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[Report This]Date: 07/08/2017 1:08:53 AM Title: ONE
I'm so sad to see this story unfinished after all these years. Being a fairly new participating member, I only recently discovered your writing, and have already torn through it. Your characters are deep and comfortable, the story lines while dark, are thoroughly enjoyable. I do hope you'll come back to finish.
Date: 07/30/2011 3:59:41 PM Title: ONE
I am pretty sure that I let out an undignified squeal when I saw that you had updated. Your stories are always an intricate pleasure to read, and I especially love the way you have written Storm, Xavier, and their relationship.
The Resnais nod has made my brain replace Logan, Scott, and Phoenix with the triangle in Last Year at Marienbad.
Date: 06/10/2011 2:23:14 PM Title: ONE
Acse, I am soooo glad you are back. Really looking forward to reading more. Must say again, Anti Romance Story from way back was epic, and is still often reread!
Moar pleas!
Author's Response: Hi, Entropy, thank you for this lovely comment! And thanks for the comment on Anti-Romance Story, I'm so glad you enjoyed it and still get enjoyment out of it. I'm very very grateful.
Date: 05/12/2011 1:55:01 PM Title: ONE
As if I needed another reason why you're one of my all time favorite authors here.
"About bodies, and how to live in them." Indeed. This just kept playing in my mind over & over again throughout this first chapter. I'm so excited to see what you're going to do with this theme. There are so many different directions you can take it & I know it'll be excellent since you're writing & ideas are always up to par.
The timing of this is just dead on. "About bodies, and how to live in them." I guess that's a theme that's been running through my mind before I even read this, but just didn't recognize it until now. As someone who has been exposed to & experienced the ultimate breakdown & limitations of the body in recent months, this hits close to home.
I really, truly cannot wait to see where you take this.
Author's Response: Hi, sahara, sorry for replying so late!! Yes, the theme of living in bodies is something I think about constantly, and I think it shows up in the writing here, too. I've personally felt those breakdowns and limitations, too. And what's always fascinated and affected me about this series is its relationship to bodies, to the work of having (or not having) a body and the experience of having (or not having) a body. The simultaneous fragility and brutality of a body. A "mutated" body, a violenced and violent body. An ethics of the body. I mean, all of their mutations are essentially weaponized mutations, making people more capable of doing damage to other people, other lives... making these people at once harder and more vulnerable, at once more closed off and more opened up, TOO opened up. How to live in bodies like that? I can't stop thinking about those questions.
[Report This]Date: 05/08/2011 5:46:52 PM Title: ONE
I cannot tell you how happy I am that you've started another story. I love "San Francisco" so much; I reread it rather often. No one else brings in Derrida and Celan. :)
You've captured Xavier so well here. I'm really excited to see how this story develops.
Author's Response: So sorry for commenting so late to this wonderful comment... and thank you, thank you on the comment about "San Francisco." It has a special place for me, too, being my first piece of writing for this particular fandom/ship. The movies themselves aren't themselves "great," but the things that their universe points to and animates--about emotions, justice, trauma, redemption, radical ethics--demand engagement. There's harrowing shit in there. And I'm so happy you're responding to the Xavier portrayal. I'm so, so affected by him.
[Report This]Date: 05/08/2011 2:58:52 PM Title: ONE
Ecstatic is the only way to describe how I felt on seeing a new story from you - So, so glad to see your superb writing skills back in action and once again your concept and style have me hooked and eagerly awaiting the next instalment.
I know you’re still probably wishy-washy [your words not mine!] when it comes to our fav couple and it doesn’t matter what or who you write about cause it’s all so damn good but I still can’t help keeping my fingers crossed that the Rogan bug has bit you :) we’re a great bunch you know, slightly mad but a good bunch none the less! x
Author's Response: Yaayy, hi, litlen! Did I say I was wishy-washy about them? Seriously, I have nothing but affection for the Rogan bunch and for the Rogan ship itself, though the way I write them might suggest otherwise... I just like all the levels of intimacy they have, sometimes but not always including romantic. So I don't know if this story is going to be less wishy-washy, in that regard... But maybe I've been a little bit bitten by the bug? ;)
[Report This]Date: 05/08/2011 11:31:45 AM Title: ONE
Extraordinary.
I had been hoping you would write another story. I can't describe how wonderful your writing is - the previous reviewers expressed this more eloquently than me, but please add me to your list of admirers. Your other stories, in addition to this new one, always struck me as some of the most haunting explorations of the humanity of the X-Men and their enemies.
I cannot wait for more.
Author's Response: I'm very sorry I'm replying so late. Thank you so, so much. This is a wonderful comment and plenty eloquent! It's made my day.
[Report This]Date: 05/07/2011 8:25:40 PM Title: ONE
Wow. You got Xavier's voice wonderfully right. And the brutal insight of his thoughts -- no illusions about what's going on or his place in it. Exactly what you would expect of both a brilliant thinker and a telepath.
Your description of his episodes of locked-in syndrome more or less are one of my deepest fears. I have sleep paralysis, where -- luckily *very* rarely -- I wake up from sleep but the muscle paralysis of REM doesn't switch off, so I'm awake but I can't move or speak. It's freakin' terrifying.
So, favorite lines:
Xavier thinks of the girl—can it only have been three years ago—escorted into the mansion on Scott’s arm, coat damp with melted snow, twitching like a wild cat, speaking only to give her fake name, and to ask where Logan had been taken.
[In all the Rogan fic I've read, somehow I've never read a description of Rogue coming to the mansion -- or at least a memorable one -- and this one was spot on]
Or during the day, between one blink and the next, he suddenly loses hold of himself; he can feel himself slipping out of his flesh like jelly, or can feel the body unfastening from him, can see the skin of his skin dissolving into powder.
“Very good,” he says, then curses himself for sounding like a third-rate butler.
He wishes he were like Jean, able to move himself with his mind, instead of being trapped like an infant within this dumb husk—
—focus, Charles, Christ, get it together, man, the hand, the hand, this is your hand now, get it, back, back—
What had he meant when he had said to Logan, Least of all to you? “I don’t have to explain myself, least of all to you.” Why least of all to Logan?
Author's Response: I am so sorry for apologizing late to this wonderful comment!! Thank you for the comments about Anti-Romance Story, I'm honored you sacrificed your sleep for it. And I get sleep paralysis, too. It's SO TERRIFYING. I love Xavier, and what you very aptly call his "brutal insight"; particularly the brutal part. He's just fascinating. And he's always ended up forming very interesting triangles in various relationships in the series; especially Jean/Scott, Jean/Magneto, Rogue/Logan.
Date: 05/07/2011 8:05:46 PM Title: ONE
Haven't read the chapter yet, but I just wanted to tell you I'm so glad to see you writing new stuff! I've really enjoyed reading your other stuff. They left me with so many thoughts I know I composed a bunch of reviews in my head, don't know if I ever posted any of them. ;-) I know for sure I was up until 3 a.m. one night finishing the Anti-Romance Story!