resonant | New Breakfast Club story: Higher Education

Oh, man, I am so totally going to get fired for blowing off everything to finish reading this at work ... but it will be WORTH IT OMG.

Seriously, this story is so absolutely perfectly right. Eeeee!

::loves::

Mmm. Wonderful. I mean, not that anyone's surprised, but still. Your Bender is so good, I can't do anything else but splutter with glee.

I'm going to delurk just for a moment and say the following:

I loved this story. I can't even really say how much. I've been thinking about it pretty much constantly since I read it about 5 hours ago.

And while I'm at it. I read /all/ your stuff, esp. Due South but I will read anything you write. I love the whole package, the plots, the pacing, the characterization, and the perfect understanding you have of that magic moment when a person is experiencing love expressed through sex for the first time. You get it right every time. And since that is one of life's perfect joys, I read you over and over and over. Thank you very kindly. :)

Fabulous! Once again, one of your stories made me stay up too late so I could finish it. I love your portrayal of Bender and how he pulls his life up outta the crash dive, and how he uses his anger to do the unexpected. That's so cool.

Was sent here by

pun. This is what I said there, roughly: Don't mind me. I (or whatever's still solid of me) will just sit here and vibrate happily for awhile. Thanks for this! Whew!

I am a total stranger, sitting here completely tongue-tied while I try to figure out how to tell you how much I loved (loved!) this story. I have no idea what inspired me to click through just now; perhaps the OMG, Breakfast Club, WTF? factor. I just know that I will never doubt again.

God, I'd forgotten how achingly fucked up Bender was. Thanks for the memories.

Aw. I actually got kind of teary at the ending. What a fun story!

this prOn is da bomb. Someplace in Oak Park eh? I will never be able to look at the hiway exit the same ever after.

helgaleena-slash seal of approval.

I started off trying to remember all the bits in Breakfast Club and who was who - I managed to summon a vague recollection, but in the end it really didn't matter, because this is simply a fabulous story all on its own. In fact, I will be reccing it on my journal, because it's just gorgeous on every level. The characterization of Bender, the journey he goes through, it's pitch-perfect; you're rooting for him from the start, and it's such a rush to see him grow up and open up and finally need someone. Wow. I loved that Brian was a three-dimensional mix of nerdiness and confidence, and that the sex scenes were - as usual with you - completely their own, and when I find out how you do that I'm bottling it and drinking some myself. :) Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful, and I'm off to read it again.

Came over here on

pun's rec, and so very glad I did.

This was wonderful in every aspect, especially emotionally. And the details of suburban Chicago are pitch-perfect, too. I'd throw lines back at you but I'd end up just quoting the entire thing.

This will forever be my post-film canon.

::off to rec in my own LJ::

Well, it made *my* day complete. Yay for obscure fandom week. With your stories, I don't even need to know the fandom in the least (do I even remember The Breakfast Club? Molly Ringwald, right?) and I know I will enjoy it anyway.

Hot sex.

Great blue-collar guy voice. So perfect. So many wonderful details, the cars, the gay bars, the co-workers at the garage.

and did I mention the hot sex?

I loved this so very much.

Wow-this was so much fun. I snuck out of the house to see the Breakfast Club at the midnight movies when it first came out and we quoted this thing for months and months —of course this was yeeeeaaars before my fandom life began but I’m glad it all came full circle with this wonderful, wonderful fic! As always, gifted storytelling!

That? Was good.

Random fangirl here -- I was swinging by looking for new SGA fic and found this. Oh! My! God! I have been a fan of yours since I read The Familiar, lo these many years ago. And recently you blew my socks off with Advantage. But Higher Education... I have no words.

My dh and I were high school students on the North Shore in the 80s (alas, no New Trier -- we were both immured in Catholic schools) and the Hughes Oeuvre was required. This story took me back -- it completely felt like a logical progression of the movie and characters.

And the local color! When my dh and I first got married we had a place off Clark Street. Our favorite restaurant was a Mexican place that billed Tuesday as "glamorosos transvistados" night. And Walker Brothers! I can't believe they didn't have the apple pancakes! My only problem was I kept thinking of North Shore Motors as Green Bay Auto Body and wondering how there could be something across the street (the train is across the street). You know you are involved in a story when you are literally following the characters around in your mind's eye.

I will stop the incessant babbling now. This story seriously made my whole day. Thanks!

Amazing and unexpected story. Reccing left and right.

Fabulous! I didn't intend to read it all at once but it was so absorbing I couldn't tear myself away. You made me love these guys!

This? was incredibly wonderful.

The characterizations are so believable - different from the teenagers we saw in the movie, but in just the right ways. And teh hot.

Thank you.

Wow, that was terrific. I barely remember the movie; in fact, this can be taken as original fic, really, with two characters that are like those we've all gone to high school with. It's so well written. I know I'm going to be rereading this a lot!

Gosh am I glad that

lamardeuse said something along the lines of read it no matter if you know the canon or not because this was a fabulous story and I enjoyed reading it a really lot although I've never seen the movie. Very very nice. And hot!
Thank you so much for writing and sharing this :-) .

This is precisely the kind of story I was thinking of when I commented here.

Even if I didn't know the canon, I would be delighted to read this story.

I do know the canon, so it was even better. What a fabulous extrapolation of their movie relationship!

Holy crap...I hate to wait ALL DAY LONG to read this and man was it worth the wait. So freaking good. The characterzation completely worked in a way that I didn't know was possible.

That was just fantastic.

I love how you wrote John Bender, a little tamer and more mature, but still an ass when he wants to be. Really great.

Holy cow.

1. God, I loved this.
2. Don't You Forget About Me (the Billy Idol version, but still) came on my launchcast while I was reading. My 15 year old self and my 35 year old slash-goggles-y self had a moment of bizarre interaction.
3. Not that I've read a whole hell of a lot of Breakfast Club slash, but this just breaks the mold. Did I mention I really liked it?
4. I love that you were true to Bender--redeeming him without changing him because really there was no need to redeem. I may be saying it badly, but just, I love that you made him a grown-up, for a reason, without changing the character.

I'm so glad I finally got around to reading this, after putting it off for a couple days because of length and all.

I know I'm the umpteenth (or umptwentieth) person to say this, but I loved this story. My first thought was: "Breakfast Club" slash? People write that? This just brought me right back to the days when my friends and I had seen this movie enough to recite all the dialogue. In fact, I *still* remember a lot of it. I still can't see a turkey pot pie without remembering Bender's trip down his family memory lane.

One of the things that I like about the story is how you take small details from the movie (like Brian playing with the pen or Claire giving Bender her earring) and use those to give the characters a sense of continuity.

Bender changes a lot from the beginning to the end, but in a way that feels real and believable and very interesting.

Thanks for the great story.

This is brilliant. Just absolutely brilliant. I haven't read anything I loved this much in a long while.

Can't think of anything more to say, really, but I think that about covers it. ;)

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Pathetic and sad, but social

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