Found this after reading your Ivanova/Marcus, so I guess I'm reading backwards?
Heh. There's one more beyond this one, if you're into Ivanova/Garibaldi. It's uber-fluffy, and not much like the other two.
I think dark-fic works well in this universe, and you've certainly captured some of the tone of that season; there's something about the way you tell some of the conversations rather than writing them out that gives it the right atmosphere.
Thanks! I always like to know specific details that make a piece work for someone. "Telling" some of the conversations is a stylistic trick I've seen used elsewhere, and admired, but hadn't really tried out before this fic. (I adore writing dialogue, so compressing it like this not something that comes naturally to me!)
Mostly, though, I really like how you've written Ivanova, who's so determined not to get hurt but ends up getting hurt anyway. The ending is really effective in its simplicity.
That aspect of Ivanova's pessimism--that it stems in part from knowing she's going to get hurt despite her best efforts, because she can't fully excise the romantic in her--really makes the character fascinating to me. I'm glad you liked her, and the ending.
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Date: 2009-06-22 04:44 am (UTC)Heh. There's one more beyond this one, if you're into Ivanova/Garibaldi. It's uber-fluffy, and not much like the other two.
I think dark-fic works well in this universe, and you've certainly captured some of the tone of that season; there's something about the way you tell some of the conversations rather than writing them out that gives it the right atmosphere.
Thanks! I always like to know specific details that make a piece work for someone. "Telling" some of the conversations is a stylistic trick I've seen used elsewhere, and admired, but hadn't really tried out before this fic. (I adore writing dialogue, so compressing it like this not something that comes naturally to me!)
Mostly, though, I really like how you've written Ivanova, who's so determined not to get hurt but ends up getting hurt anyway. The ending is really effective in its simplicity.
That aspect of Ivanova's pessimism--that it stems in part from knowing she's going to get hurt despite her best efforts, because she can't fully excise the romantic in her--really makes the character fascinating to me. I'm glad you liked her, and the ending.