~~ beautiful world.

[reenka]

so. i read the last chapter of `beautiful world' around sunrise. strangely fitting, actually. and i couldn't really come up with anything to say-- partly 'cause i was/am falling asleep, partly because instead of feeling -sad-, i felt strangely peaceful and faded, like the world had become softer and more fragile, and somehow more luminous. i didn't want it all to be so... delicately sublime, like a watercolor painting, but it wouldn't move, just sort of floating across my mind. there was pain somewhere out there, but i couldn't feel it, it wasn't -real-. there was only this feeling of shimmering sadness, like a dawn rainbow after a nighttime rain.

so instead of a review, there's this.

Comments

[clodia-of-rome.livejournal.com]

Were you trying to intentionally invoke a Turner painting? Gawds, it's pretty! And it does have a Turner feeling. You know like his Venice paintings and such. Pretty. And all light, transparency, and layers.

[starflowers.livejournal.com]

Oh wow, that's gorgeous... I'm completely stunned, that's so beautiful, and just the way I saw it all when I wrote it. So pretty...

[clodia-of-rome.livejournal.com]

hmmm. where did you get your icon of Luna. It is horribly beautiful.

[shadowluck.livejournal.com]

Very lovely.

And you captured the spirit of BW perfectly, in your verbal description as well as in the picture.

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

hee. nah, i've never heard of him ^^;
i -am- addicted to layers & transparencies though, hehehe, as i see you can tell ~:)
i pretty much can't seem to do anything in paintshop or photoshop without them anymore. it's er... well... i could with a -tablet-, but with a mouse it'd just kill me. but thanks :D

the icon is glockgal's drawing of luna~:)

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

eeeeee, am so glad you like~:)
that was probably the more life-affirming, prettiest deathfic ever. or maybe lifefic~:)
death & life: they go together ^^

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

thanks~:) it really did seem like a heavily visual story, looking back on it, and the idea of draco at sunrise is too pretty to resist, though this is just the merest raw sketch of it ^^;

[starflowers.livejournal.com]

*clings and wails* someone just emailed me upset because I didn't label it a deathfic but I didn't think of it as a deathfic because it's a LIFEfic haha but now I feel bad!

*coughs* sorry hehe I had to wail. Because... because they sounded so disappointed in me.

Anyway. Beautiful BEAUTIFUL picture. I adore it. I've saved it. Someday when I have a colour cartridge, I shall print it and hang it on my wall.

[shatterglass.livejournal.com]

prettty.

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

*meeps*
yah, i was surprised in a sort of "hey, deathfic!" sort of way but not in a "well, -this- doesn't make sense" sort of way. we're so used to being prepared. i mean. a lot of people probably wouldn't have read it if they knew, but some of the power is gone, probably, if you know, 'cause the whole time you'd be kind of a bit distant from the characters, counting down the days and knowing more than they do and so on.
and just...
usually in a fic where one of the main characters dies, there's a lot of angst and pain and blood and gore-- so it's like, life sucks and then you die, usually. and this wasn't. and people don't necessarily love to entertain the idea that you can -love- life and not want to -leave- and still, you do.
because in the end, that's what happens, isn't it. no one -wants- to die and they aren't all depressed suicidal maniacs, and they die anyway. happy, fulfilled, loved people die all the time, without wanting to, with it being too early, with all of their life in front of them. and there's no way to -stop- it, really. there's no way to always prevent it. there's no fairness or logic or kindness to it.

that's why i love the idea of the Fates being the Kindly Ones.
i love the idea of death being beautiful and kind and sweet, but it kills you anyway, you know?

and... i messed with it a little, so maybe it's good
you saved it, depending ><;;
i can never stop~:)

[clodia-of-rome.livejournal.com]

William Turner is the name. A fabulous English Romantic Artist. Influenced the French Impressionists and quite possibly one of the first people to make us "look at a sunset/sunrise" as an "object." Here's a link to one of his works:
http://www.abcgallery.com/T/turner/turner30.html

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

*gasp!* That's beautiful!

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

ah, that explains it. i am sadly limited in my knowledge of landscape painters. as in... wah. do i know -any-? well, probably some. mmm, pretty though. and the sky is probably one of the few objects of landscape that i don't think one -can- make boring. you'd think beach scenes wouldn't be either, but. wah. people largely draw the ocean in such... strange ways, that it doesn't even look like water half the time. or maybe that's just me-.-

[keewick.livejournal.com]

*sighs*

Absolutely gorgeous, Reena!

As for BW, I felt the same way you did at the point in which Harry's 'dream' unfolded - at peace, untouched by the pain/loss of it all - but as soon as the POV flipped back to the final image of Draco's realization or rather his acceptance, the reality for the one remaining crystallized, and I found myself soon crying like the hopeless little sap I am. Nevertheless, I found it to be an entirely fitting conclusion so I’m not complaining.

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

meep. thanks~:)
though i feel a little freaky since i -never- cry, not even after `dark side of light' i don't think, but. i think it's simply that any pain or feelings i have come out in other ways ^^

[ifihadameadow.livejournal.com]

Gah! That's amazing!!

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

er... thanks :D
i'm so happy someone new and random liked it too. *giggles*

[ifihadameadow.livejournal.com]

Well, you're welcome:) And I make a point of being new and random... ;)

[glockgal.livejournal.com]

It's all about the emotions. Like, when you look at this, it doesn't give me the same technicalities that usually pop out in art. All I see are feelings, and that's a damn cool way to look at art. The. Like. See? I can't even describe it. But I do feel extremely at peace right now. *g*

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

*beams*

all in all, it's hard to be more flattered than by speechlessness~:))

thankeeeee~:D

Urm yea hmmm *waves*

[bloodybrilliant.livejournal.com]

Yes, this is totally random and, like, 8 months too late, but I just found the link to this in Cinnamon's lj and I can't see your picture.
:((
I would LOVE to see it, if there is any way possible. *pleads* Is it posted elsewhere or is there a way you can re-post it or something? :) I hope so. Let me know, please.

I love reading your journal, though I rarely comment. And I even actually have had you friended for sometime now to read your wonderful and well put thoughts and rants and writings and such. Just to let you know that. :D

Have a great weekend.

Isobel

Re: Urm yea hmmm *waves*

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

Er, hi~:)
Oh yesh, my um... address changed, so I changed it and it should be visible now, just reload or something :>
It really does startle me that the people who have me friended do read me, heheh. Um. *coughs* Good to know :D
Thanks >:D

~reena

Re: Urm yea hmmm *waves*

[bloodybrilliant.livejournal.com]

<3<3<3

That is quite beautiful and evokative. Its emotional and has that serenity and all the other lovely painful emotions that the end of the story have. I wish I could draw or create art like this. I see things, feel things that I yearn to express in a form like this, without words, but my attempts fall far short of what I am striving for. So I am left to find words, and that, usually, turns out better than my pictures.

You did a great job capturing that essence of Beautiful World. The sun and the light and the lightness. Wow.


:D
Thanks!

[kirili.livejournal.com]

beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. thankyou :D
I was in a depressed stupor after reading it and I think I felt much like you did in some part of me. I can't explain it.
thankyou :D its a beautiful picture.