Comments | so_shhy: X-Men First Class COMPLETE fic: Late Bloomer (33/33)

so_shhy

X-Men First Class COMPLETE fic: Late Bloomer (33/33)

Apr 27, 2012 22:47

Phew. Done. This final chapter is almost certainly full of mistakes, absolutely definitely full of angst and may not make sense, but, you know, DONE. YAY.

I think the whole fic clocks in at around 80,000 words all told. Never again. Seriously. Not ever doing this again.

Chapters 1-28:
Late Bloomer on

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first class, why am i doing this?, fic, angst!, charles/erik, fluff

Comments 92

waterylt April 29 2012, 16:03:53 UTC

OMG it's finished!!! :D /burst into tears
I love your world building in this fic...! It's kind of bitter sweet, but realistic. The senior prom feels like the calm before storm, and I was waiting for my heart to be broken...TvT But I am glad even though they ended up in different paths, they were still in touch! And reading along with the wiki page...all my feelings...!!!!!
Thank you for finishing it!

so_shhy May 4 2012, 15:10:20 UTC

Thanks! And, um, hi, I just realised who you are and I love your art, and I saw a while back that you did an Erik-and-cat!Charles doodle that was vaguely related to Having Kittens, and I got so excited and I wanted to ask if I could link to it from the fic but it was Tumblr and I don't understand Tumblr and I couldn't work out how to send you a message, but now I can ask! (Longest run-on sentence ever...)

*ahem*

Would you be alright with me linking to your art from my fic?

waterylt May 4 2012, 19:23:05 UTC

Ahh of course!!! :DDD I am glad you like it<3 I really like your fics too <3 Christmas light battle is probably the number 1 fic that I read every time I need something to bring up my mood

so_shhy May 5 2012, 15:11:30 UTC

Eeee, thank you! It's such an adorable picture, I love the thought of Erik cuddling up with Charles and a book.

And I'm glad that the christmas lights boost your mood - that was one of my favourites to write, it was so much fun.

SO GOOD anonymous April 30 2012, 03:02:01 UTC

I just read all of this is one sitting.

Later, I will come with coherent things to say.

Right now:

asfkasdjfkljsad;flkasdf

SO GOOD.

FEELINGS.

Re: SO GOOD anonymous April 30 2012, 03:16:49 UTC

Continuing to bask in the awesome.

Re: SO GOOD so_shhy May 4 2012, 15:05:53 UTC

*grin* wow, quite a sitting! Glad it gave you the feelings, thank you!

tokki_chan May 1 2012, 05:00:56 UTC

Congrats on this epic fic, bb! :D

so_shhy May 4 2012, 14:55:57 UTC

Thanks, I'm really glad it's over!

rumcity May 8 2012, 14:35:27 UTC

Oh my holy fuck. This fic. First of all, thank you so much for the journey. I mean wow the ending, this is the first ending that I have read that shows Charles and Erik putting off their plans for a while and be together until their differences eventually takes a toll on them. Its just.. such a realistic and heartbreaking but sortof satisfying ending. I cant. ;_ ( ... )

so_shhy May 21 2012, 20:12:15 UTC

Eee, thank you! Sorry for the late reply.

I'm glad the ending worked for you, I was kind of worried that it would be... not an ending at all, really. Very grateful to Tawabids for doing the hard work for me! And yeah, that line. OH CHARLES NO MY POOR BABY.

Hmm... honestly, I don't think I could do Strykergate justice, so I doubt I'll write any more in this verse... though there is 30,000 words of co-written bizarre AU hiding in the world's longest comments thread on one of the chapters, where the boys are transported into the XMFC universe and meet their counterparts. Fun to write but NOT canonical in the Late Bloomer universe.

I'm so glad you liked and reread this! And I hope very much to write more in the fandom though (as you may have realised from the time it took me to finish this) I am rather slow.

eviltwinjen May 26 2012, 03:13:43 UTC

It's finished! I just re-read from the beginning, and my hat is off to you. A whole roomful of hats off to you! Your Emma is my favorite Emma of all time, I must say, and Erik's parents--all the characters are just so real, and the dialogue is flawless.

so_shhy June 1 2012, 20:31:36 UTC

Thank you! I appreciate the hat doffing exceedingly, and it's really interesting to know the parts you enjoyed, especially on a re-read, since... I don't actually remember most of what happened earlier on. Which is kind of shameful, but it's LONG and it's painful to read that much of my own writing. Half of me wants to read it through and work out where I went wrong (oh so wrong), and half of me wants to push it under the rug and pretend it never existed. Learn from mistakes or live in denial... difficult question. Do you have any advice? Librarians are very wise, I'm sure you know these things :-D