Reccing for newbies

[samsom]

hannasus commented to me recently and that made me go back and read one of her fanfics, of the best pieces of fanfic I've ever encountered. It just happens to be a C/A fic, post You're Welcome. I'm reccing it again in case the newbies to the C/A ship haven't run across it yet.

Undrowning.

It's beautiful and spare and....if anyone's ever lost anyone beloved to them....it rings with truth and grief. hannasus did good when she wrote this and she deserved every bit of feedback she got - and still gets, nearly five years after writing it.

http://hannasus.livejournal.com/65631.html

I cried at the last two paragraphs. Bet you will too.

Comments

[xlivvielockex.livejournal.com]

God I love that fic. It ALWAYS makes my rec lists. Always.

[samsom.livejournal.com]

Forever. Five years later almost and I still - still - tear up and almost start to cry during the penultimate paragraph. It just captures the inevitability of grief, the forward-moving when all you want to do is go back.

*sobs into your neck*

[hannasus.livejournal.com]

Awww, you guys. You're making me all verklempt. This was the first thing I ever felt proud of writing, and I wrote it after my mom died, so it means so much to know that it touched others. Watching Angel reruns every night got me through those long hard days when my mom was sick, and it's always been my comfort fandom--the one I come back to when I need a pick-me-up. And the fact that people still think about something I wrote after all these years? Amazing. Ya'll are the sweetest.

[samsom.livejournal.com]

And it's all true too!

Hand to God, Undrowning and the poem you used in it was the truest representation of grief I've ever encountered - my mom died when I was 19 and everything you wrote Angel feeling was what I went through. Even Lorne with his useless eulugy summed up the sheer inadequency of trying for beauty and/or comfort through pretty that meant nothing. When my dad died last year, I used the poem in his funeral.

So yeah, fuck yeah, I love this fic for a multitude of reasons.

[hannasus.livejournal.com]

*hugs you*

[aerintine.livejournal.com]

I feel blessed to have read your beautiful story. It is canon as far as I'm concerned. Thank you for sharing and for loving Cordy and Angel enough to write it.

[ever-neutral.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the rec! I will have the tissues ready.

[samsom.livejournal.com]

You're gonna need 'em, bb. :)

[aerintine.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the rec. I don't know how I've missed it before. I'm all tear-streaked now, but in such a cathartic way. This fic is Beauty.

[samsom.livejournal.com]

It is amazing, isn't it? Such a gorgeous tribute to Angel and Cordy and his love for her. *sniffs*