[fic] Dry Season (David Silva, gen)

[acchikocchi]

(So where does one go about posting football fic, anyway? I know there's footballslash, but it's not exactly slash. Mostly.)

The sincerest of thanks to ettezag and meretricula for suggestions and encouragement. :)

Dry Season
David Silva, gen. (Implied David Villa/David Silva.)
5,675 words

Comments

[emerwena]

THIS IS SO AMAZING. You captured everyone so perfectly and it was so emotional and sad and wonderful and brilliant and I love it so much. My favorite parts were definitely those that involve Nando... big surprise! XD I especially love this:

"Bet the exiles miss England now. Eh, Torres?"
Torres says, seriously, "I never miss anywhere."
"He cries himself to sleep every night," Reina declares and amid the general guffaws even Torres cracks a grin.

LOL Nando would SO say that. I also love Nando's "I can. Please." except that it BROKE MY HEART and almost made me cry. YOU ARE SUCH A GREAT WRITER.

I also love your Iker, so perfect. Awwww I love Spain so much. YAY A MILLION TIMES FOR THIS FIC! <3 (Now, can you please go write me a really cathartic Frings/Ballack fic?? Thanks, that'd be great lol. :-D)

[acchikocchi]

You are a sweetheart, as if I didn't know that already. ♥ Naturally any time F.Torres appeared I thought of you, though I'm sorry I couldn't get anything about the Uplifting Presence(tm) in there. *g* Thank you for all the nice words both here and via text!

Also: nice icon. XD

[meretricula]

STILL AWESOME AND AMAZING, JSYK. and Vienna Teng lyrics as cut-tag! EVEN MORE AWESOME AND AMAZING.

(ps: it's not very active, but fieldofplay takes gen, if you're still looking for a home for this! and you can definitely post UST in footballslash if you want to. XD)

[acchikocchi]

A big thank you for the compliments once again! :D As for the VT lyrics: the song came up on shuffle as I was putting in the HTML tags, no lie. My O_O face let me show you it.

Whoa, thanks for the heads up, I'd totally missed out on that comm somehow!

[boyfolk]

There's also footiefic!

But, anyway - Mer, this is lovely, lovely, lovely. :( I am ridiculously enamored with Silva, and I think you have captured him wonderfully here.

[acchikocchi]

♥♥♥ Thank you, Clare, your comments are extra special given the many exciting things you have to do besides The Internets at the moment. :D

[nahco3]

this is going to have to be a quick comment, because I have to go to class soon but:

I love this fic so, so much. I'm a huge sucker for gen-ish UST and this is superbly done. the way you captured not just DS, but the rest of the team as well; perfectly. and oh god. the last section, about Valencia? painfully accurate. it's so hard for me to deal with Mori, DV and DS all being gone, and this just reminded me why I loved them all.

anyway! I absolutely adored this.

[acchikocchi]

Oh gosh, thank you so much, both for the comment and the rec - needless to say, hearing such nice things from someone whose own writing I like so much is gratifying to say the least. So very glad you enjoyed. :)

[liberta]

Wow. This is so, so good, and so, so heartbreaking. The tension - not just the UST, the whole tension about the world cup and transferring, it really grips you, and the details, well, I am a sucker for details, so infinite :D. I echo the commenter before me though, as someone who adored Villa and Silva and Mori at Valencia, this really twists the knife.

Fantastic fic, memming and reccing.

[acchikocchi]

Thank you so much, for both the very flattering words and the rec! :) I'm really chuffed to read comments from long-term Valencia fans - I didn't start really start paying attention to the team until after Mori left, more's the pity, so I'm glad it could capture that feeling a little bit for the fans who were actually around for it. (And I feel for you guys - I mean, if I miss a past I never even experienced...) Anyway. Thank you again, I'm so glad you enjoyed!