Fic: "Click of the Latch", Mad Men, Don/Pete, Adultish

[romanyg]

Well, there doesn't seem to be any Mad Men fic out there. Maybe I wanted an excuse to use this icon

Comments

[mosca]

This is stunning. I like the way you contrast the characters but blur them together, and it feels more and more like Pete is obsessed with Don although you don't tell us that.

But the best thing is how each line feels like an advertising slogan: short, punchy, slanted, and revealing.

[romanyg]

Thank you. I'm a little fascinated with their dynamic, how it's more than competition/rivalry for Pete. He seems to have Don on a pedestal, even when he discovers his secret.

But the best thing is how each line feels like an advertising slogan: short, punchy, slanted, and revealing.

Pete's found his calling in advertising. *g*

[askmehow]

Oh my god. This is so, so very good. There's so much to unpack and think through, and I'm going to be more coherent in a moment, I swear, but OH MY GOD. I love this fic so much! And here I had vague hopes for any fic at all, but this is easily above and beyond all my expectations.

[askmehow]

So I've read this again, and I'm still not coherent other that to goggle at how awesome this is, and metaphorically clutch it gleefully close to my heart, but. Here goes:

I love the title to bits; the lietmotif of Don's door, of permission - and exclusion - of crossing a boundary, and what being on the outside of that boundary means to Pete, causing him to create this mythical Don, this fantasy that builds and builds... It's so beautifully tied together, and yet is completely organic, and unobtrusive.

What does it take to have a drink with the man?

Pete gets the next round.LOVE. One of the things I found hardest to deal with about the show when it first started was how relentlessly it showed you all the things going on uder each character's perfect facade. There's always more than one level, and everyone - Don, Pete, Peggy - all have to operate on all these levels simultaneously, knowing that no other person will ever completely understand them. Pete's phantom-Don is his way of dealing, of getting closer, and yet, he's perfectly

[romanyg]

Wow. Thank you, this is really generous feedback. I just hope that I can respond adequately

[romanyg]

Thank you. There really isn't any Mad Men fic out there, which surprises me. So much to this show, but maybe that's why. It's one of those shows that you *watch* and maybe meta a bit. I'm not sure.

[tmelange]

Excellent. Spot on with both characters. Love the Superman-Batman shout out. I still think Pete is weasely, and I never would have slashed him with Don of my own accord...but now I can't stop thinking of it. LOL Bravo! I really enjoyed this.

ETA -- Hmm...Could Don play Bruce Wayne...dagnabbit! I think he could! I think he'd be really good at it!

[romanyg]

Thank you. Yes the shout out. *g* But Don's been compared to Batman on the show. It's canon!

Draper? Who knows anything about that guy? No one’s ever lifted that rock. He could be Batman for all we know.

Don does have that Bruce Wayne quality. He's mysterious; he's magic in Pete's eyes. And Pete's upset that Don judges him, finds him lacking, that he hasn't picked him to be his Boy Wonder. He is a bit of a weasel, but he really does want to be in Don's good graces.

[sweptawaybayou]

*swoons*

God, I've been waiting for forever for just this. I think I held my breath through it all.

Loved it.

:)

[romanyg]

Thank you. Yes, where's all the Mad Men fic? I'm glad that I could provide. *g*

[a2zmom]

You've brilliantly caught Pete's obsession with everything he thinks Don is. Pete doesn't appear to have any idea of how to act in social/intimate situations and it seems that his sole motto in life is "what would Don do?" You completely caught that dynamic.

[romanyg]

Thank you. Pete does seem to use Don as his compass. He's obsessed with Don's image and the man underneath that (though he doesn't have a clear picture of who that is, even after he discovers the big secret). Part of him wants to *be* Don, to be a part of him.