HWA!! I am so glad you enjoyed this - is enjoyed the right word? Got something out of it X) To be honest, I hardly remember writing this, because I wrote it last year and decided not to post for some reason - think I was nervous about meddling in a new genre. But I know this became jeongcheol 80% to Get you and 20% to explore Seungcheol's tragic heroisms haahahahaha. (The Carson epigraph however was 100% to Get you)
Like you were displaced and now you're misplaced. When you know that everyone you met had already grieved you and moved on, and the world no longer has a space for you. - gah this is beautifully worded, making my feelings overgrow as well
Ahhh, the way you talk about the emotions that sci-fi usually elicits vs how you felt reading this, the fear from disaster stories crossing over, that is SO interesting!!! I had to sit down and really think about what science fiction is about. Truthfully I haven't read much sci-fi, I mainly watch it. The media that stuck with me most all had elements of horror, and I think that subconsciously became a cornerstone of the genre for me (on top of my interest in climate + disaster stories just spilling everywhere LOL). I'm wondering if my perceptions are out of whack, brb searching for a link to Interstellar or Voices of a Distant Star to test this -- are there any other, I'm not sure, softer sci-fi medias that you would recommend? Or, more focused on adventure rather than fear/fallout?
(Star Trek is sort of in that vein of depictions but I think so often of [voyages] by ao3 user junos, I can't remember if we've talked about this fic before?, but there's a line about Seungkwan there, A golden cloudlike parasite once used him as a host, undetected. After, after they lured it out and destroyed it with electricity, before it could feed from any more of the crew, Boo hung his head between his knees and sobbed and said it was so lonely, it was the last of its kind. The fic is in Trek verse and not otherwise Scary, but what I felt reading that line in particular - terrified, choked up, knocked off my feet, etc. - is I think how I understand the genre as a whole.)
I haven't read the exo lj fic!!! It looks like op has hidden it, or I just don't know how to request access yet - will poke around and see if I can read it because wow, what a concept. I've never eaten time dilation & had no idea it was such a Trope, would love to see more *__*
ANYWAY sorry this got a bit long, thank you for responding to this so generously!!! You always have the most eloquent thoughts on media + writing and I feel like I learn so much from listening TT__TT <3 Very happy if this could Get you!
Re: [FILL] part of me (gone)
Like you were displaced and now you're misplaced. When you know that everyone you met had already grieved you and moved on, and the world no longer has a space for you. - gah this is beautifully worded, making my feelings overgrow as well
Ahhh, the way you talk about the emotions that sci-fi usually elicits vs how you felt reading this, the fear from disaster stories crossing over, that is SO interesting!!! I had to sit down and really think about what science fiction is about. Truthfully I haven't read much sci-fi, I mainly watch it. The media that stuck with me most all had elements of horror, and I think that subconsciously became a cornerstone of the genre for me (on top of my interest in climate + disaster stories just spilling everywhere LOL). I'm wondering if my perceptions are out of whack, brb searching for a link to Interstellar or Voices of a Distant Star to test this -- are there any other, I'm not sure, softer sci-fi medias that you would recommend? Or, more focused on adventure rather than fear/fallout?
(Star Trek is sort of in that vein of depictions but I think so often of [voyages] by ao3 user junos, I can't remember if we've talked about this fic before?, but there's a line about Seungkwan there, A golden cloudlike parasite once used him as a host, undetected. After, after they lured it out and destroyed it with electricity, before it could feed from any more of the crew, Boo hung his head between his knees and sobbed and said it was so lonely, it was the last of its kind. The fic is in Trek verse and not otherwise Scary, but what I felt reading that line in particular - terrified, choked up, knocked off my feet, etc. - is I think how I understand the genre as a whole.)
I haven't read the exo lj fic!!! It looks like op has hidden it, or I just don't know how to request access yet - will poke around and see if I can read it because wow, what a concept. I've never eaten time dilation & had no idea it was such a Trope, would love to see more *__*
ANYWAY sorry this got a bit long, thank you for responding to this so generously!!! You always have the most eloquent thoughts on media + writing and I feel like I learn so much from listening TT__TT <3 Very happy if this could Get you!