From: belmanoir (belmanoir@gmail.com)
Date: 01/14/2008 |
It was at this point that Ray leaned forward and kissed him, a short kiss, full on the mouth, and not quite gentle.
"See that?" Ray says, glaring at him even as Fraser tries to process this. "That is exactly what I am talking about, Benny. You would not catch me dead doing something like that before you showed up."
OH MY GOD. THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT HE WOULD SAY.
*dies of love*
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From: wooll_socks
Date: 06/23/2007 |
This is amazing. I'm usually not a big F/V fan, but this is just awesome. It made me sniffly.
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From: Lucifercircle (Luciferofthecircle@hotmail.com)
Date: 01/08/2007 |
This is a sweet and lovely picture of Fraser in love. Your Fraser voice is excellent and you have made the F/V pairing very believable.
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From: Amy
Date: 01/03/2007 |
Very nice! I could really feel the characters.
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From: Beth H
Date: 12/30/2006 |
I love this. It's so smart, so insightful, and...okay, this? "For but one small example: a Chance card gave him two hundred dollars, with the source of bank error; Fraser declines to accept the money, just as he would in real life." So dueSouth. Well done.
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From: Sage (sageness@livejournal.com)
Date: 12/30/2006 |
Oh wow...this was gorgeous. Their voices are so clear and Vecchio's frustration with Fraser is fantastic!! I think what I love most is how vividly Fraser's sense of alienation is drawn. I can't remember the last thing I read that showed what it felt like for him to be adrift in this strange, offending city, but this does it beautifully. :D
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From: Zoe Rayne (zoerayne@gmail.com)
Date: 12/29/2006 |
Oh. Oh, yes. That was just *perfect*.
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From: brooklinegirl (brooklinegirl@rcn.com)
Date: 12/29/2006 |
oh, I LOVE this. just - wow. I love Fraser knowing ray is serious with a girl when ray doesn't talk about it. I love the fighting and the frustration, and this particularly vivid image:
his comment seems to raise Ray's anger higher. He bunches his hands in fists at approximately the level of his skull and begins several sentences without finishing any of them.
so much. and this one, too, sort of totally made my heart warm:
He is sitting cross-legged in Fraser's bed; Fraser is still lying down, looking up at him.
totally just - I am always surprised by the tenderness between Fraser and Vecchio, and you just totally nail it in this fic. I love it.
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From: buzzylittleb
Date: 12/28/2006 |
"Fraser has heard filthy imaginings, and rude conjectures; he has been likened to a eunuch, an actor in pornography, and a paper doll."
I love this line, it at once has that Fraser distance to it and shows us what people in see in him.
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From: primrose (primroseb@gmail.com)
Date: 12/28/2006 |
"He is alive, and happy, and if he is lonely sometimes, isn't everybody? He has wants, and needs, and today Ray Vecchio is in his bed, and his smile is wide.
This is the truth: there is no secret to being in love. None at all."
Gorgeous, gorgeous, yes. I love that last bit and everything before it. I can see Fraser being matter=of-fact about it, just like that. Good voices on both of them.
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From: Isis (isis@arithmancy.net)
Date: 12/27/2006 |
Oh, I really liked this! It's so gentle and calm, showing relationships without angsty introspection or heavy-handed exposition - just a slow revelation of character.
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From: lipsum
Date: 12/27/2006 |
Oh, that was yummy!
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From: Alexis
Date: 12/27/2006 |
This was an amazingly well-observed character piece. I haven't read anything half as good set in the S1/S2 era, and I love you to pieces for giving us this snapshot of RayV and Fraser, and who Fraser is when he's in love. There were so many terrific bits in this - I loved that Ray doesn't talk about the women he's really in love with. That Fraser feels like he's getting older and his life is getting better and he's making more interpersonal connections. That the boys play Monopoloy together. The whole last paragraph was a spectacular piece of writing, and the story as a whole was wonderful. Thank you so much for posting this.
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From: Nikki (nakeisha@livejournal.com)
Date: 12/27/2006 |
Nice.
Bitter-sweet, but very well done.
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From: Aingeal (aingeal8c@yahoo.co.uk)
Date: 12/27/2006 |
Lovely little look into Fraser's mind when it comes to his life and Ray Vecchio in particular. It has an almost bittersweet tinge to it but it's lovely.
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From: bluebrocade (asjbg_chick@yahoo.com)
Date: 12/26/2006 |
Wow. What a lovely story! I don't usually read F/V, but I'm so glad I read this. It really worked for me. So sweet and subtle and lovely. ♥
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From: joandarck (joandarck@gmail.com)
Date: 12/26/2006 |
OMG! You gave me young, innocent Fraser, who I love. (e.g. refusing to profit from a bank error not just to mess with Ray, but on principle. Hee!) (I loved the whole monopoly scene, funny and cozy.) There's something very peaceful about this, or, well, no, measured? a still waters run deep kind of thing, because there's a lot going on under Fraser's passive observer stance. It's the equivalent of one of those scenes with the moody soundtrack playing. And it was romantic, but I appreciated that it still had some spark between them, too.
There was something special about the way it stops to take a look at the show, the characters, their values, the mood, and then it swirls together to resolve, instead of it being a simpler how will X and Y go from Point A to Point C. And it was lovely and made me happy, thank you.
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