one more thing about ray/ray, PLUS stuff that is aweomse!

[schmerica]

Dudes, there is SUCH good fic being posted over at vecchiofest! All of you who like him at all owe it to yourselves to go check it out, because HEART. There's gen, het, F/V, F/V/K, Ray/Ray -- all sorts of flavors. The Ray/Ray is good enough it makes me wish I liked the pairing so I could appreciate it fully.

Earlier I was talking to justbreathe80 and she was making sad noises over her inability to convert me to Ray/Ray (never mind that brooklinegirl has been trying for almost three years now with no progress). And seriously, it DOES make me sad! So many of my friends get so much joy out of it and it makes me feel like a cranky evil person!

Here's part of an email I sent to her.

Hee, okay, seriously? I have, like, 5 different issues with Ray/Ray fic. And they're all stuff that I can take and still love a story with it in it, just, you know. NOT ALL AT ONCE.

a) f/k otp omg. (obviously, i like a LOT of pairings that don't follow this, but still, it's definitely part of it.)

b) okay, this is even schmoopier than the otp, but the f-v friendship is SACRED, okay? IT JUST IS. and since i can't really imagine there not ever being any attraction either way between f and k? i can't picture how v would be able to get involved with k without it feeling like a betrayal of f, and frankly, i think v would kill himself before he did that.

c) FRASER ALL ALONE AND SAD WHILE HIS FRIENDS GO OFF AND FUCK AND BE HAPPY WHILE HE IS ALL ALONE IN CANADA OMG. (again, i do enjoy broken f on occasion? but that's when it's about HIM. if you wrote me a story where v and k were in a relationship but the story was f pov, either angsty or just hidden-loss-omg-they-all-leave-him-but-he-doesn't-show-it? i would probably enjoy that in a woobie sadist sort of way. stories where he's just in the background like that, especially if the others get to be happy? SOB.

d) my ideal vecchio is s2 vecchio. most v/k has him post-cotw broken, and while i'm sure it's very realistic to have him fucked up over vegas, i don't find it that interesting. i think i just have a really narrow window of v characterization, and most v/k is too far one way or the other to make me happy. (like, honestly? there is a significant amount of ray/ray i have read and enjoyed, but all of it is for either the k portrayal or just general writing quality. i think the only exception is tracey's one with all his canon het relationships first, before the k part at the end.)

e) i don't think v and k ever met prior to cotw, because otherwise k's response when v is opening the door doesn't make any sense at all. i have to *already* like a pairing before i care about aus for it.

f) ...I think that's all!

So, okay! Tara, if you write a ray/ray story that manages to solve each and every one of these problems for me, i am sure that my conversion to ray/ray would be successful!

Heh. So, uh, that's that! Obviously after writing that, I need to balance this post out with POSITIVITY, right? RIGHT.

Things That Both Me and Lots of Other People Really Should Write More of:

1) RayK/Frannie. They have so much chemistry, dude! And they're both in love with Fraser! And they make sense! They're a little like Ray/Ray would be if they were together for more than five minutes of canon!

2) RayK/Maggie. I don't know why I have a secret fondness for this, but I totally do. I think it's the Fraser woobie thing I mentioned above.

3) The Mountie and His Boyfriends. I like F/V/K a lot, but mostly I like it in this configuration -- even if it does end up being an equal threesome, I like it to get there from a F/V and F/K place.

4) RayV het. ALL OF IT. *GRABBY HANDS*

4a) Vecchiocest. STOP JUDGING ME.

5) Backstory. I am such a sucker for any of them as kids or teenagers or even just in their 20s. Heart. Fraser's early experiment with sexuality = my favorite thing in the world.

6) I still want someone to write a Fraser/Newbie crossover. I don't remember whose idea this originally was, but I still think it is BRILLIANT. Especially if was during Planet of the Cats.

7) Fraser-has-always-been-a-girl fic! I think girl!Fraser and Vecchio would date for like two episodes worth, and then fall into a really easy natural brother-and-sister like relationship. And with Fraser and Kowalski all the tensions of their partnership would be, like, quadrupled by the fact that RayK is a total ass around women.

8) Frannie/Maggie! Frannie/Thatcher! go femslash go!

9) Fraser/Thatcher that evokes the awesomeness of their sexual tension during s2. I don't know it's possible to actually get them to fuck without ruining that beyond repair, but it would certainly be cool.

10) There is no 10.

If you're going to comment on this post just to say you hate ray/ray and it is stupid and makes no sense, don't, okay? I try really hard to keep this about my issues as a reader and why it doesn't work for me in particular, and not make it slagging on the pairing itself, or the people it does work for. Slagging on pairings = no fun for anyone! Unless it's McKay/Sheppard.

Oh! Also! Check out the new icon I got from troyswann. The keywords here are "ds: oh god i love these boys", for obvious reasons. I LOVE THEM SO MUCH IT MAKES MY HEART HURT, PEOPLE.

(I originally typed that last sentence without the comma, so it sounded like my love made my heart go around, like, punching people in the face. So I changed it.)

Comments

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Omigosh, they are so CUTE in Hunting Season, are they not? There is not much of that pairing at all, but there is a little bit, if you look! This one (http://community.livejournal.com/ds_flashfiction/86966.html) of cmshaw's is my favorite, for all that it is only 400 words long. I know there's more in her memories, as well.