Damn, girl - you can write! *wipes a tear* That was not just good fanfic, that was good writing, period. And so angsty and romantic. If I wasn't writing something positive just now, I'd have to, just to make Lister happy again. *sniff* Ahh... *sniff* Hehehe...
Aw shucks. I'm just a sucker for hm... What's the word... Dramatic romance. Dramance? Yes, well it is now, anyway. We were reading "Giovanni's Room" for my gay and lesbian literature class last semester, and I was the only one who LOVED the first love scene between Giovanni and David. Dunno if you have read the book (soo good...), but it's just this really heart-wrenchingly sentimental dramatic romantic moment where David just gives in to desire... *melts into puddle* And the scene where Lister considers what caressing Rimmer would be like reminded me of that.
I haven't read it, but I'm a-gonna have to. Dramance? I like it as a term. I know what you mean, and I love it, too; that point where love/desire becomes almost painful in intensity...
I must warn you, it has a really, really unhappy ending. My course teacher said he couldn't bare to re-read it for the course, because it effected him so strongly emotionally. Books about gay people in the fifties rarely ended well. :/
I have been warned... I'm still going to check it out.
Ja, true - that's what I liked about Maurice. Clive did the societally correct thing and got married, ending up miserable, and Maurice stayed true to who he was and found happiness. An interesting book, for the time in which it was written.
Yum! You have some really lovely detail work there, and also some good character exploration. The angst of the ending is wonderfully done without being over-done, too.
I must confess - I swore I'd never do a songfic, but I was listening to Why Should I Cry For You when I wrote this...
Sometimes I see your face, Stars seem to lose their place Why must I think of you? Why must I? Why should I? Why should I cry for you? Why would you want me to? What would it mean to say, "I loved you in my fashion"?
That song has stayed with me ever since I first heard it years ago - and now I can apply your newly coined term to it. It's highly dramantic. Sends me into a mood every time I hear it, it does.
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That was not just good fanfic, that was good writing, period. And so angsty and romantic. If I wasn't writing something positive just now, I'd have to, just to make Lister happy again. *sniff* Ahh... *sniff* Hehehe...
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Still - Dramance!
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Ja, true - that's what I liked about Maurice. Clive did the societally correct thing and got married, ending up miserable, and Maurice stayed true to who he was and found happiness. An interesting book, for the time in which it was written.
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Sometimes I see your face,
Stars seem to lose their place
Why must I think of you?
Why must I? Why should I?
Why should I cry for you?
Why would you want me to?
What would it mean to say,
"I loved you in my fashion"?
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OK, I need to stop looking at this post, because it just keeps getting worse! I re-read the fic, and it was sadder the second time, and now this.
*cries*
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That song has stayed with me ever since I first heard it years ago - and now I can apply your newly coined term to it. It's highly dramantic. Sends me into a mood every time I hear it, it does.
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