A short vignette. Featuring Maud x OC. Nothing explicit or even suggested.
Maud's research trip has lasted about a year now, and one stallion, whose little garden sits right next to the Pie rock farm, misses her immensely. Written in the third person, this is really nothing more than the thoughts of a lone stallion on the night of Maud's return to the rock farm. He wonders if she'll come to see him that night. He certainly hopes so.
Thanks to Tennyson for inspiration and Hasbro/Lauren Faust for creating the mare we all know and love, Maud.
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My feels, where did all of my feels go.
4563355 Hopefully in a very happy place.
It is positively criminal that this has so many dislikes; I figure some people wouldn't know quality if you printed it on the underside of a sledgehammer and whacked them upside the nose with it, but why you would dislike something because of that eludes me. Anyway, this is probably the closest I've come to reading proper literature on Fimfiction, and for that, good Sir, you have both my thanks and my most sincere encouragement! Here's hoping there's plenty more of this, wherever it came from
4579898 You, sir/madame, have just made my day. Quite sincerely the nicest thing anyone's written about my work (what little there is, including several older stories on fanfiction.net).
I suspect the rather indifferent reception is due to two things.
Firstly, the subject matter: Victorian literature's never been particularly popular in this modern day.Tennyson in particular is not particularly highly regarded as he's very sentimental and practically establishment (as poet laureate for 42 years). Nowhere near as appealing as a rebel like Browning.
Secondly, my style. I actually write poetry more than I do prose, which you can see is reflected in my language, syntax and use of repetition. Most people find it terribly wordy, and probably would write 'tl;dr' if they were moved enough thereby to do so. Ah well.
Again, thank you so much for your very kind compliment. It certainly put a smile on my face!
4580260 While I hardly approve of the unprecedented nature of my humble comment here, I'm very glad it was to you liking!
You and I are in unquestionable agreement regarding the Victorians; we've certainly not seen the like of them since, though I do believe that if composition back then was as simple as bashing your fingertips against a keyboard as it is today, we might have observed slightly less of a literary peak spanning the lifetime of Britain's most illustrious Empress! From what precious little a classics guy like myself knows of poetry, I can only approve of your opinion of Tennyson; I myself have always been something of a Rossetti fan.
And regarding the disapproval, naturally, true poetry aficionados are thin on the ground online, but I'm still far from comprehending why it would elicit a little red marker intended to demonstrate, ironically enough, the absence of quality! While it is good that those of us who can actually appreciate a work like this one have the chance to enjoy it here, part of me hopes that you'll expand your efforts elsewhere Asmodaeus, perhaps to more of a broadly intellectual audience
Sadly enough, simple words of encouragement are far from guaranteed in just about any corner of the internet, and quality of an sort is far from a guarantee of recognition or approval. But, once again, I'm very glad that I could provide you with a couple such words here!
Absolutely beautiful.
This tab has been open for two months because I promised I would comment on it later, so here it is. I think I found is because we met on Omegle.
I read this on a boat in Venice. It had a style to it. Not many people can write like the old times or write in a different style. This achieved both anyways. And now I can close this tab and wait for a reply later.
4844760 It's very kind of you to say that this has a style. I very much admire the older literature and having someone say that something I've actually written seems faithful to the old times is actually very flattering!
As to Omegle... I'm quite sure that you must be thinking of someone else. I'm not much enamoured with chatting face-to-face with people online, so I think it would've been highly unikely that it was actually me you were speaking to.
4850336 No problem.
The Omegle chat was just text, no face-to-face. I don't have a camera for that. We were talking about fanfiction, and you sent me to this story.
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Considering I've not the foggiest idea about how Omegle, I'm very sure it wasn't me. I am, however, very flattered that someone recommended you this story. Might it have been any of the other wonderful commentators here perhaps?
Awwww, this was so sweet, I love it!
You did such a wonderful job on this, and it really shows.
I approve of this, and it gets a favorite!
Nicely done, nicely done.
Keep it up!
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That's very kind of you to say; thank you! I'm singularly glad you enjoyed it!
6310126 You're very welcome kind writer sir person ma'am thing :D
I loved it! And it is so worth a reread!
Keep it up!
Really well written.
This is skillfully done as far as style and descriptiveness. It is quite different from Tennyson's poem. It seems that by writing something clearly referring to "Maud", that the story is a comment on the poem--yet it is not; the text here jettisons the poem's dark themes of obsession and madness and provides instead a simple vignette without theme or paradox.