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Reviewer: darkrhiannon Signed star star star star star [Report This]
Date: 06/09/05 - 11:19 pm Title: Destruction

Loving this more with every chapter. The pain between the two of them just grows with their intimacy, rather than diminishing. Truly drawing me in! Can't wait for more. -Rhi

Author's Response: Thank you!

Reviewer: Snegurochka Signed star star star star star [Report This]
Date: 06/09/05 - 01:55 pm Title: Destruction

Beautiful. This chapter is just so shocking and heart-wrenching, but I am so glad you didn't cut it or change it. It is brutal but also bold, in a good, courageous way, and it really lays out the basic themes of the overall story in a stark way, ie: what is emotional need vs. physical need, and are black-and-white labels such as 'dominance' or 'submission' truly enough to represent the range and depth of needs/desires/pain/love that is essential to the human condition?

Well, I don't know if that made sense, but in sum: this is such a rich, complicated story with so many layers, and that is a rare gem indeed in the shallow world of fanfiction. I know this story will stay with me long after I've finished reading, and that is the sign of true triumph for the author. Brava. :) ~Lee

Author's Response: Thank you. I don't know what to say...

Reviewer: emery Signed star star star star star [Report This]
Date: 06/09/05 - 02:23 am Title: Destruction

Good job on these last two chapters, I would have commented on the last one, but I was gone for a couple days. Hmm....Generally the scenes that I attend are intended to be a lot more black/white and shorter termed than some others. What you've portrayed is absolutely possible, but speaking from my own experience, the emotional dynamic is less dramatic than this. Well, at least for me o.0` but that goes way back before I even started this lifestyle. Everyone has their reasons, right? But, I've known other subs, and we all kinda share our experience, and they are generally in it for the longer term, as this story is. From what they've told me, it is, indeed, a game of emotional cat and mouse in the beginning. Torn between being a sub, being a person, and testing out limits.

Author's Response: I think emotional cat and mouse is a good way to describe it. As for extreme, well, that's the way I see Snape being in just about everything. Lot's of intensity, all tightly contained and controlled.

Reviewer: Stasia Signed star star star star star [Report This]
Date: 06/09/05 - 01:40 am Title: Destruction

Ah. I get it now. They're not operating from the same set of premises. This makes ever so much more sense now. Severus is confusing submission with *punishment*; he clearly understands the *setting self aside* part, but he doesn't understand, or has chosen to ignore, the circularity of the power exchange. Remus, poor Remus, thinks that this is about sexual submission and a need for *pain* as part of that submission. I certainly hope he can maintain his unwillingness to give in to Severus' confusion on this; it can be incredibly destructive to the Dominant to go further than s/he is willing. Rape from the bottom, as it were. I'm not sure I'm expressing myself clearly; I think I'll let this chapter sit, then re-read it and send you another note. I'm very much enjoying this. Stasia

Author's Response: I appreciate your insights more than I can say. Yes, I see Snape as raising “passive aggressive” to an art-form, but they are both stubborn men. Snape is also carrying a whole freight train load of baggage, which doesn’t help.

Reviewer: rayvyn2k Signed star star star star star [Report This]
Date: 05/09/05 - 06:17 pm Title: Destruction

Damn, this is so sad. Can I stand to read the rest?

Author's Response: You're asking me to give the ending away?? It will bring closure.

Reviewer: etrangere Signed star star star star star [Report This]
Date: 05/09/05 - 03:36 pm Title: Destruction

Snape is one tough, sneaky bastard *is admirative* Remus is being unusually slow on the uptake on this. Still loving this story ^^

Author's Response: Glad you still like it and thanks for reviewing.

Reviewer: mouseII Signed star star star star half star [Report This]
Date: 05/09/05 - 02:56 pm Title: Destruction

Aww! This is such a sad chapter; I feel great sympathy for both Snape and Lupin. I hope they fix things soon, but of course I have great faith in you as a writer to take this story exactly where it needs to go before you wind things up. You continue to do a brilliant job with this work! I am still enjoying it very much.

Author's Response: Thank you - high praise indeed.

Reviewer: lily girl Signed star star star star star [Report This]
Date: 05/09/05 - 05:47 am Title: Destruction

I'm wondering if that kind of need for pain can be cured. What if that's just Snape's needs and Lupin should respect it? I see that it's not healthy, but you can't help someone who doesn't want to be helped. I actually don't know how it goes in these kind of relationships, but what if Lupin just isn't satifying Snape's needs and never will? Could Snape be turned?

Author's Response: I’m not sure if “cured” is the right word, but I know what you mean. Snape has a need, that at this point, has only been met by pain. They have work to do. Thanks for reviewing.

