Fic: Stage-Left

[unequivocally]

Title: Stage-Left
Characters/Pairings: Quinn-centric. Features hints of Quinn/Artie and background Puck/Rachel
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 2008
Spoilers: Aired Episodes
Summary: It sucks, doesn't it? Sitting stage-left.
Disclaimer: Don't own Glee.

Author's Notes: A gift for violetshadow84. Major thanks to une_fille for helping me immensely a TON of lines, and then beta'

Comments

[becca_radcgg]

"That's kind of why you don't fit in, Quinn," he mumbles, staring down into his lap.

And this is why you are BRILLIANT! Seriously. She is such a bitch. SUCH a bitch, and Artie's just like... the reason you don't fit in is BECAUSE YOU'RE HEINOUS! Good on him for telling her like it is.

Also, how sweet is it that he's still willing to give her a shot? Awww... I love my Artie!

You did an excellent job. And I fully believe that it's because you're just too damn talented for your own good! :)

[fickleheart]

Lovely story Shannon. Aww I kind of want this to happen on the show.

Absolutely beautiful.

[maybesheisme]

Shannon, I want to say that you are a excellent writer! :) You write down everything so well and it is true... Quinn can be a bitch. I love how you wrote Artie and Quinn's scene in the end, he is totally spot on (and it is exactly how I imagine Artie to be like!), and then she feels like crying and he actually feels some compassion towards her and he calls her name and she stops... I love the QA bits <3

And I love everything else also, it was short, but very well written! :) You write down Quinn's character very well <3

- Em

[andbless_mybaby]

God, you're good.

I haven't been able to really let go and love Quinn this far, even the writers are kind of working the character redemption arc with her, because she's such a raging bitch, you know? I love that you didn't shy away from that. Your Quinn is very in-character and - dare I say it - likable in her own way, because she's very honest.

I loved the Puck/Rachel, and I adored your Kurt. I was going to quote what I loved about the scene with him, Quinn, and the floral cardigan, but it would have been the whole thing. Awww, love.

And my complete love for the Artie/Quinn thing was unexpected and thorough. So sweet. I -hearted- simply everything about this story.

[unequivocally]

A review from you pretty much makes my WEEK. A thumbs up from you is hands-down the highest praise any Glee fic-writer can receive. Thank you SO MUCH.

You know, I actually really hate Quinn, too. I'm hoping that, by writing her, I can maybe try to understand her a little better. Because she isn't even a BITCH sometimes, a bitch can have proud connotations. She's just a MEAN, NASTY girl in the show. So I'm really trying to read/write her a bit more because I WANT to like her, I do.

Hah, I've never ever shipped QA before, so it was very hard for me to write! This was written as a gift for a QA shipper and so yeah, it was HARD to write something I'd never even considered before. So of course, I had to throw the PR in, to not lose my mind.

Final note: Glad you liked Kurt cause he is HANDS DOWN the scariest character for me to write. There's such a fine line between deliciously catty and stereotypical gay man, and I'm petrified to walk it. Haha!

I ♥ you. I hope I'm not too forward.

[unequivocally]

OH MAN I hit a bad writer's block. Hoping to have it done by the end of this holiday weekend, though!