Penumbra's way with words fascinates me. There are stories that are written and stories that are artistically weaved. I can only wish I had her vocabulary and writing ability.
I'm not as big a fan of this one as I was of Parabiosis. Maybe it's just the topic of their kid(s). I'm a shipper, but I have such a knee-jerk repulsed reaction to babies and kids that I kinda waded through this one with my teeth clenched. Maybe I'd like it better if I didn't have problems with that topic. *shrug* It was nice otherwise. The relationship between William and Matthew seemed familiar somehow, like I've seen something with that relationship quality before. But hell, for all I know, that's just me projecting my own wonderful relationship with my cousins.
I like that this was set in California. I was born and raised here, so I'm a little partial to it. However, the geographical and biological intricacies kinda made me cringe here and there. Not too much, but little things you probably wouldn't know unless you lived here anyway. Unless I read it wrong, they were in the mountains of San Bernadino, which is both not in L.A. County and nowhere near the ocean enough to smell the salt water (if anything, they'd smell the smog, which the city of San Bernadino is famous for due to its lack of "ventilation" being almost entirely surrounded my mountains.) We don't have cicadas here, at least to the best of my knowledge. Maybe they're isolated to San Bernadino, but they're definitely not in San Diego or L.A. Also, Miramar is an air force base slightly inland. The ship would have been anchored in Naval Base San Diego or just San Diego proper. But that's me being nitpicky and I don't blame Penumbra for not knowing these little tidbits. It's just... now I understand how people feel when they say "____ doesn't have mountains" or something like that, lol.
In general: I liked it. Not the biggest fan of domestic fics, but when Mulder joked around, it sounded like actual Mulder, which I can appreciate.
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Date: 2017-01-05 05:30 pm (UTC)Penumbra's way with words fascinates me. There are stories that are written and stories that are artistically weaved. I can only wish I had her vocabulary and writing ability.
I'm not as big a fan of this one as I was of Parabiosis. Maybe it's just the topic of their kid(s). I'm a shipper, but I have such a knee-jerk repulsed reaction to babies and kids that I kinda waded through this one with my teeth clenched. Maybe I'd like it better if I didn't have problems with that topic. *shrug* It was nice otherwise. The relationship between William and Matthew seemed familiar somehow, like I've seen something with that relationship quality before. But hell, for all I know, that's just me projecting my own wonderful relationship with my cousins.
I like that this was set in California. I was born and raised here, so I'm a little partial to it. However, the geographical and biological intricacies kinda made me cringe here and there. Not too much, but little things you probably wouldn't know unless you lived here anyway. Unless I read it wrong, they were in the mountains of San Bernadino, which is both not in L.A. County and nowhere near the ocean enough to smell the salt water (if anything, they'd smell the smog, which the city of San Bernadino is famous for due to its lack of "ventilation" being almost entirely surrounded my mountains.) We don't have cicadas here, at least to the best of my knowledge. Maybe they're isolated to San Bernadino, but they're definitely not in San Diego or L.A. Also, Miramar is an air force base slightly inland. The ship would have been anchored in Naval Base San Diego or just San Diego proper. But that's me being nitpicky and I don't blame Penumbra for not knowing these little tidbits. It's just... now I understand how people feel when they say "____ doesn't have mountains" or something like that, lol.
In general: I liked it. Not the biggest fan of domestic fics, but when Mulder joked around, it sounded like actual Mulder, which I can appreciate.