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"It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor."

- Neil Gaiman (The Kindly Ones)


Also, an opportunity to tell me to shut up in a context where I can’t actually trace your IP:

THE ANONYMOUS WRITING FEEDBACK MEME

The quote and the meme are unrelated though it occurs to me that posting them together implies otherwise. Regardless, I somehow doubt that a critique of my writing would really equate to a criticism of my personal qualities, which are of course: astounding. Bearing in mind that astounding is a rather neutral term by way of positivism and simply implies extremes.

Comments

[finferwen.livejournal.com]

As much as I dislike Neil Gaiman, I'll give him that quote. ~_^

[reichsfreiherr.livejournal.com]

You dislike Gaiman, goodness, why? It wouldn’t be because his writing isn’t quite as clever as the masses like to make out, now would it? ^_~

[clonechild.livejournal.com]

Ffff, why would I tell you to shut up? I like your fiction and your writing style. E-even if I never have anything useful to say and half of the time forget to leave comments.

[reichsfreiherr.livejournal.com]

Thank you. It’s not so much about the number of comments but rather my occasionally wondering what people think about various pieces I’ve written and a distinct lack of tea that morning which prompted me to post this.

[clonechild.livejournal.com]

uuugh late like a late thing

Well, I might as well gush here since I'll forget to do it otherwise; I'm stupid like that. I really like your writing style, but it's pretty imposing for an ESL-er like me. Whenever I think of leaving comments I feel as if I need to be as - what would be the best word for it - ah, 'wordy'? Sophisticated? As your writing seems to me and I do not quite have the vocabulary, grammar or confidence to write like that. Your use of language is beautiful and I love your political plots for Meine Liebe to the point where I've accepted it as my pseudo-canon since for all people like to talk and theorize about the anime it really is mostly about 'look! pretty boys! oh yeah, and here is some plot' and not the underlying details the 'older fandom' likes to talk about, if I can use a term like that, where I would belong with the newer fans who were mostly lured with the aforementioned pretty boys and the promise of slash and stayed for the politics.

And I think I forgot the point I wanted to make. U-um.

[reichsfreiherr.livejournal.com]

Wordy comments aren’t necessary though they are nice at times. As for your ESL status I’m always impressed by the fluency of most ESL-speakers and in this case please bear in mind that I recognise non-native-speaker indicators in English quite easily because I’ve interacted with enough non-native-speakers to become familiar with those mistakes. If you ever listened to a Burmese speaker attempting to translate a sentence directly into English you’d find that the gender pronouns are usually all over the place for example.

Wieder is terrible in terms of plot and it does seem that a lot of new fans have been draw in due to it which puts them at a disadvantage. Then again, considering that one English language fansite for the series seems to suggest that under an Athenian democracy everybody had a vote, I’m fairly convinced that there are enough fans who really don’t want anything like actual history or politics getting in the way of their bishounen.

[levy.livejournal.com]

I don't think that I can say i know you for real, but what I feel is that your writing looks like you, actually. I don't know how to say it better, but reading both your general posts, analysys and fiction, I got the impression that you pour something yours inside of it to a degree that is slightly higher than average.

That quote would be a good start for expanding on what we were discussing about Seth <- Suleyman -> Radu last time: Children, half-wits and emperors that would always remain emperors, no matter how buttnaked thay are.

(PS. when I'm done with ROMVI, I'll try to make a recap post of the many things that makes William amazing, and eventually pimp to you if you are interested. There were moments of William pretending he didn't care, yet being messed up at the mention of Isaac that made me thought of your writings and your take on their relationship :3 )

[reichsfreiherr.livejournal.com]

Thank you, though perhaps I shouldn’t view that comment as a compliment.

Taking that quote literally I suppose at least Süleyman in the role of the fool at least knows that he’s a fool all along, though in Radu’s case considering his last actions in saving Ion perhaps he’s a child on the brink of growing up. Seth on the other hand is always going to be stuck as her Imperial self with the authority to dismiss any comment that might actually help her develop.

