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February 27, 2005 at 12:00 AM
gods, the whole way through i was rootin\' for Dee n JJ...but then chappie 11 came along and i found myself fallin\' for Dee/Ryo again....
..Damn you\'re a good writer....
Thanx!
--so far this is the best damn FAKE fic i\'ve ever read...though i hafta admit i haven\'t read that many ^.^\'
*has only read up to chappie 12 and will continue the rest 2morrow since it\'s like 6 in the mornin\' and i gotta go shoppin\' early 2day -_-\' .....damn i hate shopping...
~ttfn!
..Damn you\'re a good writer....
Thanx!
--so far this is the best damn FAKE fic i\'ve ever read...though i hafta admit i haven\'t read that many ^.^\'
*has only read up to chappie 12 and will continue the rest 2morrow since it\'s like 6 in the mornin\' and i gotta go shoppin\' early 2day -_-\' .....damn i hate shopping...
~ttfn!
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November 10, 2004 at 12:00 AM
P.S.
JJ is now officially my absolutely favorite character in possibly any manga/anime ever. All because of you! I didn't even so much as like him before! Thanks so much for developing his character as you did. I found it positively... amazing/fantabulous/awsome/gripping/adorable/angsty/and everything in-between! Words cannot describe it, and yet you seem to be able to in your work. It's like a drug, I LOVE it!! *squeal!*
JJ is now officially my absolutely favorite character in possibly any manga/anime ever. All because of you! I didn't even so much as like him before! Thanks so much for developing his character as you did. I found it positively... amazing/fantabulous/awsome/gripping/adorable/angsty/and everything in-between! Words cannot describe it, and yet you seem to be able to in your work. It's like a drug, I LOVE it!! *squeal!*
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November 9, 2004 at 12:00 AM
Ahh! I just started reading this story a week ago and I haven't been able to stop! I positively ADORE this!! I know you're very ill, and I sympathize, but it has been 11 months since you promised a new chapter! I mean, you didn't go comatose on your fans now did you?! I'm rather worried that this story will never be finished, and that I'll never get to read more of your work...
I do hope ye ale alright. This story is sooo close to being complete, and I'm literally quivering with excitement! I've been doing basically nothing but reading this and I do hope my time wasn't wasted! I've read so many good stories that were left unfinished, and this is one of the best! Please oh please, update soon!
Best wishes,
your devoted (sleep-deprived) fan;
Elle
I do hope ye ale alright. This story is sooo close to being complete, and I'm literally quivering with excitement! I've been doing basically nothing but reading this and I do hope my time wasn't wasted! I've read so many good stories that were left unfinished, and this is one of the best! Please oh please, update soon!
Best wishes,
your devoted (sleep-deprived) fan;
Elle
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August 30, 2004 at 12:00 AM
Sorry to hear you're not well. Please finish this when you can. I can't wait to read Dee's reaction to the letter.
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March 27, 2004 at 12:00 AM
Just had to get a review in. God, I hurt so much reading this story! And then I got to the end of chapter 17 where Dee was going to read Ryo\'s letter, but when I clicked to 18...O_O...only an author\'s note. I don\'t know how long I\'ve been sitting here but I\'ve read ALL 17 of your chapters, and it\'s been great reading. I do hope that you get Ryo and Dee back together here soon, and with Dee totally in love with Ryo again without the question in the back of his mind about JJ. Dee seems such a rambuncious jerk sometimes, but he\'s always been so faithful to Ryo, and with Ryo so sensative of trust, it just seems it would break it all apart.
Anyway, great story. I\'ll be waiting for the real chapter 18 to come up....
Anyway, great story. I\'ll be waiting for the real chapter 18 to come up....
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March 20, 2004 at 12:00 AM
I hope that by now you\'re feeling better, such illnesses truly suck. I get struck by em just about every year for the better part of a decade, so I sympathize. Can\'t wait to see where this story is going, you certainly have a way around the keyboard, and your writing style invokes all types of lovely imagery. Take care, and I\'ll be checking for this story on the top of the list :)
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March 1, 2004 at 12:00 AM
This is an absolute fantastic story. I\'m late at finding it, I had all but given up on the fandom and just random stumbled on your story. I\'m glad I did. I consumed it in one evening. I can hardly wait for more but I fully understand your illness, since I have a friend with lupus as well.
