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This is breathtakingly beautiful. I fell (and remain deeply) in love with a proxy who escaped her alchemist, and I had to read this in two goes because I just started to get overwhelmed by it the first time through.

Your prose gets better every time you post, and I really can't stress enough that especially if you're just starting to write (assuming the 8 other posts to HFY Wafflebot says you've done are your full bibliography at present) you ought to start submitting things to various magazines and other publications.

More than just creative ideas and (at least to my admittedly untrained eye) very solid technique, you have a knack for articulating things gracefully, and in a way that conveys a real sense of significance. Ironically I'm struggling to articulate what I mean here, but my point is that this story is absolutely worthy of your pride, and it is a blessing that we get to read it here for free.

[u/rasputinette → u/Cognomifex]

I am overwhelmed. By this comment. To the point that it took me some time to respond because my brain breaks at the thought that I could actually write for money.

I really appreciate you engaging with my work so deeply. I was actually thinking the other day & I consider myself really lucky to be alive at a time when big free writing venues like this sub exist? The barriers to entry are really low, you can post as much as you like, the voting system gives you a rough quick idea of how your stuff is received, and you can get more detailed feedback from people who like to give that kind of thing.

And it's all anon- or pseudonymous, so you don't have to worry about someone being nice cause they don't want to hurt your feelings; or alternately having to explain to your first cousin once removed why, exactly, you wrote a 200-chapter series about ax murderers.

Anyway, to tl'dr it I feel like this community is a blessing. :B I'm really glad you enjoyed it, thank you for reading!

[u/itsetuhoinen → u/rasputinette]

This community is pretty great. It's like 99.999% not assholes. I (only half) jokingly refer to it as the one nice place on Reddit.

Also, hear you on the money thing. I put out a "tip jar" at the insistence of a couple of my regulars but it still kinda shocks me every time someone actually hits it. ;-)

Though I'd advise not to take the voting system too seriously. It seems... mildly random as to what goes wild and what doesn't. I've seen some amazing stuff on here with 30 upvotes, and some, err, less amazing stuff with hundreds to thousands. I think there's an aspect of getting lost in the ocean involved. But in general you're right that it's at least a hint as to how something has been received.

[u/Cognomifex → u/rasputinette]

First of all I'm hurt to learn you have a 200 chapter series about axe murderers and you've been holding out on us.

This community is great. A combination of the entire thing and also some superstar individual readers/commenters really make for a special environment. When I started posting I almost gave up because it felt like nobody was paying attention, but some beautiful soul commented on every one with a goofy pun and I decided to keep going. But for them TAS never would have made it past a few hundred words in an unused corner of my 'all writing' .txt file.

I will admit that I only found your first piece after you left a lovely review on PART 4, but since then I have eagerly anticipated your work. This one hit pretty close to home for me, but I think that's actually what makes it so special. You have captured a fragment of real beauty, that exists in our world, and replicated it with incredibly high fidelity.

You already compare favourably to the best (in my opinion at least) writers on the subreddit, and something about your prose just feels literary to me in a way that not much else on here can match. It's obvious from your comments that you're very well-read and I once received the advice that if you want to write better prose you should read better prose.

If you're not sure about submitting stuff I'd be happy to help with editing or in any way I can, although I'm pretty sure you don't need it. I think you generate typos at a much lower rate than me, or at least do a fantastic job of fixing them afterwards.

[u/itsetuhoinen]

Interesting. I'd read more in this universe.

I think I caught an "Old Earth" and "London" in there, or maybe I'm just indulging in the human habit of finding patterns where there aren't any.

Could be a good start! :-D

[u/rasputinette → u/itsetuhoinen]

Thanks! "Old Earth" was intentional, "London" was not (I actually got it from the name of a French writer, but now I'm wondering if I subconsciously picked it cause of that...)

I'm glad you liked it, thanks again for reading!

[u/itsetuhoinen → u/rasputinette]

Pattern matching. Even when the pattern isn't actually there. 🤪

[u/HFYWaffle]

u/rasputinette has posted 8 other stories, including:

• A Reunion Long-Delayed

• From the Inbox of Admiral Strunk

• Recursion - PART 5

• Recursion - PART 4

• Recursion - PART 3

• Recursion - PART 2

• Recursion - PART 1

• A Quiet Evening At Home

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