Guessing games

[brigdh]

You know, I wanted to play the yami_valentine game and post my guesses on who I think wrote each one, but I realized that there's no way to do that without giving away my own.

So instead, I steal an idea from boniblithe. Which one do you think I wrote? ^^


And also: everyone should go and read the story I got, because it is THE BEST THING EVER OMG NOT KIDDING.
This Unique Distance from Isolation. It's so good it hurts me.

Comments

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

I post these things with the hope that they might have meaning and impact for someone besides myself, but of course I'm afraid that no one will -- I don't know -- react to or maybe even notice the subtext and implications that I've tried to build into the story. So, um, this really means a lot to me.

Oh no, I love your stories. The subext is what makes them what they are. I know that I haven't always been the best at sending you feedback, but it's often because I need time to really find everything in them, and they're so complex that I don't want to guess wrong. You put so many layers and meanings into everything you write that I'm in awe.

So don't worry about being too subtle; you're probably my very favorite author in all the fandom, and I wouldn't want you to change. *grins*

And I've made my own guess at interpreting 'This Unique Distance from Isolation in response to p_zeitgeist at the bottom of this thread.

[b-hallward.livejournal.com]

Wow. That's one of the nicest things anyone's ever said about my writing. Seriously, it's going in my text file of kind remarks I save to counter the inevitable periods of frustration, discouragement and self-disappointment.

And I don't know why you should feel bad -- I love the feedback you send. Of course, there is no such thing as too much feedback ^^

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Aww. I'm glad.

And it's just that I feel like I should send more, or say something deeper. I think 'Mutability' sat in my inbox for months while I tried to figure out what I wanted to say to you about it (mainly that it's the only Muraki/Hisoka fic I have ever been able to stomach), and I think I eventually just gave up.

[b-hallward.livejournal.com]

Well, you certainly weren't alone -- that fic didn't get much feedback. I try to take it as a compliment -- it left people speechless XP

But more seriously, I can't hold it against anyone. Hiraki is just... so wrong. It's one of the few things I just don't read.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

I think too that it might have fallen between the cracks- it's too dark to appeal to people who like Hiraki, and people who don't are likely to avoid it just from the summary.

But, well, I adore it. And really, it's all about me.

[b-hallward.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I can see that. But the Hiraki fics that really squick me aren't the dark ones, but the stories that romanticize rape, torture and murder, presenting them as anything other than the sadistic product of a deviant, psychopathic mind. To me at least, the implications of fluffy Hiraki are much more, well, disturbing.

But don't mind me -- this topic always has me reaching for my soapbox


And really, it's all about me.

Word.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Yes, same here. Ironically, the dark ones are the only ones I don't have trouble reading. The romantic make me roll my eyes and hit the back button- well, that or worry for the state of humanity, but only if I'm having a bad day. It's the ones that eroticize the rape that give me nightmares and make me so furiously upset that I've started avoiding anything to do with the pairing at all.