fic: that secret that you know, but don't know how to tell (part 3/3)

[ymorton]

 fic: that secret that you know, but don't know how to tell (part 3/3)
fandom: the social network
pairing: mark/eduardo, noncon mark/sean
warning: this piece contains triggers for noncon. please, please read with caution. thank you!
notes: written for the tsn_kinkmeme prompt (an excerpt) : "Come on, Sean's every expression just screamed rape!face, and

Comments

[slasher48]

Hands down one of my favorite rape-fics ever. EVER. Because you did it with great realism and perfectly intertwined it with canon and an upset Mark, an overprotective Wardo, and a repeat offender Sean are exactly how it would go. I believe this down to my toes.

(I would caps-lock, but rape fics are not something to squee about. Just seems inappropriate, y'know? But know my inner caps lock is going strong, because you do everything amazingly.)

As in, you amaze me. Lindsay and Anna are perfect OCs and Sean works as he does in the movie and Eduardo is so sweet but so overbearing (doting, like Jesse says) and Mark is so nervous (I love the tidbit about how he realized a nerd would only be outside pretty girls' windows to stalk them, and then he blushes, 'cause sometimes I think people forget he's still got that complex.) and scared and stoic because he doesn't want to be, because it's too close, too much, just too everything.

I've read this story about nine times, too. Because you do so much with the characters that even if rape-fic bugs me (I've been Eduardo, only with my sister) inwardly, I have to reread 'cause I love how Eduardo is scared to be with Mark after he had that happen, I love how Mark can touch nobody but Eduardo x 10987698 (and Lindsay, with a modicum of trust I think he does not give most women), still, after that night, and I love that you changed canon in this way that slips seamlessly into the Sorkin characterizations, like a hand into a glove. Like it could be meant to be, if there was just that one incident -- if Sean had just gone too far that one night.

I really, really, really, really, really x 876745 love your writing, and this is primetime example-ing of why. ♥

[ymorton]

<333 thank you so much!!!

and i am so sorry to hear about your personal experiences with this bb :(. i really wanted to not trivialize the experience, but i did have some moments while writing like, "god this is maybe not a good thing to do..."

this is such a sweet, flattering comment. i'm glad you thought it was in character and flowed well and you believe it, that really means a lot to me!!

<333

[slasher48]

You are so welcome! :D

It's pretty awful, yeah, but I think it's cathartic to read something as well written as this about it. You really did capture the realism of it. The always wondering if they're okay and the wanting to be really nice but not wanting anything to change so that they don't feel uncomfortable, the police being basically useless anyway and almost nobody believing the victim...it's kind of discouraging, but it's real. I like that you really addressed all sides of this; it upholds all the truths I thought about you, and I'm happy with it. :)

Thank you so much, lady, but yeah. I thought you deserved it, because I did, I could watch the movie again and see that little zipper pull where you could tug it and suddenly the universe is this one. That's how good you are!

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