http://imaginer8614.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] imaginer8614.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] crack_van2009-09-07 03:11 pm
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Fandom: NCIS
Pairing: Tony/Ziva (but only slightly)
Length: ~1100
Author on LJ: [livejournal.com profile] paperflowered
Author Website: http://paperflowered.livejournal.com/
Why this must be read:
Ziva can be such a hard character to understand and connect with, I believe, for a viewer because compared to the other characters she leads such an extra-ordinary life and can also seem very cold and unfeeling (this was especially true at the beginning). I never pictured Ziva as one to smoke (and I am not a smoker) but the idea of what smoking represents to her works perfectly in this piece.
The writing is superb; the syntax, amazing. The fic has the perfect balance of plot and deep thought. The fic is perfect in length. It leaves you almost wanting more, but okay with it's ending. And the last line is so, so perfect.

Hourly pleasures, she learns gradually, are not nearly as agreeable as the rare ones, delayed until past the point of inevitability, until you have convinced yourself that you will never partake of them again. Then, and only then, does it become sublime: as though you are being granted a reprieve from your own death.

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