You're welcome! I was happy to see it had been fixed this morning, so I could read it right after class (the new semester started this week).
Needless to say, I'm delighted that you wrote this fic and tackled this very interesting pairing. I adore unusual pairings. This one was great. In a dark and disturbing and entirely fascinating way.
I love how Seelix and Gaeta try to handle their complicated feelings but fail miserably. They recognize that the other one's experiences serve as a counterpart to their own problems. Yet they are wrong in their assumption that the other one can help them out. If the roles were reversed, I could easily picture Gaeta trying to deal with it the exact same way Seelix did. But it doesn't fit. It just doesn't work out. It's powerful and real in its hopelessness.
There are many details I enjoyed a lot, like that Dee made friends on the Pegasus and that Gaeta talked to a child therapist. It makes sense that Gaeta wouldn't be able to reconnect with his old life even if there are people who try to help him (although it's fun to isolate him from everybody, too).
I'll forever be fascinated by depictions of depression in fic. I don't think I ever mentioned it before but I've suffered from various forms of depression ever since I was a child (I'm fine now, mind). It's quite a fic kink of mine. While Gaeta is nothing like me, and his perception is different from anything I've ever experienced, I enjoyed that aspect of the fic especially. You know, when I had a first look at the fic (when the HTML didn't work), the quotation marks were all gone. I didn't read all of it then, but as a measure of style, this actually accentuated Gaeta's feeling of disconnection. It's much less confusing with the quotation marks in place, though. :)
That said, I really liked the dream sequence with Baltar. It made me rather uncomfortable to read the sex scene, but in a good way. It's a complex situation, the D/S aspect interlaced with a bit of dubcon. It's also a great way to depict the way Gaeta might have experienced his time on New Caprica, and a clever bit of symbolism (or characterization, depending on your definition of symbolism).
Of course, I'm delighted about there being a new challenge entry, in general. If somebody takes care of Gaeta/Jake, Gaeta/Cottle and Gaeta/Figurski, I promise I'll write the rest and we can actually declare Gaeta to have been paired with everybody. :D I tried my hand at Gaeta/Cottle. But it was just too disturbing.
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Needless to say, I'm delighted that you wrote this fic and tackled this very interesting pairing. I adore unusual pairings. This one was great. In a dark and disturbing and entirely fascinating way.
I love how Seelix and Gaeta try to handle their complicated feelings but fail miserably. They recognize that the other one's experiences serve as a counterpart to their own problems. Yet they are wrong in their assumption that the other one can help them out. If the roles were reversed, I could easily picture Gaeta trying to deal with it the exact same way Seelix did. But it doesn't fit. It just doesn't work out. It's powerful and real in its hopelessness.
There are many details I enjoyed a lot, like that Dee made friends on the Pegasus and that Gaeta talked to a child therapist. It makes sense that Gaeta wouldn't be able to reconnect with his old life even if there are people who try to help him (although it's fun to isolate him from everybody, too).
I'll forever be fascinated by depictions of depression in fic. I don't think I ever mentioned it before but I've suffered from various forms of depression ever since I was a child (I'm fine now, mind). It's quite a fic kink of mine. While Gaeta is nothing like me, and his perception is different from anything I've ever experienced, I enjoyed that aspect of the fic especially. You know, when I had a first look at the fic (when the HTML didn't work), the quotation marks were all gone. I didn't read all of it then, but as a measure of style, this actually accentuated Gaeta's feeling of disconnection. It's much less confusing with the quotation marks in place, though. :)
That said, I really liked the dream sequence with Baltar. It made me rather uncomfortable to read the sex scene, but in a good way. It's a complex situation, the D/S aspect interlaced with a bit of dubcon. It's also a great way to depict the way Gaeta might have experienced his time on New Caprica, and a clever bit of symbolism (or characterization, depending on your definition of symbolism).
Of course, I'm delighted about there being a new challenge entry, in general. If somebody takes care of Gaeta/Jake, Gaeta/Cottle and Gaeta/Figurski, I promise I'll write the rest and we can actually declare Gaeta to have been paired with everybody. :D I tried my hand at Gaeta/Cottle. But it was just too disturbing.