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 177/?

[keio.livejournal.com]

The thing of this story is that you've put me (the reader) well into Erik's headspace, and reading through how he has to balance between being hard and Magneto, to being soft and Erik is devastating. Like, there's some sort of friction, when one side of his world hasn't retreated yet and occupies the other. As Magneto he is used to getting and doing what he wants, what he thinks is necessary—and he's proven it—but wow I just wanted to hug him for giving in to Charles, for not dubconning him or forcing himself onto the other when Charles didn't particularly feel like it. He's learning. He's learning. Don't look at softness as a weakness, Erik! Look at what you can accomplish if you stopped destroying and began creating.

The diamond/ pearl part is sticking to me in this update. Each one is so different from the other, but Erik has to have the capacity to be both. The image that comes to mind is how diamonds are so perfect but can cut their handler, but pearls are easier to handle, because they are a product of an internal hurt that has transcended into something beautiful.

Besides telling you how much this was so painfully real for me, I love how your writing like literally moves me. I love reading what's not said, I love negative space, and you sketch it as vividly as you do the outlines and shapes of the story. Thank you for this update. Personally, I am hoping very hard for a beautiful rest for these two—god knows they deserve it—(and for me as well, I admit), but the way you're handling it is so masterful, I'll leave it to you.

Re: FILL: Everyday Love in Stockholm 177/?

[tahariel.livejournal.com]

This comment is perfect, because you've hit right on a lot of the things I desperately want to do with this story, and so I'm very happy right now. That you're so absorbed in Erik's POV is really the point for me - we're so close to him it's hard not to empathise with him even when he's in the wrong (or at least I hope so.)

I have to admit that the diamond/pearl metaphor is one of my personal favourites. It works on a lot of levels (and people keep finding more I hadn't thought of yet!) so I'm glad you liked it :3 And that you're finding the negative space works too - it's a big part of what I aim for in my style, because I like to think the reader is smart enough to read between the lines and see the things that I've left out, and make them more powerful but not acknowledging them.

It's one of the things I love so desperately about the art you've done for this fic - the way you've used monochrome and space and composition is simply inspiring. I hope that the end of the fic (which is coming up next week if all goes to plan) is satisfying for you the way your art is for me!