GeorgeGlass

Glad you liked the story. I'm not planning a sequel to this one, but I am writing another Star vs. story you might like: "Star's Crossed Lovers." Um, probably just with his fingers. Thanks for commenting!

Glad you're liking the story. As for Janna, her romantic future has yet to be written--literally. Thanks! I've been making a conscious effort to keep the pacing semi-realistic--but not dull--in terms of how quickly the plot (and especially the 5-step plan) moves forward. Yeah, it's gonna get a little- well, you know the theme song. Thanks! I loved writing that scene. I originally wanted to make it three rhyming words that dealt with the three main scenes in the chapter (this was before I decided to add the park scene at the end), and I came up with “Dreams, _______, and Evil Schemes.” But for the life of me, I could not think of a rhyming word to put in the middle that had anything to do with sparring or bouncy armor, so I had to try something else. In any case, thanks for reading and reviewing!

*Note: The text editor is telling me that I'm using too much quoted text, so I'm putting the quoted text in red instead of quote blocks. Disclaimer: I'm the proofreader, so all typos and such are my fault. For starters, I like the little recap of Marco's and Star's love-live situations, both to ease into the discussion and also provide enough background for those who aren't as familiar with the series. The series doesn't make it entirely clear where Star and Marco stand with their respective crushes; we don't know, for example, how Marco's conversation with Jackie on the bus went at the end of “Interdimensional Field Trip.” So I wanted to give a clear indication of where Square One is at the beginning of the story. It strikes me a little that many teenagers fret almost non-stop over how to appeal those of the other sex, yet at the same time they could pretty much write a book on what they've picked up about various types of people among their own gender. If they just used some of that observational power… Yet on the other hand, there's still a hint of the blind leading the blind as both have their confidence shaken here and there Part of the reason why I liked this story idea enough to actually write it up was the obvious advantage of having an opposite-sex best friend to give you romantic advice. But nobody is omniscient about what others of their own sex want, so yeah. However it's awesome how they both keep perking each-other up. Morale is critical to the success of Operation Wingman. So it seems to be working, and I won't complain. Setting up the plan and negotiating the number of parts was perfectly in-character and rather adorable on both kids' parts. It ran rather smoothly, thanks to the small number of entries; the last item though is great for proving that this is going to be one hell of a sexy story. Thank goodness Mewni is a bit more liberal about sex. Star's being from another dimension, whose culture and mores we don't fully know, provides a lot of helpful latitude. Also, Star's line “If you need to measure it, it’s not awesome.” still cracks me up. Talk about your soft endpoints. Then the restless night and all that deliciously sexy talk was fantastic, and it's cute that Star is not above teasing Marco a little bit as she gets him all flustered. That bit was inspired by the moment in “Freeze Day” when Star briefly pretends to be frozen just to mess with Marco. The goings-on of chapter two played out well with each accomplishing their first checklist items so well. Marco was terrific for calming Star down after she jumped ahead on the list – especially being The List Guy, but it's clear that he cares more for Star's happiness than anything else. Perhaps even getting with Jackie Lynn, if it came to that; at the same time, I wonder if Star would also care more about her best friend succeeding. This could make for some interesting complications; Hmm, perhaps. Janna too seems like she'll be sticking her face into their business and raising havoc. Niiiiice. Every game needs a wild card. The subtlety of "that face" was pretty cool, though it was good you pointed it out for people like me. And people like Marco, who might not catch such things on his own. (I was about 18 when I realized that the girl with whom I had had a summer-school romance 2 years earlier had subtly offered to let me see her naked, and that I had been completely oblivious to her innuendo at the time.) Also, giving us the pronunciation of Rogelio was clever and just a really nice thing to do. Well, the spelling isn't exactly phonetic for us speakers of inglés, so I figured it couldn't hurt. Finally though, another night with Marco and Star together in her room turned out rather nicely. She's such a carefree yet considerate young woman. I'm glad that for all of Marco's fretting he was able to fall asleep without ruminating on the situation too much. Part of the point there was to show how relaxed Marco and Star are around each other. It was a bit of self-indulgence on my part; I love that aspect of their relationship, so I wanted to highlight it for the reader. Let's just hope the puppies don't start crawling around inside his pajama bottoms. (Or maybe that's just what Star will claim happened… okay, maybe not in this story. ) Is there a tag for pseudo-bestiality? So thanks for all the fun, and I'm really looking forward to seeing how this adventure goes. Thanks for sharing. Thanks for betaing and reviewing!

