Comments | themonkeytwin: fic-adjacent fic

themonkeytwin

fic-adjacent fic

Feb 07, 2012 21:12

Okay, so, this fic may will take some explaining. (Especially since I have not previously shown enough interest in BSG to write an 8000+ fic about it.)

( for those who are vaguely interested, and need some kind of explaining )

battlestar gafraktica, fanfic, fic series: spyparents

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workerbee73 February 8 2012, 04:01:06 UTC

I'll be back with sensible (and coherent) thoughts in the morning, but let me just say....

IT'S HERE!!! AND IT'S AWESOME!!!!

You truly knocked it out of the park with this one. Still smiling.

: )

koolaidmom11 February 8 2012, 13:59:51 UTC

Yes!!! Instant connection for $200 Alex!

Fantastic...must keep going...it's fun to imagine what they were like when they were young

workerbee73 February 8 2012, 16:25:33 UTC

I knooooow! Remind you of anyone else we know?

(Also, we're you meaning to reply to my comment or to the story in general? Either way it's all good. :)

koolaidmom11 February 8 2012, 16:53:34 UTC

ummm,no.

i Meant to leave it for Monkeytwin but then, i rarely know what i'm doing and right now i'm actually up to a lot! so even less than normal..

which is virtually impossible actually

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workerbee73 February 9 2012, 00:38:40 UTC

Okay, so you've heard me prattle on and on about this story, but I'm going to prattle some more. And that's for one primary reason-- how big of a job this was. You essentially had to get them to (i) meet, (ii) establish their dynamic, (iii) bond, (iv) freaking fall in love, and (v) then pull the rug out from under both of them (and us) and leave them both in a place where the trajectory of their lives was forever altered ( ... )

themonkeytwin February 9 2012, 08:00:48 UTC

HI YOU!!!! :)

And the crazy thing? You pulled it off. All of it. And it works beautifully.... Their interaction never feels forced, never feels jarring.

I know just how high your standards are, so this is just about the best compliment this story could get. I really did want to shoot for the one night, and I was pretty confident of it - and I knew that if it didn't work, you would let me know. And once again, thank you so much for your feedback and helping me pull it into shape! It feels so wonderfully tight, you know?

Suspicion and mutual curiosity that slides into something else altogether.I don't know if I've mentioned my conversation!kink to you specifically yet, but my goodness, this is pretty much where I live. I ADORE this kind of nexus, where people meet and connect and actually change one another through communication (verbal and otherwise). It just - yeah. That's my sweetspot, right there. Which is probably why B/L intrigued me to write - I was thinking, while weighing the dynamics of K/L vs B/L, and discussing how little ( ... )

workerbee73 February 14 2012, 16:16:34 UTC

It feels so wonderfully tight, you know?

It is, it's so incredibly precise (and strange as that sounds, it's the thing I love most in storytelling.) I want the language to be precise, the word choice, the narrative structure. I want everything to be thought-through and premeditated. I want to feel why the words you've chosen are special (simply because of the others you didn't use to make your point). And it's just all here. I'm so proud of and in love with this story on ALL THE LEVELS.

that for K/L (in spypilots especially), their conversation is in their sex (and their sexually-charged physical contact), whereas for B/L, their sex is in their conversation

Yes. Gah. Total inverse right there. And I love them both equally. And they both work so well for their respective characters.

I am so much more looking forward to seeing her through his older, wiser, enduringly loving eyes. I can't wait to see what he sees, that no one else can or doesYES. I CANNOT WAIT. I cannot wait to see everyone through Bill's eyes. I want to ( ... )

themonkeytwin February 14 2012, 18:34:42 UTC

It is, it's so incredibly precise (and strange as that sounds, it's the thing I love most in storytelling.)

Yes, me too. It's such a delight. Sloppy storytelling has, on occasion, even made me angry. Even more than just a poor story. :[

I want to hear about all of them through his voice.

I know! Things are percolating. They haven't hit that critical mass where he starts telling me what's going on, yet, but the shape is beginning to show. We do need to talk soon! :)

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