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whitewriterI don't know what it is but once I've read something I simply love to discuss it. There's no one to talk to in RL so here I am on the (I was going to write LJ but it isn't really LJ anymore is it) journal banging it out.
I don't have a single XF icon anymore since I deleted the lick picture. Why on earth did I do that? Coffee cups it is.
So.
Lets review: The Way Things Are by Sukie Tawdry
I'm a midwife (and an RN but my brain is midwifery these days). I wasn't one the first time I read all these fanfics, so any babyfic or familyfic back then, I read happily in my guiltypleasure bubble and just enjoyed them without looking deeply.
I have to say, there were only 2 minor things that irked me with this story (no one measures a fundal height at 10 weeks, I don't think you can even palpate it, from 20 weeks onward we would. Also you can't use a stethoscope to listen to a fetal heart that's akin to listening to a radial pulse with a stethoscope. If she wrote pinnard I would have been "someone read the textbook" doppler would have been bang on) -- but the birth scene was fine as it was, so I forgave Sukie immediately, and more so with that cute ending.
It does capture M and S of the early days quite nicely with a twist (the baby twist) and the guiltypleasure box is defiantly ticked by this story.
M and S have a drunken night on a case in s2, and they have sex, S falls pregnant and decides to keep it. M tries to stay out of it as much as possible. S Gets kidnapped and they do a CVS for paternity. M is very protective when S is returned and he moves into her place, falls in love with her, and they stay together. DeepThroat returns to explain the abduction and testing, and M becomes pensive when he ponders what to do. The answer is the sweetest ending you'll ever read.
According to gossamer, this fic was the only thing listed as having been written by her. I find that surprising.
Score card:
Characterisation of canon characters: B
Characterisation of original characters: (this would be the abductors) B
Story line: B+
Smut: A
Overall writing: A
I gave smutt an A because the way she wrote it, suited the story to a T, wasn't overbearing (There's a way -- for example, had me trying hard not to scroll through some sections because it started to get repetitive) - and matched the developments in the story.
I took 7 weeks off prior to starting the midi program in June of 2019. I should have been re-reading fanfic back then! It would have been a largely different experience.
I don't have a single XF icon anymore since I deleted the lick picture. Why on earth did I do that? Coffee cups it is.
So.
Lets review: The Way Things Are by Sukie Tawdry
I'm a midwife (and an RN but my brain is midwifery these days). I wasn't one the first time I read all these fanfics, so any babyfic or familyfic back then, I read happily in my guiltypleasure bubble and just enjoyed them without looking deeply.
I have to say, there were only 2 minor things that irked me with this story (no one measures a fundal height at 10 weeks, I don't think you can even palpate it, from 20 weeks onward we would. Also you can't use a stethoscope to listen to a fetal heart that's akin to listening to a radial pulse with a stethoscope. If she wrote pinnard I would have been "someone read the textbook" doppler would have been bang on) -- but the birth scene was fine as it was, so I forgave Sukie immediately, and more so with that cute ending.
It does capture M and S of the early days quite nicely with a twist (the baby twist) and the guiltypleasure box is defiantly ticked by this story.
M and S have a drunken night on a case in s2, and they have sex, S falls pregnant and decides to keep it. M tries to stay out of it as much as possible. S Gets kidnapped and they do a CVS for paternity. M is very protective when S is returned and he moves into her place, falls in love with her, and they stay together. DeepThroat returns to explain the abduction and testing, and M becomes pensive when he ponders what to do. The answer is the sweetest ending you'll ever read.
According to gossamer, this fic was the only thing listed as having been written by her. I find that surprising.
Score card:
Characterisation of canon characters: B
Characterisation of original characters: (this would be the abductors) B
Story line: B+
Smut: A
Overall writing: A
I gave smutt an A because the way she wrote it, suited the story to a T, wasn't overbearing (There's a way -- for example, had me trying hard not to scroll through some sections because it started to get repetitive) - and matched the developments in the story.
I took 7 weeks off prior to starting the midi program in June of 2019. I should have been re-reading fanfic back then! It would have been a largely different experience.
