THG fic: "Spin Control" [23/24]

[trovia]

Title: Spin Control
Pairings: Finnick/Haymitch, Kat/Peeta
Characters: Finnick, Haymitch, Chaff, Peeta, Gale, Kat; plus appearances by Mags, Johanna, Caesar Flickerman, President Snow, Effie, Claudius Templesmith, Beetee, Prim, Thresh, Rue, District Twelve ensemble and various OC
Rating: adult
Warnings: forced prostitution & non-con; people dealing

Comments

[roguedemon]

Ending with: " ...condensed down to two sentences." Um, suddenly my iPad is totally misbehaving. It won't let me copy and paste text, and Safari has wiped out all my bookmarks. So, I just wasted a bunch of time, and I'll hopefully have a few minutes to come back to this tomorrow. After I've slept. I just wanted to say that that was a lovely bit of writing

[trovia]

I'm also just so pleased that the chapter works so well for you because, well, it's a big deal, it's a big chapter, so it's the kind of thing that can damage the story if it doesn't work.

I really liked how they were both pretty inarticulate, because when characters suddenly start spouting purple prose it always makes me wince a little, even in otherwise well written fanfics.Ugh, yeah. Communication is hard, and I like to reflect that in fic. It's one of the reasons I like writing boy characters, I think. It's such a typical boy problem. And I'm with you on the poetry thing. I don't like to think that Finnick would like doing anything with Annie that he does for the Capitol, period. I do think that Finnick is better at articulating his feelings when he's with Annie vs. Haymitch, because I think Finnick is a person who adjusts very strongly to his partner. I think of Annie as a very mature person with a healthy sexuality who is good on communicating directly, and Finnick would pick that up, while Haymitch's inability to articulate