#fic testimonials

[altschmerzes]

DUDE! Were you the Gav mentioned in the authors notes of ‘still the bone remembers’ by tenderhooked? Just read it then started reading ur fics and it is like a mini cinematic universe of fic authors I love!!! It was the best feeling to go onto ur account and find so many fandoms I love plus amazing writing

LMAOOO YES!!! god that's such a funny way to put it. yes, that's me!! @tenderhooked is my dear dear friend and we ping pong things off each other often :) i'm so glad you enjoyed what you found when you checked out my profile! thanks for taking the time to tell me, that's such a cute way to have found my stuff :')

[jamiesfootball]

Woke up still thinking about this post that was specifically designed simply to hurt us. But what I can’t stop thinking about is the imagery of it:

“He never knew how it was that his dad could ruin everything as quick as upending a box, shaking out the bits of Jamie - smacking the box for good measure to knock out all the stubbornly clinging fists - until he was nothing better than something his dad went and spilled on the floor. A fucking pile of Legos for people to dodge around less the sharp pieces of him prick the the soft padding beneath their feet.”

Thinking about this thinking about Jamie makes me feel just as shattered. And Jamie thinking about Doctor Sharon:

“Jamie was going to walk back into her office with the crumpled up portions of himself bundled in his arms, and she was going to frown, polite and quiet and judging while Jamie lined up all the pieces in front of her, trying to explain to her what he'd done wrong and begging her to show him how to make it better.”

The imagery of Jamie begging her to help put him back together is so heartbreaking it makes me wonder who I can beg to help put me together after reading this???

As usual, well-fucking-done my talented friend. You have such a way with taking ordinary words and turning them into shanks designed to puncture pieces of my soul.

AND THIS IS JUST A PROMPT. MY LORD.

Everyone else please contact me if you’d like to be a part of the class action suit I’m starting for emotional damage.

NICE TO MEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Insert standard Youtube apology here for the emotional damages. If it makes you feel any better, I've been staring at the other whump prompt you sent and I have an idea....

[inevitably-johnlocked]

Hi!! Okay so I just read Supernova by Spark_Writer and omgomgomgomg it was so good my mind is officially blown I'm squealing. I know this is really random I just needed to tell someone how good it is that would actually understand heheh I'm really sorry. But anyway. OMG. FANTASTIC. I highly recommend giving it a read if you haven't already. I'm gonna go scream into my pillow. Thank you for being amazing!!

Hey Nonny!!

AHHH I thought you were talking about a different fic titled Supernova which I love to bits, but I haven’t read the one you suggested so it’s new to me!! Thank you for sharing it, and here it is for everyone else to check out!!

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Supernova by Spark_Writer (T, 9,862 w., 3 Ch. || Teenlock/Unilock AU || Angst & Humour, Drug Addiction / Use, Suicide Attempt, Romance, First Kiss, Love, Drug Use, Interfering Mycroft, Friendship, Overdose, Cocaine) – John is a young intern training to be a doctor at the Royal London Hospital. Sherlock is a seventeen year old addict. They meet, and everything changes.

[themalfoymanner]

Omfg I read on the couch n I'm broken. Idk what to do to stop what I'm feeling. Draco n Harry just that strong emotion. I was so scared. So scared of what had happened n that little glimpse of happiness at the end was what put me to rest. Yet it's not enough cuz I want more. This was so beautiful to read even tho I hate first person fic

On the Couch by Frayach is such a trip, isn’t it! It made me sob and clutch my chest and want to dive into their world and suss out the intricacies of Harry and Draco’s relationship and discover what happens next for them. I’m generally not a fan of first person either (although some of my favorite writers like Femme and birdsofshore absolutely rock it and use it to make everything seem infinitely more intense and visceral), but I loved it in this case because of how it structured the narrative. We only see Harry and Draco from the therapist’s perspective, and Draco is very selective in what he tells him, hiding certain elements of their relationship from sight and expounding upon others in detail. Draco controls the narrative, and since we never enter his mind, we’re kept as merely spectators, always wondering and never truly knowing. This tease is so exciting to me, and it makes the fic even more thought-provoking. 

