(I have no idea why this post showed up on my Friends List and when I first tried to comment it said I wasn't a member of the comm and I had to re-join. Weirdness.)
Anyway, I loved this story so much. (Of COURSE they named the turtle "Whale"!)
The older I get and the more of other people's children I see and spend time with, the sadder the whole William-arc is to me. I couldn't stand the writers even introducing this ridiculous storyline in the first place. But once they did, the way they ended it was beyond inexcusable. There are so many eps of these later seasons that I have not even had the strength to watch again because they were so awful in that regard.
But since they did introduce it, I wish they had at least dealt with it all. Even if it was as gut wrenching as this, that would have been believable.
Even though we know from the start these are all dreams, we linger on the sweet moments because... we know that's how it should have been.
And even when reality intrudes and it's all ripped away, at least the pain is acknowledged and we're left with an opening to imagine an "after", where things might change...
or maybe that's my own wishful thinking. Either way, it's open-ended in that sense. And that's good enough for me.
Wonderful story. Thanks for the rec. I'm way burned out on fic in general these days. (Especially because my eyes are having trouble and it's hard to read on a screen. I can't believe I used to do that for HOURS on end!) But I am glad I took a chance on this one!
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Anyway, I loved this story so much. (Of COURSE they named the turtle "Whale"!)
The older I get and the more of other people's children I see and spend time with, the sadder the whole William-arc is to me. I couldn't stand the writers even introducing this ridiculous storyline in the first place. But once they did, the way they ended it was beyond inexcusable. There are so many eps of these later seasons that I have not even had the strength to watch again because they were so awful in that regard.
But since they did introduce it, I wish they had at least dealt with it all. Even if it was as gut wrenching as this, that would have been believable.
Even though we know from the start these are all dreams, we linger on the sweet moments because... we know that's how it should have been.
And even when reality intrudes and it's all ripped away, at least the pain is acknowledged and we're left with an opening to imagine an "after", where things might change...
or maybe that's my own wishful thinking. Either way, it's open-ended in that sense. And that's good enough for me.
Wonderful story. Thanks for the rec. I'm way burned out on fic in general these days. (Especially because my eyes are having trouble and it's hard to read on a screen. I can't believe I used to do that for HOURS on end!) But I am glad I took a chance on this one!