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[workerbee73]

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Fic: my skin is not my own (rated PG-13 for implications of sexin')

[workerbee73]

A/N: I don't even know what this is. Apparently Bob and I write poetry now (and are still stuck in CronenburgLand with no hope of escape.)

Bob's poem for this verse is posted here.

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I turned-I turned away my head because I didn't want you to see
me

like this.The perfume's not yet worn off, honeysuckle and gardenia sweetly sick and delicate. It's a tangle from which you can't get free; your mind is a maze

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[workerbee73]

Well, first off, i think emotional growrth is going to be a component of every story. You have to have conflict, overcome it, learn something at the end of the day--that's pretty much the blueprint for every story ever told. So it's not really about whether you have an emotional journey or not, it's simply how it's handled

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[cybermathwitch]

Okay, now i've gone off on a snarky tangent, allow me to stop being a jackass for a minute and actually unpack this. None of this-- NONE OF IT--is bad in and of itself. Not at all. A story can take me any place it damn well pleases---if it's told well. And for me, well = with nuance and subtlety. I need the conflict to feel organic and not contrived and the same thing goes with the emotional response of the protagonist. I want it to feel earned. What i dont' want is fixing for the sake of fixing or worse... some kind of normative fixing that doesn't feel appropriate to this character we're talking about

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[workerbee73]

late response is late

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[cybermathwitch]

Yes. This. All of this. <3 <3 <3

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[angela_n_hunt]

That's twice now that you've made me stop breathing. TWICE.

That last freaking line. Holy cats.

I'm just going to sit here and obsessively re-read this a few more hundred times, m'kay?

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[workerbee73]

OMG tell me **makes grabby hands for thoughts**

b/c srsly, I though this was just load of pretentious bullshit when i wrote it and bob had to talk me down.

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[angela_n_hunt]

THANK YOU, BOB, FOR TALKING BEE DOWN.

Pretentious? Are you fucking kidding me?

The continuing thread of his patience being like a hunter's, and his focus being implacable. That he keeps at her until she lets him wash her hair, how it's not about him, it's about her and that little parenthetical (to me)...

GLARG

I am made of all the feels.

*lets out deep happy sigh*

There must be something deeply wrong with me that I consider this whole series my comfort fic reading...

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[workerbee73]

There must be something deeply wrong with me that I consider this whole series my comfort fic reading...

Dude, if it's wrong I don't wanna be right.

I love his patience with her. I was talking about it with sugar when we were discussing her fic, about the incredible duality of violence and gentleness that exists within him, and the fact that she needs both. Gah. Feels. I can't.

Going back and reading it again, the parenthetical strikes me as interesting b/c I meant it to be an extension of his sentence, but really, this is from Nat's POV and she's the one telling us and she's really inserting the words right there. She's making the logical (and correct jump) but the fact that she recognizes it... I think it's kind of the ballgame.

And as a quick aside, you have been such a tremendous cheerleader throughout this entire process. I can't thank you enough. **twirls**

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[angela_n_hunt]

Let us not be right together! LOL

Yes, his patience is the absolute turn on here, as is the violence under it all. And YES, it is her adding the words, not him. And who is coming back to whom, hmm?

And d'aw!!! You're so welcome!!! You guys have just been doing masterful level writing work here. I'm all about calling out the good stuff when I see it.

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[workerbee73]

**wibbles**

**WIBBLEHUGS**

Thank you so much. It's the gentleness/violence dichotomy that really fuels my knight-errant-cowboy fascination issues with Clint. I just-- gah. So unbeliveably fascinating in this verse.

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[angela_n_hunt]

It totally is.

*hugs back*

It's just so damn fantastic.

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[workerbee73]

**ALL THE WIBBLES**

**ALL THE TACKLEGLOMPS**

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[im_ridiculous]

OK, no really, you guys have to stop this. I'm getting bruises from all the *thud*ding.

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[workerbee73]

I do feel badly about that....

**shifty eyes**

This one was all Bob's fault. **cue dramatic reenactment**

She was like "Hey! Look! I wrote poetry!"

And was I like "What the whaaaa? Oh wow. WOW. ^%$^%$#*^%$*^!!!!! That may have given me feelings. I may be writing poetry too."

And she;s like "DOOOOOOO EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET!!!!"

And then I did.

And then well, yeah.

But no musicals. There I draw the line.

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[im_ridiculous]

Cash money, Bee. Cash. Money.

Kidding. Sort of... ;)