i'd have like a million of his babies

[schmerica]

Things I found surprisingly difficult about writing my first stab at Fraser/Vecchio fic ever, over at stop_drop_porn:

1) The name thing. I have not paid enough attention to when it is Benny and when it is Fraser.

2) More importantly, oh my god, you guys. How on earth does anybody manage to write F/V without it turning into indigestible sap? I think their love might, in fact, be too pure, because I think I have a stomachache now.

Maybe long exposure to Ray Kowalski's assholeness has skewed my world view? I can't find the sharp edge and prickliness and desire and loneliness and corresponding puzzle pieces that make up an OTP for me outside of F/K now. Fraser and Vecchio just ... love each other. Where's the story in that?

(Obviously there are very many stories in that, because I have read and enjoyed tons of them, duh. But I can't see them for myself is my point. I guess they're just going to have to sit around having perfectly pure brotherly love while I plan out all the complicatedness of smooshing Fraser and Kowalski together. Alas!)

In other news, I am now officially a linguistics major. \o/! Oh, my LOVE. Also, first day of both Old Church Slavonic [yay Slavs! yay tiny tiny class!] and a seminar on Typology of Auxiliary Structures [looks really hard but interesting]. MMMMMM.

Comments

[sdwolfpup.livejournal.com]

1.) This is so true. There are times when it's a bit interchangeable, and other times when it matters very much which one Ray uses.

2.) Hee! They are very easy to slip into sap with; which suits my tastes, I guess, because I tend towards sap anyway. But also for me, it's the blindingly obvious fact that they love each other that makes them so awesome. Like, in the canon and in the fic I enjoy, they butt heads and Ray bitches and Fraser acts affronted and it seems like they'll never just get along, yet they still do anything for each other and hang out all the time and seem to enjoy pushing each other's buttons, so that all the cross purposes and edges and angst ultimately will be ok. IMO.

Yay for linguistics! I took a class on it when I was getting my Anthro degree and found it fascinating. I imagine a whole major focused on it would be even more so.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

That all makes total sense to me -- it's weird, really, what suddenly makes one pairing or anything just click for someone completely, you know? F/V and I may not have been meant to be, but I can still admire it from afar. (Season 1/2 Fraser, bweee! And VECCHIO!)

[sdwolfpup.livejournal.com]

it's weird, really, what suddenly makes one pairing or anything just click for someone completely, you know?

Oh yeah, definitely. It is really weird! I don't quite get why F/V pinged so incredibly hard for me and F/K didn't. Like, I see where people are getting F/K, I've read some great F/K fic, and I totally admire the pair from afar, but, as you say, it's not meant to be for me. :) (Yet, I see V/K and F/V/K. Maybe it's the Vecchio factor for me? Just like for people who don't 'ship F/V but do 'ship V/K and/or V/F/K, it's the Kowalski factor? I dunno! I'm just rambling at this point. Heh.)