Painting Layers of Love | Rumbelle | by @still-searching47
It had been two years since the accident.
I think I’m going to cry. You are so incredibly nice. I can’t believe it. This is just wonderful. I’m stunned. Thank you so much! It is a real honor and wow, I just … you did this for my fic? It means a lot. It’s amazing, so pretty and the pictures are all perfect. Thank you.
#I feel even more guilty now about not having updated in a while#I’m going to get on that#look at this amazing thing#this was made for my fic
Shh. You deserve all the nice things and PLL is just darling. The angst is so quiet, just like Belle’s anxiety, and then when it erupts it’s startling and you’re taken aback like oh, wait… something bad is happening … why isn’t this fic all tea and chats in the garden what is happening?!? I love how Belle talks herself into things, and then when she goes to do them it’s suddenly like NOPE what was I thinking??? ABORT MISSION. That’s so real with anxiety.
Poor Gold is just along for the ride for a while. He doesn’t know how to act and that’s actually really great because he’s not overcompensating, he’s not trying to help her all the time. He gets that she’s existed for this long without help, and he marvels at that because I don’t think he could be that solitary. Her life is peaceful and calm and slow, and he doesn’t know how to live like that. She’s very grounding for him. But for Belle, God’s arrival is this tumultuous event in her life. Yet he’s now become this calming force that is slowly pulling her back into the world. She wants to get out there again because of him, she’s realizing part of what has been missing from her life. He’s the unknown, the thing that use to thrill her and that now terrifies her.
And the way you write Belle’s disability is perfect, it’s like it’s not a thing at all, not a big deal. It’s there but you’re not having it thrown in your face that Belle’s blind Belle’s blind Belle’s blind!! It’s honestly the least interesting aspect of her because there’s so much more going on with her past, her art, her personal issues, and her budding relationship with Gold. It’s a factor but it in no way defines her.
There are no words. This is the nicest review ever. I’m just overwhelmed and I can’t believe how thoughtful this is. You are my favourite person in the world right now.