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No Refunds or Exchanges, by astolat, for the Harlequin challenge

Aug 31, 2005 00:22

Hi! I've lost my mind. Let me know if you see it anywhere...

No Refunds or Exchanges
by astolat
McKay/Sheppard, explicit.
10,821 words.

Summary: It shouldn't have been that hard to get good help.

With many thanks to cesperanza, giglet (ETA: lj name fixed, doh!), and giddygeek for beta, and to the #pnp crowd for additional encouragement. *g*

( No Refunds or Exchanges )

challenge: harlequin, author: astolat

Comments 250

fenris_wolf0 August 31 2005, 04:55:48 UTC

Oh that was perfect and hilarious: and without having ever read a Harlequin novel, I can just tell that this would sell like hot cakes!

Wow. You make cliches look so good... and somehow keep them all completely recognizable characters.

:)

loveanddarkness August 31 2005, 05:04:01 UTC

Well, I just love the hell out of this.

You rock. It's that simple. Best writer in the fandom as far as I'm concerned.

:::sigh:::

Must read again. Like, now. :::gets more wine::::

Squee! jcase August 31 2005, 05:07:02 UTC

They squabbled a lot, and more often than not tumbled into sex mid-argument and finished it up in a sleepy post-coital grumbling afterwards: arguments over food and schedules and math, over John's execrable taste in popular entertainment -- for someone who could grasp mathematics on a level beyond most college professors, John was willing to swallow the most ludicrously unbelievable pseudoscience as long as it was shiny and on-screen and went really fast.

Hell yes. It's all about the shiny.

Best damn harlequin I've read in a very long time.

silverakira August 31 2005, 05:07:40 UTC

Oh. My. God.

I. Just.

Oh my god.

Detailed feedback later, because this has completely and utterly blown my mind. I don't currently have the capacity to think about exactly why I fucking love this story -- I'm just this mass of YES, YES, LOVE, and emotion and you've just totally destroyed me. And even when (if) I do regain the ability to express my thoughts, in all honesty, words wouldn't be able to do it justice.

miriam_heddy August 31 2005, 05:09:30 UTC

My thinking as I was reading this:

Now this is cracked.

Hot.

Wow.

Somebody needs to hug Rodney.

Why are men such idiots?!

This is sort of oddly...conventional. Why did I think this was cracktastic? I feel like I've read this be--

Harlequin. Duh!

Sigh. Happiness ensues.

Because there's nothing at all wrong with a good cliche, obviously, especially not when done well, so that it makes me go all teary for poor Rodney who is unaware that he's really worth loving... sob.

And John in the puddlejumper? That was a sex scene, right? Because it felt like a sex scene.

:-)