I stand in awe

[maudite_a_deux]

So even though I haven't seen Weiss Kreuz, or even read more than a little of the manga, I started reading WK fics recently. Maybe I was just hard up for the boylove, I don't know, but then I stumbled across Lady Jaida. And all her fics are amazing, but if you're going to read the Weiss stories you should start at the bottom and read them in order. Because even though they don't always seem to fit together, they will when you come to that key piece, the one that shows you the pattern and lets you see the picture she's assembling. And wow, really, wow, that is some good shit. And heavy, and sometimes seriously perverse, but good.

Reading it makes me want a cigarette. And I don't even smoke, except that once or twice a year when the urge hits me, and I buy a pack and smoke one and remember how gross it is and wonder what the fuck I was thinking and throw the damn things out or shove them in a drawer somewhere and forget about them till they go stale.

Anyway, she's apparently ladyjaida now, and has published a collection of poetry, which is no small feat.

I think I left a pack of kreteks in the glovebox.

Comments

[ladyjaida.livejournal.com]

Ahh, I just stumbled across this, and I really want to let you know how much this means to me, because that series of WK fics was where I really started experimenting with any kind of prose, and a lot of the fics really meant something to me, especially in retrospect. Where I first began to enjoy writing prose again. And people don't read my WK stuff that much, so seeing something like this really really means a lot. And you should know.

So, yeah. Thanks.

[maudite-a-deux.livejournal.com]

I was astonished by how few reviews your stuff on ff.net had -- it really is amazingly good. I love the way you get into Schuldig's head. I honestly don't know how true your version of him is to canon, but the way you write him is incredibly real. You make sense of apparently random behavior, and manage to make him a sympathetic character even when he's on a murder spree. You do a particularly good job of portraying him as uneducated but clever -- not often a deep thinker, but a quick one, just incredibly rough around the edges. That's something I appreciate, since I've known all too many people who mistake knowledge for intellect and value book learning over life lessons. Schuldig's awareness (and fury and resentment) that Crawford will never view him as an equal comes across with painful clarity. (Okay, I admit, it hits close to home for me, too.)

You have a rare talent for characterization. Really. Nurture that, and use it. You do the kind of writing I only wish I could; I know several published fiction writers who will never do it as well as you do.

There, I think that's enough fangirling for today.