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 170/? TW: CHARACTER DEATH

[keio.livejournal.com]

Dear god.

Somehow... somehow that happiness had to pay off, SOMEHOW. A life for a life, then. Poor Kurt. Poor Charles. His existence is down to one again. Suddenly funneling time through so quickly after the incident was brilliant IMO, you made the way hours fade into weeks fade into grey years for the grieving REAL to your readers. Lovely use of the bullet deflection accident, because this figuratively paralyzes/ kills/ incapacitates Charles even as it did it to him physically in the film. Lovely foreshadowing of Raven's death with Charles taking up the position he took up in the beach (in the film), head on Erik's lap. I love how your grief is described briefly and swiftly. If this were art, this in my mind is like something simple in heavy strokes with lots of white space, which put weight and focus on the lines.

The line: “I am a mutant. The Nazis took my nationality from me long ago.”

My goodness. Good lord. Let me... let me... let me get my bearings. You deserve something wonderful for this, Tarahiel, you really do.

Re: FILL: Everyday Love in Stockholm 170/? TW: CHARACTER DEATH

[tahariel.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad the grieving worked for you - it was something I really wanted to get right, because I hate it when it gets cloying. I've been in the same emotional space as Erik myself, so I drew a lot on my own experience for it. That it worked is the pay-off for the two-day funk writing it put me in!

There's a lot of symbolism in this update, from the couch positioning (which you picked up on so beautifully in your art) to the fact that the speech is given on the shores of Manhattan (echoing the beach) to the events themselves, a twisted mirror version of the beach (Erik giving a speech, then being shot at, and in the act of self-defence harming somebody he loves.) I really wanted to connect this back to the original movie scene but without just a coat of paint over the top to change it, I wanted it to be more than that.

Your art is so beautiful. Thank you again for doing it - I am absolutely overawed by how perfect it is.