Ah, funny stuff.  Don't know why it only has 2 reviews.  And I'm sure that Stanley would like being in charge - or not.

10

Fics like this make me cry - not at the sad parts but at the happy ones.

Alright, the part with the hussy reference and the licking chocolate walls was just too funny.

Well this is dark.  I really want to see you pick this up, even though it is a little outdated by now.

As someone who's only started following the show in the third season I've actually never seen Katy, but this had me giggling all the way through.

9

I read this at ff.net and I can't remember if I commented there, so I'll comment here (possibly again).  While I tend to lose interest once things depart sufficiently from canon(-able) this fic was just captivating in so many ways all the way through.

10

Well that explains everything.  I really mean everything.  Wrapped up nicely in a bow.

9

Even though it's fine for the story, I'm afraid I'm going to have to be pedantic and point out that, while glass is a supercooled liquid (in that it has no crystal structure) and its deformation mechanism is viscous flow, the rate of flow is so small under standard temperature and pressure that the change in thickness is not what the common myth states.

The reason why old glass windows are thicker at the bottom can be attributed to the manufacturing process of the times, which involved a big dollop of molten glass onto a flat surface, and it didn't quite get entirely flat by the time it cooled.  The glass was cut into squares, and they'd usually put the thicker side at the bottom because it placed less stress on the piece that way.  You will occasionally see an old piece of original glass with the thick end at the top.

Glass sculptures many thousands of years old have been found in Egyptian tombs essentially unchanged.  The recipe for glass hasn't changed so much that the medieval glass flows so much in only a few hundred years.

The rate of flow is more along the lines of an angstrom per thousand years under self-weight and room temperature, at least according to the calculations I've seen.

As you see, this is a big problem for people like me who are engineers (in my case, mechanics of materials).  We can't just enjoy good writing, we have to be all nitpicky about it because we can't just turn our brains off (dammit).

Ummm... sorry for the rant.

9

See, alcohol has its uses.  Other than helping white guys dance, that is.

Author's Response: LOL...and sometimes it doesn't even help with that! Thanks for reading! ;-)

10

Uh oh.  Jan's on the prowl...

Author's Response: Heh - yup :)

9

Yeah, that was a good one.  Ryan is so whipped but can't admit it.

10

You somehow have managed to make this fic all things all at once, running the gamut through humour, ensemble characters, smut, and angst in so very few words.  Kudos.