Name: Pixileanin (Signed) · Date: 09 Dec 2023 01:19 PM · For: darjeeling

Hello, again!

I never got into the flavor of darjeeling. It’s too unfamiliar to my tongue, but I do tolerate it better than matcha, which I can only handle when it’s blasted with sugar. It seems like these words are echoing my taste of the darjeeling. I’m betting that she doesn’t appreciate it either, or she wouldn’t have picked it to represent this moment. It seems like she’s caught between the times of before and later, here. Reconciling your present self with your past self is never easy, especially when you remember things changing in a way that you didn’t want them to. 

Another beautiful set of words. This one is haunting.

 

Pix

Name: Pixileanin (Signed) · Date: 09 Dec 2023 01:16 PM · For: matcha

Hi there! I’m not throwing a snowball. This moment is too brittle. I might break something pretty.

All your words here are so, so pretty, even the no-pretty ones. I don’t know a thing about this fandom except for whatever you write. But my daughter knows this fandom, and she’s read this, and she says it’s perfect. 

It’s perfect. 

There is so much disappointment packed into this moment, and I love the tea, and yes, I agree with her that the cold tea must be some kind of metaphor because I feel that too. I love the image of the frayed rope, and how she can see in these passing moments that it frays and breaks, and how she doesn’t want to leave this moment because the next moment will be just more disappointment when she goes home and she’s not ready for that disappointment to be piled on to all of this. 

It’s like something she used to want, but now that it’s not the thing she can have, she’s trying to reconcile those two things. And sixteen hurts all over the place, so this fits so, so well.

Great job! Here. Put this snowball in the freezer for later. You can use it to soothe the bruises from this fic.

 

Pix

Name: Crimson Quill (Signed) · Date: 07 Dec 2023 11:32 AM · For: matcha

*throws snowball*

Laura! Why does everything you write seem like a work of art? The brilliant description which brings out such a beautiful way of showing those raw angsty emotions of this tense situation and break up. The tea not tasting right and all the metaphors used in the piece are so compelling. You obviously know that I'm not familiar with the fandom but I feel like you've captured the emotions of the piece in such a realistic and human way. It makes me more interested in their relationship before this as you've painted the strained times with the emotions high but also weakening than I would also love to see this couple portrayed in good times to see the contrast as you've sew some flakes of what that use to mean. Brilliant job xx