Holy wow. I ran across YOLD for the first time around 3 PM today.
It's 5 AM and I just finished YOLD II. With the exception of dinner, I pretty much ignored every part of my life in order to continue marathoning through approximately 650K words. I can't even imagine what it must have been like to write such a beast. Talk about a labor of love.
I was so impressed, though. I even learned some new words! Vituperate and appetency- I had to look them up, and I love'em. Not to mention all the pop culture references and little jokes I had to look up. And then getting distracted reading background info on Wikipedia about all the different issues brought up in the story.
I know most people love completed fics, but I rather wish I would have been along for the ride. It would have been so interesting to have been forced to wait between updates, to have to spin my own theories and really have time to appreciate all the little tiny things I'm sure I missed while blowing right through the whole thing. When the chapters only come along once a day or week or month they must be savored, but when so many are available at once the temptation to glut oneself is fairly irresistible.
But apparently you have a new WIP. I might even make a LJ so I can comment there. I vaguely remember having one in high school 7 years ago or so, but even if I can manage to remember the username and password to log back into that I probably don't want to revisit it. Yikes. But being able to interact and have dialogue with the authors is one of the coolest things about fanfiction, at least in my opinion.
Anyways. I have no idea how long these are allowed to be. I was fantastically impressed with all the work you did on this. There was so much plot! And minor characters were given more screen time than just as devices for engineering LoVe hookups! I could almost hear the actors delivering their lines, especially Weevil and Dick. They were just so spot on, all the time.
I imagine it was quite a challenge, breaking Logan and Veronica out of their spiral. Trust issues, yeah- but the show always handled it with Veronica toughening up and getting even. Putting her in a situation where she was forced to submit in order to survive/get the evidence they needed was pretty brilliant. It would have no doubt been very tricky to figure out how to balance that. It was so frustrating to read about her like that- but I did like how it was something different, and she did start to come back at the end.
And I loved reading about Logan's experiences. Honestly, I would have expected the whole Briar Hill experience to be much more damaging for him than it was for her. Sure, while she was in there I could see why it really started to make her crack, especially when she was so sick that she started to be delirious, but once she was out I expected her to revert back to old!Veronica, slamming down on her emotions, momentary freakouts buried behind redoubled efforts to take out anyone that ever made her feel vulnerable. I had to constantly remind myself while I was reading that many of the events in this story took place during a relatively short time frame- Veronica was dealing with a debilitating physical injury for the first time, not to mention all the mind games. That said, she still seems much more likely a candidate to get over everything and revert back than Logan, who has a habit of allowing traumatic events to throw his life into complete upheaval. Poor guy. Working there would have been impossibly hard for him.
Also- good for you, not hating on Duncan. He was a somewhat boring guy on the show sometimes, but he was the boyfriend suitable for the Veronica who wasn't super badass. She didn't start out all hardass- and I appreciated that the show took the time to explore why that dynamic no longer worked for them in Season 2. Of course, the Logan and Veronica dynamic was even more dysfunctional, but at least it was an epic, self-destructive kind of obsessive and all-consuming love, as opposed to plain old boring, like Duncan and Piz.
Anyways, I really wish I could go through and discuss all the little things I found so fascinating about the plot, and the way the minor characters developed, and all that, but if I don't crash for a bit it'll never happen. Perhaps in the next few days I'll have time to write a proper review, although I imagine I'll have to skim the stories over again. And I want to read all the rest of your work.
But yeah- this was amazing. Definitely the best Veronica Mars fanfiction I've ever read. I don't know if you still check reviews for this, or if you get annoyed by people talk to much, but I just wanted you to know how much I enjoyed reading this story.
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Date: 2011-07-15 10:38 am (UTC)It's 5 AM and I just finished YOLD II. With the exception of dinner, I pretty much ignored every part of my life in order to continue marathoning through approximately 650K words. I can't even imagine what it must have been like to write such a beast. Talk about a labor of love.
I was so impressed, though. I even learned some new words! Vituperate and appetency- I had to look them up, and I love'em. Not to mention all the pop culture references and little jokes I had to look up. And then getting distracted reading background info on Wikipedia about all the different issues brought up in the story.
I know most people love completed fics, but I rather wish I would have been along for the ride. It would have been so interesting to have been forced to wait between updates, to have to spin my own theories and really have time to appreciate all the little tiny things I'm sure I missed while blowing right through the whole thing. When the chapters only come along once a day or week or month they must be savored, but when so many are available at once the temptation to glut oneself is fairly irresistible.
But apparently you have a new WIP. I might even make a LJ so I can comment there. I vaguely remember having one in high school 7 years ago or so, but even if I can manage to remember the username and password to log back into that I probably don't want to revisit it. Yikes. But being able to interact and have dialogue with the authors is one of the coolest things about fanfiction, at least in my opinion.
Anyways. I have no idea how long these are allowed to be. I was fantastically impressed with all the work you did on this. There was so much plot! And minor characters were given more screen time than just as devices for engineering LoVe hookups! I could almost hear the actors delivering their lines, especially Weevil and Dick. They were just so spot on, all the time.
I imagine it was quite a challenge, breaking Logan and Veronica out of their spiral. Trust issues, yeah- but the show always handled it with Veronica toughening up and getting even. Putting her in a situation where she was forced to submit in order to survive/get the evidence they needed was pretty brilliant. It would have no doubt been very tricky to figure out how to balance that. It was so frustrating to read about her like that- but I did like how it was something different, and she did start to come back at the end.
And I loved reading about Logan's experiences. Honestly, I would have expected the whole Briar Hill experience to be much more damaging for him than it was for her. Sure, while she was in there I could see why it really started to make her crack, especially when she was so sick that she started to be delirious, but once she was out I expected her to revert back to old!Veronica, slamming down on her emotions, momentary freakouts buried behind redoubled efforts to take out anyone that ever made her feel vulnerable. I had to constantly remind myself while I was reading that many of the events in this story took place during a relatively short time frame- Veronica was dealing with a debilitating physical injury for the first time, not to mention all the mind games. That said, she still seems much more likely a candidate to get over everything and revert back than Logan, who has a habit of allowing traumatic events to throw his life into complete upheaval. Poor guy. Working there would have been impossibly hard for him.
Also- good for you, not hating on Duncan. He was a somewhat boring guy on the show sometimes, but he was the boyfriend suitable for the Veronica who wasn't super badass. She didn't start out all hardass- and I appreciated that the show took the time to explore why that dynamic no longer worked for them in Season 2. Of course, the Logan and Veronica dynamic was even more dysfunctional, but at least it was an epic, self-destructive kind of obsessive and all-consuming love, as opposed to plain old boring, like Duncan and Piz.
Anyways, I really wish I could go through and discuss all the little things I found so fascinating about the plot, and the way the minor characters developed, and all that, but if I don't crash for a bit it'll never happen. Perhaps in the next few days I'll have time to write a proper review, although I imagine I'll have to skim the stories over again. And I want to read all the rest of your work.
But yeah- this was amazing. Definitely the best Veronica Mars fanfiction I've ever read. I don't know if you still check reviews for this, or if you get annoyed by people talk to much, but I just wanted you to know how much I enjoyed reading this story.
-vertejaune