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Ramblings from a Dark Canuck
Apr. 18th, 2025 10:07 amI’m trying to decide where to put this ramble. I thought it might go well here. I posted two personal comments on a fic on A03, ‘Chicago Tales’ by Rattlecatcher, and thought I might share as it gives some personal context to my own writing.
My comment on the first chapter that had a scene placed in 1998, with Ray and Fraser having a homophobic encounter with someone Ray went to school with:
“My heart aches reading the end of this chapter. I know this shaking fear and anger. I remember it from back then. When you find the right person, the right love, you become bolder, and bolder with more acceptance, and you just breathe, but then you get your hand slapped like this. Then you’re like, oh yeah, some people hate us. Right. That’s a thing. It’s still a thing.”
The second chapter, Ray came out to his parents and it didn’t go well:
“My wife is my own sweet Ray; ADHD (I was the one who uncovered that), her mother Polish Catholic. I was her Fraser and could only stand on the sidelines as she came out to them, and the pain that ensued for her. That was a difficult time. She was so brave. But they didn’t ostracize her. I was patient. Slowly they got to know me, and with time they accepted me into the family; but her sister didn’t attend our wedding, but that’s another story. This chapter brought me back to that time, but I got my happy ending.<3“
My comment on the first chapter that had a scene placed in 1998, with Ray and Fraser having a homophobic encounter with someone Ray went to school with:
“My heart aches reading the end of this chapter. I know this shaking fear and anger. I remember it from back then. When you find the right person, the right love, you become bolder, and bolder with more acceptance, and you just breathe, but then you get your hand slapped like this. Then you’re like, oh yeah, some people hate us. Right. That’s a thing. It’s still a thing.”
The second chapter, Ray came out to his parents and it didn’t go well:
“My wife is my own sweet Ray; ADHD (I was the one who uncovered that), her mother Polish Catholic. I was her Fraser and could only stand on the sidelines as she came out to them, and the pain that ensued for her. That was a difficult time. She was so brave. But they didn’t ostracize her. I was patient. Slowly they got to know me, and with time they accepted me into the family; but her sister didn’t attend our wedding, but that’s another story. This chapter brought me back to that time, but I got my happy ending.<3“
