New Fic: Cowardly Acts (4/4)

[wistful_fever]

Cowardly Acts, by Fabella (wistful_fever)
The O.C., Seth/Ryan, NC-17.
Slash, Long, Future Fic.

Summary
Seth Cohen: twenty years old, unspecified major, neurotic mess.

Disclaimer
Not mine, no money, don’t sue, yadda, yadda, you know the drill.

NotesThis is set while Ryan and Seth are attending an unspecified college together, and likely to be made AU in the

Comments

[poisonapple73]

This is just...wow. Romantic and realistic and you made it so easy to just be with Seth through this whole process, really get inside his head. You did an incredible job.

[wistful_fever]

Thank you for the feedback. And thank your for continuing to stick with it. When I haven't editing a story, I shouldn't promise a date, like, ever --- because I re-write sometimes from scratch when I edit. I wrote the sex scene three. different. times. And then there were smaller internal re-writes... and... yeah. I'm babbling. But seriously, thank you.

[vascopyjama]

you are GOD. I want to eat you.

yeah, I'll leave a better comment when my hands stop shaking...

[wistful_fever]

Coolest. Comment. Ever.

[piscaria]

(this is changeling7, by the way)

Damn. I just read all four parts of this story, and I can't quite find words to respond to it. I really felt for Seth, even when I wanted to strangle him, and very few fics can manage to evoke such conflicting emotions so well. I loved your characterization, loved your writing, and loved how breathless and anxious it made me feel until I finally got to the end. Wonderful job.

[wistful_fever]

*Thank* you. I'm glad this worked so well for you. I tried not to be too biased in my characterization, too soft on any character, even Seth, who was my unreliable narrator. It's very pleasing to know the conflict of good/bad in him came through. :)

[julissak01]

Oh, wow. This was such a wonderful and achey ride. I loved the vulnerability you instilled in your Seth; his ability to be so naive and yet so much older than he is.

Gorgeous writing, gorgeous story.

[wistful_fever]

Thank you. Coming from you this feedback is a high compliment. :)

[aflowerinrain]

Okay. So this is quite possibly WAY TMI, but Seth's first blow job reminded me a lot of the first time I ever gave a blow job. Without the cock punching and all. That's actually a good thing, because it's incredibly realistic. A lot of people (including me) have trouble writing emotion other than omgiwantyounow into sex, but you did it amazingly.

The Summer phone call actually made me cry. Because on the show, they're the only thing that actually works beautifully sans drama, and I love that though she tries to hide it her heart is really right there on her sleeve for him. It's good that she is the first person he flat out says "I'm gay" to. I'm not gay, but I imagine that is really hard to say for the first (and second, and third...) time, and it makes me happy that it's Summer because she really does deserve that absolute honesty

[wistful_fever]

You know, you've just really made this story a wonderful experience for me. Every step of the way, when I posted this story, you were the first person I thought of when I hoped for responses, wondering what you would think of it. I just wanted you to know how terrific hearing from you about this has been. The story had been written, but hearing what you had to say made me want to write it *better*, and I think the ending is much better now, as it is, than what I first had it written as. And that's because you made me take a second look, think a little deeper about my own motivations. So thank you.

[aflowerinrain]

You are welcome! Thank YOU for writing it.