I have the beginnings of two William pieces that fit into my Isaak background series that might at least explain why William spends his time chasing Isaak so I’ll be curious as to what canon has to say on the matter. I also need to go look at the post you’ve already made now that I have time to catch up.

[levy.livejournal.com]

It wasn't meant to be neither a compliment nor a critique, it's just the way I see it. I can also be wrong since your written-self might be different from your "live-action" self, but this is the impression I got reading your journal...

my last post was more general spatzing about the things I liked in this novel and not really worth reading, but I'll pimp you the summary as soon as I finish it. :D
You got a strong vibe of an upcoming resolution between Isaak and William, from this novel, maybe not soon, but it's quite clear you're gonna get it before the end of the series (that we'll unfortunately never read), and from the way you seee William becoming quite irrational when Isaak is mentioned, you got also a not really nice vibe about how this all was going to end for him...

[reichsfreiherr.livejournal.com]

I’m all for consistency in reactions so unless I’m restrained by the dictates of civility or the working environment this is pretty much me in a nutshell. Though I don’t tend to swear as much in text these days as I do in RL.

I recall hearing quite some time ago that as far as the notes Sunao Yoshida left behind went, after a point Isaak just dropped out of the story. And if that’s the case then I wonder how the Kentaro Yasui will handle it. After all, it’s all very well for Yoshida to leave Isaak out of his notes if he had a clear idea of what he was going to do with the character and didn’t need to write it down but that’ll leave anybody else with the dilemma of just letting the character vanish or making up their own resolution for him.

[levy.livejournal.com]

...oh, swearing IRL reminds me of something. REALLY. *_*

Uhm, that's true, I remember the role of Dietrich in the Lost Stories, and it was quite well defined, like Isaak was more in the background, supporting Cain without doing anything special. Also, the movements of AX (beside Tres, Caterina and Abel) and of the Inquisition, are handled very generically and this is something I'll be forever terribly frustrated about. I have a link for an english translation of Lost Stories, if you want to check it out.

[reichsfreiherr.livejournal.com]

...oh, swearing IRL reminds me of something. REALLY. *_*

Dare I ask?

I’ve seen some information but I would be most obliged if you could provide that link. I’m still sitting on two William pieces at the moment and canon isn’t likely to have much effect on them really but I am wondering, especially due to the points you made, if they were meant to die together because William isn’t likely to get a happy resolution regardless of what Isaak says so the only real peace he might find would be to die with Isaak instead. And in an ideal scenario William’s decision to die like that would actually reassure Caterina’s of the necessity of human emotion leading her not necessarily to make a death-bed confession to Tres but to at least acknowledge that he does indeed mean a great deal to her.

[levy.livejournal.com]

my language has the richest collection of swearwords I know and I indulge in the sin of blasphemy a lot more than average girl of my age. Yes, that's nothing nice about it, but, you know, sinfull pleasures...=P

here you go: http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Trinity-Blood-Canon
as I said, AX's members fate is not described in detail, but, as far as I've read, William's role is kind of that of the 'old generation's representative that elaborate the message the new generation is supposed to live up to, while not being able to do that on his own'.
As far as gut-feelings go, I feel the same: both William and Isaak were meant to be killed at some point, but maybe not by each other, or at least, Isaak has his leader as a more probable source of his own annihilation.

[reichsfreiherr.livejournal.com]

Interestingly my problem with swearing peaked around the point when I was spending extended periods of time with Salvationists and considering Holy Orders for a second time. I’d automatically try to tone down the swearing which generally meant I’d revert to being blasphemous instead though at least on one occasion my muttering “Be saved, damn it” earned laughter from my company at the time.

Thank you for that link. I’d seen most of it before but not the breakdown of the future plot.
I quite like the idea of Cain leaving Isaak to die, only for William to go after Isaak with the intention of dying with him once it becomes obvious that he can’t save him. In fact I have an alcohol-aided piece involving that that I’ll have to look over at some point. The only problem with it being, which is a regular problem every damn time I write William, that William always, invariably wants to kiss Isaak if at all possible. The William I write just can’t seem to keep his hands to himself if Isaak is anywhere in his vicinity and if Isaak isn’t around he just obsesses over him instead.