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Re: Fic Discussion- kept just like we were, oflights

From: (Anonymous)
http://archiveofourown.org/works/7927297

ALSO KNOWN AS 24,000 WORDS OF SID/NATE

Re: Fic Discussion- kept just like we were, oflights

From: (Anonymous)
Holy shit, I have been WAITING for this! I'm so excited.

Re: Fic Discussion- kept just like we were, oflights

From: (Anonymous)
Great, what appears to be pointlessly non-linear shit with some bonus no-carb diet shit thrown in on top. Not gonna bother.

Re: Fic Discussion- kept just like we were, oflights

From: (Anonymous)
It's definitely non-linear, but Sid eats cake and cookies throughout the entire fic?

Re: Fic Discussion- kept just like we were, oflights

From: (Anonymous)
DA

I think they're talking about the part where Andy (jokingly, I thought) tells them not to eat their lobster salad on bread but they do anyway. It didn't bother me coming from a trainer in the offseason, when lots of players go low carb, but I guess it pinged that old school salad stuff.

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Re: Fic Discussion- kept just like we were, oflights

From: (Anonymous)
Really liked this. I'm surprised at how much. What little conflict was there was interesting, I liked that the problem, or one of them, wasn't the age difference but Sid's refusal to acknowledge the age difference and how that made Nate feel overwhelmed. He seemed very much his age in this, in a good way.

I wonder what pairing she's writing now though. It doesn't sound like she's going back to S/G.

Re: Fic Discussion- kept just like we were, oflights

From: (Anonymous)
Based on the author's note, it seems pretty clear this is the pairing she's writing.

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Re: Fic Discussion- kept just like we were, oflights

From: (Anonymous)
He seemed very much his age in this, in a good way.

I had to nope out of this in the beginning, because I thought he seemed a lot younger than his age with the whining and worry that his parents will embarrass him in front of his crush.

Re: Fic Discussion- kept just like we were, oflights

From: (Anonymous)
I'm eventually gonna read it because I do like her stuff, but tell me anyway, is Geno in it and does she write him like a tool the way she did when she decided not to like James Neal anymore, cos that did make me sad, how Geno had a bro in her early fic and then Neal devolved into like, Joey Tribiani and Geno no longer had someone in a friend sense to flesh out his character. I missed that dynamic.

I'm pressed, yes I admit it, let me live lol. I'm gonna go eat carbs now.

Re: Fic Discussion- kept just like we were, oflights

From: (Anonymous)
I don't think Geno gets mentioned once in the entire fic.

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Re: Fic Discussion- kept just like we were, oflights

From: (Anonymous)
YASSSS👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽🎉🎉🎉🎉

Re: Fic Discussion- kept just like we were, oflights

From: (Anonymous)
This was so good.

Re: Fic Discussion- kept just like we were, oflights

From: (Anonymous)
Thoughts:

1. As always, the author's note is hilarious. "It's not quite an epic", yeah like not at all, but way to overestimate your own writing ability, bruh.
2. The non-linearity kept taking me out of the story. Unnecessary.
3. I do like her characterization of Sid in this more than I usually like her characterization of Sid, so I kudosed. Though the flip side of that is the whininess that annoys me in her writing of him appears to have transferred to Mackinnon.
4. Pure conjecture but "15 minutes late with Sid/Nate" made me think she's annoyed Sid/Claude won out as the inter-Team Canada ship of choice after Worlds 2015.

Re: Fic Discussion- kept just like we were, oflights

From: (Anonymous)
I know it's like your schtick to do this whenever oflights posts a fic, but this is truly a level of pettiness that I can only aspire to. Bravo. I could never read the fic of an author I hate this much and for so long. Especially 24k words (even though that's not an epic)!

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Re: Fic Discussion- kept just like we were, oflights

From: (Anonymous)
Don't get bitter, nonnie, just get better.

Re: Fic Discussion- kept just like we were, oflights

From: (Anonymous)
I think my favorite bit is #2. "Unnecessary." Calm down, A.O. Scott.