I hope you get to feeling better soon. My thoughts are with you:)
I hope you get to feeling better soon. My thoughts are with you:)
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February 17, 2004 at 12:00 AM
Please continue this story it\'s exelent i\'m sorry to hear about the lupus I had a friend with it and after watching her I know it sucks! hope you feel better soon. man this is tough on dee but he is loved (by one and all ^.^) update as soon as your up to it kay ^-^
Ja ne
Ja ne
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February 1, 2004 at 12:00 AM
I hardly ever review a story (because I\'m lazy, and I know that\'s cruel to the author but it\'s hard for me to combat laziness) but I couldn\'t help myself with this one. Your story is one of the *very* few (one of maybe, three) that has actually had me in tears. By far, the most exquisite and painful chapter to read was When We Hurt, where Ryo refrains from openly admitting his feelings to Dee because he wants what he thinks will make him the most happy, which would be to be with JJ. The whole time I was rocking in the chair, practically *feeling* Ryo\'s pain ... and I don\'t think it helped that I\'ve been rooting for the Ryo/Dee pairing all along. I understand why you cried over it. I\'d be bawling if I wrote this, and please understand ... I hardly ever cry. And over stories it\'s fairly ludicrious. But this one was just so well-written, and touching, with such emotion, it overwhelms the senses. Words on paper rarely do this to me. I applaud your writing, because to touch a reader like that takes an immense amount of skill and good writing, which you have in vast amounts.
Not just that chapter (though that was indeed my favorite, because of how touched I was by it) but this entire fic is well worthy to go into the Fanfic Hall of Fame, should there be one (who knows ... maybe there is somewhere.) It\'s been terribly heart-wrenching all along, and I keep sympathizing with both JJ and Ryo so much I\'m not sure *who* I want to see happy more. I think it\'s merely because the manga has the Dee/Ryo pairing so deeply ingrained into me that I\'ve been rooting for them the entire time ... again with the cliche excuse that it \"just seems right.\" I love what you\'ve done with JJ, how you\'ve molded him into a loving, caring, and deep individual (because you have to take liberties like that with a one-dimensional character, and bravo for what you\'ve done) and the fact you\'ve given him bipolar disorder is another deep intrigue I\'d have never thought of to use with JJ (then again, I\'m just used to over-zealous anime/manga characters ... the Japanese tend to make them a popular type of character). Although I still will love Ryo above all, first and foremost, the part where JJ and Dee consummate was so sad I nearly cried (yes, again.) And I completely understand and agree with your decision not to pull another character into this and make it into they-lived-happily-ever-after bullshit by giving everyone someone to be with. That would ruin the entire message of this fic, which, besides angst (pure and simple), shows exactly Dee\'s life-learned lesson: life\'s not fair. No one\'s always going to end up happily ever after, that\'s idealistic crap, and we know it. Someone\'s going to be hurt, and that\'s depressing, but you can also look at it from the other point of view and that\'s that it\'s better to have loved and lost than never loved at all.
...And gomen. I didn\'t mean to preach. *When* I review (which yes, is rare) I tend to ramble a lot. Especially when I\'m in love with the fic, as I am yours. Your idea, and your plot, cha character development and everything else that has gone into this fic is all very well-written and accomplished wonderfully. The one and only thing I see that I\'m not sure I like is that Ryo seems to be a bit ... stale. And I know that in the books Ryo is rather distant and closed about his feelings, and basically all of his emotions so it\'s perfectly understandable and not OOC at all. I just don\'t see him as one to bring a date to a party Dee\'s at (it just makes him seem stupid and inconsiderate of Dee\'s feelings) or really being so caustic (as with his snide comment to JJ about Dee racking in lots of people from bars, and he shouldn\'t feel special, etc). It kind of made him seem petty. Then again, I could be bias, simply because I love Ryo so much and you treat him rather objectively (which isn\'t a bad thing, it\'s not good to favor .. at least, in my opinion). And you have him completely on the mark with his jealousy (Dee accusing him of being a \"catty bitch\" in the manga made me giggle) and already in the manga you can see he doesn\'t exactly adore JJ (JJ\'s hate in your story was fierce, but well-deserved I thought). Once again, I\'ll always and forever be Ryo/Dee manic, and I can\'t say I\'ll not be depressed if Ryo and JJ end up being together, but under the circumstances of the fic anything\'s possible and it wouldn\'t seem *wrong* at all.
And on another note: I am so very sorry that you\'re in the hospital! That\'s such a scary thing. I know it\'s not my place, but while you\'re sick you\'d better rest and not worry about this fanfic! It will be here forever, and you should definitely concentrate on getting well before you go and worry about anything else. All this talk of being sick and writing fanfic nonsense.. pfft. You should be in bed! (And yes, I know I\'m not your mother, but still :x ) I promise if your fans care at all, they\'re not going to lose interest in it and I assure you I could wait years to read its ending. I\'m very patient, and I want to see how it turns out. So don\'t compromise yourself over little things like this, ok? I just hope you get well soon and no more of this hospital scary-ness. I despise hospitals, and I empathize with you.
