I agree with your assessment that this is one of the best things you've ever written. It's up there with one of the best things I've read in fandom, frankly. The way you wrote the world, your word choice, everything...ugh. I am rarely filled with "THOSE WORDS, OMG!" jealousy. Like, maybe two or three times in my fannish life, total, and not since Buffy days until I was reading this. My comment on the fic was a small subset of the lines I wanted to give praise to and worship. (Look, I went to bed after 3 am. I am not the most awake person at the moment, so sense? This may not make it.)
And I thought a lot about what to call things, how we give names to cataclysmic events--I thought they'd probably refer to this period as the Winter, and the name the Melt came about because it would be catastrophic when all that ice and snow began to melt away and subsumed islands, coastal lands, etc. A number of years ago here, we had an ice storm followed by like almost a foot of snow, followed by another ice storm and then rain where the temperature didn't go up enough to melt all the snow, so it became completely waterlogged, paralyzing the city because unless you had a super high clearance vehicle, even tire chains wouldn't help you get around in it. Buildings collapsed, trees fell on houses and cars, it was a nightmare. I couldn't stop thinking of that, but all the names I tried didn't sound right till I hit on the Melt.
Oh, man. Yeah, I see how that would TOTALLY have influenced how you built the world in the story. (The one where all those marina roofs collapsed, right? I think that's also the one where Mom and Dad had friend who was flying out of Sea-Tac park his car at their place in Three Tree Point and then the ice storm brought a tree branch down on said friend's car.)
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And I thought a lot about what to call things, how we give names to cataclysmic events--I thought they'd probably refer to this period as the Winter, and the name the Melt came about because it would be catastrophic when all that ice and snow began to melt away and subsumed islands, coastal lands, etc. A number of years ago here, we had an ice storm followed by like almost a foot of snow, followed by another ice storm and then rain where the temperature didn't go up enough to melt all the snow, so it became completely waterlogged, paralyzing the city because unless you had a super high clearance vehicle, even tire chains wouldn't help you get around in it. Buildings collapsed, trees fell on houses and cars, it was a nightmare. I couldn't stop thinking of that, but all the names I tried didn't sound right till I hit on the Melt.
Oh, man. Yeah, I see how that would TOTALLY have influenced how you built the world in the story. (The one where all those marina roofs collapsed, right? I think that's also the one where Mom and Dad had friend who was flying out of Sea-Tac park his car at their place in Three Tree Point and then the ice storm brought a tree branch down on said friend's car.)