Comments for 'Gods and Monsters'
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coloredink (6th January, 2008 @ 1:59 am)
This story was such a pleasure to read, and not the least because you gave depth and complexity to Apollo's character. The poor guy's so often ignored, both in comics canon and fanfiction. Not that the Midnighter isn't awesome and kickass, but surely Apollo isn't around just to be decorative!
The section about flight was masterfully done, and I couldn't have imagined it better myself, especially the part where Midnighter realizes he can no longer sense Apollo as a threat. Scenarios one, two, and three were brilliant. Apollo and the sun and space was breathtaking. The part where Midnighter flinches again, toward the end, actually made me stop breathing for a second. The way they made up, with Apollo holding Midnighter in the air, was not something that would have been out of place in the comics.
In short, brilliant work!
Alis' Reply:
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed.
Schatten (17th November, 2007 @ 10:43 pm)
Sooo.. if I haven't read this story half a dozen times, I haven't read it once. I *love* it. It's like.. I dunno. Whenever I feel the call for fic that will make me whimper and melt, I come back and you know what I do? I whimper and melt.
Midnight's moment of realization, where Apollo is not a threat... and how they both started down the road for probably selfish reasons.. *rolls about in happiness* I always whimper and cry when Mid flinches again. I just have to make a pause and mope for a while because I know I shouldn't relate to messed up assassin characters, but.. the knife, it twists!
The whole last bit kills me every time, too. Apollo needing to be... wanted and needed for himself and not for his Apollo-ness. *pouts* ah, man. You, ma'am, rolled this story into a woobie doobie and I can't quit it. Sooo... thank you!
Alis' Reply:
D'aww. Thank you; we do aim to bring the woobie.
And I totally think you're allowed to relate to messed-up assassins. That's kinda the point, I think; the demonstration that, underneath it all, they're still unequivocally human.Helter (15th September, 2007 @ 9:55 am)
Woah. I'm seriously at a loss of words here.
So fucking beautiful. Every single sentence of it.Windress (15th August, 2007 @ 10:26 pm)
This piece is jsut indescribably beautiful. God, I cried, and it felt so good because it was the release I think I've needed since I read Human on the Inside. I've needed to cry for what happened to Apollo and Midnighter, for the damage done to them. And you helped me with that and I am immensely grateful.
Your story, in my opinion, is the most perfect companion piece to comic cannon that I have ever seen. I hope you know that I do not say such a thing lightly, as I am very possessive of a properly written character, and with a B.A. in Creative Writing, I like to think I have an understanding of how it should be done. But I want you to know that this fic just blew me right out of the water and that I will return to it time and again because of how goodthe hurt is in reading it.
You have made yourself a true and loyal fan in me, and I look forward to your other works.erin (7th August, 2007 @ 1:49 pm)
beautiful. I really hated this part of cannon. For me, it went down hill after this. They killed Jenny, ( i know i know spirt of the 20th century had to die but still . . .) and then they went and did *this* god i wanted to scream at some one for a very, very long time. I'm still not very happy with the way that they're making things go at the moment. Things just seem to choppy and they haven't really explained where things stand. It looked for a while like Midnigher and Apollo had split up *shudders* so i love this fic. This is what *should* have happened. We should send wildstorm a copy and tell them to get with the programme.
carla (6th August, 2007 @ 6:32 pm)
Human on the Inside needed this story. We fans needed it too.
Thanks.Jen in Japan (28th July, 2007 @ 9:22 am)
Sent here by arch_schatten, and so glad I was. This story ripped my heart out from the moment Midnighter suddenly realized he couldn't assess Apollo a threat (what a beautiful, perfect metaphor for falling in love for the broken boy!). And the last assessment of Apollo's need to be needed--purely and for himself--literally brought tears to my eyes. Beautiful.
Alis' Reply:
Heh, looks like we got referred to each other via the same post.
(Casual reader types, go check out Jen's wonderful Earth and Sky arcs.)Kur (11th July, 2007 @ 10:35 pm)
I... I love you
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Alis' Reply:
Woohoo!pipibluestockin (10th July, 2007 @ 9:02 am)
OSX Word - that explains a lot. You will find life much easier if you go under Tools > Autocorrect and then uncheck all the options under the "Replace" heading on the "Autoformat as you type" tab and the "Autoformat" tab. Doing this will prevent Word from sticking in a lot of little random symbols in place of perfectly good punctuation and cut down your clean up time when you convert to HTML.
Even better seeing as you are a mac user, try using Scrivener instead of Word. Scrivener is a dedicated writing program actually designed by a writer for writers. As far as putting together stories most of us don't need to do battle with a word processor just to get to grips with the text. Give it a poke.
And, um, I did so not mean this to be spam, sorry.
Cheers
Pipi
Alis' Reply:
Actually, I think it was the original export from NeoOffice that corrupted the spacing (the document went NeoOffice > OSX Word > Windows Word > HTML). I haven't had problems porting between OSX and Windows version of Word before. Then it was just laziness when I went through and cleaned up the document.
I have been looking for a good word processor for OSX, though; Word is old, NeoOffice leaks memory like a senile old man and iWork hasn't finished downloading. I'll have to try Scrivener; any software that gets a testimonial from Michael Marshall Smith is hella okay by me.pipibluestockin (8th July, 2007 @ 8:45 am)
This is a good story overall - with very good characterisation. I like this interpretation of Apollo and Midnighter (there is no way they should behave towards each other like a pair of love struck 14 year old girls). And I like the idea of Apollo being just as calculating and dangerous as Midnighter - for some reason it rarely seems to show up in stories.
It just needs some tiny details attended to as I think you might have run a global search and replace at one point when writing and its left a repetative typo throughout your story - please search for all incidences of "hews" and change them to "he was". This will make things shiny. A word by word skim for other typos if you have the time wouldn't hurt, but this one stuck out the most.
Cheers
Pipi
Alis' Reply:
Guh. The 'hews' thing comes from OSX Word eating all my spaces when it converted to HTML for no good reason. I thought I fixed them all up, but I must've accidentally hit 'Change All' on the wrong replacement. Should be fixed now.
All the other typos are just there to make sure you're paying attention.