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

batfan_sarah July 28 2006, 15:34:45 UTC

old school gay.

i love it.

there were so many phrases in here that fit the time-frame perfectly, and little dickie was unbearably cute.

kudos.

glossing July 28 2006, 17:23:55 UTC

Thanks very much. I harbor *such* fondness for Dick, it can't be healthy.

batfan_sarah July 29 2006, 22:02:25 UTC

Haha, the power of Dick compells you :P

He is terribly glompable.

bozaloshtsh July 28 2006, 18:08:39 UTC

When I'm not on my way out the door, I will come tell you line by line how this entire story is made of sparkly disturbing awesome. As it stands, there are some things that were just too good not to make comments on, even if it means I'm going to be late to the movie. Christ. 40s subverted homosexuality and cross-dressing in a box, and God, Dick. Making friends with the queens. I may love you more than I can textually render right now, to the point where it's sort of embarassing. LOVE.

"Very good," Batman said, then held up his sticky glove to lick it clean. Onanism was one thing, but cleanliness was always important. "Now, try on that disguise, would you?"

Hahaha, oh Jesus. It's that with the setting, and where you think the story might be heading because of the set-up with Gordon, this happening, and so soon? Is completely out of left field. Until it, well. Isn't. Which is possibly the more disturbing thing. How it's not the fact of Bruce's instructions on how to *deal* with sexual health are reduced to something out of a 40s ( ... )

glossing July 30 2006, 04:03:29 UTC

I...am not adequate to replying to this feedback quite yet? But please know that it made my day week month and I'm deeply grateful.

aeryvalley July 28 2006, 19:34:50 UTC

:sigh: I feel all mushy inside now. Wonderful.

glossing July 30 2006, 17:36:35 UTC

Aww, thank you. :)

marmalade_girl July 28 2006, 21:08:48 UTC

Wow. This was beautiful and twisted at the same time. The story was tidy and well-organized. I'm really impressed at how slowly you changed Bruce's and Dick's rather *disturbing* early relationship into something a little healthier. I mean, Batman jerking the kid off and yet not kissing him because he wasn't some "degenerate" homosexal is seriously twisted. And perfect for the Golden Age setting. You've beautifully illustrated how of course they were doing it in the early comics, but how they could somehow come off as so innocent, too. Not an easy feat, I imagine. I'm in awe.

Please write more in this style. I'd devour it.

glossing July 30 2006, 17:35:53 UTC

beautiful and twisted at the same time
*Excellent*, that's precisely what I wanted.

how of course they were doing it in the early comics, but how they could somehow come off as so innocent, too
The Golden Age perplexes and befuddles me *so* much and I tried to make sense of it but...I don't know. At the end of the day, I guess you just have to embrace its utter alienness? Something like that.

Please write more in this style. I'd devour it.
I can try - I mean, I *want* to, because I'm head over heels for this period and for Bruce-with-Dick, but at the same time, this broke my brain to try to attempt.

Thank you very much for this feedback. *mwah*

eggblue July 29 2006, 06:24:49 UTC

I started to read this last night at midnight and couldn't stop til it was over. You know how sometimes a slash story so perfectly captures canon and satire and seriousness and wrongness and hotness as well as making many aspects of a rather disparate pairing kind of crystallize in a way that is just amazing? Well, you did it :) (And somehow tweaked with my personal politics and experiences enough to make me cry like I've had 6 whiskeys at a drag club.) And yeah, the Golden Age material you and Maelithl scanned is kind of amazing on its own, and insanely impossibly difficult to wrap one's mind around in a coherent way, but you've really captured that spirit in this story and either revealed the classic subtext to have some kind of intention as originally written or you've found a way to merge it with more modern slash canon, which is all pretty incredible. What I'm saying is, you make the old new again, and the new old again :) And you are a GREAT writer. Yay! OK, so your Bruce just killed me and Dick's POV too and Superman ( ... )

glossing July 30 2006, 17:30:12 UTC

my personal politics and experiences enough to make me cry like I've had 6 whiskeys at a drag club.
I *repeatedly* got sniffly and stricken while working on this, if that's any comfort?

canon and satire and seriousness and wrongness and hotness
Oh, *wonderful*! Negotiating between satirizing the source while trying to stay true to it became (after, um, making Dick happy) the main goal; I'm delighted that I seem to have succeeded with that.

your Bruce just killed me and Dick's POV too
*beams* Dick loves so Bruce so much. He just didn't have the words or concepts to express that. And a Bruce who's emotionally arrested yet devoted *and* flailing is my favorite kind.

his disastrous relationship with Harvey Dent
Oh, *Harvey*. Yes. Have you read petronelle's Bruce/Harvey pieces? You must have, but - *whoa*. They kill me with the tragic love, they really do.

Thank you so much.