I still can't believe we both posted about Sean & Orlando & mermaids. *g*
I swear, right before I read that I was thinking the exact same thing. This fic makes me soso happy I want to crawl into my computer and set up permanent residence in between your words.
N'awww, thank you!! *HUGS* I wish I could visit these boys for realz. I think they're having a much better time than I am right now. *g*
I adore the description of the kiss. No words man, sorry. Too busy being blown away.
Thanks, baby. I struggled with that part forever because a) Karl was NOT supposed to kiss Orlando, just talk to him and b) I had to make the kiss hot enough that Orlando responded but not so hot that Orlando started following Karl around like a lovesick puppy. Given my inclination towards OTPing Karl & Orlando, that was hard work, yo.
It’s perfect - this paragraph in particular but the entire scene, too – because you manage to write a conversation that by its sheer nature should feel forced and kinda uncomfortable and a bit wtf in a way that combines humour and insight, self-irony and a good amount of perving (over Karl AND Sean, I love how Orlando’s thoughts inevitably always drift back to Sean), camaraderie and confusion, that it ends up not feeling wtf at all, but it’s Karl being a really good mate and Orlando having an epiphany of the non brooding kind.
GOOD!!! Because, man, if I'm not really getting in there & detailing all of the wild & wacky processes of Orlando's journey, then I'm doing it wrong. So I'm glad it's working.
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Date: 2009-01-28 06:55 pm (UTC)I swear, right before I read that I was thinking the exact same thing. This fic makes me soso happy I want to crawl into my computer and set up permanent residence in between your words.
N'awww, thank you!! *HUGS* I wish I could visit these boys for realz. I think they're having a much better time than I am right now. *g*
I adore the description of the kiss. No words man, sorry. Too busy being blown away.
Thanks, baby. I struggled with that part forever because a) Karl was NOT supposed to kiss Orlando, just talk to him and b) I had to make the kiss hot enough that Orlando responded but not so hot that Orlando started following Karl around like a lovesick puppy. Given my inclination towards OTPing Karl & Orlando, that was hard work, yo.
It’s perfect - this paragraph in particular but the entire scene, too – because you manage to write a conversation that by its sheer nature should feel forced and kinda uncomfortable and a bit wtf in a way that combines humour and insight, self-irony and a good amount of perving (over Karl AND Sean, I love how Orlando’s thoughts inevitably always drift back to Sean), camaraderie and confusion, that it ends up not feeling wtf at all, but it’s Karl being a really good mate and Orlando having an epiphany of the non brooding kind.
GOOD!!! Because, man, if I'm not really getting in there & detailing all of the wild & wacky processes of Orlando's journey, then I'm doing it wrong. So I'm glad it's working.
And everything winds back to Sean. Duh. ;)