Comments | glossing: [fic] The Pleasures of Civic Duty 2/2 (Golden Age, Batman/Robin)

glossing

[fic] The Pleasures of Civic Duty 2/2 (Golden Age, Batman/Robin)

Jul 27, 2006 21:03

continued from part 1. Please read the warnings.

( I've never mussed the crease/In your blue serge pants/I never get the chance )

dick grayson, fic - comics, robin, batman, bruce wayne, boyslash

Comments 81

rubynye July 28 2006, 02:33:42 UTC

Wow.

Oh, WOW.

I... I'm going to have to come back to try to comment coherently. Right now I'm just kind of... wowed.

glossing July 28 2006, 14:28:38 UTC

Thank you. I'm looking forward to your thoughts if you feel like sharing them.

anonymous_sibyl July 28 2006, 02:53:08 UTC

Whoa. You found the era and you stayed right in it with every word you wrote. So many word choices I want to mention, so many that were perfect.

This was awesome. Wow.

glossing July 28 2006, 14:29:37 UTC

I'm not sure how happy I was to find the era? But it was fun and brain-breaky to try, at least.

Thanks so much, sweetness.

cmshaw July 28 2006, 02:55:07 UTC

goddamn, this just about broke my heart. what a fantastic story!

*hugs mattachine!robin a lot*

glossing July 28 2006, 14:31:07 UTC

*beams at you*
That is, it broke my heart, too, but I'm sadistic enough to be really happy it worked for you. Thank you!

beanie_platypus July 28 2006, 03:49:48 UTC

*bursts into applause*

Okay, that was about twelve kinds of awesome. The writing is really good, really consistantly in-period, and definitely convincing for Robin's frame of mind. The gay bar was a very clever way to frame it and bring the right kind of tension into poor little Dick's head. And, of course, Bruce is the judgemental, hypocrite we all know he is, but you can't really hate him for it.

I'm a little confused about the whole Officer Kerr thing- was he both going to the club *and* setting it up? Or am I reading too much into his nastiness, and he was just covering his ass without the intention of arson?

I'm almost tempted to ask you to do more with Francis and the other regulars at the club- they're *interesting*. I'm reminded of Tipping the Velvet.

glossing July 28 2006, 14:34:08 UTC

Oh, my. Thank you so much.

Kerr was getting payoffs from the bar and when Natasha stopped paying, he & the Maronis (who, in my backstory that didn't make it to the page, *owned* the bar itself) burned it down. But Robin's not the World's Greatest Detective yet, unfortunately.

I fell *hard* for the patrons - it's so good to hear that they worked for you, too. Originally, this was supposed to be a silly little ficlet populated with pulp stereotypes, but they really kind of grew on me, especially Gilbert and Belle.

Thank you!

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glossing July 28 2006, 14:35:14 UTC

...kind of like the canon source!

Thanks, dearheart. *mwah*