[fic] Knowledge of the Hand (Tina Drake, PG: Daddy Sharp-Ears, for MMoM)

[glossing]

Title: Knowledge of the Hand
Media: Daddy Sharp-Ears (Uber/fusion of DC Comics [Gotham] and Jean Webster's Daddy Long-Legs)
Characters: Tina Drake and Jane Todd
Rating: PG, if that.
Length: 1700 words
Disclaimer: I am neither DC nor Miss Webster.
Notes: For jubilancy, without whom Dickie would be impossible, with much love. thete1 a while ago suggested Jane's

Comments

[cmshaw]

whee! oh, *heart*. especially jane, but i suspect that that's not a surprise. i am so delighted that there's going to be more of this. especially if tina keeps on with her "athletic" pleasures. :)

(i hadn't read daddy-long-legs before, but i have just looked it up and spent rather more of my lunch hour than i should've devouring the first two-thirds of it.)

i did note a few equestrian nitpicks -- are you interested in them?

[glossing]

Thank you!

especially if tina keeps on with her "athletic" pleasures.
Tina is also pursuing her love of photography; she has been endeavoring to convince Dickie to pose - Classically, of course - and might just bribe Jane to do so as well.

I am *so* glad you discovered DLL! It kind of owns me, heart and soul.

Bring on the nitpicks, please! It's been fifteen years since I was in a paddock and then the sidesaddle stuff threw me even more.

[cmshaw]

Tina is also pursuing her love of photography; she has been endeavoring to convince Dickie to pose - Classically, of course - and might just bribe Jane to do so as well.

laughing...too hard...can't breathe...help....

*flaily hands of asphyxiation and love*

okay, okay, i'm back. :) the only nit which really threw me was tina removing her gloves: she should absolutely be wearing them from mount to dismount, and probably the entire time she's in the stableyard.

tina lifting herself into the saddle: that's either a notable athletic feat or a deliberate slap at jane, and if it's something that tina's in the habit of doing then jane's failure to hold the reins and the stirrup for her is notable itself. arabians are quite small, but immediately after making a point that tina is small and sensitive about her dignity it stands out that she's mounting unaided, without even a mounting block mentioned.

(the sidesaddle wasn't clear to me in the story; now that you mention it, the weight being on the right leg makes sense!)

[glossing]

Ahh, the gloves were a problem, since I needed Jane to touch her. Must ponder that.

jane's failure to hold the reins and the stirrup for her is notable itself
Ooooooh, that's good to know. I am determined to add that.

Mounting blocks! Dude, where were they when I was riding?

Sidesaddle - *sigh*. Reading about it was both confusing and upsetting. Maybe I need a detail about Tina arranging herself after mounting, just to make it clear? Hmm.

Thank you *so* much for this.

[cmshaw]

Ahh, the gloves were a problem, since I needed Jane to touch her. Must ponder that.

perhaps she could pull on her gloves right before mounting instead of in her room? or take off one glove to pat redbird?

Mounting blocks! Dude, where were they when I was riding?

heh. you were taught at the "hoist one foot into the stirrup and hop awkwardly" school too? ;) mounting blocks were a revelation to me the first time!

Sidesaddle - *sigh*. Reading about it was both confusing and upsetting.

upsetting?

Maybe I need a detail about Tina arranging herself after mounting, just to make it clear?

i'd find it helpful in picturing what was going on, i think.

Thank you *so* much for this.

dude, for the chance to rattle on about batkids on horses? thank you. ;)