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I've posted Blue. Here it is.

- Only to 852 at the moment (and yes, it's riddled with the inevitable glitches, why can't I ever get it right? Why?!) but soon to ASR3, I hope and also a new website (coming soon).

I started writing Blue 2 years ago when 20 people contributed $10 to watch this monster get written on a private LJ com, with another 5 getting their updates by email.

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ponders_life on LJ. Also Mariojoe, Terry O'Donnell, Gloria Ainsworth, Cynthia and the lovely Gerri - who have all been so generous with their comment and suggestions and have greatly added to the story and I thank them all.

Special thanks to the magnificent

runriggers for one of the most rapid betas I've ever had, ever!

If you're planning to read it, be warned it's 126,000 words long and it's angsty. You would expect it to be, I suppose, angst is my MO, but Blue is mega-angst of galactic proportions. I didn't intend it to be quite so very packed with pain, it was sort of an accident. Sorry.

It's slash but in its very mildest forms. There's nothing much there, really, that would mither even the terribly sensitive.

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Ah... ::waves a hand:: Shakespeare did it all the time. *G* Nah, Brian - Brian's a good guy but he's a little too concerned with his bust and (possibly) the career boost to worry too much about Blair.

I'm enjoying your commentary enormously, making me giggle out loud with glee because you have such great insight - mostly spot on to what I was going for but also stuff I kinda knew, you know, that stuff that's there in the back of your mind when you're writing (or when I'm writing anyway) but that doesn't necessarily come out in the story that you're seeing anyway, which is thoroughly splendid of you. :o)

I have to admit, I haven;t been back and re-read it for some time. I'd tightened it as much as I could in the writing process (this was done as a WIP over 2 years as I'm sure you know) and before the beta, then it was being beta'd quite a while and I've almost forgotten a lot of the early stuff. It seems so very long ago.

Simon, Julie, Peace, McKinnon, Demidenko and co. So many loose ends, there just wasn;t time. Saving it all for the sequel (lol).

OK, on with the second bit...

Oh, Simon. He really invested a lot into getting Blair his spot in Major Crimes and really was disappointed that Blair was so lukewarm when he saw him at the Academy. Poor Blair, everybody,Daryl, Jim and Simon, was so busy projecting their vision of how Blair would be as a cop, that they refused to see what was really happening, or having any empathy for Blair's real situation.

Oboy, a sequel? You really do have a lot left to work with, with the door just opening for Jim and Blair.

And Naomi has finally grown up, hasn't she? Putting Blair's needs before her own, which when she was such a young mother, I have the sneaking suspicion she didn't always do when Blair was a kid.

Glad you enjoyed the commentary. I enjoy doing it this way but I don't always have the time.

Laurie

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