Skins Fic

[gespawcho]

Title: Astrophysics
fandom: Skins
pairing: Emily/Naomi
rating: mature

a/n It's been a traumatic week for Naomily fans, thanks to She Who Shall Not Be Named, and I thought, what better time to jump into the fray? Word to the wise: stay strong, kids. Effy's only role in this is to be a purveyor of narcotic plants. This is obviously my first foray

Comments

[immortality]

Wow, so I just found this, but fuck if this isn't both the loveliest and hottest thing that I've ever read. Seriously well done; a fantastic read. ♥

[gespawcho]

hey! i'm delighted and pleased that you liked this story! thank you so much for your generous opinion of it! i took a lot of care with it and hoped that people might appreciate seeing a little more of what happened on their camping trip!

[phandomsock]

whew.

that was *fantastic* in all the right ways. Well written, hot, true to the characters. Nice being in Naomi's head, interesting perspective and very appreciated.

Thanks for sharing!

[gespawcho]

thank you! i'm glad that you enjoyed it! for whatever reason, naomi's POV was most attractive to me, though I always wanted to write something from Cook's POV- or, about him, anyway.

Thanks for reading!

[prunesquallormd]

I just stumbled across this and it's lovely.
Very sweet, rather romantic, and seriously hot. I liked this rather a lot :)

[gespawcho]

Oh my god. I'm just going to come right out and admit that I was stalking my own journal-sometimes I like to torture myself by reading things I've written and then pondering whether it would be cowardly to delete them forever. And anyway, true to southern form, I was just thinking to myself that the most embarassing thing is when I don't reply to something someone has said. It just makes me feel like a heel and an ingrate! I'm especially embarassed now because we've exchanged the odd comment elsewhere.

Anyway, thank you for taking the time to read this. I probably spent more time on this than anything else,so I really do appreciate you checking it out.

[prunesquallormd]

Oh, I hope you weren't thinking about deleting this; it's far too lovely to get rid of :)

(I know what you mean about stalking your own journal. I do that with mine sometimes. It's strange how even stuff only a few months old can seem like it was written by a completely different person).

Don't worry about taking a while to reply, sometimes other things get in the way :)

It would be nice if you were to write other Skins fic some day. I'd definitely read :)

(We'll no doubt stumble across each other again on various mutual friends journals :))

Have a good Christmas dude :)

[gespawcho]

I might let this one live. :) It's not half bad, in retrospect. Thanks for sayin!

(I know what you mean about stalking your own journal

I'm glad! It's definitely not done out of narcissism- more like shame.

I would love to write more for Skins! I just don't know if there are any moments as perfect to imagine as the Tent stuff in Effy's ep. It's such a weird show in terms of what they actually show you and then the immense amount of stuff that you never see.

I hope your Christmas is awesome!

[flister]

Hey, thought I'd check your journal in the interest of ~friendship and FUCKING HELL! I find this little gem.

It's brilliantly written and really put me there in the moment, like I picture rather clearly what they were doing, with how they were breathing and just the way you described Naomi touching Emily.

I like how Naomi tries to convince herself that she's doing this to Emily to almost prove something to herself: Now, she’s got Emily right in front of her, being well fucking agreeable, and she’s going to show Emily that she is good at this. It's just a struggle to Naomi sometimes, working out what she wants and what she thinks she should want, so this type of self-justification just resonates really well.

Really glad I came a-wandering :)

[gespawcho]

In the interest of friendship, I'm glad you decided to check it out. Most of what goes on in my LJ is pretty random and inconsequential but I am glad you stumbled on this cause I am proud of it. It's probably the only piece of Skins fic I'll ever finish.

I'm really beyond pleased that you enjoyed this. Really flattered and proud as well. I'm extremely pleased that you thought Naomi's thoughts were so vivid. If I have a style, the consequent problem I have with my style is it tends to get bogged down or to belabor a point. Sometimes it works and more often it doesn't, so I'm really pleased that you think the descriptions of the actions/thoughts held true.

I think most of the stress in Naomi's life comes from the weight she puts on her own actions/reactions, and life is challenging for her because she sets the challenges herself.

Anyway, thanks so much for reading!