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[wldnst]

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[neo_mirage]

Aww, it's so perfect and adorable and perfect ! I love your Danny (maybe because I'm so picky with food myself), and Stiles and him are an amazing couple.

I really enjoyed how naturally their relationship evolved, and I'm such a sucker for awkward teenagers <3

[wldnst]

Thank you! It was kind of fun to write awkward teenagers and kind of weird, because I wanted to keep their relationship...teenager, I guess. I'm glad it worked! And you liked Danny! He was kind of hard to figure out, the show doesn't actually give a ton to work with, so. I kind of want to write a fic from Danny's POV now, but I also have way too many WIPs on my plate, so I'm going to pretend I have no interest in doing that.

[wldnst]

Thank you! I really wanted them to read like teenagers, that was weirdly important to me, so I am glad that they did!

[starlingthefool]

This fic made me really really happy, and then really really sad, and then happy/sad. It made me miss, for the first time in ages, the really exquisite pain of beginning a relationship with someone. I think it was the image of Stiles turning his face into the pillow at three in the morning, wondering what was going on and kind of hating himself for wondering. I HAVE BEEN THAT PERSON SO MANY TIMES. So this fic made me feel full of loneliness but also appreciative of that loneliness, because love is super amazing and I've gotten to experience it, more than once, and you wrote about it really beautifully.

Then I drank a bunch of beer and watched bad horror movies and now it's morning and I want to die a little, so I'm just going to reread this on the train. I think this is now my Teen Wolf OTP. I am officially rooting for Stiles/Danny and Derek/Some kind of emotional catharsis and character arc.

Basically, this is perfect and I'm sorry I went and word-vomited at you at butts o'clock in the morning.

[wldnst]

Eh, I wasn't awake at butts o'clock in the morning, so it's all good (now that I am awake it's regular o'clock in the morning and I'm making bacon, so--bacon). Anyway, yes--thank you. My goal wasn't to write about being in love so much as being a teenager, and being sort of needy and confused in the way teenagers often are. One thing I like about Danny is that--well, he's sort of thinly drawn, but the impression I have of him is that he's very together for a teenager. But I am also glad it reads well as a love story, because of course I also didn't want it to just be a story about how ridiculous teenagers are, and--yes

[starlingthefool]

Yeeeeeahhh. I just find Derek and His Eyebrows of Manpain a little exhausting? And their relationship in the show a little too violent? I can imagine them having a kind of terrible relationship that's not very healthy for either of them, and I think that would be interesting, but I am generally less attracted to relationships that are slow motion car wrecks in writing, and the way that Stiles gets, like, beaten on isn't something I'm comfortable with ignoring.

And yeah, I think I'm projecting on Danny a bit too, but I just wanna draw ALL THE HEARTS AROUND HIM. You kind of nailed all my feelings about him in this fic. That he's quiet and probably a little eccentric but generally is smart enough and with it enough to be able to coast along, being awesome and shrugging off the bullshit.

[wldnst]

Yeah, Derek--yeah. I don't even know. I have a fic that I'm vaguely working on (I mean, this is way down on the WIP docket) that I want to be, like, a coming of age thing for Stiles, and I haven't thought it through completely (it is based on Bright Eyes lyrics, okay, that is really all you need to know about (a) how developed the premise is and (b) when I went to high school) but originally in my head it was vaguely Derek/Stiles and I just...don't know if I could pull off Derek and high school Stiles in any sort of good relationship, at least not in a fic like that (I also have a bodyswap teen sex comedy on the docket, and with that I figure I can do pretty much whatever the hell I want). It's much easier in AUs to excise the violent parts of their relationship, and with future fic you can at least put some time in there, which doesn't necessarily heal all wounds but it does help with some things in terms of putting Derek and Stiles on equal footing. But present-day, canon fic--I don't know

[tyhyin]

I don't even ship Danny/ Stiles, well maybe as a secondary pouring. But this was amazing. The slow build to their relationship. It did help that Danny is irresistible and his dimples are too much..

[wldnst]

Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it even though it's not your ship :) Writing the slow build relationship was really interesting--I don't know, I usually write a dynamic that's a bit different, but I enjoyed this one.

[bittersweet_luv]

This is absolutely perfect. They make a cute couple and I'm glad it developed slowly and works really easily. Loved it :)

[wldnst]

Thank you! They are definitely a cute couple, by contrast to Derek/Stiles (I don't mean that as a dig at either ship, just an observation, that, yes, this relationship thing is much cuter than I'd develop a Derek/Stiles fic). And I'm glad the slow build worked! I sometimes like my relationships (that I write) to turn on a dime, and this one didn't, it was definitely different.