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Big Bang/Exchange Fic Discussion #3

Jul 26, 2011 22:53

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SPNJ2BB: Secrets Kept/Secrets Told [J2, NC-17] by surevesta anonymous July 29 2011, 01:51:37 UTC

Artist: bumerbmw

http://spn-j2-bigbang.livejournal.com/272405.html

Wordcount: ~26,000

Additional pairings: Christian Kane/Steve Carlson, Elisabeth Harnois/Danneel Harris

Summary: [AU, Bonded!Boys, sequel to The Word of Us] Secrets wear on you all the time, slowly building stress until eventually something has to break. Jared and Jensen live in a world where their entire relationship is considered impossible--members of the same sex don't mate with each other according to the Church and the government--and they hide in plain sight. Working within the underground community of same-sex pairs, Jared comes up with an idea and presents it to a friend who decides to roll with it . . .

Re: SPNJ2BB: Secrets Kept/Secrets Told [J2, NC-17] by surevesta anonymous July 29 2011, 02:18:13 UTC

In case of LJ outage (and, okay, this comm happening to be loading and spn-j2-bigbang or the author's not):

"Secrets Kept/Secrets Told" on AO3: http://archiveofourown.org/works/229217

Previous story, "The Word of Us," on AO3: http://archiveofourown.org/works/185381

Series page for both stories on AO3: http://archiveofourown.org/series/7963

Re: SPNJ2BB: Secrets Kept/Secrets Told [J2, NC-17] by surevesta anonymous July 29 2011, 04:49:40 UTC

Disappointing.

Oh, I feel like such a harsh critical nonnie (though overall it looks like I am a faintpraise!nonnie) but, well, I am disappoint ( ... )

Re: SPNJ2BB: Secrets Kept/Secrets Told [J2, NC-17] by surevesta anonymous July 29 2011, 05:47:05 UTC

sa ( ... )

Re: SPNJ2BB: Secrets Kept/Secrets Told [J2, NC-17] by surevesta anonymous July 29 2011, 05:57:43 UTC

sa ( ... )

Re: SPNJ2BB: Secrets Kept/Secrets Told [J2, NC-17] by surevesta anonymous July 29 2011, 06:12:07 UTC

sa (last tiny bit)

But. The writer indicated there's another part to come.

And I hope that third part will be more enjoyable again and offer more of the kind of characterization and more closely focused plot that I liked about the first installment. (Or more successfully go in a completely different direction.) So that this part just feels like a slight misstep in an otherwise entertaining psychic soulful matingbond 'verse.

Re: SPNJ2BB: Secrets Kept/Secrets Told [J2, NC-17] by surevesta anonymous July 29 2011, 06:08:11 UTC

I have to agree with the others that this sequel was a disappointment. I really wanted to love this story--especially with how much I enjoyed last year's--but I just didn't. The typos and SPAG errors were sloppy. A simple readthrough could have corrected a good amount of those, and that really snagged me up. I agree that the story was a bit emotionless. The supposed deep affection between J&J was something the author kept telling us was there, but it was never shown. Apologizing for lack of porn doesn't make up for that; vivid sex scenes aren't the only way to show that characters are in love. I also felt that the climax of the story was pretty much a blink-and-you-miss-it moment.

(Also, I was peeved that it wasn't a standalone. I read The World of Us and still found myself stumbling to remember how it left off, so I doubt anyone could have picked it up without reading last year's story first.)

Re: SPNJ2BB: Secrets Kept/Secrets Told [J2, NC-17] by surevesta anonymous July 30 2011, 03:56:52 UTC

Another nonnie who enjoyed last year's fic and was disappointed by the sequel. My main issue was that this felt like a really overextended epilogue to the previous fic. The end of the previous fic has Jared telling his mom that he HAS bonded, and that Jensen is his mate.

That exact same scene, with the same dialogue, is also the climactic moment of THIS fic. It's like she decided to tell us more in depth about the stuff from the epilogue of the previous fic. IDK, it seemed to me to be a very strange storytelling idea.

The SPAG is also pretty messed up. Was it betaed at all? That's sort of how my fic looks before anyone's looked at it.

Re: SPNJ2BB: Secrets Kept/Secrets Told [J2, NC-17] by surevesta anonymous October 11 2011, 15:49:12 UTC

Do we have a link to the discussion thread for The World of Us?

also: top/bottom?

Re: SPNJ2BB: Secrets Kept/Secrets Told [J2, NC-17] by surevesta anonymous October 11 2011, 16:53:09 UTC

"Do we have a link to the discussion thread for The World of Us?"

Only if someone saved & uploaded a screencap of the spermy thread it was in. (Bueller?)

Top/bottom: I don't remember. You could skim and report back for both?

Re: SPNJ2BB: Secrets Kept/Secrets Told [J2, NC-17] by surevesta anonymous October 11 2011, 17:24:12 UTC

As far as I can tell, the prequel is switching and this one is handjob only.

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