idle thoughts

[schmerica]

It's hot and miserable; I'm lying in my stuffy bedroom and dreaming of comment snippets. Ray Kowalski and Fraser having a first kiss while it snows; wee Fraser at his mommy's funeral; conversations from a scenario where RayK starts his subtle courtship of Fraser by trying to get in good with Dief (it's like the combination of getting the kids to like you and getting the parents to approve!); the world where Fraser has always been a girl, and she and RayV have a very brief thing when she first comes to Chicago, but only for a few episodes, and then they're like brother and sister till the end of the show; Slings and Arrows fic with crazy, crazy Geoffrey Tenant; Batgirls and Robins smooching in all sorts of permutations; the awesomeness and walking porn that is Roy Harper; Duck and Dan being cute; John and Aeryn together post-PKW.

Actually, you know, I want everybody and/or anybody kissing as the snow falls. It's hot and I'm sickly and it automatically makes me go aw. KISSES + SNOW = LOVE.

I can't stop playing Talismania. I don't know why; it's not so wonderful that it should be so addictive, really.

I have nothing to say about last night's Deadwood except that it might be my favorite one of the season so far. And also I can't believe it's getting so close to the end forever omg!!! Also also, Molly Parker is pretty.

Comments

[fox1013.livejournal.com]

You would have so much better luck getting me to write you commentfic if you requested, ilke, a single fandom that I know.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

*sniffle*

[fox1013.livejournal.com]

Mrow?

[smartlikejustin.livejournal.com]

So good last night! Everything about the scene in the Gem with Wu was PERFECTION. Richardson! Aunt Lou! Jane and Joanie and Charlie and Seth and Alma and just. EVERYTHING.

Also, the end was brilliant. Oh, Al.

I [heart] that show SO much.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

God, I am such a damn sucker for the beautiful, delicate relationships they've been building up for these three seasons, you know? Just, these CHARACTERS. I love them! Jane and Joanie holding hands! Alma and Trixie in the bank! Alma doing a magic trick for Sophia! Bullock and Martha! Everything about Al ever!

I had actually never heard the dirty version of Streets of Laredo before. Awesome.

[carla-scribbles.livejournal.com]

*de-lurks, with trepidation*

There's actually yet another version (http://www.sendspace.com/file/sw5a42/) of that song, with a female narrator -- which, interestingly enough, I've wanted to put on a Deadwood fanmix ever since I heard it.

(And I find your girl!Fraser AU quite intriguing. Actually, I find girl!Fraser inherently intriguing, mostly because I can't quite figure out what she'd be like -- you'd think she'd be just like Maggie, but somehow? Not quite.)

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Eee, awesome -- thanks!

[etben.livejournal.com]

ooooooh!

*is distracted from the millionty-one things she should be writing by the extreme SHINY of always-been-a-girl Fraser*

And then, because I am at heart a big silly spaz for Ray Kowalski, the question is this: what happens when they want Vecchio for undercover?

Because, see, I believe - without any real reason for it, I guess - that Ray Kowalski would be, by and large, in principle, OK with having a chick for a partner. He's a modern guy, he knows that women are just as capable as men, and he's all about that. He goes into the gig knowing what he's dealing with (he thinks), and he's not going to be a dick to this woman.

[in my head, Ray categorizes "not being a dick" as: not staring down her shirt (unless there's no avoiding it, which sometimes there isn't), not hitting on her unless it's for a case (and then apologizing afterwards), not telling her that her ideas are dumb (unless they are, in which case it's only fair), expecting her to save his ass when he's pinned in a blind alley and his glasses are somewhere two corners back (which this one totally can: he gets her records, as part of the prep, and she's apparently Canada's answer to Wonder Woman, without the Spandex), not saying the word 'bitch' except in the context of a female dog. In this sense, he's not really being a dick to Frannie, either. Or maybe he is, but not more than he is to everyone else in the world.

...in my head, Ray Kowalski is kind of fucked up, some days.]

So Ray's got it down. He's ready, he's pumped, he's psyched; he's gonna work with the Mountie Lady and he's going to rock this job.

And then she walks in to the station, and he's kind of startled at how - well, how pretty she is, because the reports talked a lot about her outdoors skills and her Mountie-ing skills and her lack of people skills, but they didn't really mention the fact that Constable Fraser was fucking gorgeous, all curves and muscle and quiet, ready competence, and damn. Damn.

Then again, it's not like it's surprised. Ray's always gone for women who could kick his ass around the block.

Er, hi. That's what I have to say on the subject. What were you thinking about always-been-a-girl Fraser?

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

See, it's so problematic when you get to the combination of girl!Fraser and RayK! Because, see, RayV is pretty good with women; he's like "okay, they're like men only prettier, better smelling and soft. yays!"

Whereas Ray K with women? Tends to ping pong back and forth between "pathetic super needy puppy dog trying to please" and "overbearing asshole". Which, no. So if he was attracted to her, Fraser would have to shut that down, like, immediately, so they can get to the point where he doesn't like her and they can actually work together and Ray will treat her the same way he treats, you know, guy!Fraser.

The only way I could see this Fraser and RayK getting together would be if RayK somehow managed to not be into her in the first place, and got to that partners place without the awkward part beforehand. Because then it could grow into something else without falling into his woman issues.

[etben.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. As ever (or, well, a lot), you are right. Because even though I didn't know it, when I started thinking about this some more? Ray was always a dick, even when he thought he wasn't being one, and Fraser was having none of it. (Well, and there was an interlude of Ray being needy, but Fraser was completely not helpful - or, no: she tried very hard to be helpful, but not in the sense that involved sleeping with Ray, which was the only sense Ray was really interested in, so that didn't work out.)

You know, before now, I hadn't really thought about the extent to which Ray Kowalski has woman issues, but wow. He really, really does, doesn't he?

...clearly he needs to be shacking up with Fraser-as-a-man. And possibly also Ray Vecchio, because threesomes=yay.

- also, following along from another comment you left me which I am currently too lazy to track down: DUDE! I totally did have the first slings and arrows on my computer (even though the Machine was hiding it from me), and I'm watching it, and oh, God, Geoffrey Tennant. Oh, dear GOD. *flails and squees and generally makes a fool of herself*

(if you see me selling myself for s&a crossovers (with ANYTHING, honestly), know this: it is, indisputably, ALL YOUR FAULT. And I love you for it.)

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

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