#the dialogue is just. top tier yum yum

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yuna!! I hope you’re having a lovely night and that you have sweet dreams and a good breakfast when you wake up<3 kiss kiss

val!!! >u< it's actually morning where i'm at, but i'm keeping your well-wishes for tomorrow... putting them in my lil star-shaped pochette, actually <3 love you and i hope you dream sweetly of your faves!

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Hi I’m back to Infodump about Solkat Fanfictions

This time, we’re covering my next favorite. I Fall Forward, You Fall Flat by roachpatrol

Ahhhhh okay I’m so excited. I’ve read this fic enough times to basically just pull it up in my brain and remember what happens like a movie where ever i go, im not even joking.

This is TOP TIER pitch solkat, rivaled only but their work they did with Layla in Imperial Pop star, but that’s for another post because ahhhohmygod.

I digress, this fic is so unbelievably good at writing their dynamic. The broken up story telling gets me tingly and excited, and the flashbacks so wonderfully compliment the modern story and what’s happening in the present.

Before I go on, i gotta mention that it is rated M for a partial sex scene in the last portion and a partial jerk off scene near the start. It also says the R-slur twice which really isn’t cute and is the only thing keeping this from absolute perfection.

That being said, I’ve never seen a fic that so beautifully and poetically illustrates kismesistude and all it’s glory. Spoiler alert, i really fucking like pitch romances a lot. I love how passionate it is, and how mean, downright spiteful it is. And this fic really GETS that, it really gets how beautiful this type of romance can really be in a way that i’ve never seen before. Poetry really hits it right on the head. The way Sollux’s inner monologue describes it makes it feel really on the same level of matespriteship that we don’t see in the fandom nearly enough. It’s like this deep indulgence to read it and just OH i need screenshots hold on

THis shit this shit this shit this SHIT. Get’s me GOING, how elegant, how beautiful, how mystical, OH.

This is another fic that does really really well to put you in the narrators shoes. I feel so hard how much Sollux pines for him. I feel the heavy, pendulum-like swinging of hopelessness, And I feel the excitement of the confrontation on the beach and hmmmmmm.....i dunno if i’ll spoil that for you, you should probably read it yourself.

But you feel the tingles of jealousy and awkwardness, each bump of tension between them as they interact in person versus the smooth fight-flirting in texts in the flashbacks.

You can feel it in this screenshot, you can feel the slip up, and sometimes, i even get secondhand embarrassment so much, i blush. This scene, and others like it, are THAT powerful.

Also, not just the scenes with Karkat and Sollux are good. This fic writes both of their respective moirails in this BEAUTIFULLY. I don’t even LIKE gamkat, but this makes it so appealing. The way they interact, with extremely little dialogue, is just so comforting.

And the Arasol in this is so nakedly obvious to be two moirails who probably don’t remember a time without one another. And this has one of the best Aradia’s written in it that I’ve ever seen, she has a personality besides “adventure” and “big smile.” She’s pushy, and needling, and meddling, and tough-loving! She knows what Sollux’s needs and tells him straight up, and that’s what’s great about her! And you get that in one simple chatlog flashback and the like...two mentions of her in casual thought from Sollux, it’s great, i love it. The simple love between them.

My favorite scenes are the Arasol chatlog, and the video flashback for uh. Artistic reasons, if you’ll believe me. It feels like this writer really goes poetic and smooth flowing when they get horny, yeah? 

I really really really love just how attracted to Karkat this fic makes Sollux out to be. Like Karkat is just insanely badass, strong and sexy and i find it fascinating and hilarious. I’ve never thought of Karkat as so “dangerous” before i read this. This is the first fic to make him seem a fucker you don’t wanna mess with, and I love it. All other interpretations of Karkat have been bumbling, incompetent and way out of Sollux’s league. Sollux has always been the unstoppable badass with no fucks to give and nothing to lose, high level psionic with a temper issue and a death wish, why would anyone challenge him?

But in this, Sollux is so spadestruck he doesn’t know what to do with himself. And i’m not just saying that

He views himself as being so unworthy of karkat’s hate, it’s so him, and so intact with his Sollux Melodrama. Just to give a few examples of how devastatingly horny Sollux is in this fic...

Like!! What! I love it, I love it SO MUUUCH. Sollux has never been characterized better in my opinion, I’ve never seen him just so distraught over how hot he thinks Karkat is.

Im sorry, this is more screenshots than usual, I just cannot gush enough about this fic.

Also like.....the world building in this? The weird and beautiful pieces of yum yum details that this fic adds so casually? I can’t even describe how many things I just do not understand in this fic, so many little things I just cannot comprehend because it’s an alien world with alien rules that I am not apart of. Also some of the descriptions just...do not get through in my head, i don’t understand.

like i just straight up do not know what this means. It’s so *chefs kiss* in it’s way of drip dropping little nuggets of info and then just leaving them on the floor with barely a context clue to help. That above screenshot is BARELY taken out of context.

Anyway, I think that’s all the info i have to dump, but if I get anymore details  I wanna thoroughly gush about, I’ll let ya’ll know.

If this sounds like your cup of tea, please please PLEASE read this fic, it’s so fucking good.

Im gonna go reread this in it's entirety now