round 3 overflow post

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Round 3 Overflow Post

This post is for Round 3 fills only. We ask that when a round hits 8500 comments, fillers begin moving their fills to this post.

Format:
SUBJECT LINE -- Round #, short description of fic (ex: "Alex/Hank, lab partners")
--- Link to the prompt
--- Text of the prompt

--- Link to the fill
OR
--- Entire text of the fill

EXAMPLE:
Prompt: http://xmen-firstkink.livejournal.com/6437.html?thread=1038472#t2038174

Charles/Erik -- Charles is a bakery owner whose most frequent customer is Erik.

Fill: http://xmen-firstkink.livejournal.com/6437.html?thread=0139482#t4502942

Charles started off the morning the same way he always did...

Comments

Re: FILL: Everyday Love in Stockholm 161/?

[(Anonymous)]

Alright, so this review will suck compared to my usual ones but BLAH. I'm a bit scatterbrained and I have my own things that I should be writing. But you definitely deserve a review, since this was awesome (as usual) and I know how much you were stressing out about it.

It is very politics heavy, but before you start worrying about that, don't worry at all. You balance it all out as perfectly as you have before and it's beautiful and awesome. I just adore it. A lot of the politics stuff is over my head, but I think the way that you incorporate Charles into it and Erik's personal life and his mental shifts is great. It makes it a perfect blend of politics and personal, which now makes it sound like some sort of coffee that I'm trying to sell or something. Maybe a brand of wine or something. I don't know.

I'm still adoring your characterization, but I think my love for Charles is just tearing me apart even more. I adore him, and I feel for him. I understand what Erik's doing and why he has to do it, but it still ruins me. I still want it to be simple enough that Charles can have his life back, can have some fragment of his life back. Because he really is going insane, as well as sinking further into depression. He's fighting it hard, but it's basically like trying to fight through water. No matter how hard you push at it, you're still surrounded.

I think I felt more for Charles than Erik in this update, which is interesting since I often understand Erik's views and what he's doing and why. But this time around you really turned me on my head. I'm concerned, more than anything, for Charles. I just don't know how this is all going to turn out for him, because he really can't do this forever. It's impractical and he's not the sort of person who can survive living this way for the rest of his life. Or at least, not happily, not fully. It comes back down to that "he can survive but he can't live" kind of thing. And who is Charles, really, if he's not alive? He certainly won't be the man that Erik's fallen for.

I also think, even as Erik sort of has this love-hate relationship with keeping Charles captive, he wouldn't want to break Charles--accidentally or otherwise. But he doesn't have a lot of options, and I suppose I'm just as frustrated by that as I am by the fact that Charles is slowly losing is practicality about the situation. It's one thing to know what's the best for him, but it's another to suffer through actually living it. I couldn't imagine waking up and just being in my apartment every day for years. I mean, I prefer it, but I have the option of leaving.

I just get so frustrated for him. And if your chapter was too heavy in politics, then I wouldn't have all these feels!

-xo Cosh

Re: FILL: Everyday Love in Stockholm 161/?

[tahariel.livejournal.com]

This review doesn't suck, thank you for it bb, because I really needed something like this. I did struggle a little bit with my feelings about this chapter, so to hear you like it helps a lot :)

I was talking about the fic with a friend recently and the conclusion I came to was that it's really about the shades of grey here, so that you can feel pity for Charles while utterly understanding why Erik has to do what he does. And that's why it's hard (and hard to write!)

Erik is trying so hard, but he just doesn't really know how not to break things, because he's never had to try before. So as little as he wants to, he's hamhanded about it.

Hold on with me, my darling, and soon, soon... :D