dear wonderful anon, thank you so much! this was so very good (and i'm also very pleased that you, like, just straightforwardly liked the story on the iddy arranged marriage basis, i'm pleased).
it was my first stab at longform origific, and i'm glad the worldbuilding delivered as it is - in implications and small asides - worked for you! i tend to be a bit... impressionistic with it, letting the details do a lot of work, and it's always a worry whether it's just enough or too thin.
that's a super interesting observation re: em-dashes, which i do love and use in place of trickier bits of English punctuation, and i'm going to think about it a lot. thank you!
(i totally ran out of time and had to condense the second part a lot and also abandon some of more explicit Alaric whump ideas, alas! as a reader, i would always enjoy 40k more, but as a writer - ha.)
your comments were super helful, thank you very much for your time and for your care <3
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Date: 2022-07-31 09:31 pm (UTC)it was my first stab at longform origific, and i'm glad the worldbuilding delivered as it is - in implications and small asides - worked for you! i tend to be a bit... impressionistic with it, letting the details do a lot of work, and it's always a worry whether it's just enough or too thin.
that's a super interesting observation re: em-dashes, which i do love and use in place of trickier bits of English punctuation, and i'm going to think about it a lot. thank you!
(i totally ran out of time and had to condense the second part a lot and also abandon some of more explicit Alaric whump ideas, alas! as a reader, i would always enjoy 40k more, but as a writer - ha.)
your comments were super helful, thank you very much for your time and for your care <3