Well it definitely shows, your treatment of female characters is one of my favourite things about your writing. I feel sometimes in fandom writers are almost forced to make their female characters either mother teresa or female Hitler, very few peole seem to tolerate them as real people with flaws and grey areas.

I think when I got into fedal in the first place, Rafa/Nole was there on the periphery of my vision and I was doing my best to ignore it but then I read your fic damned lies and statistics mostly out of curiousty and I was like "this makes much better sense than fedal". Their dynamic is just better than the one that Roger and Rafa have (because with Rafa's hero worship and Roger's occasional self worship it is pretty tenuous grounds for a relationship). Rome was just about the best thing ever except for the teeny tiny hug Rafa gave Nole after the US open when Nole was sitting in his chair. That turned me into a mushy puddle of goo :)