Of course, the beginning of a relationship doesn't have to be the end game of a story - but its hard to have excitement this big early on and not have the rest of the piece fizzle out.
Oh, not gonna lie, I love it when the romance isn't the end game, because then it's not "will they, won't they?" but "will they make it?" and that's always tasty... and in fanfic especially, a little harder to find. Given what I know of your plotting ability, I don't expect to be disappointed!
I kinda wanted this chapter to read like an emotional rollercoaster, because, from what I can recall of that particular period from my own life, that's exactly how it was.
Oh, I definitely felt that while reading this! At first I was a little taken back at how up and down it was, and thought it was because I was half-distracted while reading (there was a movie going on in the background), but then I reread parts and realized... Nope, Stace is just doing emotional loop-de-loops. Teenage romance. Gotta love it. Or maybe not.
Such teases, those writers!!
How dare they inspire this fanfic! =P
I've read arguments that romance fic doesn't have a place in this fandom because its a kids show and because it never dealt with anything beyond the random, one-off crush (I think all the major characters eventually got their turn with this storyline...), but I think that's missing the point.
...Bwuh? I'd say that's definitely missing the entire point of fandom and fanfic, right there. Fanfic is for precisely that point - to explore the what ifs that canon creates, but doesn't necessarily pursue. If romance fic didn't belong because the canon didn't touch on romance... well, fandom in general would be a lot more boring, IMO.
I'm so excited about this I could burst. Seriously. (And, LOL, how pathetic is that? :P)
TOTALLY NOT PATHETIC AT ALL. (Rather, I am envious. All of my own fic!excitement is lying dead in a ditch somewhere. It needs to come back, dangit!) And also, I want to read this. SOOOOOOOOOOOOOON. *prods you for more*
I never knew there were others out there who remembered, or cared, or still felt those shippy fires burning.
If there is anything about shippy fires I've learned, it's that they do not burn out easily. At all. The fact that people would go looking for more fuel for the fire, years after the fact? Makes me love the internet, so much more.
And, really, a lot of the fun of playing in this sandbox is that it is so entirely innocent.
Haha. Oh, cute T-rated fic, so underrated~~~! ;) All joking aside, both 'kinds' of romance have their draw. I think it can get boring to always write the same genre, all the time, so yay for mixing it up!
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Oh, not gonna lie, I love it when the romance isn't the end game, because then it's not "will they, won't they?" but "will they make it?" and that's always tasty... and in fanfic especially, a little harder to find. Given what I know of your plotting ability, I don't expect to be disappointed!
I kinda wanted this chapter to read like an emotional rollercoaster, because, from what I can recall of that particular period from my own life, that's exactly how it was.
Oh, I definitely felt that while reading this! At first I was a little taken back at how up and down it was, and thought it was because I was half-distracted while reading (there was a movie going on in the background), but then I reread parts and realized... Nope, Stace is just doing emotional loop-de-loops. Teenage romance. Gotta love it. Or maybe not.
Such teases, those writers!!
How dare they inspire this fanfic! =P
I've read arguments that romance fic doesn't have a place in this fandom because its a kids show and because it never dealt with anything beyond the random, one-off crush (I think all the major characters eventually got their turn with this storyline...), but I think that's missing the point.
...Bwuh? I'd say that's definitely missing the entire point of fandom and fanfic, right there. Fanfic is for precisely that point - to explore the what ifs that canon creates, but doesn't necessarily pursue. If romance fic didn't belong because the canon didn't touch on romance... well, fandom in general would be a lot more boring, IMO.
I'm so excited about this I could burst. Seriously. (And, LOL, how pathetic is that? :P)
TOTALLY NOT PATHETIC AT ALL. (Rather, I am envious. All of my own fic!excitement is lying dead in a ditch somewhere. It needs to come back, dangit!) And also, I want to read this. SOOOOOOOOOOOOOON. *prods you for more*
I never knew there were others out there who remembered, or cared, or still felt those shippy fires burning.
If there is anything about shippy fires I've learned, it's that they do not burn out easily. At all. The fact that people would go looking for more fuel for the fire, years after the fact? Makes me love the internet, so much more.
And, really, a lot of the fun of playing in this sandbox is that it is so entirely innocent.
Haha. Oh, cute T-rated fic, so underrated~~~! ;) All joking aside, both 'kinds' of romance have their draw. I think it can get boring to always write the same genre, all the time, so yay for mixing it up!