Glad you liked it. If there ever were a sequel to this story, it would involve Cheetara's arrival on Groth's homeworld and her life in his household, where she would effectively be his slave (sexual and otherwise). It might still happen; I just have so many other stories in the works as it is that I tend to be very selective about which new ones I start (usually ones for which I have a clear idea of how the plot would go, from beginning to end, which I don't yet have for this putative sequel). In any case, thanks for reading and commenting!

I was thinking that I liked your idea better than the premise of the Percy Jackson books, but I didn't say so because I'm trying to cut back on my snark.

Egads. Thank God (or Dow Corning, or whoever) for safety glass.

I consider this story finished, but I left the door open for a possible sequel. This hasn't happened, but I don't rule out the possibility that there will be one someday.

Thanks! I hope you'll like this story just as much.

Always my top priority. Thanks! Right--I didn't want to get into anything heavy early on, but I definitely wanted a little "action" in the first chapter, and the fantasy-sharing came to mind as a good way to do that. Thanks for reviewing!

Thanks again for that--as you can see, your suggestion was very helpful to me. The parents'-sex-life thing grew out of a comment that Fairy Slayer (who is kindly beta-ing this story for me) made about Star seeming oddly comfortable talking about sex in the initial draft. I agreed, and decided to make it a little more uncomfortable for her. This is the chief aspect of the show that makes me want to write fanfic about it. I love the relationship between Star and Marco and how easy they are around each other, as though they've been friends all their lives. Thank you, and thanks for the review!

Loving the new mechanism for uploading stories. Everything is user-friendly, and I don't have to go back and fix the title of chapter 1 immediately after uploading. Thank you!

That sounds pretty interesting to me. I'm curious to know who her foe(s) would be.

I really appreciate your doing this, given how many reader comments were lost when WWOEC ate the big one. Well, if it weren't for Star, Marco wouldn't have turned into a monster in the first place, so getting it on with him was the best way she knew to get him back to normal and, thus, make things right--like Star always tries to do. And thanks again for reposting your review! (Where, one hopes, it shall remain for all time. )

Thanks! Part of that comes from the fact that I only write fanfics about shows whose characters I feel I really have a good grasp of--usually because I've seen each episode at least a couple of times. So I suppose you could say that I really study the characters. Thanks again! Yes, SVTFOE is definitely an under-written-about fandom at this point. You'll be happy (hopefully) to know that I've got another Star story in the works--this one a multi-chapter thing with lots of sex and fighting and friendship. I sent a reply to your email a few days ago, but I haven't had a chance to reply to your review until now. And thank you for the reviews!

The telephone interludes were a bit of an experiment. I actually wrote Jeremy's first, then decided that I wanted to write one for each of the other main characters, too. As for the humor, I don't feel that a P&F story can go without it and still be true to the source material. Actually, I imagined that the mom thought the teens were "holy rollers"--evangelical Christians who go into a frenzy and roll on the floor when they are filled with the Holy Spirit. But the Islamist idea works, too. That was a last-minute idea. I went with it because (a) I thought it would be funny and (b) it keeps Linda from looking like a complete moron. I really wanted the triangle to have three solid sides. Candace/Jeremy is a given, so I had to build up the other two relationships to bring them somewhere close to that level. Yeah, I felt that if Candace had a big win somewhere in her life, her need to bust her brothers would become less urgent. And like always, thanks for the review!

Glad you liked it! It definitely was short, chiefly because I only had a couple of days in which to bang it out if it was going to be posted before Halloween. But I liked the idea enough that I thought it was worth doing. It was fun writing Isabella in this one and thinking about what she would be like if her normally demure personality (demure around Phineas, anyway) was mixed with the primal urges of a werewolf. Thanks! I'm very big on plausibility. Although I'm starting to think that I'm relying on Inators a little too much to move plots forward. Not everything can be Dr. Doofenshmirtz's fault. Thanks for reading and reviewing!

The Phineas/Candace dynamic is, well, more dynamic than that of Ferb/Linda, mainly because Phineas and especially Candace have a lot of emotions to deal with and inhibitions to overcome. I felt like I should lead with that, because Linda and Ferb have a very different set of issues. Ah, I see that you, Doktor Freud, and I are all on the same page, here. Ah, but everyone enjoys a little role-reversal now and then... Exactly. Being a teenager and utterly neurotic, Candace has a lot of powerful emotions to deal with. Being preadolescent, Phineas is a bit more in control of himself, but he's also dealing with more unknowns than Candace is. Thank you! I always try to end a chapter on a good line. And thank you for reading!

