Discussion post: Novel length -- The Domesticverse, part 2

[kate-the-reader.livejournal.com]

This second part of the discussion of gyzym's Domesticverse, Wherever You Will Be (That's Where I'll Call Home) includes parts 5, 7 and 8. We'll discuss part 6 in the rare pair week.
Part 5: pressed against the pending physics of my passed down last name
part 7: life long local foreigner, i
part 8: having let go forever the fallacy of ever being alone

Once again, msbrightsidesh and I really enjoyed discussing these chapters, which are, if possible, even lovelier than the earlier ones.
SO MANY FEELS!

Comments

Re: The declaration

[flosculatory.livejournal.com]

Honestly, one of the amazing things about this 'verse for me is that Arthur doesn't confess his love for so long, but you never really realize that as a reader? Or at least for me, it was never stuck in the back of my mind that oh, Arthur still hasn't said it, isn't that weird??? because he is so expressive in his actions and it's so evident in everything that he does how gone he is.

(And now I'm just thinking of nolaespoir's 'One Hundred Ways to Say...' series that is ENDING TONIGHT, sobs forever.)

And I love the ending because it ends at such a simple point, them alone together in the home they built together (hah), after having been through so much drama and turmoil, this is where they'll be at the end of the day.

Re: The declaration

[flosculatory.livejournal.com]

Oh, and also? can I just say how much I love the title for the last fic? "having let go forever the fallacy of ever being alone" is just so perfect.

and also also, from the wedding fic:

"I fucking hate you," Arthur snaps.

"I don't believe you," Eames says at once, because Arthur needs to hear that. "I don't believe you, you can go ahead and call me every name that comes to mind and I still won't fucking believe you, Arthur, I know you fucking love me."

"How could you possibly know that?" Arthur asks, raising his voice. "It's not like I go out of my way to show you, it's not like I'm even any fucking good at it--"

"Is that what you think?" Eames demands, and he's shouting now, to be heard over the rain and the wind and the furious pounding of his own heart. "Because that's shit, Arthur, that's such shit, you couldn't be any fucking clearer--"

Silly Arthur.

Re: The declaration

[earlgreytea68.livejournal.com]

GAH, that exchange kills me. I love how Arthur doesn't deny it, he's just kind of like, "How can you know? I still haven't said it!!" Eames says it for both of them, and there's nothing about it that's even remarkable for Eames, it's just fact.

Re: The declaration

[earlgreytea68.livejournal.com]

I agree, the first time I read this 'verse, I was like, "OMG. Has he never actually said it????" And then I shrieked.

Re: The declaration

[msbrightsidesh.livejournal.com]

I agree completely! The first time I read this verse, I went back through every story to check that Arthur really hadn't said it befoe, because for the reader it's just SO OBVIOUS how much Arthur loves Eames <3

I love love love the part where Arthur later in the car asks Eames whether he really didn't know, and Eames immediately shuts that trail of thought down. It was so important for Arthur to hear that, I think. He knows Eames loves him, has known for a long time, and I think he doesn't need much reassurance in that area. What he really needs to hear, in the story before that and in this one, is that Eames *knows* that Arthur loves him, and I think that's so beautiful, really, it breaks my heart, because it's such a powerful thing, makes Arthur's love so...true, in a way, that he is most concerned with whether Eames knows what he means to him.