YEAH WELL??? YOU’RE AMAZING!!!! SO THERE!!!
no but in all seriousness i struggle to read fics by other people so much but then you posted Partnered
and i liked it BECAUSE: *ahem*
- easy to read
- FUN to read
- full of tropes i like (hello bed sharing, fake marriage, and accidental usage of cover-story term of endearment when nobody’s around)
- not too many kudos yet ‘cause it’s brand new (so i’m not tempted to be overwhelmed by 5000 of them and read every word trying to figure out what the hell the secret is and worry about accidentally copying you next time i write something
(i’m aware this is my bullshit brain but it’s still a thing that happens)) - good length (28k was long enough to last me a couple of hours but not eat up my entire day & night)
- it had a plot!! a simple one but interesting enough that i was like OOOH WHAT’S GOING ON
- no porn but still intimate in other ways that made my heart happy
- DONNA AND JODY AS A COUPLE
- it like……..did all the things. the good fanfic things. the recognisable tropey setup, the ooh new house thing, the we’re not friends any more but i secretly love you and haven’t realised it yet thing, the bit where the misunderstanding is no longer a valid reason to hate each other, the KISS AT THE END HOOOOOO I WAS VERY PLEASED
yeah this was a spectacular fic and reading it was a great use of my time c:
i told my family about this fic while we ate dinner. i told them about how cas tried to fan a burning pan instead of the smoke alarm. and i told them about the burnt unflavoured fish. (which, btw, i am a fan of. dean’s suggestion of butter sounded good though)
i’ve read a handful of other fics by you in the past, and i’ve spent the last couple hours attempting to look through your catalogue by word length (avoiding the WIPs because noooope), but genuinely think this is maybe the best thing you’ve written (in my personal opinion, having tried to read the super popular one and not enjoying it anywhere near as much??) and i’m really proud of you
and like
if i could ask any fic writer in the world to co-author something with me, somebody who i’d potentially trust myself to not screw up with, it would be you ;~;
(tangent below: writer problems)
for sOOO long i’ve wanted to write a case fic like Partnered. i keep having ideas but i get weighed down by the details, and the setting descriptions, and the background characters. reading Partnered felt like a flashback to when i first started reading destiel fics back in… probably 2010? this fic was classic and classy, and to the point, and still had enough substance to it that i felt satisfied by reading it.
something i found interesting in this fic was how a couple of receptionists just… didn’t have any description at all. i recall a ‘she’ pronoun and several professional smiles, but she wasn’t a character, the way people in real life are just neutral NPCs sometimes?? and all the secondary canon characters had basically no physical features, just a voice and some actions. even dean and cas weren’t really described. i dunno, i find myself physically incapable of writing like that. when i do read other people’s work i’m always marvelling at how they just….. don’t describe every freaking thing the way i do. if i don’t describe stuff i’m like BUT HOW DOES ANYONE KNOW WHAT I’M IMAGINING, always forgetting that everyone’s brain is clever and fills in a blank space with a memory in their own brain. and people already know what canon characters look like.
anyway, yes, that’s how you managed to fit a whole plot into 28k. and literally, since day one of me being a writer, i have not been able to do this. i mean, Angelhawke?? 400k? first attempt??? i was 15k in before i realised i hadn’t even started the story yet.
tl;dr – i admire your ability to be concise and still maintain a complete story structure and character arcs, which i can’t do yet (CASE IN POINT: THIS REPLY ;A;)