I THOUGHT THIS FIC COULDN’T GET ANY BETTER. I THOUGHT IT SCRATCHED ALL MY TROPE SOFT SPOTS, AND HOWEVER IT WRAPPED UP I WOULD BE SATISFIED.
I WAS WRONG.
IT GOT BETTER.
I MAY ACTUALLY BE IN LOVE WITH THIS FIC. I HAVEN’T ACTUALLY STOPPED FLAILING YET. AAAAH, THANK YOU!
I don’t even know where to begin with talking about how much I love how you wrapped all of this up!
JILL. LET ME LOVE YOU, JILL POLE. Building her own myth and magic out of faded Polaroid snapshots, out of kohl, out of polka dots, out of memory, out of expressionist cinema, and (to bind it all together) out of a judicious application of the truth. Waltzing right into the Tisroc’s palace and declaring herself a maker of history and legend! The photographs they staged, and the downright brilliant usage of the walkie talkie! It’s all so perfect; I love everything about that confrontation, I really, really do!
I’ve mostly been reduced to keyboard smashing and caps lock abuse and run-on sentences, but I don’t even care. THAT’S how brilliant this was - thank you, mystery writer, for coming up with something so fantastic!
Emeth is a wonderful addition to Tirian and Jill’s party, and I love how you presented him here as a bearer of Calormen honor and culture. His running repartee with Tirian is brilliant, as is Jill’s exasperation with their insistence upon meeting again in battle.
And then Tirian finally thought ahead, and he did so to arrange them an escape route! When they finally met with Aslan and parted ways, it was bittersweet and tearful and inevitable, but full of determination to forge their own destinies and live up to the legends they’ve created out of themselves and each other - ahhh, yes. YES! The scene with them by the pools is absolutely gorgeous; you handled the goodbyes so very well, and I loved the hint of adventures still to come!
You might have been able to tell by now (ha!) that I really loved this fic! Thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for writing it! It was absolutely wonderful from start to end, you filled my prompt beautifully and did things with it that I didn’t even dare to hope for, and your Jill makes my heart sing with joy. Thank you so much, writer! This is beautiful! <3
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I THOUGHT THIS FIC COULDN’T GET ANY BETTER. I THOUGHT IT SCRATCHED ALL MY TROPE SOFT SPOTS, AND HOWEVER IT WRAPPED UP I WOULD BE SATISFIED.
I WAS WRONG.
IT GOT BETTER.
I MAY ACTUALLY BE IN LOVE WITH THIS FIC. I HAVEN’T ACTUALLY STOPPED FLAILING YET. AAAAH, THANK YOU!
I don’t even know where to begin with talking about how much I love how you wrapped all of this up!
JILL. LET ME LOVE YOU, JILL POLE. Building her own myth and magic out of faded Polaroid snapshots, out of kohl, out of polka dots, out of memory, out of expressionist cinema, and (to bind it all together) out of a judicious application of the truth. Waltzing right into the Tisroc’s palace and declaring herself a maker of history and legend! The photographs they staged, and the downright brilliant usage of the walkie talkie! It’s all so perfect; I love everything about that confrontation, I really, really do!
I’ve mostly been reduced to keyboard smashing and caps lock abuse and run-on sentences, but I don’t even care. THAT’S how brilliant this was - thank you, mystery writer, for coming up with something so fantastic!
Emeth is a wonderful addition to Tirian and Jill’s party, and I love how you presented him here as a bearer of Calormen honor and culture. His running repartee with Tirian is brilliant, as is Jill’s exasperation with their insistence upon meeting again in battle.
And then Tirian finally thought ahead, and he did so to arrange them an escape route! When they finally met with Aslan and parted ways, it was bittersweet and tearful and inevitable, but full of determination to forge their own destinies and live up to the legends they’ve created out of themselves and each other - ahhh, yes. YES! The scene with them by the pools is absolutely gorgeous; you handled the goodbyes so very well, and I loved the hint of adventures still to come!
You might have been able to tell by now (ha!) that I really loved this fic! Thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for writing it! It was absolutely wonderful from start to end, you filled my prompt beautifully and did things with it that I didn’t even dare to hope for, and your Jill makes my heart sing with joy. Thank you so much, writer! This is beautiful! <3