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: The Better Men (19l/30ish)

[(Anonymous)]

I love this fill so passionately and this update was amazing. As ridiculous as this makes me, thank you so much for the letter warning! The curiosity has been intense and that allowed me to have a moment of disappointment then actually concentrate on the story! I know I would've been on edge looking for it otherwise and not paying attention properly. I know how pathetic that is, I'm just so deeply invested in your characters I can't seem to help myself! Poor author, you shouldn't have to warn for stuff like that! :)

Raven and Erik's conversation reminds us just how much Erik's hopes are built on a history of hurting Charles, not solely one major event. It makes clear the fragility of what they have, and any subsequent interaction more poignant. Erik can't call upon memories of himself as an idyllic boyfriend to persuade Charles to take him back, because he wasn't. I'm so glad they had it. Not just to remind us of the fragility and tenuousness, but to begin to clear the air between Erik and Raven.

I felt so sad and sorry for poor drunken Charles here (once I stopped leering at his costume). He's trying so hard to do the right thing in all ways. He wants Erik but Erik has spent a lifetime wounding him so only an idiot wouldn't be cautious. He knows he's longing for a love that the past suggests will be bad for him and between that and his perfectly understandable self-protection and reservations, he's being torn up. I wanted to tuck a blanket around him too!

I love the richness of this. So many wonderful details. It feels like Hogwarts.

Re: FILL: The Better Men (19l/30ish)

[(Anonymous)]

This is such a lovely comment, thank you!

thank you so much for the letter warning! The curiosity has been intense and that allowed me to have a moment of disappointment then actually concentrate on the story!
Oh good, that's exactly what I was going for. I know people are desperately curious so I didn't anyone to feel like I was leading them on. :)