>> I am a little conflicted both ways on this. I'm an emotional whump fan with a tendency to go dark. <<
That's good to know.
>> But like other commenters have said this one goes a bit deeper down the rabbit hole than the rest of the Love Is For Children main arc. <<
Yeah, the backstory for Bruce-and-Hulk is a morass of gloom. :( Poor guys.
>> Also likewise I have a harder time placing feedback on poems. <<
That's okay. Feedback is an option, not an obligation.
It just makes it more challenging for me to gauge effective aim for future writing, if I don't know how people are responding to a piece. The discussion here is helping a lot. I think a confluence of factors -- the poetic form and the dark tone especially -- combined to lower the response rate.
>> What I liked that isn't on the list of likes is the linguistic play here. It's an interesting insight when non-English languages are applied to both fic and poetry because English is woefully inadequate at a lot of sentiments other languages have. <<
Yay! I'm happy to hear that.
I love languages and wordplay. Codeswitching makes sense for the Avengers because so many of them canonically or plausibly speak multiple languages. I am most prone to writing vocabulary poems for words that do not translate concisely into English. Language influences thought, and thought influences language, so if you have a word for something then it comes into your awareness more. "Saudade" just seemed like the perfect word for the backstory of Bruce-and-Hulk, BAM, got it in one.
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Date: 2014-02-07 09:57 pm (UTC)That's good to know.
>> But like other commenters have said this one goes a bit deeper down the rabbit hole than the rest of the Love Is For Children main arc. <<
Yeah, the backstory for Bruce-and-Hulk is a morass of gloom. :( Poor guys.
>> Also likewise I have a harder time placing feedback on poems. <<
That's okay. Feedback is an option, not an obligation.
It just makes it more challenging for me to gauge effective aim for future writing, if I don't know how people are responding to a piece. The discussion here is helping a lot. I think a confluence of factors -- the poetic form and the dark tone especially -- combined to lower the response rate.
>> What I liked that isn't on the list of likes is the linguistic play here. It's an interesting insight when non-English languages are applied to both fic and poetry because English is woefully inadequate at a lot of sentiments other languages have. <<
Yay! I'm happy to hear that.
I love languages and wordplay. Codeswitching makes sense for the Avengers because so many of them canonically or plausibly speak multiple languages. I am most prone to writing vocabulary poems for words that do not translate concisely into English. Language influences thought, and thought influences language, so if you have a word for something then it comes into your awareness more. "Saudade" just seemed like the perfect word for the backstory of Bruce-and-Hulk, BAM, got it in one.