A sad and bittersweet story, but absolutely beautiful all the same. I like the idea of this story and, though it would be an amazing full length story, I can see why you decided to just make it a one-shot.

This was a super cool concept, I really like it!

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This is... different from your usual stories, I could say. Your description of Arthur's privateer clothing really placed a vivid image in my head. I really felt like I could actually feel the "old married couple" dynamic between Arthur and Merfred. They show care and affection towards each other, but it's more slow and long-lasting than young passion.
I really like your depiction of the "old married couple" dynamic between Arthur and Alfred, especially in A is For, O America, and this fic. Whenever I read your depiction of Arthur and Alfred in a long-lasting relationship, I feel happy on the inside, yet I feel a little bittersweet, too. I can really feel that they've been through a lot together, and they've had fights, some big, some small, but they still feel an underlying care and respect towards each other. Reading fics where Arthur and Alfred are young, passionate, and enerjetic is enjoyable, too, but I especially love reading about the stage of a healthy romantic relationship where love isn't as intoxicating as it used to be, but the feelings of trust, care, and slow love are flourishing. Combine that with USUK, and, bam! My heart explodes from the combined fluff and feels.
By the way, I'm sorry if my reviews feel like really long monologues/odes to how much I love your fics! I just like writing down my thoughts after I read a good story, and then sharing my feelings with someone else. Anyways, keep on being awesome!

It has been a long while since I've been able to sit down and read a fanfic, and I'm glad it was one of yours. Your work was the first I read when entering this fandom years ago and it inspired me. You have the most amazing mastery of language, of imagery, and your characterizations give such depth to your characters that its hard not to feel the strongest of emotions for them. I am left in awe and humbled every time I open one of your stories...you truly are my favorite author in this fandom. Flattery by its definition is "false praise", so please know that I never intend to flatter when I leave a review...My intention is always to be very honest with my feedback and give the author true praise for his or her astounding work. This, my dear, is nothing short of that. Well done and all my best to one of the classiest ladies I haver ever had the privilege of reading.

This is amazing :)

Very sad! I almost wish Arthur had some living humans to terrorize, if only to enjoy his life more. Surely, in a world with faeries and merpeople, there are still unknowns.

Hang around weddings and harass young people, if nothing else. :)

Omg, I feel happy and sad at the same time. This was an awesome fic! I hope that someday you will make that multichaptered version of this story.

Although I had no intention of it, as of late I've grown more and more weary of this fandom. I wish it weren't so, but I can't help it. Every story is the same, the next like the last, and the one before that. It's awfully sad; a regrettable fate for a fandom which, in its glory days, was nothing less than remarkable.

I'm happy to say, however, that this story (like all of your stories) captured the very essence of those stories of the past. Your creativity is boundless; and so, it is to you I must look to remember why I love, and loved.

Of course, this was also my first fandom, and so perhaps I am simply caught up in the nostalgia of it all. Anyone whose fandom has wound to its virtual close can testify to the same, I am sure. Glory days will always exist pleasantly in the minds of those who cannot help but to long for their return.

Your stories make me long for the glory days, and that is something for which I am incredibly grateful.

Poetic. And so beautiful... does man die because he grows bored? There are medicines Arthur could take so that he could enjoy the land and other people... I am glad that he and Alfred ended up working out. They are so tragic and beautiful in their love and need, I think everyone grows bored now and again and wants to see what is the next life, but sometimes the best and truest reason to remain alive is because of others... I am glad that Alfred helped Arthur see the error of his ways. Suicide is truly a very selfish act.

Awesome sauce!