Date: 07/06/13 06:49 am Title: Lilies
Wow, this describes me pretty much a couple of years ago. This was very intense, but so amazingly written. I loved it!
Date: 07/12/12 08:16 pm Title: Lilies
So nice to see your writing despite the lack of time.
This must be one of the best ED fics I've read. Lot of it comes from a great background research you make to atually make it realistic - esp. emotionally. Other thing is that you slip this conditiin to the real life and build a world around your characters. Often ED fics are rather unrealistic single-layered in some way. You make it subtle, but still very powerful.
Keep on writing your wonderful takes on different conditions. I love them! :)
Author's Response:
I'm trying! I have chapters to write and a series to finish and a couple other series to work on and ugh SO MUCH and what do I do but write something else that's completely unrelated to anything. Dumb.
Aw, thank you. I'm glad it's one of the best! I got kind of frustrated with a lot of it and it didn't really come out how I wanted it to. Thank you, m'dearm I'm definitely sticking to them.
Date: 07/12/12 06:56 am Title: Lilies
Wow, wow, wow. What a flawless account of the pain that comes from eating disorders. What a beautiful setting, and what poignant scenes. I enjoyed it SO much, I was pulled in by the banner and the mention in the summary about the green that grows in Bill's ribs.
fingers tighten around his wrist - that behavior that kept coming back, was one of the things that really stood out in a story where a lot stood out. This is gen, but I can't help thinking that oh, if Bill's noticing Tom would end up in something more... and now while I write this, I see on your bio that you are an accomplished writer with a lot of T/B stories -- I can't believe my luck! Thank you for this fantastic story. See you soon in another review.
Author's Response:
Aw this is lovely, thank you! What a thorough review from a new reader. And maybe Bill's noticing Tom will come up in a sequel. ;) See you soon then~
Date: 07/10/12 11:55 am Title: Lilies
Ah, this was depressing but really beautiful. I'd love to see a sequel :)
Author's Response:
Thank you. I'll get around to it sometime. ;)
Date: 07/10/12 08:04 am Title: Lilies
Totally disturbing but wonderful nonetheless. You described Bill's thoughts and feelings so perfectly and realistic that it made me wonder if you've had any experience with ED sufferers. Either way, you once again managed to beautifully write about a very touching subject without making it overdramatic. I would love to see a sequel someday, hopefully with Bill struggling a little better with his demons now that he's got Tom's help.
Author's Response:
Thank you, my dear! No, I haven't had personal experience with ED sufferers. Unless you count my friend from Tumblr but we don't really discuss it and she hardly ever posts about it in general. I spent awhile on thinspo/anorexia/bulimia tags and blogs on Tumblr - and by awhile I mean a few hours every night for like three days. So many of you are asking for a sequel that I'm really going to have to, eventually. I just have so much other crap to write.
Date: 07/09/12 08:56 pm Title: Lilies
Holy...oh my god. This was disturbing, and sad, and so so beautiful. Your imagery is simply divine. I really hope we get some sort of sequel. Fantastic work, really.
Author's Response:
Aw, thanks so much!
rnAll of you so far seem to want a sequel so it looks like I'll have to do one eventually.
Date: 07/09/12 08:05 pm Title: Lilies
I had Ana's Song (Open Fire) stuck in my head right before I read this and probably all the way through it.
This is an amazing story. Bill sounds like he is anorexia nervosa rather than bulimia nervosa.
Author's Response:
Thank you!
rnThe issue I had with diagnosing him is that he's underweight, which is typical of anorexia, and he does binge/purge. But ana b/p sufferers tend to eat as little as they can when they absolutely have to and then purge that up anyway; what Bill does is a bulimia typical of massive binge on a lot of bad food and then he makes himself purge it up. I originally wanted to do bulimia but I wasn't sure how to go about it. Bulimics aren't usually underweight, but Bill is. He could be diagnosed as b/p ana, but I'm leaving him as EDNOS for now. Maybe he'll get a different diagnosis in a sequel.
Date: 07/09/12 11:33 am Title: Lilies
ok, this really made me sad. people hardly ever- if at all- think of men having the same eating disorders as women. and seeing Bill like this, and his thoughts, it just makes me sad. i remember a time when i had those thoughts, and i starved myself everyday. i never lost any weight though, and i guess i'm grateful for that now, but reading this story....it's terrible, especially since there are still people who feel this way. and its even worse for Bill because his job is to make people look thin.
i hope a sequel does come out of this. it would be really inspiring to see Bill start to recover from this, to see Tom helping him out. thank you for writing this. it's surely a work of art.
Author's Response:
A fourth of men in the US have eating disorders, actually. It's a small statistic compared to women, but it's still a big enough number - something like 6.25 million.
rnI wrote another Bill eating disorder fic, Wishbones, like a year or more ago. That was restrictive anorexia, though.
rnSo many of you seem to want a sequel so I'll see. :) You're welcome.
Date: 07/09/12 02:49 am Title: Lilies
Amazing insight into the psyche of a person with an eating disorder.This definitely needs to be a multi-chapter fic. The groundwork you've laid in this first chapter alone just sets the scene for so many dynamics to be explored, e.g. Bill helping Tom with this illness, Bill trying to get better/succeeding/relapsing, the Bill/Tom relationship has to be explored more. They're already so many levels there. It's one of the most realistic depictions of this topic that I've read on this site and it's just begging to be continued, so pretty please with a cherry on top. :)
Author's Response:
Aw, thank you! Yeah, there was a lot I didn't go into in exchange for the few things I did. This turned out to be more story-driven than character-driven like most of my other stuff is. I would love to do more with it, though.
Date: 07/09/12 01:29 am Title: Lilies
I like it, its indeed interesting how stories come about with real life :D I work in Forestry with Fire Prevention, it would be interesting how a story would come out with my job o.O Anyway, its sweet that Tom cares about Bill and is concern. I would love it if you did a sequal :3
Author's Response:
Fire prevention? It could totally be written! Not by me tho because I'm lazy and have other things to attend to but if it exists, it works in fiction. Also, there is porn of it.