Oh what a wonderful thing to wake up to reading - better than any cup of coffee or tea for me, except for the whole paralyzing me to read it rather than puttering around getting ready to take my daughter to school.
Loved this chapter, especially the BFFs talking to Arnold and Helga. I hadn't really expected Phoebe to speak up on Helga's behalf, even though I should've, and so it came as a nice little surprise for two seconds before I was nodding my head going, "Of course... she's still so protective and caring." Also, having been pregnant, I can understand how those protective instincts flare up further to life.
I also love smug Helga and the car, because it's just so very HER. Why do things partway, when you can go full-force? I really look forward to finding out what Gerald and Phoebe's reactions to the missing Jaguar are. (If you say that's not going to be in the story, then I'm totally asking the question of them in the other entry!)
I do think I spotted one typo, though: Let the Footballhead get the couch and leave your
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Hee! Glad I could help make your morning, but OH NO don't put this silly fic before helping your daughter out! XD
It was very important for me to separate them into awkward pairs. I just, really want to nail down this idea that they are both a little fucked up, what with Arnold being totally focused on his parents and Helga being completely focused on him - to the point where they had both let their lives go to pot when hope for those things ran out
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Don't worry - my daughter was not yet awake at the time. We are part of the breakfast club at her school, which means that she gets fed at the school, so generally, getting ready for school consists of waking up, brushing teeth and hair and all that jazz, making sure there's homework and lunches in place, and then heading out. I promise, I wouldn't have actually put this story ahead of my daughter. (I also had to get up an extra hour early to get some things washed for my husband to get to work in time, so I was stuck with time to kill regardless
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Still if you have any questions for the background characters like Sid or Stinky or whatever, feel free to ask. They might show up again, but maybe not.
For some reason it's been really important to me to show how problematic the Helga/Arnold relationship can be. And in order for them to ever work out there are a few things that they both have to recognize about themselves and each other. But I won't say much more about that, as I'm hoping that the story continues to show those things they need to think about.
Haha, I think in my own little headcanon for this story Gerald and Helga end up growing close after Arnold leaves. And Helga's always been around, whereas Arnold left and Gerald's relationship with him kind of took a pounding after that.
I do believe I did issue a threat to inundate you with questions today, right? I just need to think up some good ones. Or really, maybe not so much good as just darnit, things I'm curious about. It'll be a nice thing to do while I'm working on cleaning our kitchen and living room today - do some work, come up with and post a question, go back to doing more work.
Your headcanon makes sense to me. I like it a lot, and I suspect that there are a couple of questions there that I'll end up asking.
In the end, I think what really grabs me about this fic is the fact that you haven't taken the easy way out. There's no, "Oh, he's back after all this time and so sexy and of course, love makes everything all right, so we're happy and lovey-dovey." Because that's not what the show is about. It's one thing for a bit-of-fluff story, like my Traditions, to ignore the growth, and change, and very nature of the show. But a story like this... a story with such meat on its bones. It deserves real exploration, and growth, and discovery, and
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Aww, you're so sweet. I am trying hard to add a lot of depth here and really make the characters struggle to figure out what they do/don't want. I don't want it to be easy for them to just fall for one another.
Loved this chapter, especially the BFFs talking to Arnold and Helga. I hadn't really expected Phoebe to speak up on Helga's behalf, even though I should've, and so it came as a nice little surprise for two seconds before I was nodding my head going, "Of course... she's still so protective and caring." Also, having been pregnant, I can understand how those protective instincts flare up further to life.
I also love smug Helga and the car, because it's just so very HER. Why do things partway, when you can go full-force? I really look forward to finding out what Gerald and Phoebe's reactions to the missing Jaguar are. (If you say that's not going to be in the story, then I'm totally asking the question of them in the other entry!)
I do think I spotted one typo, though:
Let the Footballhead get the couch and leave your ( ... )
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It was very important for me to separate them into awkward pairs. I just, really want to nail down this idea that they are both a little fucked up, what with Arnold being totally focused on his parents and Helga being completely focused on him - to the point where they had both let their lives go to pot when hope for those things ran out ( ... )
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Still if you have any questions for the background characters like Sid or Stinky or whatever, feel free to ask. They might show up again, but maybe not.
For some reason it's been really important to me to show how problematic the Helga/Arnold relationship can be. And in order for them to ever work out there are a few things that they both have to recognize about themselves and each other. But I won't say much more about that, as I'm hoping that the story continues to show those things they need to think about.
Haha, I think in my own little headcanon for this story Gerald and Helga end up growing close after Arnold leaves. And Helga's always been around, whereas Arnold left and Gerald's relationship with him kind of took a pounding after that.
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Your headcanon makes sense to me. I like it a lot, and I suspect that there are a couple of questions there that I'll end up asking.
In the end, I think what really grabs me about this fic is the fact that you haven't taken the easy way out. There's no, "Oh, he's back after all this time and so sexy and of course, love makes everything all right, so we're happy and lovey-dovey." Because that's not what the show is about. It's one thing for a bit-of-fluff story, like my Traditions, to ignore the growth, and change, and very nature of the show. But a story like this... a story with such meat on its bones. It deserves real exploration, and growth, and discovery, and ( ... )
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Aww, you're so sweet. I am trying hard to add a lot of depth here and really make the characters struggle to figure out what they do/don't want. I don't want it to be easy for them to just fall for one another.
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