[oc] It can't always be so clear

[sdlucly]

So, every year for the past five (or is it four? I think it's five) years, I've done this, even though it's only been four season. It has been fun each and every time. *nods* This one was no exception.

To the straightest episode ever, here it is!!!

Title: It can't always be so clear
Author: M. F. Luder
Pairing: Ryan/Seth
Rating: NC-17
Word count:

Comments

[mel39]

This is great! I loved it, and the structure with the extracts from the canon worked exptremely well.

[sdlucly]

I wanted to base the scenes on the very canon. In a way, it set the pace, forming me to write within some margins, and that made it even more interesting.

Thanks for the comment!!

[snapsparagus]

Love the shower...the forearm biting. Great imagery. Well done!

[sdlucly]

It seemed to fit in the moment! It was just right, with the anger and the frustration. *g* I'm glad you liked the tone it set. *g*

Thanks!!

[marsalka]

I love the way you can find the Ryan/Seth, even in the "straighteset episode in the whole season". Bittersweet, finding Taylor and losing Seth....

[sdlucly]

I gotta say, it was tricky, but once I started writing, it was there. I just followed my muses. And even slightly angsty stories are my forte. *g*

Thanks for the comment!

[fifimom]

"not really my usual thing" but it kind of is and it's kind of great, funny, sad, sexy and totally enjoyable to read. I wanted to tell you my favorite part but I went back over the story again and couldn't come up with one, I really love it all. Thanks for writing. You definitely don't do anything half way do you?

[sdlucly]

It did start not being my kind of story, at all. It just wrote itself that way, from the second scene on. *g*

I wrote almost sex! That was the best part. *bounces*

I'm glad you liked it so much. It was, really, an interesting episode to explore.

Halfway? *giggles* I started with the compromise that I would get to my thousand words and be done with it, because I didn't really have an idea of what the story would be about! That was my halfway. Then, well, the slashy bits started to come out, and I saw the point of the story. *nods*

[60schic]

Yep---definitely one of the straightest episodes ever. Which is why I was almost afraid to read this....

But ya know what? You handled it well, and still managed to get the R/S in here in such a way as to make sense in canon.

What I liked best? The sheer teenaged-boy-ness of it. That you took the frustrated sexual urges and went where we know he'd have to have gone. (the shower, in this case!)

I laughed during the Roger scene, thinking you might have Ryan jump in and join them, even if that wasn't in the show. But then again, you let R/T go further in the closet than the writers did, and how much must that have hurt you?

[sdlucly]

*giggles madly* Dude, afraid? *giggles* It's not like I was going to kill Ryan, was it? *ponders

[60schic]

It's not like I was going to kill Ryan, was it? - Ha! I wouldn't put it past you. But no, I meant more that I wasn't sure how slashy you'd make it and I didn't want there to be negative feedback for you.

18 is still pretty close to 16 as far as raging hormones go. And for that matter, I wonder just how many times Ben had to cover up a hard-on.

[sdlucly]

*giggles* I didn't, I think that's a lot. *g* Speaks of my streght of character.

Well, like I said, I wanted to stay within canon, which was the tricky part, to write the slash in a way that could/might fit canon. Then again, I do have a thing for unrequited love. *g*

It was so much! *giggles* To think about Ryan and having "that" problem and needing, well, some alone time. *g*

Ben? At least once, that one time with Lindsay when Kirsten walks in, remember? I clairly remember a buldge. I might have to check it out. *giggles madly*