la la la DEATH and DESPAIR

[schmerica]

Keeping up with my bizarrely morbid streak -- since my last viewing of the Pilot, I am now strangely intrigued with the idea of a story where, after Call of the Wild, Fraser has stayed up in the Northwest Territories and Ray has gone back to Chicago. Until, of course, Ray dies and Fraser has to go to Chicago and bring his killers to justice -- with all the deliberate parallels of the pilot, of course, la la la investigating, la la la Fraser versus everybody else, etc. Only I think Ray Kowalski's ghost could show up a lot earlier than Bob Fraser's did, because I'd want it to be a slash story, and I don't think this Fraser and RayK would have actually had a relationship. There could be lots of subtext-filled pre-slashy flashbacks on Fraser's end, too!

If only I could, you know, do plot or length of any sort. Sigh.

(On rereading, I realize this sounds very slightly similar to Kowalski is Bleeding, but it really wouldn't be; I think it's just the "stubborn Fraser" and "investigating" things that make it sound that way, but really, those are relatively basic elements.)

I also think there should be more stories where Fraser and Ray's really, really bad habits of wandering off to do dangerous stuff in different states and/or countries without informing anybody of anything gets them into trouble. Or just Fraser doing it to Ray. One of these days, he's going to end up naked in Wisconsin without money for a payphone, and then what is he going to do?

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[shayheyred.livejournal.com]

One of these days, he's going to end up naked in Wisconsin without money for a payphone, and then what is he going to do?

I will pay you to write that.

[katallison.livejournal.com]

Dude, so would I! I could provide you with all kinds of story triggers, in the time-honored LJ manner (cranberry bogs, pickled turkey gizzards, jackpine savages, Leinenkugel beer, golfball-sized mosquitoes, golfball-sized hail, mildewy cabins, deranged biker gangs with guns) drawn from my sordid Wisconsonian experiences. And then you provide the nakedity.

However, I would pay you even more to write that first story. Death and Despair!

[damned-colonial.livejournal.com]

Grergh. I read that list of triggers and thought you were just doing random word association by throwing darts at a dictionary or something. Cranberry bogs? What's a jackpine? I have no idea what you're talking about, and it terrifies me.

[imkalena.livejournal.com]

Even living for 28 years in Wisconsin, I never came into contact with pickled turkey gizzards.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Dude, bogs are how you grow cranberries.

[damned-colonial.livejournal.com]

They might be how *you* grow cranberries. I don't grow them at all. In fact, nobody here grows them. Presumably due to the lack of bogs.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_divya_/]

::butts in:: Hee! ::butts out::

[imkalena.livejournal.com]

I really want to hear the sordid story about you and the cranberry bog . . .

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

You like the death and despair! Color me shocked! *g*

Actually, though, I really really do like the idea of Fraser coming to Chicago on the trail of the killers of Ray Kowalski. If I can't get anyone else to write it, I think I'm going to need to save it until I become a better writer.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

dude, if I knew the answer, I wouldn't have to ask the question!

[shayheyred.livejournal.com]

All I know is, I'd like to be the motorist who sees him hitching a ride home that way

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

For some reason, in my head, Fraser still has the hat, which he is able to use strategically. Hee.

[shayheyred.livejournal.com]

Me yoo! That's exactly what I imagine. And if he thinks about Ray K, he can hang his hat on his cock and keep his hands free.

[serialkarma.livejournal.com]

One of these days, he's going to end up naked in Wisconsin without money for a payphone, and then what is he going to do?

1-800-COLLECT, duh

[imkalena.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but Wisconsinites aren't stupid -- they *know* better than to leave a perfect specimen like Fraser naked to the elements. Long before Ray gets there, probably long before Fraser can even FIND a working pay phone, someone (or several someones) will have taken him home to warm him up, and he'll never be heard from again.

[lalejandra.livejournal.com]

Dial down the middle!!

Hah.

I just realized that's from another collect call commercial, but i cannot for the life of me remember which one. 1800callatt?? that seems likely. *g*

[serialkarma.livejournal.com]

Hee! Yeah, I think it's 1-800-CALL-ATT.

Can't you just see it now? Ray picks up the phone and is all, "yeah?" And the operator's like, "You have a collect call from Benton Fraser, will you accept the charges?" And Ray's like, "Only if he dialed 1-800-CALL-ATT! Because I'm not paying extra to rescue him from being naked in Wisconsin AGAIN."

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

And Ray's like, "Only if he dialed 1-800-CALL-ATT! Because I'm not paying extra to rescue him from being naked in Wisconsin AGAIN."

Heeeeeeeeee.

[shayheyred.livejournal.com]

Dude - I think the 1-800-CALL-ATT ads have Carrot Top as the spokesman. Now that is a pairing, Benton Fraser and Carrot Top.
Color me frightened.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Heeeeee. You think Fraser would go the logical way, rather than somehow convincing a passing motorist to let him borrow ill-fitting clothes and beginning to just, like, hike all the way back?

[serialkarma.livejournal.com]

Oh, I don't know, I think Fraser watched those 1-800 commercials with Alyssa Milano way more carefully than Ray ever realized.

[lalejandra.livejournal.com]

that sounds SO GOOD.



did you ever see the little drabble i wrote where Fraser goes to california and meets Summer The Vampire Slayer and she's all, what are you? and he's all, "i first came to california on the trail of the killers of my partner..." ...?

i always wanted to expand that into a huge story, but i can't get interested enough in writing fraser without ray, because, as we know, for me, it's ALL about ray. oh yes.

[serialkarma.livejournal.com]

because, as we know, for me, it's ALL about ray. oh yes.

As it should be!

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

I am sort of in love with the idea. Dammit.

i always wanted to expand that into a huge story, but i can't get interested enough in writing fraser without ray, because, as we know, for me, it's ALL about ray. oh yes

DUH, that is where the GHOST RAY comes in.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

And also the subtexty flashbacks. Mmmm, subtexty flashbacks.

[kijikun.livejournal.com]

he's going to end up naked in Wisconsin

Why Wisconsin?

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Why not Wisconsin?

[kijikun.livejournal.com]

Becuase Montana would be funnier?

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Pffft. Wisconsin has all those wacky "w" and "k" sounds. That's instant hilarity.

[kijikun.livejournal.com]

Well you could do Minnesota.

[minervacat.livejournal.com]

Why Wisconsin?

it's close to chicago? also, right over the illinois/wisconsin border, in beloit and janesville, there are all these places directly off the highway that sell "BEER CHEESE FIREWORKS" and somehow that sounds like the sort of trouble fraser would get into.

um, hi, erica. you should write that story about fraser naked in wisconsin! i would read it!

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

there are all these places directly off the highway that sell "BEER CHEESE FIREWORKS" and somehow that sounds like the sort of trouble fraser would get into.

*giggles*

I do not think anything I could write about Fraser naked in Wisconsin could live up to the set-up, really.

[damned-colonial.livejournal.com]

I'm imagining a beer cheese firework, and it's not pretty.