LOrdie!!!! LOrdie!!!!! This chapter also sucker punched me so freaking hard. What the hell. (i still need to read "SBR," so I eagerly await whatever happens in the scene you're referring to :') )
But. This bit. "The priest asks them all to bow their heads in prayer. He asks that God be with Bucciarati forevermore, that God love him like we loved him, and Giorno wonders what it might be like to throw himself atop Bucciarati’s casket and roll around in the mud and sob and seize and raise the finger up to that blacked-out cavity of a sky and scream what God? What God?"
Not to overshare (says the oversharing stranger on the Internet), but I remember feeling the same way at my dad's funeral, and for months afterward. It is really hard to explain this specific feeling, but you've nailed it so well.
I won't ask you what you've experienced to make it so that you GET grief so well. But. You really get it in a way a lot of authors in this fandom don't. You uncannily have captured some feelings that I haven't felt since my own loss, and honestly, it's incredibly cathartic. Thank you for this.
Oh, man. I just finished reading your first comment and then I read this one, and now I’m crying a little. I’m extremely, extremely sorry to hear about your dad. And I guess what I want to say first is thank you for sharing that with me. It means a lot.
Honestly, I wrote this primarily to get some (what I’ve come to realize are pretty deep-seated) feelings off my chest and to challenge my writing style. I used to never write if I wasn’t in a good mood, but I think I spent 90% of my time writing this fic extremely frustrated and/or crying, and somehow this ended up being the piece of work I’m most proud of so far. So with that said, I feel…very touched that something I wrote, and that was deeply true to my soul, resonated with you and was able to provide you that catharsis. Thank YOU for that.
On a lighter note, SBR is great. Very compelling and touching in ways I wasn’t expecting. I’m excited for you to read it! :D
Comment on I’ll Miss Him Forever
carryingstarlightinherwake on Chapter 2 Wed 13 Dec 2023 05:28AM UTC
Comment Actions
gauchoamigo on Chapter 2 Thu 14 Dec 2023 03:30AM UTC
Comment Actions