Comments | glitterburn: Fic: For Fashion’s Sake [TVXQ RPS | AU

glitterburn

Fic: For Fashion’s Sake [TVXQ RPS | AU | 1/2]

Sep 21, 2012 20:12

Title: For Fashion’s Sake
Fandom: TVXQ
Pairing: Yunho/Changmin
Rating: R
Summary: Designer Shim is back on TV for All Stars Stitched Up. Changmin sees the competition as the chance for a bit of peace and quiet away from Yunho, but nothing ever works out as planned.
Notes: AU. For the prompt ‘reunion’ in diagon’s Twelve Months of HoMin challenge. Six ( Read more... )

fic, pairing: yunho/changmin, fandom: tvxq, series: it's fashion darling, challenge: 12 months of homin

Leave a comment

Back to all threads

diagon September 21 2012, 20:16:24 UTC

I figured it's easier to comment on first three and then last three because there is SO MUCH TO SAY!

First of all, thank you for somehow listening to all my "wouldn't it be cute if..." random statements and somehow distilling the least weird (or most weird?) together with a massive dose of your talent and turning it into a cohesive story that manages to be rocking-on-the-floor hilarious and infatuatingly touching at the same time.

I laughed so hard and long at so many parts, but now days after reading it I keep thinking about the story and the bits that stick in my mind are all the little hints and highlights of how incredibly loving and balanced their relationship is.

I want to gush about how well you always cement all of your Homins in romance - it should be impossible to see a coherent comparison between Tension and Spark and this, and yet it's really strong even though one is so tragic and this is so ridiculously frothy.

But first my comic highlights in the first three because even when you mention them in passing, you've created such vivid characters I can see them playing out like a movie:
* Yunho's barista lessons and his over-exuberant steam vs artex
* I love that their puppies are as contrary in relationship as the boys themselves - and I especially love that for all Changmin acts like they are a nuisance, you slip in that he loves them really (like the Tap This picture where he's fussing over Pucci).
* Being such a big fan of Stitched Up but still HATING SIWON SOOOO MUCH!!! That you keep Changmin so jealous of the way Siwon flirted with Yunho even after TWO YEARS when Changmin OBVIOUSLY WON. Changmin holding irrational grudges is so much fun because that boy was MADE TO POUT.
* Pineapple lumps
* Chiffonie Wonnie (best nickname ever)
* Hangeng blurting out random Korean (and knowing your past pairings my brain can't help to wander into whether Siwon would hook up with Hangeng or Zhou Mi and what the Tigers idea would be like if the three of them had Stitched Up characteristics)
* Custom-made Gwangju Skank loves his Posh Boy tee, but prim and proper Changers also wearing his boyf's boxers (because that's such a cute play on Yunho confessing to really accidentally wearing Changmin's in real life)
* he thinks about the last time he pretended to be a hooker for Yunho Because while Changmin as Pretty Woman is all kinds of hot idea - the tiny throw-away bit that they've done the kinky dress-up role-play MORE THAN ONCE is even hotter.
* Jaejoong and Porpoise! You totally made that random comment come to life.
* Go Ara - go away
* All of Tap This. Every single bit. So incredibly funny to pull the rug out from under Changers like that - clever Yunho to know that he'd only be able to get away with it while Changmin was out of the house - but also total mush at the stories behind each of the pictures (and total phwoar at Yunho's voyeuristic camera kink)

Tap This just totally sums up the relationship - incredibly funny, but incredibly romantic and sweet and just makes me want to visit them once a year to see how brilliantly they are doing together.

More comment to come on part 2 (should I repeat that like Heidi does after the ad break?)

glitterburn September 21 2012, 20:35:34 UTC

Thank you xxx btw every time I see the word 'cohesive', I think of Michael Kors saying it and that's kind of scarring.

I still read this back and think of Pucci as the pug even though I know it's Lagerfeld! Pucci Pug has such good alliteration, but it's funnier the other way around with the breeds.

what the Tigers idea would be like if the three of them had Stitched Up characteristics
I... my brain hurts. Mimi would walk all over HG and drag Siwon away to his lair, that much is for sure. Remember that in Tigers, Siwon was kind of like Joanna Coles! ROFL

Of course they've indulged in PVC fun more than once ;) As a Gwangju skank, Yunho is already ideally suited to being a slapper, so the role of hooker could only go to Changmin.

What do you think, Christopher?

Also, another theme coming out pretty strongly this year, especially in the TVXQ fics, is the whole voyeurism/exhibitionist thing. Interesting.

diagon September 21 2012, 20:47:32 UTC

If Changmin had his way Siwon wouldn't win anything!

I like this voyeurism/exhibitionist theme you've got going on. That's a big hot button for me, and so anytime you want to make Min and Ho do thus, please don't edit yourself.

The idea of Changmin being so proper and controlled and Yunho having the power to make him forget both of those things and just let loose all slutty and sexy is all kinds of exciting because the contrast is so strong.

And I have to play snap with my second favourite Christopher gif, because my first favourite is not relevant to my comment at all...