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alexisjane
Day 5
In your own space, talk about a creator. Show us why you think they are amazing.
In your own space, talk about a creator. Show us why you think they are amazing.
This is hard and unfair and ridiculous as there are too many amazing creators on here to pick just one...
It's taken me all day to pick someone! I know it says challenge but it really shouldn't be this hard. Still...
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homo_pink
I think I'd seen a couple of her things about when I wasn't reading any fics over 1k so didn't actually read anything until Like a Detuned Radio, which I then read about six times in as many days. I can't remember who recced it but I remember thinking that I would happily bear their children for doing so.
I fell in love with the story, her portrayal of Jared, and once I had read Large enough to Hold a Man...inevitably with her.
I think one of the reasons my brain just clicks with every word, perhaps is our shared love of Stephen King. Her writing shares some of his clarity and deep, well-rounded character based story elements that I love. Plus, coming from a horror writing/reading background I think gives an appreciation for the bittersweet subtext that has become a key element for SPN and J2 particularly.
Also, she can fucking write. Not once have I ever had to re-read anything because I think I've missed something, or had a stray word break the spell of the world she has created or felt that I didn't want moremoremore once that last line has rolled on the screen.
There are some writers on here that make me simultaneously want to chuck my keyboard across the room and never write another word, and absolutely knuckle down and keep trying til I'm half as good as them.
She doesn't make me want to do either.
I would just quite happily sit at her feet and devour every word she writes, like a lotus-eater, content to just drown in her words, excluding all else...until she dies...and then I'd eat her brain x
(However if she ever writes about that scary frigging monkey toy, I'm out!)
It's taken me all day to pick someone! I know it says challenge but it really shouldn't be this hard. Still...
homo_pinkI think I'd seen a couple of her things about when I wasn't reading any fics over 1k so didn't actually read anything until Like a Detuned Radio, which I then read about six times in as many days. I can't remember who recced it but I remember thinking that I would happily bear their children for doing so.
I fell in love with the story, her portrayal of Jared, and once I had read Large enough to Hold a Man...inevitably with her.
I think one of the reasons my brain just clicks with every word, perhaps is our shared love of Stephen King. Her writing shares some of his clarity and deep, well-rounded character based story elements that I love. Plus, coming from a horror writing/reading background I think gives an appreciation for the bittersweet subtext that has become a key element for SPN and J2 particularly.
Also, she can fucking write. Not once have I ever had to re-read anything because I think I've missed something, or had a stray word break the spell of the world she has created or felt that I didn't want moremoremore once that last line has rolled on the screen.
There are some writers on here that make me simultaneously want to chuck my keyboard across the room and never write another word, and absolutely knuckle down and keep trying til I'm half as good as them.
She doesn't make me want to do either.
I would just quite happily sit at her feet and devour every word she writes, like a lotus-eater, content to just drown in her words, excluding all else...until she dies...and then I'd eat her brain x
(However if she ever writes about that scary frigging monkey toy, I'm out!)
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Date: 2014-01-05 10:57 pm (UTC)