Reviewer: RebeccaSama Signed star star star star star [Report This]
Date: 05/09/05 - 04:11 am Title: Destruction

Ooooooh lovely! I can't tell you how much I'm enjoying this (and all the angst!). I read the most recent few chapters tonight, and this just keeps getting better. I like how Lupin is trying...and I'm interested in how Snape is handling things. Poor Snape could probly use a little Lupin comfort. I really hope Lupin doesn't give up on him. ;) I really can't wait to see more of this fic.

Author's Response: Thank you for the kind words.

Reviewer: deruebersetzer Signed star star star star star [Report This]
Date: 05/09/05 - 01:53 am Title: Destruction

Oh my, you've really outdone yourself again. Lovely. I can't wait to find out how Remus will save Severus from his pain. Write more soon! :)

Author's Response: And who will save Lupin from his pain? Thanks for the review.

Reviewer: Subversa Signed star star star star star [Report This]
Date: 04/09/05 - 09:22 am Title: The Plan

ARGH! What a place to leave us! More soon, please!

Author's Response: The next chapter is going to the que today. Thanks for reviewing.

Reviewer: Subversa Signed star star star star star [Report This]
Date: 04/09/05 - 09:01 am Title: Breaking

The cane! Dangerous *and* destructive, as noted by our beloved werewolf. He knew Severus wanted the hardcore stuff, knew he did not care to deliver it, yet he started something anyway -- and now he is sending him away. Severus responsed submissively to Lupin's dominance, but it was never a spoken agreement, that their play would move into blood-sport territory. So he pushed and pushed and pushed and got the beating he wanted -- and the end result he did not want. You have me emotionally engaged with this story. Very well done, and quite an accurate portrayal of D/s with a heavy side of BDSM.

Author's Response: Thank you. They skipped a very importatnt step - talking. And now they are both paying the price.

Reviewer: deruebersetzer Signed star star star star star [Report This]
Date: 04/09/05 - 08:31 am Title: The Plan

I love your fic so much that I actually tracked you down all the way here.MWA HA HA*cackles away* ;P But really, I really really admire your style and the plot of this whole thing. It's not just mindless BDSM (not that they're not nice, but...) and the prose is just lovely. And I really loved the dialogue in this chapter; poignant without being corny. I was actually quite touched by what Remus said and could emphatise with Severus. Well done. :)

Author's Response: Glad you found me, and there are a lot of other good stories here as well. Thanks for reviewing.

Reviewer: Stasia Signed star star star star star [Report This]
Date: 03/09/05 - 08:48 pm Title: The Plan

Oh ouch. Has Remus forgot to whom Severus owes his time? That sometimes his time is not his own to grant? Of course, Severus was just challenged to lower his walls in a way, and to a person, against whom he has built up walls of fear, distrust and anger. I can't wait to see more. Stasia

Author's Response: Glad you're enjoying the story - thanks for reviewing.

Reviewer: rayvyn2k Signed star star star star star [Report This]
Date: 03/09/05 - 07:00 pm Title: The Plan

Loved the chess game...literally and the one between the two men. Brilliantly done. And the angry pawn straightening his uniform and shaking his fist made me giggle.

Author's Response: Thank you! Yes, I couldn't see magical chess men appreciating being manhandled.

Reviewer: etrangere Signed star star star star half star [Report This]
Date: 03/09/05 - 08:34 am Title: The Plan

the more I read this the more I think it is the best serious Ds/SM fic I've ever read for this pairing. Your characterizations are amazing, hinted at with a very deft touch. Snape and Lupin's dialogue is very well rendered and entertaining (and it's one of the thing I love the most in the pairing) I found the way you wrote Lupin's attraction to the greek boy in the earlier chapter and to Snape in this one very efficient.

Author's Response: Thank you. *blushes* You are very kind.

Reviewer: Snegurochka Signed star star star star star [Report This]
Date: 03/09/05 - 06:09 am Title: The Plan

If I hadn't wanted to, you couldn't have forced me with a wand at my throat. Ah, I love that line, and all their awkward 'talks' in this segment. Snape's hurt is just so palpable, but so is Lupin's - great job crafting both of them so sympathetically, so that we as readers really cannot say either of them is 'right' or 'wrong.' The situation is so much more complex (and thus more real) than that. The moments between them here, as they try to 'bond' are just so touching. Mmm. Yay. :) ~Lee

Author's Response: Thank you! You keep coming up with something new to say - you're wonderful to me.

Author's Response: Thank you! You keep coming up with something new to say - you're wonderful to me.

