fic for seraphcelene

[musesfool]

Title: Teach Me to Hear the Mermaids Singing
Author: victoria p. [victoria @ unfitforsociety.net]
Summary: Theory ain't practice.
Pairing: River/Mal (Simon/Kaylee in the background)
Rating: Adult
Spoilers: for the movie
Recipient: seraphcelene, who wanted Mal/River. Happy Holidays! Hope you like it

Comments

[leadensky]

Would you *NOT* be busy with postin' shiny fic right this hour, whilst the 'verse is a might over full with it?

Thank you.

(This is good, btw.)

- hg

[musesfool]

It's a Christmas present! I wanted to post it on Christmas!

And thank you.

[ninamazing]

<33333333333333333333333333333333333333333

Yeah, it's awesome. You fucking NAILED them. :D No pun intended.

[musesfool]

Thanks so much! I'm so glad you liked it and thought it was in character.

[jazzfic]

Oh...what can I say. Fan-bloody-tastic.

Seriously, though, you really have the icing on these two. It's so good to read something that has goddamn *truth* to it.

[musesfool]

Thanks so much! I'm so happy it worked for you.

[kerrypolka]

"Please," she manages, though she's not sure she can take it, thinks maybe she will shake apart, like a ship whose buffer panels can't take the strain of escape velocity.

This as a Mal/River sex metaphor is just sheer genius. Because every Mal/River story is really Mal/River/Serenity. That, and lines like this:

Her startled, "Oh!" reminds them both that anyone could walk in at any time, and maybe that's Serenity's way of warning them someone might.

really kept that part of the 'ship (ahahahaha) true for me.

[musesfool]

Thank you so much!

This as a Mal/River sex metaphor is just sheer genius. Because every Mal/River story is really Mal/River/Serenity.

*preens*

I was kind of proud of that myself. *g* I definitely think Serenity has to be the (not-so-)secret third party in any relationship with Mal, and River totally gets that.

Fic: Teach Me to Hear the Mermaids Singing

[secondsilk]

It was difficult to think of things to pull out this, because all the parts of it fit together so well, it's perfectly constructed. And it has all those wonderful stylistic things I've come to expect from your writing.
River's reading and feeling of people's thoughts worked very well in that less-direct way. See gets everything, and people don't think in coherent sentences.
Zoe was beautiful, and Kaylee, too.
And touch, something other to River. Beyond what she knows already.
I don't think I've read the pairing before, although I've thought that it can work. Brilliant. I'm converted.

Re: Fic: Teach Me to Hear the Mermaids Singing

[musesfool]

Thank you so much! I'm so pleased it works for you, especially the characterization and the River POV.

I don't think I've read the pairing before, although I've thought that it can work. Brilliant. I'm converted.

Woo!