from the vaults

[rm]

Since today is Guy Fawkes Day, and since we had all sorts of anti-gay misery go down Tuesday/Wednesday and since I just realized most of you have never seen this because my friendslist was about a third the size it is now when I wrote it:


Title: For wherever you go, I will go
Author: rm
Fandom: V for Vendetta
Pairing: Valerie/Ruth
Rating: R

I should really do a podfic of it, as it is well suited to my voice, but it is a difficult story, and I have not reread it in its entirety since it went live on the Yuletide site.

Comments

[tree00faery.livejournal.com]

Sorry to but into your conversation here, but I totally agree. I loved, loved, loved how much weight the movie gave their story. And I think they portrayed it really well too. Makes me cry every time.

[eumelia.livejournal.com]

Such a beautiful love story as well, just as a story. In the film it was like this interlude in the midst of all the Action!Explosions!Fascism! and here... as rm said: "Lesbians!" being Lesbians and in love.

Also, you gotta love the alliteration :)

[tree00faery.livejournal.com]

Exactly! When I watched the movie with a friend a while ago, her response was "Gasp! Lesbians!", which I think is pretty accurate. It's always nice when there are adorable lesbians in mainstream (or at least somewhat mainstream) things.

I'm not usually one for action movies, but I actually really like the V for Vendetta movie. It helps that it's very political and also very human. The whole thing is kind of a love story, too.

This is making me want to go watch the movie. ^_^

[eumelia.livejournal.com]

The comic is far less (see, not) a love story, in my mind - it's a very human story (cruel and beautiful, all that) but love is a very cynical concept in the book... until Valerie, that makes it all the more special.

The love that V has for Evey is real no doubt, and as his motivation to set her free it's powerful, but not something us mundanes can really appreciate other than conceptually. We're just not in that mode of thinking any more, imo.

"Valerie" is the kind of love we're used to, the kind of love we want to for ourselves... which makes the comic (and the movie but to a lesser extent) that much more powerful.

[tree00faery.livejournal.com]

Agreed. Though admittedly, I haven't read the comic in years - I lost my copy when my family moved one year, and I never replaced it. I really ought to; I'm sure I'd get even more out of it now.