Thank you! I've been wanting to read a role-reversal for a while (I love the AUs we have, I do, and Sweet On You is one of my go-to comfort fics, but the reversal is just as likely, if not more so, a scenario, and has all those unexplored possibilities), and when my assignment came along I figured that was the push I needed to write one myself. I'm glad you got as much enjoyment out of it as I did, and thank you for taking the time to comment!
Thank you! I took some liberties with characterisation, but I tried to stay within what made sense if you took away their shared time and added some more years of life experience - Mark had to face some tough truths and grew with those, and Eduardo's life went smoothly enough that he's still closer to how he is protrayed during the movie but old enough to have grown quietly discontent with playing along. Ultimately they should still be the same people though, AU or not, and I'm glad I managed to get that across and that you enjoyed the story!
Thank you! I tried to give it a different twist from the way TSN fandom usually does these AUs (which I love, but variety is the spice of life). I'm glad you decided to take a chance on this story and that it didn't disappoint, and thank you for taking the time to comment, knowing that people enjoy my writing means a lot!
okay so i read this last night and went straight through until 3 in the morning even though i had to get up early today, but i just couldn't stop. (and then i tried to leave you a very incomprehensible comment but lj was acting up)
BUT SERIOUSLY, THIS IS EVERYTHING I DIDN'T KNOW I WANTED. okay, things that absolutely stunned me/made me fall in love with this:
i feel like this is the first fic i've read where someone has explored what would happen if facebook never became what it is. and you handled it so brilliantly. i really feel like this is how movie!mark would react, but i'd never really considered it before so that felt like a revelation
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You have no idea how relieved I am that you liked it! I was unsure about the role reversal (well, this is pretty different from my usual angst so I was unsure about a lot of it) because it's diferent from how TSN fandom usually does AUs. And as far as I know it is the only fic going about it from a Facebook never happened perspective - there's one abandoned WIP on the kinkmeme, but since that was my prompt I don't count it - and I wanted to explore those possibilites. Well, and it gave me the opportunity to avoid direct comparisons with the big coffeshop-type AUs we have
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No, thank you, for reading it and loving it, enough so that you came back to leave me this wonderful comment! :) I am so relieved people like this story because I was very unsure about the switch from fandom's usual coffeeshop-type AU power dynamics and the resulting change in characteristics (unchartered territory), but it seems to have turned out alright after all. And, yes, realistic sex. I may have a bad habit of skirting around writing it, but at least it's a realistic fade-to-black! *shakes fist* Again, I'm glad you enjoyed it, and thank you for letting me know. :)
Characterisation is the best - I love a bit of porn every now and then as much as the next slasher, but it's the characters that give me satisfaction, the characterisation and emotions of people that feel real. ...It also needs space to grow and develop depths. This story was supposed to be half as long as it ended up being.
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i feel like this is the first fic i've read where someone has explored what would happen if facebook never became what it is. and you handled it so brilliantly. i really feel like this is how movie!mark would react, but i'd never really considered it before so that felt like a revelation ( ... )
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