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I was completely fooled! Someone on an anonmeme mentioned writing for what looked like one of my 'A Single Man' prompts, so I was expecting that and I wasn't sleuthing around :)) You were so suspiciously tight-lipped about what you were doing for Yuletide though :)) It should have been a clue that you were at least writing for someone you know! And I thought while reading that this mystery author is as fond of CEvans & his roles as much as I am (which is a lot, lmao) -- and how nice it was to share the love! And what came across as personal knowledge of the Pacific Northwest. It really is the case of the biggest DUH. Anyway, Miss Marple I was not!

I can't believe you wrote all this on such a short notice and while feeling quite under the weather! It's stupendously well-researched and thought out! Sometimes, one carries the building bricks of a story in one's mind for years as you say. I don't know if we're just this specific kind of nerds, but I really so got into your story's environmental worldbuilding. Idk, you made the apocalypse science RIVETING. Just fascinating to explore the nuts and bolts of how a solar-winter would reverse itself. And I was just over the moon that Capa was still in the business of saving the planet with his brain and that he saw it as a way to help Mace. I saw that tumblr post about the sun and planets' noise as well - so my mind instantly connected to it, it was just YEAH.

If there's a fic where I'd love to see writer's notes, it's definitely this one! I now totally see how HBO Chernobyl's aesthetics are a perfect inspiration and I will somehow unearth the Altman movie because it sounds extremely captivating and RTMI. Thank you for sharing how you came up with the Melt - it was early on, and I instantly said to myself oh this is going to be GOOD when I came across it. It's one of my favorite details in the story and it fascinates me as a concept.

So, Danny Boyle said Capa and Mace's thing was homoerotic? VALIDATION. God I hope it's okay that I'm commenting on the porn as well - it's great to watch them reverse the polarity on their feelings and push each other around with a wholly different ~magnetic intent! That weird little second when they both have a jolt of a physical memory of their previous shoving matches was really well-done, and it touched on what I wanted from my space-based prompts so perfectly. I really like writing and reading intercrural, so it was hot - thumbs up from me all around!

The pet waitlist nearly killed me omg! I stopped reading and started yelling to my husband on another floor about it :D

Anyway, this line of "Are we brothers, Francis? Because I would like that very much." is also killing me now, this is the kind of shipping dynamics I live for. THANK YOU.