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Date: 06/18/2010 2:53:41 AM Title: I’M SO GLAD THAT I’M AN ISLAND
“I don’t love anything” then why is she so intent on protecting Logan at all costs? She’s struggling with him, he’s the difficult one, makes her uneasy and offbalance she’s far more comfortable with Remy at the moment but he’s now coming across as just the easy option, and I’m looking forward to the shit hitting the fan and getting deeper into the Logan/Rogue side of things.
There’s such a sadness underneath all this, she’s really trying hard to convince herself that she’s happy, pretending to see everyone else as happy too. She knows the truth but refuses to acknowledge it (yet!) and ok so they’re well hidden and hinted at very few and far between but you’re beginning to show the cracks in the emotionless machine!
It will all end in tears but whose? Now that is the question.
Author's Response: Thank you for this detailed response! I know; my attempt at a light series--FAIL. What was I thinking? But I really can't hold back my dominant concerns with these two characters: like how do we know people, and how can we never know people; how can we help people, how can we not help people. And it's interesting for me to see that dynamic played out not only between the two of them, but with outside elements, especially since in the films we're often shown how the two of them are at once totally in their own world--and then again, living totally separate lives from each other and involved with other people. I like thinking about that kind of fluctuating distance, and how that relationship could really be lived, especially after the events of X3. And while the "Rogue doesn't let herself get near people, SADNESS!" is probably the most clichéd trope in the X-Men universe, exploring its possibilities is still always fun. Thanks again for this lovely and thoughtful response. :)
[Report This]Date: 06/17/2010 11:23:37 PM Title: I’M SO GLAD THAT I’M AN ISLAND
i have to say you are an EXTREMELY talented writer...you really have a gift for just the write turn of phrase, almost poetic but precise in your choise of words to convey just the right amount of intensity, pain, emotion.
i think my favorite line so in this chapter is "as if the words were foreign words, as if saying them would teach him what they meant, 'She’s gone. She’s gone. She’s gone.'"
that is so simple yet so powerful, like a punch to the emotional gut. awesome.
Author's Response: Wow, thank you. I'm very happy you responded to that line, as well as the rest of the style. Precision (or, at least, precise imprecision) is pretty much foremost in my poetics of writing, so I'm thrilled that you found things that spoke to you that way. Happy little writer. :)
Date: 06/17/2010 9:16:57 PM Title: I’M SO GLAD THAT I’M AN ISLAND
This is really compelling writing. This story has been haunting me, that's for sure. I have to say that I agree with Dancing Donut, that it puts me on edge too. I can't shake the bad feelng that this is not going to end well for Logan at all. But despite my feeling of unease, I am totally sucked in by your story. I can't wait so see how it all plays out.
Author's Response: Thank you so much for this amazing comment. To hear that someone has been haunted by this story is a massive compliment, and pretty much exactly what I as a writer wish for; not to mention that the concept of "haunting" is a pretty major thread throughout all my writing in the first place. And as I wrote to Dancing Donut, being "on edge" and feelings of "unease" are pretty much exactly the reader responses I hope for... well, it's how I myself like best to respond to writing, in any case. :)
Date: 06/17/2010 4:47:53 PM Title: I’M SO GLAD THAT I’M AN ISLAND
Loved this line: "Instead he only looks at her with some mixture of tortured uncertainty and poorly concealed lust; and she doesn’t mind the first, as long as she can have the second, a little less concealed."
This one too: "What age has given her is the realization that every death is a different world; every loss a loss like never before."
This story is really growing on me because of how well it's written. If I had such a good grip on the English language that you have, maybe I'd be more able to tell you just how great I think your writing is :)
Author's Response: I really appreciate your line-by-line observations about what you responded to in the writing... and believe me, your grip on the English language, as evidenced by your lovely and thoughtful comments, has more than managed to make this little writer very happy. :) Thanks again for reading.
Date: 06/17/2010 10:21:32 AM Title: I’M SO GLAD THAT I’M AN ISLAND
more please!