I love your fic! Don\'t ever lose intt int in it! I\'m going to tell everyone I know and make them read it, too. ;x
And get well soon, love. <3
Not just that chapter (though that was indeed my favorite, because of how touched I was by it) but this entire fic is well worthy to go into the Fanfic Hall of Fame, should there be one (who knows ... maybe there is somewhere.) It\'s been terribly heart-wrenching all along, and I keep sympathizing with both JJ and Ryo so much I\'m not sure *who* I want to see happy more. I think it\'s merely because the manga has the Dee/Ryo pairing so deeply ingrained into me that I\'ve been rooting for them the entire time ... again with the cliche excuse that it \"just seems right.\" I love what you\'ve done with JJ, how you\'ve molded him into a loving, caring, and deep individual (because you have to take liberties like that with a one-dimensional character, and bravo for what you\'ve done) and the fact you\'ve given him bipolar disorder is another deep intrigue I\'d have never thought of to use with JJ (then again, I\'m just used to over-zealous anime/manga characters ... the Japanese tend to make them a popular type of character). Although I still will love Ryo above all, first and foremost, the part where JJ and Dee consummate was so sad I nearly cried (yes, again.) And I completely understand and agree with your decision not to pull another character into this and make it into they-lived-happily-ever-after bullshit by giving everyone someone to be with. That would ruin the entire message of this fic, which, besides angst (pure and simple), shows exactly Dee\'s life-learned lesson: life\'s not fair. No one\'s always going to end up happily ever after, that\'s idealistic crap, and we know it. Someone\'s going to be hurt, and that\'s depressing, but you can also look at it from the other point of view and that\'s that it\'s better to have loved and lost than never loved at all.
...And gomen. I didn\'t mean to preach. *When* I review (which yes, is rare) I tend to ramble a lot. Especially when I\'m in love with the fic, as I am yours. Your idea, and your plot, cha character development and everything else that has gone into this fic is all very well-written and accomplished wonderfully. The one and only thing I see that I\'m not sure I like is that Ryo seems to be a bit ... stale. And I know that in the books Ryo is rather distant and closed about his feelings, and basically all of his emotions so it\'s perfectly understandable and not OOC at all. I just don\'t see him as one to bring a date to a party Dee\'s at (it just makes him seem stupid and inconsiderate of Dee\'s feelings) or really being so caustic (as with his snide comment to JJ about Dee racking in lots of people from bars, and he shouldn\'t feel special, etc). It kind of made him seem petty. Then again, I could be bias, simply because I love Ryo so much and you treat him rather objectively (which isn\'t a bad thing, it\'s not good to favor .. at least, in my opinion). And you have him completely on the mark with his jealousy (Dee accusing him of being a \"catty bitch\" in the manga made me giggle) and already in the manga you can see he doesn\'t exactly adore JJ (JJ\'s hate in your story was fierce, but well-deserved I thought). Once again, I\'ll always and forever be Ryo/Dee manic, and I can\'t say I\'ll not be depressed if Ryo and JJ end up being together, but under the circumstances of the fic anything\'s possible and it wouldn\'t seem *wrong* at all.
And on another note: I am so very sorry that you\'re in the hospital! That\'s such a scary thing. I know it\'s not my place, but while you\'re sick you\'d better rest and not worry about this fanfic! It will be here forever, and you should definitely concentrate on getting well before you go and worry about anything else. All this talk of being sick and writing fanfic nonsense.. pfft. You should be in bed! (And yes, I know I\'m not your mother, but still :x ) I promise if your fans care at all, they\'re not going to lose interest in it and I assure you I could wait years to read its ending. I\'m very patient, and I want to see how it turns out. So don\'t compromise yourself over little things like this, ok? I just hope you get well soon and no more of this hospital scary-ness. I despise hospitals, and I empathize with you.
I love your fic! Don\'t ever lose intt int in it! I\'m going to tell everyone I know and make them read it, too. ;x
And get well soon, love. <3
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February 1, 2004 at 12:00 AM
And oops! Stupid me, it\'s late, go figure I\'d make a mistake in my review. I meant to say \"I can\'t say I\'ll not be depressed if *Dee* and JJ end up together.\" I hate when I mess up and look like an idiot. -.-; Hopefully that the only typo ... gomen.