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Re: Fic Discussion- kept just like we were, oflights

From: (Anonymous)
This entire thread including the ensuing sa-ing is ridiculous.

Re: Fic Discussion- kept just like we were, oflights

From: (Anonymous)
Do people not use "epic" as a measure of fic length rather than quality any more? That's how I'm used to seeing it, but I'm heading towards fandom old age and it's possible I've just convinced myself people are still using it the same way 15 years after they stopped.

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Re: Fic Discussion- kept just like we were, oflights

From: (Anonymous)
I'm with you, anon, esp. on number 4. (But I also just don't like her writing and never have-- so, bias.)

Re: Fic Discussion- kept just like we were, oflights

From: (Anonymous)
I liked this a lot. Usually nonlinearity bothers me, but as this one was only two narratives spliced together fairly evenly, it worked for me. I liked how mutually nervous they were in the pre-get-together, though some of the stuff with Nate and his family seemed kind of weird. (It kind of reminded me of the stereotypical prom date teasing, if that makes sense?) And the story itself was cute. One of my problems with fandom in general (and this one in particular) is that there are a lot of get-together stories and very few stories that show what it's like when they're actually together, but this one did a good job of illustrating how it all worked once they got there.

Re: Fic Discussion- kept just like we were, oflights

From: (Anonymous)
there are a lot of get-together stories and very few stories that show what it's like when they're actually together, but this one did a good job of illustrating how it all worked once they got there.


Yes, agree! That's what I liked about these two narratives too, I felt they contrasted nicely. Cole Harbour was like this happy summer bubble aside from the pining, so traditionally once they get together, everything's fine and they ride off into the sunset. But then the other narrative proves that's not true, especially with the obstacles they have.

It makes me want more about the in-between, like dealing with being far apart/Sid's slump/the Avs meltdown, but I like angst.

Re: Fic Discussion- kept just like we were, oflights

From: (Anonymous)
I really liked most of this. I thought that switching between their POV's worked really well for the most part and I liked seeing Nate interact with Sid and everybody else quite a bit. Though I do agree with Nate's family, his sister was a bit of a typical sister with all the advice tropey thing we see so often in hockey fics, but, it was like one scene so I didn't mind much

My one real problem was the end- there were a few hints in the playoff run bits that Nate was nursing some angst, I figured it was his shitty year and feeling conflicted watching another team, even your boyfriend's, win the Stanley Cup. But then, literally paragraphs away from the end Nate goes and says he's not even sure they are actually, truly together? Like, what? That's a huge bomb to drop on us so quickly with no *real* resolution to it. In retrospect, oflights didn't hint at this very well at all because it came out of nowhere for me.

Re: Fic Discussion- kept just like we were, oflights

From: (Anonymous)
It was...ok? I kept waiting for the narrative arc to become clear and kept checking against how much of the fic was left as wondering when something missing would kick in. Idk I usually like oflights' stuff, I just found this aggressively boring and don't understand how this could be written by the same person who wrote 'welcome home'. I feel like more interesting/original and frankly better written fic has got far less attention but so go the ways of fandom!

Re: Fic Discussion- kept just like we were, oflights

From: (Anonymous)
Yeah, "ok" is exactly how I'd describe it too. Not a fic I'd ever bother to reread, but I'm not mad I spent time on it either.

Re: Fic Discussion- kept just like we were, oflights

From: (Anonymous)
DA

I liked it, but I see the point here too. It reminded me of the other nonlinear fic she wrote for Sid/Geno, where I think the form took precedence over the plot. This fic did the same thing, because I enjoyed the contrast in the two narratives and the way some matched up, like Sid and Nate at the zoo vs. Sid and Nate at hockey school, and Andy giving them a hard time about food vs. Andy giving them a hard time about PDA.

The difference is this fic didn't really have that big impact moment like the other nonlinear one did, with "breakup canceled" and the evil agent reveal. It just kind of petered out. I think it could have been longer and gone past the Cup win, actually.