Fun and games, concrit, non-con crit

[flambeau]

I seethe with the wrath of the frustrated gamer. I've owned FFVII for years, and it played really badly on my old computer, with which it was barely compatible. So I thought, new computer, yay! Hah. On the new computer, the credit sequence plays in a loop, over and over. That's it. I have a feeling that the game would have run perfectly on the

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[laurakaye]

OK, so now you've got me intrigued, because I don't connect with Enduring Distance or A Moment of Insight (even while admiring the writing! and the craft! and all) but Eight Sessions and Kowalski is Bleeding are actually my very FAVORITES, that I re-read fifty thousand million times and adore with a white-hot fiery passion.

And, you know, try as I might I can't seem to pin down in my head *why* I'm reacting that way. I think the closest I can come is that there are moments in the ones I connect to where I go "YES! Yes, yes, yes, that IS Fraser! That's exactly Ray! That's IT!" And in the ones I don't connect to, while there isn't a place that I go "no, no, that's not Fraser, I'm so not sold on that", there isn't one of the "Yes yes yes!" moments either?

...and now I sound like a herbal essence commercial. Aiee.

But the ones that I connect with, I'll remember lines or even whole exchanges, or moments, sharp and clear in my head. ("Dental school well within reach, I suppose." "Gyoza!" "...when NUNS vandalize your car." "We're the oppressors. We're the plant overlords.") The ones I don't connect with... I just read them, and they are good, well-written stories, and I admire how she can write such long fic all the time when I struggle to reach 20K, and then I move on. Half the time I have trouble immediately connecting the title with the story ("A Moment of Insight," that's the Iowa one, right?)

I wondered at first if it was just the more unique ones that caught my eye, but that doesn't hold up because of my obsessive love for "Merry Go Round."

...huh.

Fascinating topic!

[laurakaye]

Obviously I forgot to close a tag and am too lazy to delete and re-post the comment. Sorry. *g*

[flambeau]

When nuns vandalize your car! That is so brilliant. anyway, yeah, it sounds as though you have the same click/not-click thing with the stories that I have, if not with exactly the same stories. A Moment of Insight is the Iowa one, yeah - I nearly called it "the one with the hotel room" in the post, but that didn't narrow it down as much as it could have. *g*

Maybe what KiB needs, for me, is a tiny bit more mush. They're so harsh with each other, yet there is all this repressed woobieness under the surface, yearning to breathe free... snrk. or not.