Date: 02/24/15 05:00 pm Title: Strangers
I miss Aufgeweckt_Engel's companion piece to this :(
Reading this whole story again since I see you posted a third part ^^ Love it so much. Oh, the unexpressed feelings, it hurts... But in a good way, lol
Date: 10/15/14 04:01 am Title: Strangers
You HAVE to make a sequel of this!! It's too darn good!
Date: 08/19/13 02:01 pm Title: Strangers
I love this story. I just read it again after some time and it's even better than I remembered.
Date: 11/20/11 04:06 pm Title: Strangers
You expressed Bill's longing, desires, etc, even the one's he not sure of, so well. He maybe doesn't have all that he wants now, and maybe he'll never get it, but at least he's (mostly) realistic of the reality and he still has hope!
Author's Response: So very true! He may be jaded on love, but at least he can still be hopeful, while keeping his feet on the ground at the same time. Thank you for reading! ♥ ♥ ♥
Date: 10/05/11 12:55 am Title: Strangers
Also, I hope you and Aufgeweckt_Engel get togethder and give us a sequel. It was beautiful, but I can't stand the htought of them both being in love, and hating what they are doing, because they wont tell eachother.
Author's Response: I was thinking about writing another, and then life got crazy, and then I just didn't feel it, but now I'm feeling it again so there may just be another one in the works. And if there is, it'll be up to her to write it from Tom's perspective if she's up for the challenge. So, I hope there's another one coming soon, but it just kind of depends on life and the way I'm feeling toward the characters.
Date: 10/05/11 12:37 am Title: Strangers
Oh, this is just...sad. Heart breakingly sad. Very nicely written, but I just want to cry now.
Author's Response: I never meant to make anyone cry, but I'm glad it could touch you like that. ♥
Date: 09/11/11 01:47 am Title: Strangers
I think my heart just broke. I loved this so much in the same masochistic way Bill loves what's going on here. I'm going to read the counterpart, but I'm dying to know what YOU thought was going through Tom's mind at the time. I really loved this. I think I'll need to read it again.
Author's Response: My apologies for the broken heart, even though I love to hear that people have been affected by it that much. I would tell you what I thought was going through Tom's head, but that might ruin it. I'd love to hear what YOU think is really going through Tom's head though.
Date: 09/07/11 08:31 am Title: Strangers
I so desperately want... no need more of this. It's wonderful! I love it!
Author's Response: Thank you. I'm glad you loved it. =)
Date: 09/06/11 08:46 pm Title: Strangers
What a fantastic one-shot. Utterly amazing, realistic and so, so wonderfully angsty, so full of emotions, repressed ones, hidden ones, forbidden ones. I love stories like that, complicated ones, where nothing is as it seems and the main actors carry their masks so well, creating facades in fear of losing the tiniest crumble of a pretense satisfaction they get. You wrote it beautifully and it was so full of energy, not a single dull, empty moment here and that's a gift to be able to write like that. Simply great. I am happy you are back!!!
Author's Response: Thank you so much, you are always so sweet. I'm glad you could get so much out of something so small that I wrote so quickly. ♥
Date: 09/06/11 07:27 pm Title: Strangers
Wow, this was so good. Painful and real.
Author's Response: Thank you. <333
Date: 09/06/11 06:40 pm Title: Strangers
Aww... Reading this and Aufgeweckt_Engel's accompying piece was sweet, sweet torture.
I have hope that they *will* get together eventually.
Author's Response: I hope so too, but only time will tell.
Date: 09/05/11 01:50 pm Title: Strangers
You know how much I love the way you can built these cruel, realistic scenes, angsty moments, and make them work, write sense to them? A certain melancholia, sadness, is there and I love it.
I could say "No, don't do that!!", but who am I to say? Me, craved for love in my life too. Spread my legs in hope for something. "Maybe next time" until the next time never came. I think most of us have been there in one way or another until it just ends. I'm not sure if it's even good or bad, not complete either one.
Og course I'd wish them to fell in love and all that beauty, but in reality? This is like a gentle slap against the face, cruelö reminder that most of the time we only dream and end up chasing something that doesn't exist.
