a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi

[hedda62]

Finished the story! What Rough Beast, at AO3, sorta kinda Harold/John, in the sense that THEY ARE IN IT and hold hands at one point. Post-"4C."

This is the kind of story that results from trying to figure out what was happening in Reese's brain those last few eps (I thanked enemyofperfect in the notes and I mean it), deciding that it was easier to approach it from Harold's POV, and then getting caught up in a confused mess of dead dog memories and Asimov and Yeats. Nevertheless, it is a thing and it's done, and now I can get on with other stuff.

I'll be back possibly today (or it may be later) to blather about bulletproof kinks.

Comments

[orockthro]

I kinda gushed over it on AO3 already, but honestly, I really loved this fic. XD
I loved the window into Harold, into his fears, and through him, the window into Reese and Carter and the fear there too. I intentionally haven't given a lot of thought to Carter's last episode since it aired, because so little of it sits right, and sometimes it's easier to just ignore things once you get through the spitting rage of it all. You made it sit better. You made it human.
Basically, it was very very beautiful, and I'm very glad you wrote it.
:)

[hedda62]

Aw, thanks. :) And yeah, I just got to a point where I had to try to make sense of it if I was going to keep loving this show, which I want to do. I hope the story brings across some of what I was thinking! There's so much that's possible to express, and I get frustrated when I can't access it all, but… it helped, and I'm glad it helped you too!

[enemyofperfect]

You may call it a mess, but I thought it all hung together extremely well -- I feel like it must have been very delicate work to balance memory and story and poem, with all the connections and tensions between them, but you absolutely did.

(And I'm very glad if I was able to help at all!)

[hedda62]

Thank you! - and frankly the Yeats found its way in there nearly at the last moment, which is why I thought it all hung from a fragile network of threads (and should have been three times longer to support itself getting lost in my metaphor here ha irony).

[enemyofperfect]

I love the way the title and summary tie them all together, though. The summary in particular I find kind of breathtaking -- on first reading, it's like, okay, you've reversed a clause, that works, but then in combination with the reversal of entropy -- it just clicks.

[hedda62]

:) The episode itself had a lot to do with how I came up with that, I think - John's departure seems unstoppable, and then it's stopped; the plane's going down for sure, and then Harold lands it. The next thing would be reversing death, which unfortunately we're not going to get.