"It's a perfect day here," she tells him, looking out of the window at the leaves glinting green-gold in the sun.
Justin laughs.
"Honestly, has no-one ever heard of pathetic fallacy?" He laughs a little more. It's nice to hear, even if he's only doing it on a reflex, a nervous tick he couldn't outgrow.
I hear this part in your voice, because you read it to me in a VL at one point when you were working on the story, and it is maybe my favorite part of all. It's just so so so very THEM, and so very TIN, and also so very LAL. It is smart and lovely and perfect in every way.
I know I already mentioned this to you before, but this detail is so cool to me, because you actually know how Justin's accent sounds and so you can use it and give me a sense of the effect of it (even if I don't know the exact sound still, but you can do the voice for me when you are here!).
Her father always says she's like a cat, addicted to sunspots. She doesn't remember ever telling Ron about that but when she'd arrived at the flat, a little shaken, a little pleased, the chair had been here. Right where the sunlight streams through the window in the afternoon and paints a bright square on the floor. Maybe she'd told Harry who'd told Ron. Maybe Ron just figured it out at some point over the years. The history of the three of them is so vast and tangled now as to be unknowable, even to her.
There are about fifty-million beautiful examples in this story of showing-not-telling, using an image to express something way better than you could ever explain it. And this is one of my favorites. Because yes, that's the three of them, right there.
warm sunshine and a warm voice in her ear.
I love this image
Maybe it's like always wanting the food you remember from when you were young. Do you think they're great because you liked them as a child and have fond memories, or do you have fond memories of them because they were great? Or have I just spent too much time with Terry and we should just eat the jammy dodgers and be happy...
But he was actually always like that, which is why he and Terry connected so much right away. I just love all the layers and pieces of them that you fit in to this little story. Because there is so much of Justin, and of Terry, and of Justin's relationship with Terry, inside this one line that on surface is barely about them at all. And I love how him jumping to jammy dodgers implies that this is a line of thought he's had before. Of course he has. &Justin;
"More jam, less Dark Arts, I've always said."
I want a bumper sticker, or at least a refrigerator magnet, of this.
"There do have to be some perks," Hermione agrees. Maybe it's because they were basically soldiers for so long, living with death until it became routine. You joke about it, or else you go under. It's not something she wants anyone else to have to learn to do, but having other people do it too is a relief.
I am a little bit out of words by this point, but YES to so many things in this, about what they've lived through and the complicated way they feel about it, and how nobody who hasn't lived through it can really understand. And the complicated way they feel about that.
There's that warmth in his voice again, wrapped around the mockery. Like when Terry mimics Justin and says, "Dearest", equal parts sarcasm and helpless sincerity.
My shippery heart cannot even handle this line. Just, ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
Terrance Ian Redacted Boot
:) :) :) :)
It's felt like a normal day, which Hermione didn't think was even close to being possible. For the last 10 minutes or so it's felt like all the other days, she lives, she's fine, she misses Harry. So she says, "Actually, yes."
Okay, again Kaz pulled this one out first and talked about it better than I could, so I will just let this comment end with it, because it is such a perfect line.
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Justin laughs.
"Honestly, has no-one ever heard of pathetic fallacy?" He laughs a little more. It's nice to hear, even if he's only doing it on a reflex, a nervous tick he couldn't outgrow.
I hear this part in your voice, because you read it to me in a VL at one point when you were working on the story, and it is maybe my favorite part of all. It's just so so so very THEM, and so very TIN, and also so very LAL. It is smart and lovely and perfect in every way.
voice softening, stupid cut-glass vowels sanded off.
I know I already mentioned this to you before, but this detail is so cool to me, because you actually know how Justin's accent sounds and so you can use it and give me a sense of the effect of it (even if I don't know the exact sound still, but you can do the voice for me when you are here!).
Her father always says she's like a cat, addicted to sunspots. She doesn't remember ever telling Ron about that but when she'd arrived at the flat, a little shaken, a little pleased, the chair had been here. Right where the sunlight streams through the window in the afternoon and paints a bright square on the floor. Maybe she'd told Harry who'd told Ron. Maybe Ron just figured it out at some point over the years. The history of the three of them is so vast and tangled now as to be unknowable, even to her.
There are about fifty-million beautiful examples in this story of showing-not-telling, using an image to express something way better than you could ever explain it. And this is one of my favorites. Because yes, that's the three of them, right there.
warm sunshine and a warm voice in her ear.
I love this image
Maybe it's like always wanting the food you remember from when you were young. Do you think they're great because you liked them as a child and have fond memories, or do you have fond memories of them because they were great? Or have I just spent too much time with Terry and we should just eat the jammy dodgers and be happy...
But he was actually always like that, which is why he and Terry connected so much right away. I just love all the layers and pieces of them that you fit in to this little story. Because there is so much of Justin, and of Terry, and of Justin's relationship with Terry, inside this one line that on surface is barely about them at all. And I love how him jumping to jammy dodgers implies that this is a line of thought he's had before. Of course he has. &Justin;
"More jam, less Dark Arts, I've always said."
I want a bumper sticker, or at least a refrigerator magnet, of this.
"There do have to be some perks," Hermione agrees. Maybe it's because they were basically soldiers for so long, living with death until it became routine. You joke about it, or else you go under. It's not something she wants anyone else to have to learn to do, but having other people do it too is a relief.
I am a little bit out of words by this point, but YES to so many things in this, about what they've lived through and the complicated way they feel about it, and how nobody who hasn't lived through it can really understand. And the complicated way they feel about that.
There's that warmth in his voice again, wrapped around the mockery. Like when Terry mimics Justin and says, "Dearest", equal parts sarcasm and helpless sincerity.
My shippery heart cannot even handle this line. Just, ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
Terrance Ian Redacted Boot
:) :) :) :)
It's felt like a normal day, which Hermione didn't think was even close to being possible. For the last 10 minutes or so it's felt like all the other days, she lives, she's fine, she misses Harry. So she says, "Actually, yes."
Okay, again Kaz pulled this one out first and talked about it better than I could, so I will just let this comment end with it, because it is such a perfect line.