OKAY SO I CAN FINALLY REVIEW THIS and first of all, thank you so much for this amazing fill! I love Phichit to pieces but I have zero romantic YOI ships so I rarely prompt YOI just because "Phichit & friends" seems super vague AND YET you have delivered exactly what I want: Phichit and his friends being happy together!
I love your characterization of Otabek here, his fear that shrugging Phichit off might damage their forming friendship, the way he reacts to Phichit so casually saying that they're friends. The way that Phichit is the social media who HELPS his friends is so on point for how I see him and I grinned so much at him editing on the fly.
The details about Otabek's life in Kazakhstan, esp the translations to Russian being the ones he grew up watching, are fantastic and really show how much work you put into research. It's really immersive and Otabek is just so solidly fleshed out here!
The ear hats bit made me laugh. I've been to Disney World when I was a little kid, like maybe even 20 years ago, so it was fun reading about what it's like now. I could feel Phichit's joy and it was lovely to experience that magic again through his and Otabek's trip.
Michele looking around when people say Micky and Otabek getting flustered over being told he looks like Prince Charming were such CUTE moments too! The pacing in this fic is fab, honestly, you keep the reader interested and interpose detail with vista well enough that the reader doesn't get bogged down in minutiae but still feels like they're actually there. It's a difficult balance to strike and you managed it perfectly.
Also the cotton candy idea is BRILLIANT, wow, I would love to have cotton candy like that! What a great note to end the fic on. Very sweet, if you'll pardon the pun. XD
Thank you so much for this great fill! It was a joy to read and I'm delighted by it on every level.
Re: FILL: Team Grandstand, G
I love your characterization of Otabek here, his fear that shrugging Phichit off might damage their forming friendship, the way he reacts to Phichit so casually saying that they're friends. The way that Phichit is the social media who HELPS his friends is so on point for how I see him and I grinned so much at him editing on the fly.
The details about Otabek's life in Kazakhstan, esp the translations to Russian being the ones he grew up watching, are fantastic and really show how much work you put into research. It's really immersive and Otabek is just so solidly fleshed out here!
The ear hats bit made me laugh. I've been to Disney World when I was a little kid, like maybe even 20 years ago, so it was fun reading about what it's like now. I could feel Phichit's joy and it was lovely to experience that magic again through his and Otabek's trip.
Michele looking around when people say Micky and Otabek getting flustered over being told he looks like Prince Charming were such CUTE moments too! The pacing in this fic is fab, honestly, you keep the reader interested and interpose detail with vista well enough that the reader doesn't get bogged down in minutiae but still feels like they're actually there. It's a difficult balance to strike and you managed it perfectly.
Also the cotton candy idea is BRILLIANT, wow, I would love to have cotton candy like that! What a great note to end the fic on. Very sweet, if you'll pardon the pun. XD
Thank you so much for this great fill! It was a joy to read and I'm delighted by it on every level.