Special Affair - Comments

Amazing. Just flat out amazing.

I love your interpretation of the Medusa story. It's stunning in every single little way. The idea of Medusa being a tortured, wronged, beautiful women sits so much better with me than the arrogant, pretty one of the original lore. Medusa, to me, has always represented the idea of strong femininity and the refusal to bend a knee to men who inherit power without earning it. This representation of Medusa is the one I have always wanted to see. And god damn, I couldn't be happier with the author who ended up creating it.

Your writing style is a masterpiece in itself. It flows effortlessly, and you made every moment so real and vibrant. The things you described aren't always beautiful, but you pour your creativity into them and write them beautifully.

You are a fantastic writer. I am so glad you gave black lesbians some representation too. You delivered on every single point and I am blown away.

I feel like if I'm running out of ways to tell you how perfect this story. It's just breathtaking.

Thank you for sharing your brilliance with the mibba community! I hope you go on to create many more stories like this because your writing is everything I've been looking for in an author.

[okay, I went ott with the compliments here to an almost creepy level but I just really love this story and I wanted to show that I loved it a lot ]

This is absolutely stunning.

This is lovely.

I'm grossly into mythology (who isn't) and am currently writing an essay about representations of women (blah blah) and Athena specifically and I really like your rendition of her in here. This myth is such a hard one to tackle and make it ... for a contemporary audience, I guess, but you handled it so wonderfully.

I really enjoy that it's in second person. It's an interesting voice, but you really make it work for this and I like it a lot.

This passage:
You are not used to men walking into your body and making a home out of it like it is theirs. You figure a little too late that if there is anything that the Gods and humans share it is evil, but this would matter more if you weren’t dead.

and this passage:

“I never want to be weak again,” you tell her again and again and again until she grants your wish.

really gut me because their so well done.

I'm also happy about the ending, but it's sweet and she deserves it.

Really nice job with this!

Wow. Just wow. This story was so beautiful, my heart hurts. I don't even know where to start.

I love what you did with concept—like I am over the moon that you wanted to do this because Medusa's story is tragic and buried, and painted to be something else. Medusa is painted to be a heartless monster and I love so much what you did with this. I loved the depth of Medusa, I loved the emotion and pain of Athena, and I loved them together. I loved the way you portrayed them both separately and together, it was so gorgeous. Their relationship was full of so much that I don't even honestly know what to do with myself right now.

I keep saying "I loved", hah, but I really did love a lot everything about this.

Your prose is poetry; the way you write is absolutely magical. It's soft and fluid; it fills out every gap with so many intricate emotions and flows so beautifully that you make it seem so effortless. You think often of how you have died with a man inside of you and of how you came alive again at the love of a woman’s. I love this line so, so much, it made my heart hurt. The tone, the imagery, the depth and complexity of this entire thing left me nearly breathless.

I love (there it is again!) so much the amount of attention you gave Medusa's backstory to build on the weight of how she came to be what she is now. God, the heartbreak in Athena. I keep coming back to this. The heaviness of that part still makes my heart hurt because it was so emotional, but then it built into something else from here. It was soft and full of so much love, but that anguish in Medusa was still there. This is your story and you are a snake for the way you strike, you are a raven for the way your claws latch, and you are a wolf for the way no one will own you, not even the moon. This this this was full of so much power and pain and beauty.

And the way you ended this made me probably the happiest person alive. I don't think I could have handled a tragic ending, honestly.

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THIS ENTIRE THING. It's a work of art, it truly and absolutely is a piece of art. It was beautiful, emotional and heartbreaking, but soft and full of so much love and I'm running out of things to say without just repeating myself, but I seriously just loved this so much and I am so, so happy that you wrote this. Seriously so happy.

There is nothing I love more than the prose and imagery of this. Everything evokes an emotion, a memory, and just when I'm like, "oh gosh, this couldn't get better," it always does. Medusa's story has always been a tragic one, and I'm so so so glad that you gave her a happy ending. You've painted her grief so eloquently that I'm moved by it. I'm quite honestly in love!

There is nothing I love more than the prose and imagery of this. Everything evokes an emotion, a memory, and just when I'm like, "oh gosh, this couldn't get better," it always does. Medusa's story has always been a tragic one, and I'm so so so glad that you gave her a happy ending. You've painted her grief so eloquently that I'm moved by it. I'm quite honestly in love!

Your layout and banner are really lovely, and I just The chapter itself starts out very powerful with that last line packing quite the punch. Every word you use seems very well thought out and does well to paint a picture before me. "Your hair was thick like wool and your hands were never soft but your heart was always full." Your words are actually quite like poetry, which is very beautiful for content like this! I like how inviting Athena's temple sounds, too~

Something about the death just has me stuck on... I don't even know. This is a very powerful scene. Well done. The chapter progresses pretty much the same - powerful and beautiful - and I love it. The ending is is my favorite part both because of the happiness it evokes and the delicate way which it seems to be written. This is so perfect! Definitely delivered x

This sounds so intriguing, Can't wait to read it :)