[crossover fic] Love is a Painful Thing (The Second Best Mix)

[escritoireazul]

Title: Love is a Painful Thing (The Second Best Mix)
Author: Carla (escritoireazul)
Disclaimer: None of the characters are mine.
Rating: 14+
Author’s Note: Written for pene for femslash08, and late because I am an idiot who forgot she no longer lives in the eastern time zone.
Summary: You love her beyond the telling of it, but she’s not for you. Until the one time she is.

Comments

[pene]

Oh my word... I am speechless because I love you so much! Every single one of my requests! This is by far the most perfect fic I've ever received and it makes me smile how you and I have so much overlap and commonality in the things we see.

The fic as a whole is so many things I love - sad and physical, self aware and brilliant and full of beautiful girls.

Your Dawn is beautiful, just wanting to be real and valuable; understanding the frustration of always being second and understanding the strength in Faith. I especially love this: Faith watched her, quiet and steady. and the flow on from that, Faith's hands on Dawn, how Faith lets Dawn lead

[escritoireazul]

I'm so glad you like it! I was thrilled when I received my assignment and learned not only was I writing for you, but that I wanted to write all of your requests. I knew right away I wanted to write about love versus unrequited love, but the Stick It section kept tripping me up until I realized I just wanted to write a sweet little moment of perfect happiness to end it all, to contrast with the others, and Haley/Mina was perfect for that. I never would have thought to pair them, so I'm really glad you requested it and I had the chance to do so.

I think I may have to write another Bee/Viola story once I buy She's the Man. Serendipitously, I watched it for the first time right before the assignments went out, but I'd love to really analyze it and Sisterhood and then write another story between them, because theirs is a footie love which makes me happy. (Quite like Bend It Like Beckham makes me happy.)

I was really luck with this assignment, and again I'm so glad you like the story!

[marenfic]

You are awesome.

The Faith/Dawn really hit my buttons, made me miss the Buffyverse girls so much. Your Dawn and Faith are different than I've read before, but in a good way that is very them. I love the idea of Faith listening and that she's not in it for anything so that when something happens, she can still go right back to listening. And Dawn. Dawn! She's so perfect in this I don't even know what to say.

The Viola/Bridget makes me happy, because I was hoping whoever got this request would write it.

[escritoireazul]

Thank you so much! Faith and Dawn here are different than I usually write them, so it was interesting (and a little frustrating at times) to stretch my normal characterization. I like it in the end, but it was harder than I expected. (Probably in part because I don't normally write Dawn, and having her with Faith was challenging but fun.)

It was a stroke of luck that I watched She's the Man for the first time right before the assignments went out. I was leery about writing it after just one viewing and without the source material at hand, but I'm glad I did, and I think I want to write them again.

[theagonyofblank]

Oh, my. This was such a treat! I loved them all.

Dawn/Faith has never really appealed to me, but I'm so glad I read this one, because it was perfect. Dawn with her "I'm a woman," and Faith just accepting that. They were right for each other, and I'm really glad Dawn was the one to make the first move, not Faith. I love that they are comfortable with each other and your Faith is so calm and collected yet she's that in a very Faith-like way, it just makes me want to squee

[escritoireazul]

Thank you so much!

I'm glad the Dawn/Faith worked for you here. I'm not a huge fan of Dawn/Faith, either, even though I like Dawn's character, and I adore Faith (and love her with just about anyone). It was a challenge to write them together, but fun, too.

Eden pining after Anne Marie and not getting her may be my favorite story to tell. I've long wanted to write a story about Eden turning to Penny (in a few years, when she's older) to replace Anne Marie, which is fucked up in so many ways, but I was really pleased with way her turning to Lena worked out in the story

[catalinay]

This was great! I enjoyed each pairing.

[escritoireazul]

Thank you so much!

[nikitangel]

Oh, lovely, lovely, lovely. And Stick It fic! You wrote Stick It fic! You are a goddess.

I'd know your stories anywhere, you know. They just scream you :)

[escritoireazul]

Hee. This makes me want to challenge you to pick my fic out of the line-up the next time I do an anonymous challenge. I do tend to have similar themes and phrases in all my stories; I can't decide if this is a bad thing or not.

I love writing Stick It fic. I'm going to have to do it more often.

Thank you!