SO I READ THIS FIC. I spaced it out over the course of a few days, because-- being honest-- a lot of your Boosh fic is just too harrowing and awful for me and so I avoid it for the sake of my own mental health. But I wanted to read this one! Because it kept cropping up on various archives, and I've heard so many people reference it with such fondness and admiration. The first, lessay, fourth of the fic WAS VERY DIFFICULT, I can't lie, and bizarrely it wasn't all the rape and all of that that made it so, it was the backstory for Howard and Vince. HARD TO DEAL WITH, but, you know, that is a compliment to your writing, so. In lieu of a proper review, I present to you my flailing conversation with Bluey upon completion:
Cully: I just finished Let the Good Times Roll! You were right, the beginning was the worst bit, I could handle the rest no problem. Even if OH MY GOD THE FEELS *falls over* And talk about psychological realism, bloody fuck. So I am also feeling slightly like Wonder Woman! In an emotional sense
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Bluey: Pffffft, right? Perfect. And YES, yes yes yes to everything about the dreams and their fears of being victim AND aggressor. And both of them carrying so much guilt!
Cully Yes! Because... I don't feel like you see a lot of that explored in fic, that legitimate fear of being the aggressor, but that is... totally a thing when you get into thorny and confusing areas of consent. Much less, you know, the kind of shit this version of Howard was exposed to in his childhood
Bluey: Yessssssss. I agree, it is very rarely explored, much less this thoughtfully or sensitively, but it is SUCH a real issue, and a very important one here, for both of them. Each of them has feared not doing right by the other in a time of vulnerability, afraid that their desires are selfish or exploitative.
Cully: Gahhhhhh, just. *falls over* AND THE FACT that Gregg gets to learn and grow as well! Even if that is (rightly) only a footnote to Howard and Vince's recovery. I love that the fic acknowledged that... as awful as what he did was, he is a super fucked
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Cully: I just finished Let the Good Times Roll! You were right, the beginning was the worst bit, I could handle the rest no problem. Even if OH MY GOD THE FEELS *falls over* And talk about psychological realism, bloody fuck. So I am also feeling slightly like Wonder Woman! In an emotional sense
Bluey: I KNOW, the realism ( ... )
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Cully Yes! Because... I don't feel like you see a lot of that explored in fic, that legitimate fear of being the aggressor, but that is... totally a thing when you get into thorny and confusing areas of consent. Much less, you know, the kind of shit this version of Howard was exposed to in his childhood
Bluey: Yessssssss. I agree, it is very rarely explored, much less this thoughtfully or sensitively, but it is SUCH a real issue, and a very important one here, for both of them. Each of them has feared not doing right by the other in a time of vulnerability, afraid that their desires are selfish or exploitative.
Cully: Gahhhhhh, just. *falls over* AND THE FACT that Gregg gets to learn and grow as well! Even if that is (rightly) only a footnote to Howard and Vince's recovery. I love that the fic acknowledged that... as awful as what he did was, he is a super fucked ( ... )
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