I suppose that I have to concede: I screwed the pooch a bit on the ending. Not because I was tired of writing-it's been done since April-but because I started out with one goal in mind that I was going to pursue regardless of the body count: get Alex off of Team Kills People and safely to Panama. I guess I neglected some details along the way. Still, thank you for reading this far.
Now then. I see what's happened here. Our faithful Ficangel has been abducted by aliens and we have an imposter's writing here.
I HATE (really) to be negative and usually stay silent at such times but I have been spurred on by your other comments to say that I feel you must have got tired of this story before the end?
I am not a fluff whore, I don't need pages and pages of happy ending - I don't care how dark the end is, but I do feel you haven't done this wonderful story justice. *gets down on knees and bats eyelashes* Please can you consider giving this a little more?
Hmmm. If all the reviews are unaminous, I suppose that I have to concede: it's too short. Still, I didn't think that any further detail about Panama would have fit the story that I was trying to tell, which was bloody-mindedly getting Alex off of Team Kills People and then getting him to Panama. It may have been that I was tired after writing such a monster, but the rough draft was finished in April, so I had plenty of time to edit. I'll take my lumps; it's done.
Thank you for replying to my Rude!Review. I really did enjoy your story a huge amount - I think that's why you got such a reaction out of me - I shall miss it now it is over. Have you written other pb fic - will you be writing any more? Will this haitus never end?
btw I loved your solution to Sara's situation. Brilliant idea.
Don't worry about it. For the record, I think that fandom as a whole is way too sensitive about concrit as a whole. I don't consider anything that stops short of "Also, you have stupid hair and smell like feet" to be rude. :)
Just finished reading this from start to finish over the last few days, and loved it. :) Your grasp on the characters is excellent (though I already knew that from lurking on your journal and reading your PB reviews, heh) and you did a fantastic job of developing them and their relationships. I've been intrigued by Michael/Alex for awhile now, but have seen very few if any stories that have successfully built up their relationship from canon to sex. I've been excited about this story for ages, from lurking on your journal, but for whatever reason it took me awhile to get off my ass and actually read it once you posted it. Glad I finally did, though, because this is probably the first fic that I've read that posits a realistic Michael/Alex relationship. Again, all down to your characterization and your ability to slowly build up the characters and their relationship
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Aaand, as a follow-up... I did a couple of drawings based on this fic. :) What can I say, when I read or see something that I like I get inspired to draw...
First up, a sketch of the scene from ch 11 where Alex is watching Cameron sleep, cause it broke my heart. ;_;
Hi! Sorry it took me a few days to answer, I have a tendency to crouch over comments and watch them accumulate in my inbox before I answer all of them at a go
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Before I go on, a disclaimer (or something): Michael/Sara are about as close as I get to an OTP. (Okay, there have been occasional dabblings with Linc/Sara. But only occasional.) And while I adore both of them, separately and together, Sara is my girl. So a fic containing Michael/Sara and Michael/Alex … not what I would usually read. I found the two of them quite fascinating in S2 with their similarities (and their differences) but I’ve never been interested in them as a pairing. And y’know, Sara. I don’t want my girl winding up out in the cold.
As far as Michael/Sara goes, while I can see how things might work out between them, I can also see many scenarios where things might not work out. But before this I’d never really thought of a scenario where Michael/Alex might actually end well
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Thanks for reading to the end! Your comments have been tremendously flattering.
Virtually every reviewer who made it to the end has commented on the abruptness of this chapter; based on that, I only have to conclude that I screwed the pooch on the pacing to the tune of five, probably six thousand words. My intent was to make it clear that the fight was going to continue even after Michael and Alex had bowed out of it, since they were both characterized as being in it mostly for the sake of their families while the women had the broader ethical view (the show squandered a lot of gender-centered goodwill for me with Sara's faux-death, but I liked that detail), but I should have found a more graceful way to do it that didn't make it look as if I had just become bored with the story.
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I've really enjoyed reading this series, thanks for writing.
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Still have alot of question unanswer.
Are you tire of writing this?
I like this story very much.
Could you please write more or write the sequence.
Thanks very much for writing.
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You still don't tell me if you will write more of this. Or you will start to write another PB story soon.
Thanks for considering.
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Now then. I see what's happened here. Our faithful Ficangel has been abducted by aliens and we have an imposter's writing here.
I HATE (really) to be negative and usually stay silent at such times but I have been spurred on by your other comments to say that I feel you must have got tired of this story before the end?
I am not a fluff whore, I don't need pages and pages of happy ending - I don't care how dark the end is, but I do feel you haven't done this wonderful story justice. *gets down on knees and bats eyelashes* Please can you consider giving this a little more?
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btw I loved your solution to Sara's situation. Brilliant idea.
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First up, a sketch of the scene from ch 11 where Alex is watching Cameron sleep, cause it broke my heart. ;_;
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v209/ria_oaks/Other/AlexandCameron-FicangelsAWalk-onPar.jpg
And second, a quick sketch of Michael and Alex - not really based on a scene, more just because I was inspired to draw them by your fic. :)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v209/ria_oaks/Other/MichaelandAlex.jpg
Hope you enjoy. :)
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Before I go on, a disclaimer (or something): Michael/Sara are about as close as I get to an OTP. (Okay, there have been occasional dabblings with Linc/Sara. But only occasional.) And while I adore both of them, separately and together, Sara is my girl. So a fic containing Michael/Sara and Michael/Alex … not what I would usually read. I found the two of them quite fascinating in S2 with their similarities (and their differences) but I’ve never been interested in them as a pairing. And y’know, Sara. I don’t want my girl winding up out in the cold.
As far as Michael/Sara goes, while I can see how things might work out between them, I can also see many scenarios where things might not work out. But before this I’d never really thought of a scenario where Michael/Alex might actually end well ( ... )
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Virtually every reviewer who made it to the end has commented on the abruptness of this chapter; based on that, I only have to conclude that I screwed the pooch on the pacing to the tune of five, probably six thousand words. My intent was to make it clear that the fight was going to continue even after Michael and Alex had bowed out of it, since they were both characterized as being in it mostly for the sake of their families while the women had the broader ethical view (the show squandered a lot of gender-centered goodwill for me with Sara's faux-death, but I liked that detail), but I should have found a more graceful way to do it that didn't make it look as if I had just become bored with the story.
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