round 3 overflow post

[starkmodistries.livejournal.com]

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 177/?

[afrocurl.livejournal.com]

I'm amazed at the lengths that Erik has gone and will continue to go to rationalize what he's done to Charles in the name of "good" and protection. This has moved, in the years since Raven's death from a simple pact between friends into a relationship that has been broken so often (not just Raven's death, but the escape and how they choose to come together romantically too) that it can't quite know how to be anything other than broken and in disrepair.

The contrast that Erik found between thinking of Charles as a diamond and a pearl really struck with me. Which one is he really? The beautiful stone created out of pressure and heat or the beauty that comes from something ugly that had to be turned against the dirt to be made into something precious? (That metaphor just gets to me in ways that aren't really possible to explain right now.)

Re: FILL: Everyday Love in Stockholm 177/?

[tahariel.livejournal.com]

I think the problem is more that Erik has been broken so many times that he cannot help but overreact. He's very aware that what he's doing isn't right, but he's lost so much that he has drawn a line in the sand and said 'what I have now is mine and is staying that way.' He can't break that cycle of desperate need to keep somebody alive.

It's interesting actually how you interpreted the diamond and pearl, because while I was thinking of it as their relationship, you've seen it as Charles, which is a really fascinating alternative, because both work. Hmm. (In the most egotistical way possible I have to say that is one of my favourite metaphors in the fic. I really like it.)

Re: FILL: Everyday Love in Stockholm 177/?

[afrocurl.livejournal.com]

No, I completely understand Erik's position here. He's looking to hold onto something because everything else is too complex and evolving to ever stay static. For someone that lived off the insanity of the world before Shaw's death (and how much of the normalcy he had before was taken from him), he does need something stable--no matter how he gets it.

I think the metaphor works both ways. Like I said with Charles but I can see how Charles and Erik are in a similar position--their relationship created out of confinement (the pressure that creates the diamond), but also the mixing of something wrong and right into something beautiful.

(It's totally worth that line of thinking. I can make my poems full of metaphors, but won't put them into my actual stories for some reason.)

Re: FILL: Everyday Love in Stockholm 177/?

[tahariel.livejournal.com]

It depends on your style, I think, whether you can fit in metaphors or not, too - sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. There are places where I'd love to put metaphors but can't, because it doesn't fit the prose. But I've deliberately developed a fairly lyrical style so that I can use them, because I love them. A really good metaphor is so much fun for me.

Poor Erik - I really have put him into the emotional blender XD