Bwa ha ha double post!

[cynchick]

Also stolen from everyone.

Pick a paragraph (or any passage less than 500 words) from any fanfic I've written, and comment to this post with that selection. I will then give you a DVD commentary on that snippet: what I was thinking when I wrote it, why I wrote it in the first place, what's going on in the character's heads, why I chose certain words, what this moment means in the context of the rest of the fic, lots of awful puns, and anything else that you'd expect to find on a DVD commentary track.

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[cynchick.livejournal.com]

That is one of my absolute favorite moments too. When I began Perception I had already read several ItaSaku fics and saw the (awful) trend of the love triangle with Deidara or Sasuke or whoever, and I firmly decided I was NOT going to do that. And I didn't, really. There was never any overt jealousy or pissing contests between Itachi/Deidara/Kakashi, and Sakura was never torn between any of them. When I plotted the outline for this story, I knew I wanted KakaSaku subtext and an eventual KakaSaku resolution, but I always intended for Deidara and Sakura to just become really close friends.

And then the characters came to life during the process. Deidara and Sakura decided it for me, seriously. They developed this amazing chemistry all on their own. It was so natural and effortless in the writing - it couldn't NOT be that way for them. (All of my DeiSaku fics were extremely easy for me to write because they just. fit.)

So by the time I reached this point in the story, 3 away from the end, I had become a DeiSaku shipper, they occupied my thoughts more often than what I was supposed to be writing, and yeah, the idea for Silver Lining was already pretty firmly rooted in my head.

However, I still made a conscious effort to not go there in THIS fic. They had their moment, but remained platonic to the end and I didn't give any "they shall meet again" sort of hints because that would have diminished the KakaSaku aspect which I felt was just as important.