Oisin55 you are an absolute inspiration. I remember reading the Victor's Project when you were first publishing it and it has been such a relief to return to it during quarantine. This is the first time I've read the Lumberjack and the Tree Elf and I am completely blown away. Your writing is incredible and I got completely invested in the story of Blight and Jason. I wasn't prepared to cry this late at night but here I am. Thank you for sharing your work. I hope you keep writing.

Wow. Only took me 2 days to read this. Amazing and heart wrenching work. Thank you so much. Tomorrow I plan to start Fall Into the River.

Eamon if you're out there I know karate and I'm coming for you.

God, what a chapter. It's such a blessing that Blight finally gets to have some hope to motivate him alongside his spite.

Very painful to read this part again, thinking about how my family might react if they knew I was queer. Anywho, knowing Blight wins makes me feel a lot better.

Hey thanks I forgot about this ending and I'm sobbing into my pillow at 2am.

In all seriousness, it was very powerful to read this again eight years later. Your first fic is emblematic of your amazing grasp on emotional prose. Thank you for making us all feel so strongly about these characters who didn't get as much canon development. It's comforting to think of the years Levi and Jason got to spend together.

You know it is kind of crazy how they both had such an emotional journey for each other even though they really only had three brief interactions... gay rights

Blight said Go F Yourself Snow and we love that for him

Oof... I really hate that Devon got treated like that but itll be so rewarding when Blight kills them all

I am having approximately way too many emotions about this

Oof, even as short as the jacker scene was my heart was still racing. Blight sure thinks faster than I do.

Chip trying to fool and betray my boy... smh but also rip this poor kid

Thank goodness for Plautia. I do recall some Events later this story and man... thank goodness for Plautia at this particular time.

The fact that Blight only got the chance to come out on his way to the death games? The place where he can be celebrated for being himself also being filled with people who sexualize him, a literal child? The layers... Heartbreaking...

Blight... my boy... my heart

I love Blight. Eamon is lucky that he isn't real or I'd kill him myself