fromdustwecome

[fromdustwecome]

Greetings @doyouknowhowtowaltz !

"Jeez, here was some really creepy and weird shit for a children's show", my friend said after I showed him OTGW. "Do you really like that horned dude? His voice send shivers down my ass! And I'm glad that there was like three minutes of this pumpkinhead guy, he scares the freak out of me! How can you ever like them so much?"

"I can show you the way", I answered mysteriously, opening your profile on AO3...

So... We spent most of the day reading (rereading in my case) almost all of your OTGW fiction :D

We were astonished and impressed, we laughed and cried together, we were arguing until we were hoarse - that was quite an experience, if I may say!

We ended by making kind of rating table of it and then we eventually decide to share it with you like some sort of summarizing response or review to your works!

We read ~60 of your fics that included Enoch and the Beast (except Human AUs and Role Swap ones) and ended up with 40 (+1 bonus) in our table (we didn't include works we have completely different opinions about).

Hope that you will not find this insulting or something; hope that the fact that two goofballs once sat and dove headlong into your works, arguing and discussing, will make you smile a little :)

(By the way, sorry for all possible grammar mistakes that I've made, for that is not our native language :D)

Behold: our ratings of FromAnonymousToZ's fanfiction!

Amazing Worldbuilding

1. Of Swords, Ravens, and Alliances

2. Come in to My Parlor Said the Spider to the Fly

3. Winter's Warden

4. Hunger

Amazing Narration

1. Curiosity and the Cat

2. Old Wooden Fence

3.Accords To Last An Eternity

4. Kittenskin

5. Play With Fire

Amazing AUs

1. Scheherazade’s Gambit

2. The Ties that Bind

3. Collateral

Small and Sweet

1. Blooming

2. A Small Kindness

3. Fondness

4. The Name of Death

Funny and Sweet

1. Chasing The Flavor Across Your Lips

2. Innuendos

3. Wedding Band

4. Sweet Nothings

5. Candle Lit Schemes

Lovely and Sweet

1. Migration of the Moth

2. Willfully Distracted

3. Serene Saltation

4. Eternity Ahead

Sweet AF

1. I Offer At Your Altar

2. Doomed To Repeat the Future

3. Solstice Cookies

Romantic

1. Now Kiss

2. Patient is the Maypole

3. Untill the Stars Fall From the Sky

4. Serenade

Intimate AF

1. A Great and Terrible Union

2. Lo! and Behold

3. Just A Taste

Bittersweet

1. Once More

2. Hemlock Bowl

3. Rooted Deeply (Rooted Sweetly)

HEARTBREAKING

1. The Fleeting Eternal

2. Mourning A Monster

Not-beastnoch-bonus:

Disturbing and sweet

Blood is Thicker than Water

SPECIAL AWARDS

"Showing the Way" - to "Hunger": first one of OTGW fics of yours (in your AO3 at least). Immediately setting the mood to newbie reader; we never met something like this before and now we are intrigued and ready for exploring!

 "Godlike Fantasy" - to "Come in to My Parlor Said the Spider to the Fly": for fantastic description of deities of the Unknown

"I Take it for the Truth" - to "I Offer At Your Altar": for the brilliant (and sweetest) interpretation of Beast's tasks from the cartoon

"Pure Epicness" - to "Of Swords, Ravens, and Alliances": it's just Epic. Can you top something that epic? Also - one and only work, where the Beast is really in strong/dominant position compared to Enoch, and he is beautiful in his actions.

"We Take a Step Deeper" - to "Just A Taste": it is unexpected, it is choking, it is intoxicating. We love it.

"On the Edge of a Cliff " - to "Scheherazade’s Gambit": truly amazing AU with Enoch-who-has-not-forgotten-his-Warlord-past, but what a cruel cliffhanger!

"Sweet as Cookies" - to "Solstice Cookies": a pinch of tease, a pinch of laught and a whole handful of love

"Master of Words" - to "Old Wooden Fence": your skill of playing with words is unbelievable!

"Whirlpool of Emotions" - to "Once More" : how can you fit sadness, pain, acceptance, hope and love in 1k words? That's how!

"I Feel It in the Air" - to "Now Kiss": ...and they said that relationship between a walking tree and a maypole can't be romantic at all!

"Drowning in It and Loving It " - to "Curiosity and the Cat": truly masterpiece of narration! And unique point of view - Lorna's vision of Enoch, that was outstanding!

"Do You Want Me on My Knees" - to "Lo! and Behold": ...and they said that relationship between a walking tree and a maypole can't be erotic and hot as depth of Hell!

"Poetry of Bleeding Heart" - to "Doomed To Repeat the Future" and "The Fleeting Eternal": obviously it wasn't meant to be a dilogy, but... The Beast is accidentally traveling through Time to meet Enoch in the past, giving him a chance to see the Love of his life for the first time, and than doing it again, giving Enoch a chance to hold him for the last time? If this is not Absolute Heartbreaking, we don't know what is!

It is clear for us that you have changed your characters and preferences through time a lot and you don't like some of themes or even fics anymore, but we beg you to not delete them (like some other authors do), because it is real history now and someone there deeply fond of it!

We wish you tons of inspiration! Looking forward to your next work!

Sincerely, Nathalie and Alexander :)