Why, hello, there, emotional trainwreck. I have missed you, and yet dreaded your return.
I don't know what part of this were most heartbreaking (beside, you know, all of them), but it might be the violin-playing. Or Watson changing the subject. Or all those little details that just make them so alive, and highlight how lost they both are in this situation.
I love the struggle against the cocaine - and the justification for Holmes writing. Of course he would write at that moment - it's just the most natural thing in the world. I admit, while I do like to know why a character would be writing all this down, the inevitable infodump (I'm writing because yadayadayada) at the start of most slashfics gets on my nerves. And here you go and prove my assumptions wrong, just like the ones I had against any type of rape in fic. I mean that I love how you made the act of writing an integral, and logical part of the characterisation, and not just a poorly covered plot device to get 1st person PoV.
(um, also, do you mind if I friend you? *bashful* I am not well-versed in LJ-etiquette, I'm afraid)
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Date: 2010-05-03 10:38 pm (UTC)I don't know what part of this were most heartbreaking (beside, you know, all of them), but it might be the violin-playing. Or Watson changing the subject. Or all those little details that just make them so alive, and highlight how lost they both are in this situation.
I love the struggle against the cocaine - and the justification for Holmes writing. Of course he would write at that moment - it's just the most natural thing in the world. I admit, while I do like to know why a character would be writing all this down, the inevitable infodump (I'm writing because yadayadayada) at the start of most slashfics gets on my nerves. And here you go and prove my assumptions wrong, just like the ones I had against any type of rape in fic. I mean that I love how you made the act of writing an integral, and logical part of the characterisation, and not just a poorly covered plot device to get 1st person PoV.
(um, also, do you mind if I friend you? *bashful* I am not well-versed in LJ-etiquette, I'm afraid)