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[sour_idealist]

Title: Luck is a Lady of Very Poor Repute
Fandom: Glee
Characters/Pairings: Rachel, Kurt, cameo by Finn
Rating/Warnings: PG-13 (R for language), discussion of prostitution, some spoilers (up to Furt).
Wordcount: 3,000
A/N: This was intended as commentfic over at avoidmynose's Kurt and Rachel appreciation post. Many comments-worth of fic later...

Comments

[dropsofviolet]

HEY we were doing commentfic and no one told me?

Honestly, though, I loved this. Your Kurt voice is fabulous and I like that Rachel isn't totally broken. Plus, I really enjoy your descriptors here. Rachel really is a stampede all on her own.

[sour_idealist]

Nobody else actually was :/. I felt awkward.

But thank you so very much, truly! I was a little worried about the description feeling awkward or unnecessary, so I'm quite relieved that it worked for you.

[dropsofviolet]

That's okay, I ended up putting random commentfic in the friending meme at morethan4sides once. When fic strikes, it strikes!

I definitely enjoyed it.

[sour_idealist]

Heh! There's a nice surprise for the frienders.

And :D.

[easily_cheesily]

This is so good! It breaks my heart but in a good way. I love your characterizations of both of them, they are both so in character but with 15 years of growth & distance. <3

[sour_idealist]

Thank you! I'm glad they didn't drift too far; that's one of the tricky bits of futurefic for me.

(If you liked it, I do have some other Glee stuff lying around. /shameless self-promotion.)

[wake_the_dragon]

This was amazing.

I'll admit it hurt seeing Rachel so broken and I had to take short breaks while I was reading, but that should be taken as a complement to your writing skill.

I like the interaction with Kurt; I'm interested in their friendship so it was great seeing a fic with them interacting like this.

I'm proud of Kurt; I always knew he'd be something one day.

I thought it was sweet in a sad way that she keeps tabs on the Glee kids.

I loved the ending; it was so Kurt-like and heartwarming.

Great fic.

[sour_idealist]

Wow. It was really that effective? *happy dance* And Kurt/Rachel friendship is easily the best thing about the new season.

As to the keeping-tabs thing, I was trying to communicate that while the other kids moved on and had other friends and started building lives, Rachel never really connected with anyone after that. So she clung to them as a substitute. (...I have this weird thing about torturing my favorite characters. Damn angstbunnies.)

Anyway, I am so glad that you liked it, and I'm glad that the ending seemed hopeful. I want Rachel and Kurt both to be something. (If you were wondering, Kurt's a fashion designer. I realized I didn't ever spell that out.)

[sour_idealist]

Ack, thank you so much! I'm so glad that it worked for you, and in particular about the end - I've gotten the impression I left it a bit too open-ended.

[sour_idealist]

Well, thank you doubly! (I would love to say that was entirely intentional, but the truth is that the story was getting out of hand and I just ended it as soon as I hit something that felt like a resolution. /slapdash writing)