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  • dontcallmepuddin!

    dontcallmepuddin! (105)

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    Your layout is gorgeous. It's simple, but the photo you used as your banner just makes it really stand out. It's quite lovely.
    The story is so short, but absolutely amazing. I think it's because of how short the story is, that you were able to convey the many emotions that you did. I feel that if you had tried to add more for length that the description would have went overboard and the story wouldn't have the same feel that it has now. As someone else once told me in writing, less is more and I believe you definitely achieved that in this piece.
    Fantastic job. (:
    April 30th, 2012 at 04:16am
  • Nanook

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    Hm... short and sweet, but you conveyed so many different emotions in just ninety-nine words. Strength, weakness... fear. Comfort... just to name a few.
    Beautiful job with this, really. So many things can be wondered about this, but there's a certain sureness to it, like it doesn't matter what you wonder. What matters is what you grasped and felt.
    It was very powerful, to name yet another adjective to describe it.
    <3
    April 2nd, 2012 at 01:46am
  • losing control.

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    This really is gorgeous. It's so incredibly simple, like it's just a moment in time, and you captured it so beautifully. You described everything in such detail without really saying a whole lot about anything, other than their hands of course, but it painted just an awesomely intense picture.

    All I can focus on is the fingers softly stroking the back of my hand, round and round in a little circle that calms my convulsive pulse.
    This was my favourite line, I think. I think it sets up everything really nicely and the whole "convulsing pulse" sounded really cool when I read it. It also implies something was going on before this little moment happened, and I really want to know what.

    I also loved the last line. It was so mysterious and gorgeous and I really wanted to know what was happening to them. It was an amazing way to end the drabble.

    Like This.Useless.Heart. said, this is definitely a "this is how to drabble" kind of brilliant. Best thing I've read in a while for sure. Well done!
    January 23rd, 2012 at 11:12pm
  • This.Useless.Heart.

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    This is simple, but brilliant. Like "this is how to drabble" kind of brilliant. I really like the brief, but intense scene you've painted here. It says a lot about the involved characters without literally saying a lot.
    All I can focus on is the fingers softly stroking the back of my hand, round and round in a little circle that calms my convulsive pulse.
    -I really like the feelings this invokes (as well as the whole drabble of course.) This particular statement is also interesting to me in that it sort of makes me wonder what's been going on before this scene (the "convulsive pulse" and all.) Like it makes me think of someone who's nervous or upset, and how they have that one person who knows how to make everything alright again. (I probably explained that stupidly...)
    Your grasp tightens as everything darkens
    -I love love love this as a closing line. Just love it.

    Well, I really don't know what else to say, but keep up the good work! :D Cheers!
    January 22nd, 2012 at 07:52am
  • Saint.

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    This is gorgeous. It's so simple but sdkfjsdf. I want your brain, please.
    January 19th, 2012 at 08:09pm