prison for jerks

So I was getting read to post this all, and I realized I had no idea what to say in this entry. So I went to my trusty etben and asked her for advice.

etben: hi, I'm pearl! and I'm awesome! and I like summer camps, and stories about summer camps!
etben: SO SHOULD YOU ALL.

Which, uh, made me giggle! Which I figure is pretty good, so there we go. I'll add a little bit more, though, which is: me and fox1013 and etben have more in common than JUST all being awesome and young and adorable. We also all love summer camp AUs! fox1013 and etben have lots of actual summer camps experiences, actually, and they have really SMART thoughts about summer camp space and why it's awesome and interesting in fiction, whereas I am kind of like "....awwwww! teenagers! bein' cute! NAWWW."

Anyway, the three of us very firmly believe that we should share our love with others, in the hopes that you too will understand the awesome! And, you know, if you got inspired enough to write some summer camp snippets of your own, there would be NO COMPLAINTS from our front.

If you go over to their journals, you'll see some How I Met Your Mother geekiness from fox1013 and etben has due South cuteness on hers. I went with Wilby Wonderful, behind the cut. Obviously there is SO much more you could with those three fandoms, of course -- but also? We have a theory that pretty much ANY SINGLE FANDOM can be improved through judicious use of the summer camp au.

(The single exception here is perhaps Supernatural. As we concluded last night, it would .... pretty much be two guys hiking in the woods with their dad.)

Anyway! Here we go.

( Wilby Wonderful summer camp AU! )

Exhibit A: "Victoria's Secret."

Exhibit B: On the street with Molly Parker at the very end of "Men with Brooms."

Exhibit C: Up against the coffeehouse wall with Rebecca Jenkins in "Wilby Wonderful."

Exhibit D: Rolling around the bed with Martha Burns in the second season of "Slings and Arrows."

Good GODDAMN, people. Why on Earth is Paul Gross not kissing girls onscreen ALL THE FREAKING TIME? I just -- I'm feeling a little lightheaded just talking about this.

In non-"Prettiest Man in Canada" news, today I started rereading some of the Gotham Knights run -- including #43, which is mainly notable as "Hey, Zee, did you say something about writing Babs/Jason sometime? Didn't you? Huh? Huh? Huh?"

(There are no permutations of Batgirl/Robin my OTPness will not encompass! Dick/Babs and Cass/Steph are classics, and Tim/Cass is my sekrit favorite, but I will take what I can get! Um. Also! Speaking of "fic ideas Zee and I have discussed on AIM many times", I *still* really want that story where after Dick stops being Robin, the small child Bruce finds and takes in and trains is not the wheels-stealing street rat boy, but rather the mute, traumatized warrior girl. Yis.)

I think now is the time to make dinner. And then watch NCIS. Yes.

Mmm, you know what we haven't talked about in a long time, people? Duck MacDonald and Dan Jarvis. This is sad! Because, oh, Duck. Truly, I cannot think of any fannish character in my experience with more lovable qualities and fewer unlovable ones. No wonder we're all so crazy about him.

Oh, and DAN. Quiet cowboys! Hands on faces! Tenderness.

I say this frequently, but it's true: I always want to go back and rewatch Wilby Wonderful as my rainy-day comfort movies, and then I realize I just want to watch the sweet kissy bits, which don't actually exist. Except in our heads!

*happy sigh*

(Yes, I do realize the story list hasn't been updated since February. Yes, I do feel like a heel about it. No, I'm probably not going to do all the work that would be involved in catching up and keeping it going. Sorry.)

I wonder if part of the reason why writing explicit Wilby Wonderful fiction feels so odd or sometimes even wrong is not only the quiet mood of the movie -- but maybe more explicitly the attitude the movie has towards sex itself. Of the three main storylines, all of them can be basically boiled down to a journey from a negatively portrayed sexuality to a nonsexual intimacy. We have the climaxes all in a row at the end: kind words and walking in tandem; hair stroking and a hug; the tenderness of cupping each other's faces -- all from the beginning points of infidelity, insincere manipulation, and dirty illicit fumblings. No wonder it feels so strange to go back to sex in our stories: it's exactly what the movie has been moving away from.

On the other hand, of course, I don't think most of us buy into the implicit message here: we all want them to have sex and intimacy, both together.

Title: Now and Then
Fandom: Wilby Wonderful
Pairing: Duck/Dan
Summary: "It's not what he ever expected, but he likes it this way."
Approximately 1000 words. Thank you to brooklinegirl for beta.

Read at my site or ( behind the cut tag )

Man, some days I just LOVE fandom. No, seriously. *heart*

I was telling Kovsky yesterday about my sekrit dS pairing that I love that nobody else in the world wants to see, and she was mocking me. Dude, it's an incest pairing! I thought there was a law saying she had to approve! The fact that she's not in the fandom is irrelevant. Whatever, some day I will convince another person to share my vision!

I want everybody to write me Wilby Wonderful fic. Moooooooooore. I will pretend this is not just me being selfish and greedy, and use the excuse of how I need more stories around before I can update the link page, because when it's basically just me stories I feel weirdly like it is a vanity project. Isn't that a good excuse? The real reason is just me craving more stories, of course, but whatever. DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK. Mmmmmm.

This picture of Sandra Oh makes me happy.

I am in one of those moods where I really want to write, but I have no idea what I want to write. This means writing will probably not happen. Really, though, it's just as well; I have plenty of homework to occupy me. Not to mention trying to defeat my high score at Dynomite over at Popcap Games (85,000, baby. OH YEAH.)

1) Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson are a really perfect example of two people whose weird voices I love individually but who sound oh my lord godawful doing duets. (With each other, I mean. I love plenty of duets they do with other people.)

2) I am sort of totally in love with Duck MacDonald. The fact that he's gay is totally not a problem. I just want him to marry me and bring me flowers and smile at me and hug me when I cry and tuck his chin on the top of my head. I don't think that's so much to ask.

2a) The fact that he's fictional might be a problem, I do admit that.

3) OH DUCK.

( kovsky, you're not fooling anybody; I know you're totally clicking on this cut to see CKR being pretty )

+ Fraser, standing, reaching out to Ray's face; Ray, sitting, closed-eyed, half-turning into Fraser's cupped hand

+ Fraser, sitting; Ray, reclined, arranged so his head is comfortably using Fraser's lap as a pillow

+ Fraser, standing before a stove or something of the like; Ray coming up from behind and hugging him tight and kissing his neck. (This image I can actually point to why I'm obsessed with it; it's from a one paragraph throwaway of post-CotW fic from katallison, and it is burned into my memory in the best way.)

+ Duck and Dan, sitting on the edge of a bed in a darkened room, kissing. Duck's hand is on Dan's shoulder, and Dan's hand is on Duck's knee, and they are not touching anywhere else.

1) Livia delivers on her promises: SGA really is the show of Snarky Bitches. Awesome.
1a) Sheppard and McKay don't particularly strike me as totally gay for each other, but I can see the slash as believable.

2) Fantastic Four, while not by any means a good movie, is reasonably amusing and entertaining, certainly much more so than it appeared in the ads.

3) Livia has declared Duck in Wilby Wonderful the ultimate comfortador. She also apparently has a theory about the complentary attraction of comfortadors and woobies, but I didn't get all the details.