Subject: I read this!
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Posted on: 2018-08-12 00:48:00 UTC

I...

Well, I dunno if I like it. {= ( I enjoyed the characters and their interactions, so I certainly don't dislike it... If it were an interlude about Kaitlyn finding out about POVs and being completely distracted by dorbs while Selene was trying to get her to focus on something more important, I reckon I'd have nothing to complain about. But as a mission, it felt a bit POV-heavy to me. This is at least 50% a personal taste thing, since I'm not interested in collecting critters and never have been, but I think it could use more commentary on the badfic, even if it isn't the usual so-bad-it's-funny mess. And that doesn't have to mean more fic-quotes. It's hard when the problem is blandness (which is one reason to avoid mediocre-fic in general), but you could play up that sort of thing by making the world extremely washed out, or sepia-toned, or fuzzy with deadened sound... or some other interpretation to show what dull writing does to a Word World and the unlucky agents forced to put up with it. It would make the agents feel more fully present, too.

Kaitlyn was so excited about who she was going to call in to help that I was, too, so I was sad it turned out to be a set-up to nothing. I was also sorta hoping "Kelly" would turn out to be Kelly the Roman Warrior somehow. Of course, she's dead, so it wouldn't make much sense, but when has that ever stopped a really determined Suvian? {= )

So, kinda unsatisfying as a mission. But, as More Fun with Kaitlyn and Selene, there are some great lines that made me laugh. "That was yesterday," for one. The bit about the A-word and continuing into the not-a-Python-sketch, for another. And Kaitlyn's made-up story about what happened does sound like lots of fun. Very "I reject your reality and substitute my own." Oh, also "It's like kissing, only there's a winner," even if it is stolen. I don't know where it's from.

Is Kaitlyn's throne just a black office chair? My money's on standard high-back office chair. {= )

(You may be excused from reviewing anything of mine. Reckon it's more likely I owe you for something or other.)

~Neshomeh

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