[identity profile] nixwilliams.livejournal.com 2007-02-14 09:40 am (UTC)(link)
oh, MAN! this is incredible. i love the outsider perspective on john and the boys, and the way you've caught the un-sayable longing between john and viv. the way we know some of the things john wants to share with viv, and the fact that he realises he can't, that he lives in a different world, now.

at the same time, it's kind of nice to read you writing slash that has, i don't know, a slightly less taboo pairing than, say, john/dean. NOT THAT I'M COMPLAINING ABOUT JOHN/DEAN AT ALL.

anyway, WOW! AWESOMEPANTS!

i have no john icons. what a loser!

[identity profile] missyjack.livejournal.com 2007-02-14 10:01 am (UTC)(link)
Oh John.

I like this. Old mates. A bond. The sex is so blokey, so matter of fact - as it would be if John. But he has such pain. Great story.

[identity profile] reynard-pyjama.livejournal.com 2007-02-14 10:34 am (UTC)(link)
I love the smells and textures and visceral sensations. The whole palpable roadhouse-diner-sunset-carinthedarkscenario is very evocative for me. And the manly manness of them. There's lots of little specific bits that gave me delight. Thank you :)

I don't have John icon either :/

[identity profile] sharpest_rose.livejournal.com 2007-02-14 10:46 am (UTC)(link)
I love the way that your John's so internal that, unless it's a story from his perspective, we get almost nothing of him in your fics except through the ways those around him respond to him. So here we've got Dean's tiny scowly protectiveness, and Sam's adorable baby demands, and all the things Viv thinks and feels about the John then and the John now. And so even if we never 'meet' John completely, we know that these people love him, and so we begin to understand all of them at once.

I love the way you've built Viv's version of the world here, too; not quite the same America as Sam and Dean will come to know, but one their father's been a part of.

John! Man! Brain breaking now!

[identity profile] lilacsigil.livejournal.com 2007-02-14 10:49 am (UTC)(link)
What I liked best about this was that John had something for himself, if only for a moment - a friend. I really liked the equating of their post-coital rush of endorphins with the feelings after surviving violence - especially as much of their previous contact must have been a mixing of the two.

And the Winchesters are terribly blokey (though Sam occasionally breaks free) - just not so much around each other. Even baby!Dean is tough and defensive when an outsider shows up.

[identity profile] missyjack.livejournal.com 2007-02-14 11:17 am (UTC)(link)
Oh Sam and Dean are just metrosexual sensitive new age guys. They both have a skin care regime, Dean gets his nails buffed and Sam does pilates. I suspect Dean reads Stepahnie Dowrick and Sam watches Dr Phil.

John - now he's a bloke you can blow and have a beer with.

[identity profile] missyjack.livejournal.com 2007-02-14 11:17 am (UTC)(link)
Oh Sam and Dean are just metrosexual sensitive new age guys. They both have a skin care regime, Dean gets his nails buffed and Sam does pilates. I suspect Dean reads Stepahnie Dowrick and Sam watches Dr Phil.

John - now he's a bloke you can blow and have a beer with.

[identity profile] nixwilliams.livejournal.com 2007-02-14 11:20 am (UTC)(link)
oh, yes, those days OF INNOCENCE. before i was CORRUPTED BY AN EEEEVIL POWER!

yeah, i don't even have a JDM icon saying "no i ain't possesed", because nobody's made it for me yet. BECAUSE ALL MY FRIENDS HATE ME.
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[identity profile] phantomas.livejournal.com 2007-02-14 11:49 pm (UTC)(link)
This is..uhm. YES. What Mary said *flails around*

I love especially that sense of discovery, of 'new' and unknown that Viv has watching John looking after Dean and Sam, trying to reconcile the young Marine he knew with the father he sees in front of him, and finding him, finding each other again.

thanks! will link at papawinchester tomorrow because it's past midnight and I'm knackered (unless you beat me to it).

*flails around some more*
*trips on her feet and falls on her bum*

[identity profile] mona1347.livejournal.com 2007-02-15 04:42 pm (UTC)(link)
OH DUDE. DUDE.

This is JOHN!SLASH. You've murdered me. Murdered me dead. Right here at my desk. Oh god.

[identity profile] barkley.livejournal.com 2007-02-21 03:29 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, I love this look at John's life from Viv's POV. And I love how John finally just breaks down and tells Viv that everything's not OK..

[identity profile] jeddy83.livejournal.com 2007-02-27 11:22 am (UTC)(link)
Wow, this is fabulous. There really ought to be more John love in this world. And the external POV rocks.

[identity profile] listentorabbits.livejournal.com 2007-03-08 10:46 pm (UTC)(link)
I loved this!
I love the Nam'verse and this was just... so cool that you borrowed that character. Makes it more alive and real. (fanfiction on fanfiction, brilliant)

This story that made me start to write my “Pre-series Snapshots (http://laugiana-fanfic.livejournal.com/tag/pre-series+snapshots)”, because I just love the way John and the boys were portrayed.

Thank you for the inspiration!

/Emilia