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  1. eldritchmochi on Chapter 1 Sun 30 Apr 2023 12:40AM UTC

    this was the wrong thing to try and read on the bus while taking an unfamiliar route with several transfers. it was very hard to pay attention to the upcoming stops because this was SO FUCKING GOOD jfc like damn. gem linked me and insisted i read because this has a lot of elements i use in my writing too, according to them, and yeah i can see it. i got halfway thru ur opening note and Knew this would be my jam i am so arigatoful for gem making this fic series their entire personality the last few weeks lmao

    also i realized like two sections in that you might be the one who gave coping skills a physicians seal of approval (which i brag a lot about because its such a funny thing for smut lmao) and i was RIGHT so hello i guess im here to return the favor (i am no doctor tho)

    i absolutely love the set up youve done here, i am so excited to see what the fuck you did to calebs back story and also see him grow and heal i fukken lov me sum stories about healing from trauma. im also very excited to see how he plays off your molly and vis versa; i blasted thru early cr in like three months so im not nearly as attached to molly as i should be but i definitely love the concept of widomauk (and shadowidomauk 👀) so im absolutely vibrating to dip my toe into this end of the fandom with such a delicious au

    also your beau voice is PHENOMENAL i could literally hear marisha say every one of her lines, even with the more technical seafaring jargon they gloss over in cannon

    i am so mad im obnoxiously busy this next week and cant like binge this whole series i shoulda waited a single month til i was on leave because i know i am going to get Zero (0) work done for however long it takes me to get thru this monster in fits and starts

    aaaa

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    1. se1ze on Chapter 1 Sun 30 Apr 2023 12:58AM UTC

      When Gem told me you were going to read this I was holding my breath, as I'm a huge fan of your stuff! The fact that you like it couldn't be a bigger compliment.

      That was me that left that! I really have just enjoyed the attention to detail there, I think a little research clearly can go a long way. If you're going to make a bold choice and depict someone as having a disability where canon leaves it possible but not probable, you did it all the way and actually made it realistic.

      Thank you for letting me invade your brain with this fic, it's a surprisingly fast binge for most, because as you start to make your way *making your way* through the cliffhangers start to get fairly compelling. The AU also gets a lot more expansive when I realized that the 40 pages of alternate lore I had in a document was not something only of interest to my therapist.

      Massively excited to see what you think of my Essek, I love how neurotic your version is and I'm definitely right there with you in that part of my depiction of him. He comes on the scene at the end of Firebrand.

      Enjoy! Looking forward to your comments hugely, but no pressure there :)

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      1. eldritchmochi on Chapter 1 Sun 30 Apr 2023 08:36PM UTC

        neurotic essek is hands down the best essek. that man is neither calm nor collected hes just good at lying lmao

        this fic was definitely the last thing i was thinking about before i fell asleep and boy eas THAT an experience. i am an old man so i Do Not stay up past my bed time (even if i really want to) and thus i didnt end up reading before bed (even tho i really wanted to) but i was just author grip ***this fic***

        research definitely goes a long way and i can absolutely see the time you put in for this fic already, further making me ***vibrates***. i otoh am notoriously bad at researching anything other than kinks so esseks eds is all first hand experience baybee (which is absolutely why i make it work so well. i am a firm believer that anyone can write any sort of story as long as theyre respectful about what they portray but something thats as focused on disability as coping skills is really only works as an own voice story; if i didnt have eds, his disability would not be as front and center purely because of the fact that people who dont have a (specific) disability have no idea how central it is to that person's life. definitely a big part of why i 👀'd at your opening note. like i said, i fucking love stories about healing and something written by someone as part of their healing? is going to be so fucking *good*. writing is absolutely good therapy and its so cathartic to take a character you love and fuck em up with your own baggage only to pull them out and give them a happy ending

        i have a lot of feels about this apparently lmao)

        also 40 pages of lore woof. i have an eight point list on calebs backstory and sum fukken hopes and prayers for coping skills lmao (tho tbf its very easy for me to keep track of esseks health because its just literally my health so that probably helps)

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        1. se1ze on Chapter 1 Sun 30 Apr 2023 08:56PM UTC

          I feel like this fic, too, is an exploration of "hey I have a (mental health) disability but I'm actually out here fucking living my life." I mean, Caleb canonically has PTSD symptoms that are severe enough to require a *game mechanic.* And Molly fucking DIED. It was all too easy to imagine a setting for them where that became a prominent focus of the story. These people learning to trust again isn't an overnight thing. It's a process. Everything they encounter dredges up the same old shit inside them, until they start to confront it. "Wherever you go, there you are" is another major theme in the series.

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