Reviewer: lily girl Signed star star star star star [Report This]
Date: 02/09/05 - 03:34 pm Title: The Plan

I love it. And I would love to see some Snape/stranger action. Lupin did it after all. "It better not mean..." Love it!

Author's Response: "It better not mean..." Yes, Lupin can be a bit possessive. Snape/stranger? Hmmm. Thanks for reviewing.

Reviewer: mouseII Signed star star star star star [Report This]
Date: 01/09/05 - 10:49 pm Title: Foundering

I consider it a mark of how powerful this story is that not only am I still pondering over it days after the last time I read it, but that I'm also now convinced that the idea of Snape being a submissive who likes pain makes perfect sense, even though I would never have considered that reasonable before I read your story.

It makes sense that Snape would be a submissive, because having perfect control over himself is what he does best - he wouldn't be the formidable Occlumens that he is if he weren't able to go blank the way he seems to when he's in submissive mode.

And the masochism he displays makes perfect sense also, because it was completely believable when - after being subjected to such acute pain - he clutched at Remus convulsively, and let Remus essentially cuddle him until he calmed down. I can't picture Snape realistically acting that way in any other circumstances. He is such a supremely inward-wound man that it seems entirely plausible to me that being subjected to extreme pain might be the only thing that can make Snape reach out for, and accept, comfort anymore. He may have trained himself so well to be utterly self-controlled that he can no longer make himself be vulnerable around anyone else unless it is forced upon him that brutally.

And Remus is a dishy Dom, too. Good work making me believe that also. :D

Anyhow, I just had to stop by and tell you again how great this story is. I can't wait to read the rest of it!

Author's Response: Thank you for the very great compliment, and the insightful comments as well. Snape being a submissive just makes so much sense to me. The need to be in total control all the time, just to stay alive, must be very draining. When he submits to someone, he gets to give up all responsibility for a while and just be free.

Author's Response: Thank you for the very great compliment, and the insightful comments as well. Snape being a submissive just makes so much sense to me. The need to be in total control all the time, just to stay alive, must be very draining. When he submits to someone, he gets to give up all responsibility for a while and just be free.

Reviewer: rayvyn2k Signed star star star star star [Report This]
Date: 31/08/05 - 09:35 pm Title: Foundering

Oh, you are so bad...and this is so good. More! More!

Author's Response: lol - thanks!

Reviewer: Stasia Signed star star star star star [Report This]
Date: 31/08/05 - 04:27 pm Title: Foundering

Ahhhh. Now they're beginning to approach each other on a level playing field, the thing they should have done at the beginning of the relationship. (Not that Severus would have *allowed* Remus to approach him that way without having submitted first; an interesting, and impossible to break, conundrum.) I loved the interaction between Remus and the Boy, and I *loved* that Severus was reminded that Remus is desireable to others; that he, Severus, must remember to look past the comfortable facade of ex-Marauder that he forces on Remus. I can't wait for the next chapter. Stasia

Author's Response: Thank you for your insightful comments. I just hope this doesn't all fall flat...

Reviewer: Snegurochka Signed star star star star star [Report This]
Date: 31/08/05 - 10:18 am Title: Foundering

Ahhhh, I *adore* that Greek boy! Despite my love for your two male leads, I admit to madly shipping Lupin/Boy. Apologies. Kudos to you for creating such a sexy OC in such a short amount of time. Mmm. What? Oh, right, the rest of it. Beautiful, as expected. They can't quite let go of each other, but they don't know what to do about it. It's perfect. :) ~Lee

Author's Response: Mmm, yes. "I want you, but I want you to be different."

Reviewer: lily girl Signed star star star star star [Report This]
Date: 31/08/05 - 07:15 am Title: Foundering

Oh, Snape! I'm missing his POV. I would so like to know what's happening in his head. This is brilliant!

Author's Response: Thank you. It was difficult to stay out of Snape's head - to try and show what was going on without explaining it all - not that I could begin to explain what goes on in that head!

Reviewer: emery Signed star star star star star [Report This]
Date: 31/08/05 - 03:18 am Title: Foundering

Snape is so sweet, I'm glad he didn't give up after seeing what Remus had done in Crete. I'm sure he felt betrayed on a few levels, but he's reaching out in his own fashion, and that's the important thing. :) (or i've got it all wrong and the psychology is a lot more muddled up than i think lol, either way)

Author's Response: You're not wrong - lol! Snape is a man with a lot of baggage...

Reviewer: mouseII Signed star star star star half star [Report This]
Date: 31/08/05 - 12:30 am Title: Foundering

I love this story! Of course, I'm a terrible Snupin addict now, but all the same, this is well written, emotionally engaging, and a very interesting study of how these two men interact with one another. Great work!

Author's Response: Thank you very much!

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