Day 344: The bliss of completion
Sep. 2nd, 2006 07:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nagi_schwarzSo I did it. I finished the Talliswood series. It took me a few weeks, chapters here and there, at work, between classes, at home between bouts of homework. One hundred and ninety sections, some short, some long. Wow. I hope that's on the internet forever, because I will always come back to it. I venture back into previous fandoms, because I still like them, and read the stories I liked best. Some of the best ones from the Gundam Wing fandom seem to have vanished, although I suppose I'll be able to find them with a little effort. I read Maldoror's Freeport on Niko's rec, and enjoyed it. I really came to love her characters. I felt then as I do now, at the end of the Talliswood, only with the Talliswood it's stronger because the piece takes so much more effort. It's that little ache in my chest, from loving the characters and missing them and not wanting them to go, but rejoicing when I see the words "The End" at the bottom of the final page. It's something I'm willing to do more with characters in stories than with people, which I suppose is highly indicative of my psyche. I'm willing to give in and feel what the characters feel, offer them vast amounts of sympathy, no matter how bad the story is.
But the Talliswood is excellent. I loved it. I'm a bit sad that I abandoned some of the other stories from the fandom that I loved. I think I had them saved on my first laptop, and then just let them go when I switched laptops. It makes me sad, because I know that author disbanded her site. I don't think I even remember the URL, and even if I did, I doubt that the PDF's are available like they were.
Today was a lazy day. I woke after everyone else had already gone, showered, dressed, ate, and then headed off the library. It looks like my presentation for Aton's class will go well. Since I hate the oppressive silence of the library - an unease that not even my MP3 player can cure - I decided to try to get some more research done. Do you know how bloody hard it is to find a decent biography of Vlad the Impaler at our library? I ended up just ordering a cheap book off of Amazon, since I have the whole semester to get this paper done. But the frustration was incredible. Del is pulling a double today. BenTen worked the morning, and will also work a grave, crazy girl. I think they're both pulling doubles tomorrow as well.
I'm gonna get my Dickens and Shakespeare done tonight, come hell or high water. I need something to distract me from post-Talliswood sadness anyway.
But the Talliswood is excellent. I loved it. I'm a bit sad that I abandoned some of the other stories from the fandom that I loved. I think I had them saved on my first laptop, and then just let them go when I switched laptops. It makes me sad, because I know that author disbanded her site. I don't think I even remember the URL, and even if I did, I doubt that the PDF's are available like they were.
Today was a lazy day. I woke after everyone else had already gone, showered, dressed, ate, and then headed off the library. It looks like my presentation for Aton's class will go well. Since I hate the oppressive silence of the library - an unease that not even my MP3 player can cure - I decided to try to get some more research done. Do you know how bloody hard it is to find a decent biography of Vlad the Impaler at our library? I ended up just ordering a cheap book off of Amazon, since I have the whole semester to get this paper done. But the frustration was incredible. Del is pulling a double today. BenTen worked the morning, and will also work a grave, crazy girl. I think they're both pulling doubles tomorrow as well.
I'm gonna get my Dickens and Shakespeare done tonight, come hell or high water. I need something to distract me from post-Talliswood sadness anyway.
