Fic: Between the Sky and the Earth

[salientia]

Title: Between the Sky and the Earth
Rating: PG-13
Characters & Pairings: England/France/Spain, America cameo
Warnings: Language, making out, reasonably explicit sexual references
Notes: Originally written for this prompt over at what_the_fruk, for an event which is now so hilariously over that I'm going to stop talking about it right this second. :T
Summary: A day

Comments

[salientia]

Muahahaha.

I mean well, sorry about your reputation but yeah, I'm all for the tension and the conflict and so on but sometimes all I want is schmoop. So I'm glad to be taking somebody down with me, haha.

I... think you may have said that about my France yes. :P But it's always great to hear, and I'm glad the rest of it worked for you as well. It can be hard with this fandom to work out exactly how ridiculous is too ridiculous, you know?

That's a big part of how I see them as well, but it always bothered me how I've only ever seen rivalry-centric England/Spain and fluff- or angst-centric France/Spain, so I thought it'd be neat to put them all on the same level. And yes, all the component pairings are wonderful, you have good taste. c: Thank you! I really appreciate the detailed comment, I'm very grateful for it. ♥

I'm one of those people biased against pairing America with England, so I won't be making it happen, but I'm sure France could pull something off because he's, you know, France

[charlzway]

“You are right, we apologise. We should be more understanding of the plight of those of us cursed to live in the geographical equivalent of a wet sock.”

England glares at him, and points a teaspoon threateningly in his direction. “Also, you’re not allowed to touch my arse while I’m doing this.”

You had me at these two lines XD

This was really, really sweet and quite hilarious; I enjoyed reading it alot. Thanks for sharing this :)

[salientia]

Hahaha, thank you very much. I had a lot of fun with the dialogue in this one. :D I'm really glad you enjoyed it, and thanks a lot for the comment! <3

[shadow_of_egypt]

Oh God, England/France/Spain. *w* How do I love thee? Let me count the ways - this is brilliant. I love your wit and the domesticity of all this, and the trivial bickering about the weather and chores and each other that people who've known and got along with each other for a while do do. Also the amount of blackmail/leverage each individual has over the other two - even as poly-relationship you really brought out the nuances of the individual relationships in the triangle and. And basically I don't think there's a single thing I don't like about this, save that there isn't more of it? (And that's just me being greedy, I know.) ♥♥♥

[salientia]

Thank you so much! I really appreciate such an enthusiastic and detailed comment, it's great to hear specific thoughts like this. It seems that no matter how fluffy I get, I can never give up the bickering and threatening, haha. Thank you for mentioning the individual relationships between them, as well - that was something I was hoping would come across, though I did also want to focus on the three of them as a unit, obviously. (It's a lovely thought, but even getting this much done took me an unforgivable amount of time, so. I think it's for the best that it's not any longer. XD) Thanks again! ^^

[archangelunmei]

Ahhhhh, this is so lovely~ Thank you so much for continuing to work on it, I'm so glad you got it done!

Like others have said, I love the domesticity, the sense that they've known each other for so very long and they're so very comfortable with each other that they can't help but bicker. And the weather and the dialogue and making out in the garden and France being France and. And. ♥

[salientia]

Pffft, I can imagine that it didn't look very likely - but I aim to surprise. :P

Thank you very much! I really enjoy this kind of snarky, relaxed, long-standing sort of relationship, and I feel it's something these three old men do very nicely. And the making out in the garden, well. I had to. :D I'm really glad you liked it - sorry again that it took me so long! OTL

[myfuckinglestat]

I was skeptical at first but this is working nicely for me <3<3<3

[salientia]

Glad to have won you over, then! :P <3