Song Meme Gift Fic: Third Place

[tarotgal]

I'm nearly done with these, so I'm going to post them over the course of a few days.

Title: Falling
Author: tarotgal
Fandom: Anne of Green Gables
Rating: G
Disclaimer: Of course I don’t own these characters. And of course I get nothing for this.
Summary: Anne and Gilbert share a few moments with each other while at Queen’s.
Notes: I wrote this for tma as a gift as she came in third place in my song guessing competition.

Story: Falling


I hope this is all right! It's only my third attempt at writing the characters and I'm a little worried about parts. But I tried my very best, so I hope you like it! And I'm sorry it took a little longer than I'd expected.

Comments

[ladykorana.livejournal.com]

I think you did an excellent job with both Anne and Gil's characterizations. The dialogue was excellent and I could easily see this fitting right in with either the books or the miniseries. I love how Anne can't help herself watching Gil in class, and I like how Gil tries to hide it and underestimates her visual field. Nice sneezes from Gil...very nice! By the end, I was mentally screaming at Anne to jump him and damn the consequences. *G* If I enjoyed this fic that much, I can't wait for my fic!

[tarotgal]

Yay! Ohhh I'm SO glad you liked the characterizations. They're such fascinating, wonderful characters and I would hate to have done a terrible job at attempting them. I still don't feel I quite have them down... but I'm glad you thought they were good enough :-)

I love how Anne can't help herself watching Gil in class, and I like how Gil tries to hide it and underestimates her visual field.
heehee I just love that time period in their relationship. That "it's obvious they're supposed to be together and they know it, even if they won't even come close to admitting it yet" vibe. Though I'd definitely be watching Gilbert during class anyway, with or without the sneezes- yum! :-)

the end, I was mentally screaming at Anne to jump him and damn the consequences.
Oh absolutely! Sadly my love of canon prevented my muses from making that happen. Though I might stand a better chance with the other Anne of GG fic I started eons ago for that weekly hatching :-) Okay, maybe not so much jumping... but more than exchanged walks home. *G* I'm really pleased you liked this fic (and his sneezes!) so much. Thanks for reading it and letting me know!!

[(Anonymous)]

*SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!* (jumps up and down, does a happy dance and gives tg tons of hugs)

I LOVE it!!! The leaves and the banter and him giving her his coat (I Adore that) *squee*. And him trying to hide it and her caring about him and being jealous of the other girl but not being able to admit it. And even the type of sneezes- it just Totally seemed Gilbert type (if that makes Any sense).

And I loved the line about how he didn't seem to realize that she could still see him out of the corner of her eye- just like the leaves. And I loved how you interwove the theme of falling- with falling in love and the leaves falling. The seasonal ties surrounded the story so well, it was just beautiful.

I am sure that there are tons of other things that I am missing but I just Sooooo wanted to let you know how much I adored this and that I am so very, very, very happy with this. Thank you Ever so much!

*happy camper*
tma

[tarotgal]

Oh yay! *breathes HUGE sigh of relief* I love writing giftfics for people, but I always worry so much that the recipiants won't like them for some reason (It's so much easier when I just write for myself) So I'm soooooo glad you liked this so much!!! And I'm even gladder that you picked up on some of those little things I enjoyed putting in there.

The leaves and the banter
What's Anne & Gil without banter, hmm?
And I was sitting at work admiring the falling leaves one day and the opening scene just popped into my head. I came right home and wrote wrote wrote. So I wanted to be sure to post this while it was still, technically, autumn!

and him giving her his coat (I Adore that) *squee*
Well, you did ask for it, specifically! :-) I'm glad I could accomodate, though.

And him trying to hide it and her caring about him and being jealous of the other girl but not being able to admit it. And even the type of sneezes- it just Totally seemed Gilbert type (if that makes Any sense).
It makes perfect sense. I'm so happy you think so. I tried a couple spellings before I "heard" them in my head in a way I thought fit.
And I'm really glad you liked their relationship dynamics here. I really love this "growing up and realizing but not ready to admit it yet" part in their timeline.

And I loved the line about how he didn't seem to realize that she could still see him out of the corner of her eye- just like the leaves.
Yay!!! So glad you got that!

And I loved how you interwove the theme of falling- with falling in love and the leaves falling. The seasonal ties surrounded the story so well, it was just beautiful.
Double yay!!!!!! In the very first draft of the story that theme was going to be a little stronger... and they were going to be heading home for the weekend on the train. But I couldn't make it work in my head and (as such) out came most of the references to the theme, though I suppose it's still pretty apparant, what with the title and all. But I'm EXTREMELY pleased you picked up on that, because that's exactly what I wanted the story to say. *happy sigh* Thank you! And congrats again for coming in third :-)