SHIT on repeat with zero coherent input, so first off, congratulations there! This is GORGEOUSLY done, start to finish, I considered quoting portions but I would genuinely just be sending it all right back to you because every word of this is stunning. You made such a brilliantly cohesive narrative, and I just love absolutely everything about it. Also, the earthquake discussion/metaphor worked so well (californian here and I DID laugh when one of the things wrong with the ??dream?? world was 5 years in LA with no earthquake)! I just love the atmosphere of this, you manage to make it both eerie and intensely loving, and it gave the sense that the Other world was quiet while the "real" world was more clearly audible, if that makes sense. The muffled nature of the dream worked fabulously and came through in subtle but powerful ways. I'm just gonna be repeating myself now but I'll likely come back and yell some more because this is GREAT, thank you for such a fantastic fill!!!!!
(side note that this ship is one I hadn't actually read any fic for in the past and now you've ruined me, every other fic is gonna have to be this intense and lived-in and balanced to measure up!)
Re: [FILL] as all empires do (pt2)
This is GORGEOUSLY done, start to finish, I considered quoting portions but I would genuinely just be sending it all right back to you because every word of this is stunning. You made such a brilliantly cohesive narrative, and I just love absolutely everything about it.
Also, the earthquake discussion/metaphor worked so well (californian here and I DID laugh when one of the things wrong with the ??dream?? world was 5 years in LA with no earthquake)! I just love the atmosphere of this, you manage to make it both eerie and intensely loving, and it gave the sense that the Other world was quiet while the "real" world was more clearly audible, if that makes sense. The muffled nature of the dream worked fabulously and came through in subtle but powerful ways.
I'm just gonna be repeating myself now but I'll likely come back and yell some more because this is GREAT, thank you for such a fantastic fill!!!!!
(side note that this ship is one I hadn't actually read any fic for in the past and now you've ruined me, every other fic is gonna have to be this intense and lived-in and balanced to measure up!)