Oh man I am a TERRIBLE PERSON. This is such a wonderful review and I remember gleeing all over when I read it but I am only just responding now /o\ I'm so sorry! *hugs*
I'm SO ecstatic that you were primed for the Mikey/Ray story from this verse. There was a small number of you who were and you have no idea how much just KNOWING that you wanted to read it helped me write and finish it, y'know?
I'm so glad that Ray's journey with the whole Mikey thing really came through, I really wanted it to be about Ray being stuck in this straight mindset and not really considering it, except when he's totally by himself and doesn't have to deal with any outcomes. It's weird I spent a lot of time when I was writing this worrying to myself that nothing was HAPPENING, but it wasn't that nothing was happening, it just wasn't happening directly to Ray. He was witnessing the Pete and Mikey thing, he saw Frank and Gerard get together, and through it all he and Mikey were friends... until they weren't.
I'm so used to writing stories that are ALL about the central relationship, so having so much OTHER stuff happening felt like I was going off-topic, but I just really wanted to use this story as a way to see at least some of what happened in the lead up to 2019. The scene where they are in the studio and the first bomb drops was so clear in my mind, I just had to include it. I just really wanted to at least see the START of the fall even if I didn't want to cover it all.
Oh man, that part that you quoted. I am really REALLY happy with how that came out, NGL. Mutual masturbation is SO FUCKING HOT and so under-represented in fic and throw in a little voyeurism and you've got me.
I loved all the sensory details of Ray touching himself, and just the FEELING, that tension RATCHETING UP when he meets Mikey's eyes, how FORWARD it is of Mikey to suck his lip and meet Ray's gaze like that. UNNNNNF. Fuck me, when you put it like that I just love it even MORE. THANK YOU so much for saying that. ♥ ♥
Also, a little side note, that epilogue I wrote the night before posting, because I just really wanted SOMETHING from 2019 to close it at the end.
UGH, thank you SO MUCH for this and I'm so sorry it took me forever to reply. <333333
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I'm SO ecstatic that you were primed for the Mikey/Ray story from this verse. There was a small number of you who were and you have no idea how much just KNOWING that you wanted to read it helped me write and finish it, y'know?
I'm so glad that Ray's journey with the whole Mikey thing really came through, I really wanted it to be about Ray being stuck in this straight mindset and not really considering it, except when he's totally by himself and doesn't have to deal with any outcomes. It's weird I spent a lot of time when I was writing this worrying to myself that nothing was HAPPENING, but it wasn't that nothing was happening, it just wasn't happening directly to Ray. He was witnessing the Pete and Mikey thing, he saw Frank and Gerard get together, and through it all he and Mikey were friends... until they weren't.
I'm so used to writing stories that are ALL about the central relationship, so having so much OTHER stuff happening felt like I was going off-topic, but I just really wanted to use this story as a way to see at least some of what happened in the lead up to 2019. The scene where they are in the studio and the first bomb drops was so clear in my mind, I just had to include it. I just really wanted to at least see the START of the fall even if I didn't want to cover it all.
Oh man, that part that you quoted. I am really REALLY happy with how that came out, NGL. Mutual masturbation is SO FUCKING HOT and so under-represented in fic and throw in a little voyeurism and you've got me.
I loved all the sensory details of Ray touching himself, and just the FEELING, that tension RATCHETING UP when he meets Mikey's eyes, how FORWARD it is of Mikey to suck his lip and meet Ray's gaze like that. UNNNNNF. Fuck me, when you put it like that I just love it even MORE. THANK YOU so much for saying that. ♥ ♥
Also, a little side note, that epilogue I wrote the night before posting, because I just really wanted SOMETHING from 2019 to close it at the end.
UGH, thank you SO MUCH for this and I'm so sorry it took me forever to reply. <333333