Thank you so much for your enthusiastic and elaborated comment on my story. I’d like to take up a couple of things you said.
First, my pre-fic apologies. Yes, I thought them necessary. I hadn’t read many of the fics posted by others before I uploaded mine (too busy writing, too afraid of getting distracted) but I was under the impression that badfic and cute didn’t mix. And as you pointed out, my story is *cute*. I might have bragged about being a tough gal and all in my introduction to the fic, but that was all a lie. (I’ve read some other badfic now by the way, and I know I didn’t need to be so worried.)
Secondly, the kids-thing. I think it worked reasonably well because, as you said, *anything* works with Ray, and because I depicted Benton pretty much as an adult Fraser, minus the Mountie Mask maybe.
About the boys being twelve. Yes, I worried about that. I chose the age after careful consideration. They had to be kids (you said so), but they also had to be sexually active (because, well, sex is what happens when you put Fraser and Kowalski together, isn’t it?). They didn’t necessarily have to be both at the same time, but I just couldn’t think of an interesting way or reason to have the boys turned back into adults again. My hope to get away with my decision was based exactly on what you pointed out yourself: Fraser and Kowalski being meant for each other, at any age, on any planet, in any universe.
The challenge’s universe being bad/crack/fantasy was very convenient to me, of course. It allowed me to have Victoria write a letter to the Kowalkies, to have the Kowalskies take their son’s being turned into a twelve year old as something self-evident, and to have all adults be in awe for the love between the boys as well as pair themselves up every so elegantly into three romantic couples.
Tell you a secret. Like you, I don’t belief for a second that Victoria is a rookie witch or an angel in disguise. I think she’s a very good witch, but there is just *nothing* that can destroy Fraser-Kowalski love. Moreover, I think that by bewitching the boys she gave them the magic power of spreading love. (Did I mention already that I am a big wuss?). If there is a “spell” involved in getting the passion between Welsh and Vecchio going, it’s because the Fraser-Kowalski thing has rubbed off on them.
Finally, about the two omissions you pointed out. I can’t tell you what happened to Dief, sorry. I didn’t think of him all that much (I never do, although I like to read how his thoughts and feelings are depicted by others.) I do have a pretty good clue about how Stanley and Benton are doing in school though. I intended to address this in the fic, but there just wasn’t a good sloth to do so, and the story was lengthy enough as it was. But I can promise you that the boys are fine. It obvious that even at twelve, Stanley is capable of delivering a mean kick in the head, and that Benton’s powers of reasoning can convince everybody’s socks off. Rest assured that nobody will have the nerve to harm them.
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Date: 2006-04-20 07:56 am (UTC)Thank you so much for your enthusiastic and elaborated comment on my story. I’d like to take up a couple of things you said.
First, my pre-fic apologies. Yes, I thought them necessary. I hadn’t read many of the fics posted by others before I uploaded mine (too busy writing, too afraid of getting distracted) but I was under the impression that badfic and cute didn’t mix. And as you pointed out, my story is *cute*. I might have bragged about being a tough gal and all in my introduction to the fic, but that was all a lie. (I’ve read some other badfic now by the way, and I know I didn’t need to be so worried.)
Secondly, the kids-thing. I think it worked reasonably well because, as you said, *anything* works with Ray, and because I depicted Benton pretty much as an adult Fraser, minus the Mountie Mask maybe.
About the boys being twelve. Yes, I worried about that. I chose the age after careful consideration. They had to be kids (you said so), but they also had to be sexually active (because, well, sex is what happens when you put Fraser and Kowalski together, isn’t it?). They didn’t necessarily have to be both at the same time, but I just couldn’t think of an interesting way or reason to have the boys turned back into adults again. My hope to get away with my decision was based exactly on what you pointed out yourself: Fraser and Kowalski being meant for each other, at any age, on any planet, in any universe.
The challenge’s universe being bad/crack/fantasy was very convenient to me, of course. It allowed me to have Victoria write a letter to the Kowalkies, to have the Kowalskies take their son’s being turned into a twelve year old as something self-evident, and to have all adults be in awe for the love between the boys as well as pair themselves up every so elegantly into three romantic couples.
Tell you a secret. Like you, I don’t belief for a second that Victoria is a rookie witch or an angel in disguise. I think she’s a very good witch, but there is just *nothing* that can destroy Fraser-Kowalski love. Moreover, I think that by bewitching the boys she gave them the magic power of spreading love. (Did I mention already that I am a big wuss?). If there is a “spell” involved in getting the passion between Welsh and Vecchio going, it’s because the Fraser-Kowalski thing has rubbed off on them.
Finally, about the two omissions you pointed out. I can’t tell you what happened to Dief, sorry. I didn’t think of him all that much (I never do, although I like to read how his thoughts and feelings are depicted by others.) I do have a pretty good clue about how Stanley and Benton are doing in school though. I intended to address this in the fic, but there just wasn’t a good sloth to do so, and the story was lengthy enough as it was. But I can promise you that the boys are fine. It obvious that even at twelve, Stanley is capable of delivering a mean kick in the head, and that Benton’s powers of reasoning can convince everybody’s socks off. Rest assured that nobody will have the nerve to harm them.