No, no—please! If you want to, I’d honestly love to hear your thoughts. Ideas are always a good thing. I’m just sad that instead of a beautiful happy ending, we’re clinging to stories where they reunite in Iceland ten—sometimes even twenty—years later. And, you know.. I hate the Duffers.
I reread your fic and realized that my grand theory doesn't really fit into its narrative, where Mike's been secretive for all these years cuz he actually found El and they kept it super-secret and met every once in a blue moon. Everything else from there gets progressively complicated. I'd keep going but then it's just me projecting. Sorry!
Oh, I get it. I guess my story is going to be a lot more straightforward. Honestly, I have no idea what I’m doing. Of course I have a plan in my head, but right now the only thing I know is that writing is healing. That’s why I keep trying to write. But your idea is really good too. Maybe one day there’ll be a fic based on that idea here as well.
Something simpler -something that focuses on healing. Because I truly don’t want Mike to spend the rest of his life as a drug-addicted alcoholic. In stories like these, they usually give Mike a new girl. But healing doesn’t happen only that way. I’m writing this not just as a fan, but also as someone who still carries a person they couldn’t forget from long ago. I hope that by the end of this story, I’ll find my own way to heal too.
Because I truly don’t want Mike to spend the rest of his life as a drug-addicted alcoholic.
- Nah, same! I enjoy a good whump (to the point where I think there's something wrong with me) and I really love reading Mileven reunion fics, whether they take place in Iceland or elsewhere (I love the fics where they be creative about it too.) but there's only oh so much I can take of the angst.
I hate seeing Iceland fics where they reunite after ten or twenty years. Sure, I’m happy they reunite -but it still hurts. 10 YEARS! For what? An entire youth gone. A love that was never lived -one that, if none of this had happened, would’ve been lived at its most beautiful, at its prime.
And thank you sm. I’m feeling better -and I know I’ll keep getting better.
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