Frayach’s fics absolutely gut me. After I read this, I walked around in a daze replaying it in my head and then needed to talk about it with someone. It just completely ensnared me and left me reeling. I’m glad you loved it so much too! It’s one of those fics that will always stay with you, which is such a special experience

[altschmerzes]

your post about worrying about people losing interest in a fic if theres too much time between chapters is bananas to me bc even when i stopped thinking about sloho for a while YOUR fic still left an impact on me and i thought about it often; like it’s its own standalone novel and no amount of time is gonna change how it felt reading it or being excited for new chapters if thats not crazy to say 😭 drive the wedge i will watch you grow in the years to come as if you were my own sister -normal person

wah????? this is one of the nicest things you could possibly have said to me i could cry... drive the wedge i love you sm. this is so so sweet :') and so encouraging lmao. i'm in fact very close on a new chapter of dtw which should go up within the weekend i think. and it goes out to YOU my friend.

[altschmerzes]

I read stuff you write where I am not even in the fandom just because i love the way you write. i especially appreciate the stuff you've written lately! i love how aro your stories and characters are. thank you :)

oh wah!!! that’s so unbelievably flattering, my friend, you have no idea!! thank you so much <3 aromanticism is one of the things that is at the heart of so much that i write and i’m so glad that’s something that other people enjoy too :’)

[altschmerzes]

Can I just say - I think you do a really good job of depicting characters reacting supportively to each other without them suddenly sounding like therapyspeak 101 or immediately wording it 100% the way they want it to come across and stuff

oh wah!!! you have no idea how much this means to me to hear, anon, i wish you could see the conversations with my friends where i’m constantly worried i’m doing this exact thing. The Posts about it are permanently stationed in my brain every time i try to write a scene like that, of characters reacting supportively to each other, and it drives me NUTS. so it really, really means a lot to hear that, i appreciate it SO much :’)

[altschmerzes]

just read name the yearn...platonic sex foreverrrrrrrrr!!!!! really funny that they had to be like wait are we friends. ive honestly never read platonic smut before and its great. personally my favorite thing about ace + aro fic is that it makes everything around sex and romance feel more chill because you literally do not have to do anything!!! sex should be fun! I was having a whole crisis over relationships and why they always feel like saw traps and thought hm. well actually my ideal situtation is friends with benefits. it never really occured to me that fwb could be the stop point rather than one other way of getting to inlove. shirley and louisa just have such a fun and hot and meaningful relationship and its not romantic but its soooo special. hello!!!! and stone top shirley!!!! idk i think even as someone who is not aro or ace i make up so many rules about relationships and my favorite thing about reading your stuff is how your challenge what platonic relationship can look like. and then romance is not an evil saw-trap because i can do other things if i want. great lesbain sex

!!!! thank you so, SO much for this message, it really means SO much to me to hear that you enjoyed the fic and that it meant something to you!! that fic is so dear to my heart, which i know i say a lot, but it really, really is. it was the first smut fic i posted, i think, and i'm really pleased with how it turned out. (god, i need to post chapter three. it's like. it's literally written, i just need to edit and tweak it and it's good to go. @ myself, COME ON MAN.)

the 'wait are we friends' scene is one of my favourite ones i've written in recent memory. it's so... awkward and strange and endearing and fond and i am so, so happy with it.

and the way i depicted that relationship... yeah. yeah, for real, it is like. it is so important to me that their relationship is exactly, specifically, and in its final most important/evolved form 'friends with benefits.' i wish there was another term for that, because it sounds so... flippant? but it's such a special kind of relationship to me. i love writing about it. i love reading about it. (i really wish it was easier to find things to read but like 90% of the tag on ao3 is like, straight up romantic ship fic. still.)

i'm so, so specifically glad that this fic could be a part of a journey for you to better understanding what you want out of your own relationships!! that is so meaningful to me :') especially because of how much i put of myself and my own non-normative relationship into my work. non-normative relationships are my bread and butter and they bring me such joy and satisfaction and like... the sense that i can breathe and fully exist in the world when i get to write about them and share them with others. i will defend anyone and everyone's relationships forever being exactly what they want them to be, including people who aren't aro or ace at all!! we all should get to love and experience intimacy and companionship in the ways that feel good and right and safe and not like a saw trap to us.

FINALLY: THANK YOU FOR THE LESBIAN SEX ACCOLADES AS WELL. I WEAR THIS COMPLIMENT WITH IMMENSE PRIDE. ALSO IT MADE ME LAUGH THANK YOU SO MUCH.