Comments | wearemany: actual fic: Wholly Imaginary, Generation Kill, Brad/Nate

wearemany

actual fic: Wholly Imaginary, Generation Kill, Brad/Nate

Dec 23, 2010 00:46

i didn't mean for a little yagkyas good cookie prompt (thank you oxoniensis!) to turn into a full-fledged 3,000 word fic. but i should have known i had one real story in me in this fandom, and i'm on vacation, so what the fuck.

thank you to gigantic for sharing this very specific mutual meta obsession. despite all the cross-checking, i'm sure there's canon i got wrong in ( Read more... )

generation kill, fic

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jcalanthe December 23 2010, 09:32:51 UTC

Oh, I love this! It's entirely your fault that I've read anything in this fandom - you recommended some story as not requiring familiarity with the source (by hackthis maybe), and the next thing I knew, I'd spent several days in a row staying up way too late reading it. This is really great, and wow, I really want to know where they go from here (and also I want to give them both hugs!).

dine December 23 2010, 17:36:17 UTC

this is awesome; I enjoyed the original cookie, but this fleshed-out version is even better.

wearemany December 25 2010, 01:22:44 UTC

thank you!

wearemany December 25 2010, 01:22:10 UTC

thank you, and you're welcome ;). there is SO MUCH good genkill fic out there but nothing that quite got as much at the tiny corner of overlap i became fascinated by.

asimplechord December 23 2010, 18:29:22 UTC

The cookie was wonderful. In its entirety, this is fabulous.

wearemany December 25 2010, 01:23:17 UTC

thank you so much!

pjvilar December 23 2010, 18:29:56 UTC

Beautifully conceived and beautifully realized. I love this.

wearemany December 25 2010, 01:23:47 UTC

oh, thank you so much. i'm glad it worked for you.

janes_thomas December 23 2010, 18:39:05 UTC

this is lovely. your links to nate & stark and brad & alex were very cool and i thank you for getting brad to finally sort our two boys out in the end.

wearemany December 25 2010, 01:24:42 UTC

thank you - yes, i wasn't really sure when writing whether there was any good way out of it, so i was glad to find a way to get brad to help too. :)

gigantic December 23 2010, 19:23:08 UTC

Brad knows. Nate's problem is that the war he left will always be his last, will always be there for the reliving.

You always manage to point out things I hadn't really considered so specifically. Like, of course that's something that would be an issue for Nate, especially to have that be his last, to have had the reasons he did for leaving, and then to have all of that immortalized in some way.

I like how he and Brad circle each other and know it, even though they don't even see each other very often. And I still love the overlap between fictional and real, and how they wonder if a few months of filming could have somehow affected Alex and Stark the way it's still affecting Brad and Nate. Ugh, I just love this all around!

wearemany December 25 2010, 01:26:56 UTC

ahhhh yes, that.

i like how they only sort of wonder about the actors - like, those guys don't need worrying about, brad would think. but they're still curious. having someone talk about your life is always bizarre and terrifying and fascinating on some level. (i guess the other side of this would be some version from alex's and stark's pov, but i'm not sure i want to dig into that enough to get it right-ish.)