(i wrote this all once and it god deleted...what a fine welcome. moving on...)
i've never posted on this board before, though i've lurked for quite awhile. i felt compelled to post now, however.
Answering Darkness was the first fic i ever read on this board, and one of the first willow/tara fics i read. it still stands out in the top three, and i have since read some oustanding stories by some tremendous authors.
i would be so sorry to see Lingering Darkness die before it got to really live. it is a wonderful sequel to Answering Darkness and a great story in its own right. although i understand how difficult it can be to write a story when you feel you've lost its essence -- particularly when it's a sequel -- this story so cries out for completion.
it is the earmark of a truly great fic when the world the author creates becomes so real, so alive, that is transcends the world of the show that inspired it. this is just such a fic. the world you created in Answering Darkness, and cultured so well in Lingering Darkness, have become as real, if not more so, than the world the show created.
i loved your handling of willow's dark magic use, and the entire canon of these stories. so many great twists and turns, so much fantastic character development, such a depth and breadth of creativity.
i know many people have praised you on these stories, and more eloquently than i, but, i simply had to add my two cents.
i hope you can find your heart for this story again, because to see it die on the vine would be tragic. it's just too good. i love these characters you've recreated so beautifully, no matter how much you write about them it will never be enough, but i definitely don't want it to end here.
either way, though, thank you for your stellar contribution to this fandom, and to these characters in particular.
~city
"You'd don't lie. You understate to the point of criminal negligence."
Edited by: cityofbooks at: 4/24/03 11:52:06 pm