Are dreams always for good? Dreams of love that make us come back the second time.. the twentieth time? I don't know.
Lovely work, Chelsi! :)
Author's Response: Thank you so much, again, for so many sweet words. This cruel, realistic, angsty moment wouldn't have come to me for a story had I not been currently living it. Art imitating life, or whatever. =)
Date: 09/05/11 10:35 am Title: Strangers
wow... just, wow...!
Author's Response: Thanks. =)
Date: 09/04/11 08:20 pm Title: Strangers
The summary just sucked me in. I don't do slash, but I had to give this a chance. Have you heard of Tegan and Sara? They have a song called, "The Con," and I thought of it while reading this. You captured Bill's emotions well. My friend is going through something like this. Giving this boy everything he wants just because he's in love with the boy. The Con. That's definitely what Tom is.
Author's Response: I have heard of them, and that's one of the few songs I've actually heard and enjoyed. I can see the connection you made between the two. I think I was able to capture Bill's emotions so well because they're my own in a similar situation. It's rough, and I can sympathize with anyone going through it. Thank you so much for your review, and for giving it a shot even though it's slash. ♥
Date: 09/04/11 03:50 pm Title: Strangers
Ohhh this was so heart breaking and beautiful at the same time! So very well written l'île everything you write, i loved it!
Author's Response: Thank you! ♥
Date: 09/04/11 02:38 pm Title: Strangers
This was perfect. I really felt the longing in Bill, waiting for something that Tom's most definitely not ready to give.
I wish there was a prequel and a really, really long sequel, but just because these characters make me want to read more. The whole idea about this fic is the casualness of the encounters, the implicit opportunity in such an open final, and you definitely achieved that; so, this is absolutely perfect just the way it is.
Thanks for sharing!
Take care.
Author's Response: I don't know that there will ever be a prequel or a sequel, but I'm glad you could enjoy it the way it is. So thank you very much. <333
Date: 09/04/11 03:36 am Title: Strangers
Wow! I can't even begin to tell u exactly how this has made me feel. Other than extremely heartbroken. U have damn near driven me to tears (but only because i'm holding them in). I feel like i've had an out of body experience & was in fact watching a "relationship" of my own. Sadly i've been where Bill is before & everything he felt & his needs & wants was dead on with a person in his situation. This was so emotional on so many levels that i'm actually grasping for the words to leave a half assed decent review. I'm pretty much speachless. Excellent job with writing this.
Author's Response: I think a lot of us have been in a similar situation. Some of us (unfortunately) are stuck in one right now, just like Bill. Unable to get out of the mess and unsure if we really even want to. I'm sorry this story drove you to near tears, but I'm very flattered that it could have that much impact on you. I don't think this was a half-assed review at all. Thank you so much for it. ♥ ♥ ♥
Date: 09/04/11 03:21 am Title: Strangers
This was really gorgeous. I love how, even aside from it being Bill's POV and knowing how he feels, there is just enough in here from Tom that even as an "objective" reader, I think we all found ourselves questioning what he's thinking the same way Bill was, and hoping right alongside Bill.
I love stories like this, that make me think about communication, miscommunication, and how alone in our own heads we all really are. Tom could be thinking anything, there are so many possibilities for his motivation. That is so realistic, just perfect :)
Author's Response: I'm so glad you got realism out of it, and the fact that we're all alone in our own heads. Without actually talking about things (which they obviously aren't) there's no way to know how Tom feels about things at all, or his motivations. It's easy for Bill to say it's all about sex for him, but is it? Who knows? Maybe he's going through things in his own head. Thank you so much for your thoughtful review. ♥
Date: 09/04/11 03:13 am Title: Strangers
oh, god. that was really....really depressing. but good. aaaaaw...this happens to so many people and it's not gonna get better...it might for this couple, but not most...:(
Author's Response: I'm sorry it was so sad, but yeah. In most cases, things never change. But we can always hope, right? ^__^
Date: 09/03/11 11:53 pm Title: Strangers
That's really sad... I don't really know the Bill you've written, where he's come from and what he's experienced, but I find myself wanting to. This situation, and your writing, makes me feel for him.
Author's Response: Thank you so much! I take that as a very big compliment. ♥