Thank you! And as far as reading and reviewing go, you've certainly made up for lost time! The whole thing began (as quite a few of my stories do) with a thought/idea/fantasy that I had while half-asleep. I was imagining Candace speaking seductively to Phineas, telling him that being a boy and a girl living in the same house, it was perfectly normal to have sexual thoughts about each other once in a while. And yes, there's a definite theme in this story of familial love getting tangled up with sexual attraction. As always, I consider this a high compliment. Being true to the characters is extremely important to me, and the slow build-up comes from that, because it's the only way to make these sexual scenarios plausible. Ferb is nearly perfect in a lot of ways, but one of his weak areas is expressing himself and his feelings. We'll definitely be delving into Ferb's mind in this story. Oh, never apologize for that. I'm always happy to get a review from you, regardless of the timing.

Thanks! “Intense” was really what I was trying for, here. Hope you’ll like the next chapter just as much. Thank you! I wanted to show the contrast between normal, waking life and what happens in the characters’ dreams, and how each character makes the transition from one to another. Jomahawk, who is kindly beta-reading this for me, gave me some helpful suggestions about how to make this work between Phineas and Candace. (It was a bit easier for Ferb and Linda, for reasons to be mentioned in the next chapter.) The seductive aspects of the partial characters are the manifestation of each dreamer’s suppressed desires. Candace and Phineas are both control freaks in their own way (after all, it’s never Ferb who says “I know what we’re going to do today”), and it takes the combined force of their own forbidden urges and those of their sibling to overcome that control. Thanks! I like to think that that enmity stems largely from their being in different stages of life. Candace is in the full emotional and hormonal turmoil of adolescence, whereas Phineas is an industrious preteen who is still clueless about all that stuff—even as the 500-pound gorilla called puberty sneaks up on him with its magic sledgehammer. (Oops, wrong story. ) You are. They just had to end up somewhere, and Candace DOES have the bigger bed. Although their being in her room will have some importance in a later chapter. Thank you!

Yeah, I'm not sure I've ever read one. But thanks, nonetheless. Exactly what I was going for. Absurd coincidences are one of the show's trademarks. And I feel that if I'm going to write several chapters of incestuous sex among these characters, I can at the very least give it a proper setup. IMO, much of both the fun and the challenge of writing fanfiction comes from making it true to the source material while doing completely new things with the characters. Otherwise, if the characters aren't going to act like themselves, why not write an original story instead? This chapter was a bit of an experiment. I've written plenty of sex scenes in which the POV switches back and forth between the two characters involved, but this was the first time I've written one in which the two characters were in separate (but parallel) sex scenarios. Leaving Ferb and Linda out of this chapter was a deliberate choice, for the very reason you mentioned. Likewise, in subsequent chapters, there are going to be some very short cutaways to other people's dreams--mainly for the sake of comedy--but I decided not to include any of those in this chapter because it was complicated enough already. I wanted to show how much internal resistance both siblings had to overcome before they could willingly have sex with each other--and then how desperately they needed to do it once they got past their inhibitions. Most definitely. This story will have eight chapters--the intro, three Phineas/Candace chapters interleaved with three Ferb/Linda chapters, and a denouement. In those central chapters, there will definitely be some exploration of the characters' forbidden fantasies about one another. It's at least arguable that Candace's greater resistance to those feelings comes from having more feelings to resist. Being a teenager, Candace is at a stage when both her emotions and her sexual desire are at a new height, but so is her need to adhere to social norms and fit in with her peers. Phineas, in contrast, is less concerned about being normal, and he's more accepting of his affection for his sibling, but he's also much less in touch with his nascent sexual urges than Candace is (if his repeated epic failures to perceive Isabella's attraction to him are any indication). Very different. Stay tuned. Good--I'm glad the ending's not predictable, at least not this far in advance. Thanks so much for the review!

Thanks! Now that the series has ended, I feel like I can take the characters in new directions that I wouldn't necessarily have considered before. Next chapter coming soon!

The lemonlight, perhaps? Thank you! I'm not sure where the Inator idea came from. Won't be long!

That's cool; I don't expect my every story to be to everyone's taste. Maybe you'll like another one I've got in the works: "Hot Yoga," in which Jenny leads a yoga class that gets out of hand in a big way.

Leave a review, win a prize! No, wait, it's leave a review, get a response. (Maybe my forbidden fantasy is to be a carny.)