Thank you so much. I feel like I am absolutely sure you read the story we were hoping people would read when they tackled this, which is satisfying both as a writer and as people who are deeply emotionally invested in this world, its characters and the points we are trying to make with them.
This story is profoundly meta (it is a story about stories, moreso even that we've revealed in this installment) both in its narrative and its genesis (which is why we're doing a commentary thing on it once we're done).
I would argue that both of us -- but I'll let Kali speak for herself -- have very complicated relationships with other people, the truth of memory, and, as your comment highlights, physical touch. Sex reveals all sorts of fucked up and mundane things about people, and we've worked hard to write things that are both hot and possessed of a certain amount of realism, even as it's hard for us to put aside our poetic tendencies (luckily, Jack and Ianto are so bloody epic about everything, it gives us room to be the way we are).
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Date: 2009-01-05 03:59 pm (UTC)This story is profoundly meta (it is a story about stories, moreso even that we've revealed in this installment) both in its narrative and its genesis (which is why we're doing a commentary thing on it once we're done).
I would argue that both of us -- but I'll let Kali speak for herself -- have very complicated relationships with other people, the truth of memory, and, as your comment highlights, physical touch. Sex reveals all sorts of fucked up and mundane things about people, and we've worked hard to write things that are both hot and possessed of a certain amount of realism, even as it's hard for us to put aside our poetic tendencies (luckily, Jack and Ianto are so bloody epic about everything, it gives us room to be the way we are).
Thank you again!