You're the second person who tells me that (with introducing you to the world of Hakuoki yaoi), so I guess I gotta be one of the...initiators? Participant of the maiden voyage of the ship labelled "Hakuoki yaoi"? Yes, I am rambling, thank you very much.
You know...you voiced my thoughts. There has been something about this shot that has been bothering me, but somehow I couldn't name it. The thing is, that I was trying something (I'm not sure what exactly though), so this one-shot might be considered an experiment. An experiment I wasn't sure whether it didn't fail. In the end I decided it didn't, but something kept bothering me. Now, thanks to you, I know what. It felt incinsistent. SOmehow the beginning had a different feeling than the end. Like something broke and changed. Thanks for pointing it out. ^^
A-ha-ha-ha...Sano-chan... Yeah. I had the trouble too. You know, it dates back to the beginning of this whole arc. I was writing the first shot ("Be mine") as the first season was running. Back then I didn't think about making it a 30kisses challenge, it was just something I needed to get out of the system. But it kept frustrating me, because I couldn't decide whom to put onto the bottom. Everything in me screamed: "Are you blind?! Shinpachi is the uke, damnit! He acts like an uke, he talks like an uke, he's stressed like an uke, he IS the UKE!" No. Sano's long hair won over all of my rationality and good sense. Yes, a lost case speaking here, mind you. The result was, that while I decided that Sano will be the uke, I couldn't write him as such, because he behaved like the seme. So I put this fic away, with the thoughts to finish it later. Then the second season came, where Shinpachi changes. He becomes more mature. And the the challenge came and I had a whole new motivation and a purpose. This wanted to be a role-reversal for one of my readers. Sano will stay the uke...but he will top Shinpachi sometimes, just because for me, he stays a seme, even though he is in fact the uke. If that ever makes sense. Lost case, alright. *sigh* And all fo it because those long red locks...My eternal weakness. What is it with me and long hair? Anyway. Back to the topic.
I know. Unfortunately, there aren't many other ways to say it (and really, it's one small movement, what do I want?), but when I can, I'm trying to avoid the word 'cock'. Somehow it totally kills the mood when I read, or write it. So thanks for the compliment. Hearing, I succeed makes me always feel a bit more confident! ^^
I should put this onto my webpage as a prime example of a comment. More people should tell me, what they think, the way you did. You pointed out the mistakes, you complimented on the good things, you told me you liked it and to top it all.... *reads the last sentence* you want to recommend it. It's the first time someone told me that. I could cry right now, really. I'm moved.
*hugs you*
Thanks for the comment, from the bottom of my heart. It really made my day!
(Sorry for replying this late, but when I first read your review, I was totally overwhelmed and I needed to think of a proper way to reply and thank you. I was that moved...So thanks again ^^)
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You know...you voiced my thoughts. There has been something about this shot that has been bothering me, but somehow I couldn't name it. The thing is, that I was trying something (I'm not sure what exactly though), so this one-shot might be considered an experiment. An experiment I wasn't sure whether it didn't fail.
In the end I decided it didn't, but something kept bothering me. Now, thanks to you, I know what. It felt incinsistent. SOmehow the beginning had a different feeling than the end. Like something broke and changed.
Thanks for pointing it out. ^^
A-ha-ha-ha...Sano-chan... Yeah. I had the trouble too.
You know, it dates back to the beginning of this whole arc. I was writing the first shot ("Be mine") as the first season was running. Back then I didn't think about making it a 30kisses challenge, it was just something I needed to get out of the system. But it kept frustrating me, because I couldn't decide whom to put onto the bottom. Everything in me screamed: "Are you blind?! Shinpachi is the uke, damnit! He acts like an uke, he talks like an uke, he's stressed like an uke, he IS the UKE!" No. Sano's long hair won over all of my rationality and good sense.
Yes, a lost case speaking here, mind you.
The result was, that while I decided that Sano will be the uke, I couldn't write him as such, because he behaved like the seme. So I put this fic away, with the thoughts to finish it later.
Then the second season came, where Shinpachi changes. He becomes more mature. And the the challenge came and I had a whole new motivation and a purpose.
This wanted to be a role-reversal for one of my readers. Sano will stay the uke...but he will top Shinpachi sometimes, just because for me, he stays a seme, even though he is in fact the uke. If that ever makes sense. Lost case, alright. *sigh*
And all fo it because those long red locks...My eternal weakness. What is it with me and long hair? Anyway. Back to the topic.
I know. Unfortunately, there aren't many other ways to say it (and really, it's one small movement, what do I want?), but when I can, I'm trying to avoid the word 'cock'. Somehow it totally kills the mood when I read, or write it.
So thanks for the compliment. Hearing, I succeed makes me always feel a bit more confident! ^^
I should put this onto my webpage as a prime example of a comment. More people should tell me, what they think, the way you did. You pointed out the mistakes, you complimented on the good things, you told me you liked it and to top it all.... *reads the last sentence* you want to recommend it. It's the first time someone told me that. I could cry right now, really. I'm moved.
*hugs you*
Thanks for the comment, from the bottom of my heart.
It really made my day!
(Sorry for replying this late, but when I first read your review, I was totally overwhelmed and I needed to think of a proper way to reply and thank you. I was that moved...So thanks again ^^)