I hate it when I can't tell mine and DH's fingers and toes apart....

a kind of perfection achieved only in fairy tales and dime-store novels.

And, apparently, badfic.

From the crepuscule of their final evening to the aurora of their initial morn

Now they're time-travellers too?

So:

Nikita and Michael consummated their love for each other in the most enjoyable of fashions – repeatedly

Quantity over quality, then? That would be in keeping with this writer's MO.

Are dime-store novels really known for romantic perfection, by the way?

(helpless laughter)

Are dime-store novels really known for romantic perfection, by the way?

Compared to the fic writer under discussion? Yes.

Usually they do have The Perfect Sex. Because when you're in love, you always come together.

Dean Koontz wrote a book (I'm blanking on the title) about a town where people had been genetically altered by a Bill Gates type person. The altering made it so people didn't sleep, healed fast, and some devolved into animal type things and others evolved to interact with their computers in wrong wrong ways.

The devolving people ran around, had an orgy, and then melded together into a giant blob that tried to eat everything into the town by luring people to it (the blob) with some kind of mind rays.

Which, except for the town eating, sounds exactly like what the writer described. NikitaNMicheal...Blob o' Doom.

forevah!1!

Because when you're in love, you always come together.

Heh. One of the best NC-17 fics I ever read (from the Ranma 1/2 fandom, of all places) was about a first-time (for both partners) that was hella awkward, more than a little scary, and only marginally pleasant for the female half of the couple. Also, the couple in question wasn't entirely sold on the whole relationship, and having sex just complicated things all over the place. Even so, the tone of the story was light and left little doubt that there'd be some sort of happily-ever-after later on down the line.

Basically, I like the occasional fic where the writer acknowledges that sex isn't always great, and sometimes just barely qualifies as "good." When this happens in a fic that isn't an angst-fest, even better. Also, it sets things up for the really great, toe-curling, mind-blowing sex that happens later.