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/?

[xenozime.livejournal.com]

I'm really loving this story; the politics, the relationships, the plot (in general).

But, the thing is, I'm actually starting to get really frustrated with Charles' situation. I understand Erik's reasoning for keeping Charles in the apartment, and I get how love can drive you to do really strange things, but right now I'm counting down the updates until Charles will finally be free. Charles is losing so much--his home, his life, his work...and he's bring driven mad by the isolation that is being forced on him.

With every update, I feel as though I'm being driven mad by it as well. I'm waiting for the day when kisses and intimate touches won't be enough to soothe Charles anymore.

At times, Erik comes off as very selfish. He is unknowingly pushing Charles further and further away from society, and making himself the center of Charles' world. And that scene with Kurt just kind of reinforces that. He's feeling jealous because Charles pays some of the attention he would usually give to him, to Kurt. And I feel that is incredibly selfish of him, considering how much Charles has already given up at this point.

And I know this review comes off sounding very bitter, but I assure you, I really do love your story. I'm just feeling very frustrated (Which is actually a good thing, because it means you're doing a well enough job that I have formed strong opinions about it!). But keep up the good work! :)

Re: FILL: Everyday Love in Stockholm 161/?

[tahariel.livejournal.com]

Without giving away any spoilers, hang on with me just a leeeeetle bit longer, and I promise you will get everything you want (I hope!)

Erik is selfish, because he wants so much and he is in a position where he can take it. That said, it's not unusual for new fathers, for example, to feel jealous of their own children and the attention given to them by the mother, which is what I was going for, though it's not quite that relationship, obviously.

Erik has never really had anything that was his, just his, and he's lived so long in isolated desolation in his head that he's grabbing at this thing that he is being offered, that he can have, and he doesn't know how to not hold on too tightly, especially when Charles is reciprocating. He's not really emotionally experienced enough to make that distinction. Which is the source of a lot of their problems, really.

I'm glad you feel strongly about it! I hope you continue to do so and that you enjoy where we're about to go :)