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Post by chero on Mar 23, 2008 10:23:31 GMT -5
Oh dang it! I'm so sorry, Kali! I'm validating it now.
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Post by massiefan on Mar 23, 2008 17:54:17 GMT -5
This chapter was really quite beautiful. Brutal yes, but beautiful. Cassie seemed to have quite a peaceful passing after everything she suffered - and I liked the way you described her mourning after Mace's death, how she cried, but it was different to the crying she did out of physical pain. I was almost tearing up myself....
Anyway, I'm looking forward to the next part. Keep up the good work.
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Post by kaliszewski on Mar 26, 2008 10:21:32 GMT -5
Thanks much, Massiefan. This is proving to be a tough one for me to get my head around-- for reasons that will be clearer when all is said and done. I'm having to be in a very weird place mentally to write "Penumbra." As for Cassie: is she really dead...? Chapter 3, it's a-waiting in the wings....
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Post by chero on Mar 26, 2008 10:35:03 GMT -5
It's online now.
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Post by kaliszewski on Mar 30, 2008 17:53:45 GMT -5
Thank you, Chero...! And-- BUT WAIT-- there's more. This one's a regular mudslide. ... a mudslide of , that is....
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Post by brittany on Mar 30, 2008 18:00:54 GMT -5
I just validated it! ... and it looks intense. Keep up the good work! LY
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Post by kaliszewski on Apr 10, 2008 11:12:26 GMT -5
And the last chapter, it's out there.... Read it and weep, folks. (I know I did...!)
Soundtrack musings and whatnot to follow. Thanks for tagging along, people! This was a hella-dark chunk o' nasty to work through. Sort of the anti-"Pod," as it were....
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Post by brittany on Apr 10, 2008 11:39:33 GMT -5
I validated your last chapter and edited your series to say that it is now completed. That was a beautiful ending... Read it and weep? You can say THAT again...
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Post by kaliszewski on Apr 12, 2008 1:29:57 GMT -5
Belated thanks, Brittany! And, as the unrelenting sugary cheerfulness of this one seems to have bludgeoned the peanut gallery into silence, let me take this opportunity to ramble: Sources: This is the first fic I've written that incorporates elements from The Pit (a.k.a. My Beloved Job). I read a case a few months back from New Mexico, in which emergency medical technicians were suing a pipeline company not for physical injury but for the emotional distress they supposedly suffered when they responded to an accident scene. Two families had camped in the desert near one of the company's gas pipes; during the night, the pipe ruptured and there was an explosion. Those members of the families who weren't killed outright suffered horrific burn injuries: the EMTs who responded brought suit claiming permanent emotional trauma as a result of witnessing those injuries. Source number one. Source number two was The Blockhouse (which I've mentioned before on the Sunshine board), an odd, rare, and very disturbing Peter Sellers film based on the true story of a group of WW II P.O.W.s who were trapped for months (some of them, then, for years-- in complete darkness) in a German underground storehouse. Music ('cause heaven knows I can't write without a soundtrack!): Mountain of One, "Freefall" Jarvis Coc[k]er, "Quantum Theory" Electrelane, "Two for Joy" The Bravery, "This Is Not the End" Winterpills, "Shameful" Catherine Wheel, "Satellite" and "Goodbye" Evangelicals, "Snowflakes" Alison Krauss and Robert Plant, "Sister Rosetta Goes Before Us" Big chunks off of Violence Is Golden, by Scanners, and School of the Flower, by Six Organs of Admittance One more thing: "Penumbra" contains a thematic element that I thought would have people up in arms. For spoilers' sake, I won't say here exactly what it is-- and there isn't a tag for it over in the fiction archive-- but it's sad and kind of terrible. Tragedy is failure presenting itself after you've done everything right. And sometimes an ending is the only reward.... .... that sort of idea.
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Post by monay on Oct 22, 2009 2:44:55 GMT -5
About the rating-- I might have gone with "R," but the questionable bits center around injuries and gore (implied or actual), anguish, and language. I tend to associate stronger ratings with sexual situations. So we'll see. Depending on how intense things get, maybe we'll be looking at an upgrade.... star trek voyager season 7
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