This fic is a good fic. It's like--going to read a shameless guilty pleasure, and then being hah! because there is no shame, just excellence. I just want everyone to get together into mass pairings and live happily ever after~
And it really worked beautifully because you managed all the character dynamics well--all of the fun subtext and interactions, and everybody got a chance to flirt with everyone else, and even though you had two Spains and two South Italies you emphasized different aspects with each character so they were all unique. A kind of comfortable-in-his-established-relationship, nice-and-more-confident-and-playful-with-women, still-shy-and-awful-at-admitting-he-likes-anyone Romano, a defensive-and-annoyed-and-still-overreacting and always-with-an-excuse very-much-in-denial Lovina, a cheerful-and-affectionate-and-playful-and-optimistic-and-clueless what-is-this-personal-space-thing Antonia, an easily-distracted and carefree-and-ridiculous and how-do-they-even-let-you-out-of-the-house Antonio. All of the good stuff!
And seconding someone else's comment--if you ever end up writing any more scenes from this universe, I will be so excited to see them.
also the foot massage was just wonderful, I love scenes like that, they are such a pleasure to read and you did not disappoint.
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Date: 2012-01-16 01:10 am (UTC)And it really worked beautifully because you managed all the character dynamics well--all of the fun subtext and interactions, and everybody got a chance to flirt with everyone else, and even though you had two Spains and two South Italies you emphasized different aspects with each character so they were all unique. A kind of comfortable-in-his-established-relationship, nice-and-more-confident-and-playful-with-women, still-shy-and-awful-at-admitting-he-likes-anyone Romano, a defensive-and-annoyed-and-still-overreacting and always-with-an-excuse very-much-in-denial Lovina, a cheerful-and-affectionate-and-playful-and-optimistic-and-clueless what-is-this-personal-space-thing Antonia, an easily-distracted and carefree-and-ridiculous and how-do-they-even-let-you-out-of-the-house Antonio. All of the good stuff!
And seconding someone else's comment--if you ever end up writing any more scenes from this universe, I will be so excited to see them.
also the foot massage was just wonderful, I love scenes like that, they are such a pleasure to read and you did not disappoint.