Thank you! It was an experiment: a more creative way to review and analyze? a self-indulgence? both?
I hope you enjoy it. My emotional reaction was based on also reading one of her other river-related pieces, River Gods (http://archiveofourown.org/works/434000), so that by the time I came to the end of "Anisoptera" the moment of Sherlock and John falling asleep was intensely moving for me. Why? Aderyn likened it to a tide going out (the Thames being a tidal river). It was (finally!) a moment of ease, peace, and rest for them and it highlighted their fragility and mortality (death sometimes being likened to a tide going out). Bittersweet.
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Re: Awesome rec!
Date: 2012-09-01 06:00 am (UTC)I hope you enjoy it. My emotional reaction was based on also reading one of her other river-related pieces, River Gods (http://archiveofourown.org/works/434000), so that by the time I came to the end of "Anisoptera" the moment of Sherlock and John falling asleep was intensely moving for me. Why? Aderyn likened it to a tide going out (the Thames being a tidal river). It was (finally!) a moment of ease, peace, and rest for them and it highlighted their fragility and mortality (death sometimes being likened to a tide going out). Bittersweet.