for Pastime9/14/2012 c1 
2k+Hawki
Short, and I admit to having to read it more than once to get the full effect (author's note also hoped). Having got said full effect though, I think this was very well done. Effective writing, is to the point, and captures the despair that undeath can bring. Good job.
2k+HawkiShort, and I admit to having to read it more than once to get the full effect (author's note also hoped). Having got said full effect though, I think this was very well done. Effective writing, is to the point, and captures the despair that undeath can bring. Good job.
8/30/2011 c1 111LA Knight
Wow. Okay, because this is short, I can't give it the whole deep-long-full-of-praise reviews I adore giving unto you, like pitiful offerings from a peasant to her glorious queen, BUT. Holy crap that was depressing. Because I can tell she's depressed. She doesn't want to be a Death Knight, does she? Or at least, not anymore. She's like those vampires in Anne Rice books who were happy to be what they are when they first became so, but now long for their humanity because they don't really recognize themselves anymore. It's sad. I didn't think it would be sad (or short; will you stop tormenting me with the shortness? Again, it's not nice to hook people on drugs and then not provide *shakes finger in admonishment*).
I can say this, though. Usually people think of cutting/self-mutilation with horror. In literature, it's usually written about with some sort of intense, dark emotion (rage, grief, emotional agony, that sort of thing). But here, I think the horror of what she's doing is more aptly expressed by the fact that there's no emotion in her. It's not a redirection of feeling (like with a lot of cutters, who redirect their emotional pain into physical pain). It's almost like... almost like she's trying to see if she feels anything at all anymore. And that's not just horrifying, but sad as well.
So, yeah. That's LA's two cents. Hope you enjoyed!
- LA
*huggies for my favorite Ocean!*
111LA KnightWow. Okay, because this is short, I can't give it the whole deep-long-full-of-praise reviews I adore giving unto you, like pitiful offerings from a peasant to her glorious queen, BUT. Holy crap that was depressing. Because I can tell she's depressed. She doesn't want to be a Death Knight, does she? Or at least, not anymore. She's like those vampires in Anne Rice books who were happy to be what they are when they first became so, but now long for their humanity because they don't really recognize themselves anymore. It's sad. I didn't think it would be sad (or short; will you stop tormenting me with the shortness? Again, it's not nice to hook people on drugs and then not provide *shakes finger in admonishment*).
I can say this, though. Usually people think of cutting/self-mutilation with horror. In literature, it's usually written about with some sort of intense, dark emotion (rage, grief, emotional agony, that sort of thing). But here, I think the horror of what she's doing is more aptly expressed by the fact that there's no emotion in her. It's not a redirection of feeling (like with a lot of cutters, who redirect their emotional pain into physical pain). It's almost like... almost like she's trying to see if she feels anything at all anymore. And that's not just horrifying, but sad as well.
So, yeah. That's LA's two cents. Hope you enjoyed!
- LA
*huggies for my favorite Ocean!*