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 - Author's Note

[afrocurl.livejournal.com]

Oh this....

I need a moment here, if only so I can curse my poor iTunes for some quality music choices (like reading the end of the epilogue to "Never is a Promise" by Fiona Apple.)

But I think that that song just sets up so much about this fic and what it has meant to me.

There's the sudden realization here at the end that Kurt has found Charles just as Erik was about to free him that was painful and yet so fitting.

Then there's the epilogue where all I was thinking as they both admitted that they still loved each other is that nothing perfect would come from it. There's too much history, but I suppose that if they're going to make a go of it, it's not too much to overcome.

So finally, thank you hon, for a ride that I didn't expect I'd want to read as much as I did, and for the time that you took to craft a narrative into something wholly gorgeous.

Re: FILL: Everyday Love in Stockholm - Author's Note

[tahariel.livejournal.com]

I really wanted the ending to be open and hopeful, but without the fallacy that everything is fixed and will be 100% okay now. It was really important - and sometimes difficult! - not to undermine everything that had already happened by reducing their experiences and history with each other to something that didn't matter any more. Because it's always going to matter and colour their future, of course it is. But I really wanted it to be left in a place where they have room to build and the capacity to build something new on old foundations.

I'm so pleased you enjoyed it, honey. It's a great pay-off for me to get such lovely feedback :)