I'm so sleep deprived right now it's not even funny so let's see how well I can be coherent!
I already blathered about it somewhere up in the comments (don't even remember where) but I really love thinking about these things! As in, reincarnation or afterlife or whatever it is that happens after the time here is done. And I love the thought that two persons can be ~connected~ beyond one lifetime, even if it isn't an epic lovestory but something a little more... less epic. ahah and sometimes it feels like I've known some people forever when in reality it's just been a month or two. But I'm blathering!
I didn't know you like genderswitch! To be honest, I'm still not sure if I like it or not. I think I do but I also think I ran into way too many that weren't written/handled all that well and it made me kind of avoid them a bit. Also this was my first time writing genderswitch AND het so I'm super-happy if it didn't turn out just lame and awkward, haha.
AND FLOWER BOATS. I have to say I loved the whole thought of them ever since I first read a mention of brothels like that in a book. I kind of want to write more into that life but how much could be said about them meeting overnight only. Soooo maybe once in another lifetime fic or so.
And adgsfhg I'm so happy someone loves the history too! ;~; I spent hours reading about things and like 99% of it never made it into the fic. But I love how I could name the pharaoh and the rival king from the Egyptian era, for example, since they existed and for once I didn't just make everything up! \o/ Plus I love history. As long as I don't need to memorize the dates.
I agree that some of the Heechul bits were kind of awkward :/ And you're right! It would've flowed better with Heechul doing the explaining instead of me blathering on and on about it. In general, writing Heechul is almost always fun so I don't even know why I didn't do it more like you suggested.
Sungmin was there because I originally planned more for him but it didn't make the cut. Plus I thought that it might be good to mention Heechul isn't the only god? I wanted to give the impression that he was just one of the several gods ruling out there. But I can see why that might've seemed a little detached from everything else.
ahah honestly? In my mind they never went back to the party but somehow neatly vanished for the night and came back the next day with good explanations. I might not have thought it through completely XD but that's how it was in my head.
Uhmm I don't think Heechul was happy because Zhou Mi died, but because he got to send them to another life again. His attitude towards death must be a lot different from ours.
Actually, I thought about making the current-day lives their real lives right now. The reason I didn't was that it began to feel like I'd end up writing a novel then :| It was a lot easier to keep it shorter and more compact this way, since otherwise I would've ended up writing as much of the modern setting as the rest of the fic together. Does that make sense?
haha and first I was gonna tell you I disagree about it being rushed but then I read it again and it is kind of rushed. I hope it didn't ruin the whole era though!
You can ramble all you want and I'll appreciate and cherish every single word, I always do ;~;♥ I'm so happy to hear you enjoyed reading it! Reading your comment left me all emotional and I don't even really know. I'm tired haha. And uhm I didn't really talk about the fic to almost anyone except when I needed a title for it eventually, so it's not you! I still can't quite believe I wrote genderswitch and ACTUALLY ENJOYED IT.
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I already blathered about it somewhere up in the comments (don't even remember where) but I really love thinking about these things! As in, reincarnation or afterlife or whatever it is that happens after the time here is done. And I love the thought that two persons can be ~connected~ beyond one lifetime, even if it isn't an epic lovestory but something a little more... less epic. ahah and sometimes it feels like I've known some people forever when in reality it's just been a month or two. But I'm blathering!
I didn't know you like genderswitch! To be honest, I'm still not sure if I like it or not. I think I do but I also think I ran into way too many that weren't written/handled all that well and it made me kind of avoid them a bit. Also this was my first time writing genderswitch AND het so I'm super-happy if it didn't turn out just lame and awkward, haha.
AND FLOWER BOATS. I have to say I loved the whole thought of them ever since I first read a mention of brothels like that in a book. I kind of want to write more into that life but how much could be said about them meeting overnight only. Soooo maybe once in another
lifetimefic or so.And adgsfhg I'm so happy someone loves the history too! ;~; I spent hours reading about things and like 99% of it never made it into the fic. But I love how I could name the pharaoh and the rival king from the Egyptian era, for example, since they existed and for once I didn't just make everything up! \o/ Plus I love history. As long as I don't need to memorize the dates.
I agree that some of the Heechul bits were kind of awkward :/ And you're right! It would've flowed better with Heechul doing the explaining instead of me blathering on and on about it. In general, writing Heechul is almost always fun so I don't even know why I didn't do it more like you suggested.
Sungmin was there because I originally planned more for him but it didn't make the cut. Plus I thought that it might be good to mention Heechul isn't the only god? I wanted to give the impression that he was just one of the several gods ruling out there. But I can see why that might've seemed a little detached from everything else.
ahah honestly? In my mind they never went back to the party but somehow neatly vanished for the night and came back the next day with good explanations. I might not have thought it through completely XD but that's how it was in my head.
Uhmm I don't think Heechul was happy because Zhou Mi died, but because he got to send them to another life again. His attitude towards death must be a lot different from ours.
Actually, I thought about making the current-day lives their real lives right now. The reason I didn't was that it began to feel like I'd end up writing a novel then :| It was a lot easier to keep it shorter and more compact this way, since otherwise I would've ended up writing as much of the modern setting as the rest of the fic together. Does that make sense?
haha and first I was gonna tell you I disagree about it being rushed but then I read it again and it is kind of rushed. I hope it didn't ruin the whole era though!
You can ramble all you want and I'll appreciate and cherish every single word, I always do ;~;♥ I'm so happy to hear you enjoyed reading it! Reading your comment left me all emotional and I don't even really know. I'm tired haha. And uhm I didn't really talk about the fic to almost anyone except when I needed a title for it eventually, so it's not you! I still can't quite believe I wrote genderswitch and ACTUALLY ENJOYED IT.
Thank you thank you thank you so much! ♥