As we’re speaking of THE pairing: I love how you wrote him and Sean together. Actually, that is something I usually adore about your fics – well, aside from the obvious reasons (PORN). The fact that you shine a light on aspects of a pairing that I maybe might have overlooked or at least maybe phrased differently. There is nothing I like better than a relationship building on a solid friendship – so that was so very exactly what I was hoping, nay, waiting for :) – but at the same time you wrote in so many little details about their friendship (and about Orlando’s other friends as well) that made me go ‘Oh! Lookit!’ – The evening where they go playing darts to mend what seems to be broken for example. The fact that in the beginning Orlando doesn’t really get the thing between Karl and Sean but is perfectly fine with it nevertheless. The way Orlando, all the way through, notices all the little things about Sean that are just that little bit different from all the stuff he notes about his other mates. And oh, my absolute favourite, the jealousy!scene at the bar – which has to be one of my all time favourite scenes ever.
From that, let’s skip Sean for a bit (*insert moment of shock and ritual arse appreciation here*) and go straight to the setting: This is downright my absolute favourite version of NZ ever. It is so gorgeous that I just know that given a bit of time I will confuse it with reality and will keep trying to find the poker game, the sand castle building and probably the NC17 bits to on my EE DVDs… This is why I am in this fandom, and really this fandom only.
Where was I? Ah yes, Sean. Seeeeaaaaan. Can I just say how much I appreciate that you let him have sex from part one on? Because dude, he needs to be naked all the time, with someone as hot as Karl wrapped around him *nods*. I’ve blabbered about my love for Sean as well – and can only repeat that what I loved best about him (aside from the frequent buttsecks with him involved) was how similar and yet different from Orlando he felt. It made all the sense in the world that Orlando was in love with him and vice versa from moment one.
Now, I know I have been terrible negligent. Because I haven’t gushed over Karl. Kaaaaarl. Due to the latest bit of tinhattery madness regarding V/O I kind of love him in this all the more – because it is so apparent that you love him best of all the gorgeous hot men populating NZ and yet he never takes the focus off Orlando or Orlando and Sean. He’s just there, kind of like uhm air or whatever else life-important you need, and nothing of this would work without him and still he never feels like “too much” or too idealized. I guess this again comes down to deliberately toning it down a bit, that subtlety thing I mentioned, and man, it works so well. All the meddling Karl does is just so right, for once in a fic it doesn’t feel like meddling, it’s not just some cheap trick to get the pairing together asap. It’s so much part of his character – trying to look out for his friends (while at the same time having sex with them ;)) and knowing when they need a gentle push (or a good snog).
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Date: 2009-03-23 07:38 pm (UTC)From that, let’s skip Sean for a bit (*insert moment of shock and ritual arse appreciation here*) and go straight to the setting: This is downright my absolute favourite version of NZ ever. It is so gorgeous that I just know that given a bit of time I will confuse it with reality and will keep trying to find the poker game, the sand castle building and probably the NC17 bits to on my EE DVDs… This is why I am in this fandom, and really this fandom only.
Where was I? Ah yes, Sean. Seeeeaaaaan. Can I just say how much I appreciate that you let him have sex from part one on? Because dude, he needs to be naked all the time, with someone as hot as Karl wrapped around him *nods*. I’ve blabbered about my love for Sean as well – and can only repeat that what I loved best about him (aside from the frequent buttsecks with him involved) was how similar and yet different from Orlando he felt. It made all the sense in the world that Orlando was in love with him and vice versa from moment one.
Now, I know I have been terrible negligent. Because I haven’t gushed over Karl. Kaaaaarl. Due to the latest bit of tinhattery madness regarding V/O I kind of love him in this all the more – because it is so apparent that you love him best of all the gorgeous hot men populating NZ and yet he never takes the focus off Orlando or Orlando and Sean. He’s just there, kind of like uhm air or whatever else life-important you need, and nothing of this would work without him and still he never feels like “too much” or too idealized. I guess this again comes down to deliberately toning it down a bit, that subtlety thing I mentioned, and man, it works so well. All the meddling Karl does is just so right, for once in a fic it doesn’t feel like meddling, it’s not just some cheap trick to get the pairing together asap. It’s so much part of his character – trying to look out for his friends (while at the same time having sex with them ;)) and knowing when they need a gentle push (or a good snog).