Writing meme
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Stealing a meme from tumlbr, because I think I like doing such things better over here. I can't quite decide! Tumblr is more active, but writing thoughts of more than a sentence or two is so much easier on LJ. I dunno.
Anyway! Meme: Pick any passage of 500 words or less from any fanfic I’ve written, and stick that selection in my ask/fan mail. I will then give you the equivalent of a DVD commentary on that snippet: what I was thinking when I wrote it, why I wrote it in the first place, what’s going on in the character’s heads, why I chose certain words, what this moment means in the context of the rest of the fic, lots of awful puns, and anything else that you’d expect to find on a DVD commentary track.
My fic on AO3
My fic on LJ
(It's the same stories at either site, it's just a matter of where one prefers to look.)
Anyway! Meme: Pick any passage of 500 words or less from any fanfic I’ve written, and stick that selection in my ask/fan mail. I will then give you the equivalent of a DVD commentary on that snippet: what I was thinking when I wrote it, why I wrote it in the first place, what’s going on in the character’s heads, why I chose certain words, what this moment means in the context of the rest of the fic, lots of awful puns, and anything else that you’d expect to find on a DVD commentary track.
My fic on AO3
My fic on LJ
(It's the same stories at either site, it's just a matter of where one prefers to look.)
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Date: 2014-10-11 08:32 pm (UTC)He'd clapped Tsuzuki on the shoulder as they left, said something vaguely encouraging. Tsuzuki'd tried to smile, poor boy, but the expression only stretched his lips thin and pale and made the skin seem too thin over his bones. It died quickly, and he'd stared at Konoe with those eyes he was so sensitive about, pleading for something Konoe couldn't grant.
A fic more about Tsuzuki and Tatsumi during this time would be really interesting, though I don't think I'm the person to write it. But the interplay of their personal issues with the external tragedy could be very powerful. We got very very little information about this period in canon, but even knowing only the basics, you have to assume it was incredibly painful.
He pretended he didn't notice. Only a few more, right? Just bring them back, and we'll see what can be done. Nothing. Send them on. Meifu had long since run out of places to put them while they were processed, and souls littered the streets and parks like beggars. It'll all be over before you know it. It took a long moment before Tsuzuki had nodded, fingers too tight around the case folders he held. Tatsumi met Konoe's gaze silently, dulled past accusation or pain.
It wasn't fair, but there was nothing else to do.
The shinigami aren't really meant to deal with right or wrong, just with the amoral process of death, and Konoe is trying to do that, but it has to be hard to close your eyes to sympathy or cruelty at the best of times, and much less at a moment like this. And of course Tsuzuki and Tatsumi would find it even harder (Tatstumi might get better at it later on, but here he's new to everything and i imagine less jaded).
One hundred thousand dead, two hundred thousand dead; numbers that high were all indistinguishable, meaningless. Konoe couldn't imagine that many people.
This line is definitely making a virtue out of necessity. I had trouble researching how many people, exactly, died, and a lot of the numbers you read today only seem to have been complied long afterward. I have no idea what the estimate would have been in the immediate aftermath. So since I couldn't figure it out, I just had Konoe have trouble remembering.
His employees, his small bunch of proud, powerful, crazy shinigami were meant for more than herding huge groups of nameless dead; the overtime and stress was destroying them, and their chief was too tired to even hear their complaints. The mechanical bureaucracy of JuOhCho was the only thing left to him: sign his name, stamp the form, send it on to the next office. Promise them it'd all be over soon.
And obviously to the reader this is a lie, because the bombing of Nagasaki is about to follow. The shinigami are lesser victims than the people who actually died, but everyone is this story is only acted upon; none of them are capable of causing or preventing the bombing.
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Date: 2014-10-12 12:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-10-13 05:54 pm (UTC)