#strider's edge

[biscuitcrow]

everyone drop what you’re doing and go read strider’s edge by paratactician now. i love strider’s edge dave.

[whisperedlace]

Read Strider’s Edge by paraTactician.

Strider’s Edge is such a great fic. And thus I drew Dave in classic Sebastian pose from the TV series. At first Dave was wearing penny loafers, and I thought to myself These shoes... Would Dave have realistically been wearing them? Turns out, no.

SE, I recall, was the piece of fiction that booted me hardcore into the hidden realm of tragedy. It also gave me the honour of being labeled a weirdo by my friends for that fact. Quite the tragedy they live. 

SE also convinced me to read Brideshead Revisited for a Grade 9 book report. The first part I remember being similar in tone to SE, but that all changed (sort of) in the second and third part. Much less murder drama for one. Much less sacrifice and great bonds another. I still think it was plain dreary. Also, I hated Waugh for having Charles turn to religion as salvation in the last few pages of the book. Nothing against religion, but everything against the way Waugh wrote it. Or maybe I just had a hard time comprehending unnoticed foreshadowing being a Grade 9 student. I shall never know, and will forever live in ignorance.  JK, I’m going to reread it sometime this year with a more critical lense and my added years to see if I can glean more from it this time. Maybe Waugh and I still don’t mix, but I’d like to try. 

Striders Edge is still way better though. I’ve also discovered that The Secret History by Donna Tartt is the driving force behind the murder drama. Good thing I’m into pretentious kids getting drunk in fiction.

[veggiesforpresident]

After-dinner Apollo

“I only had eyes for David. He was sprawled with superb arrogance in a high-backed armchair, wearing a dinner jacket, matching trousers, and a dress shirt with tightly frilled front panels and shining black buttons. The shirt’s high wing collar was open to halfway down his pale chest, and a black bow tie dangled unstrung. He was still wearing the dark glasses. One leg was hooked up over the arm of the chair, and he held a long-stemmed glass half full of red wine as though he couldn’t quite be bothered to put it down. He looked like an after-dinner Apollo, a young god taking his ease.” Strider’s Edge

[linnea-ancalime]

strider’s edge is slowly destroying all my hopes and dreams,

[madamehardy]

I only had eyes for David. He was sprawled with superb arrogance in a high-backed armchair, wearing a dinner jacket, matching trousers, and a dress shirt with tightly frilled front panels and shining black buttons. The shirt’s high wing collar was open to halfway down his pale chest, and a black bow tie dangled unstrung. He was still wearing the dark glasses. One leg was hooked up over the arm of the chair, and he held a long-stemmed glass half full of red wine as though he couldn’t quite be bothered to put it down. He looked like an after-dinner Apollo, a young god taking his ease.

Strider’s Edge

Stay me with apples, comfort me with flagons, for I am sick with fic.  I reread  Strider’s Edge last night before going to sleep and now I am perma-sad.  Strange, how potent free fiction can be.

[maltedmilkchocolate]

I finished reading Strider’s Edge. My life will never be the same again. 

[thenotedesolationplayed]

A fic review

Strider’s Edge: and AU fic where the world has gone to hell and the C Company comes across an old mansion called called Strider’s Edge. the company’s leader, John Egbert, thinks back on all the memories surrounding this house that continue to haunt him even as a battle-hardened soldier.

It’s magic.

paraTactician, while cleverly incorporating the core traits of each character, manages to make each one their own in action and speech, molding them to fit the image of a British college student in a memoir. As such, the story is both entertaining and emotionally wrenching, and the Major Character Death warning is definitely warranted.

spoilers below the cut

The casting of the characters was rather unsympathetic and admittedly well deserved, it seemed to me that the majority of John’s friends were twisted, complex, broken people.

And, of course, the deaths. 

Above all, it’s important to remember that Strider’s Edge is a tragedy, taking on a similar format to that of Oedipus Rex or Romeo and Juliet, and mostly I feel like I have to talk about it because I can’t get over how inevitable each death was; the entire story moved in ways that, given the characters’ personalities and the society they grew up in, were truly the only direction the story could’ve gone, and I wager that thinking back upon it with bring me a sense of cathartic sorrow for a long time coming.

10/10, this one’s sticking with me.

[ivyguts]

wanna reread strider's edge but then again don't want to break my heart