one thing that appealed to me a lot of the fic was that the language wasn't flowery.

i think i had a hard time with this. it felt bland for me. there were a lot of good lines that sliced through with their intensity, but this particular style of prose - the style that is very much prose with not a lot of poetry in the mix - makes me feel distanced and also kind of bored. it's stiff and weighty with writerly intent - and it's not at all conversational or coy either, so there isn't that to make it go down easier. that's entirely a personal taste, mind you, and has little to do with whether the writing is 'good' or not, because it seems pretty 'good' to me. the writers clearly know what they're doing. it's technically well managed, and it's well paced - it begins and ends in the right places...

apparently 'frank' ate my post. sorry for the edits. i got confused.