A rec and some tears.
SGA
Straight as a Circle by toomuchplor
Pairing: Mckay x Sheppard, Sheppard x Kate
Rating: NC-17
Summary: John Sheppard wakes up straight.
Why: You know those stories where characters "wake up gay" (ie, pretty much every slash story where the character is canonically straight), this is the exact opposite. Because in SGA, John Sheppard is pretty much the anti-thesis of the 'straight' hero, if John woke up gay, he would be EXACTLY the same but he would probably stare at Rodney's arse a little more than he does already, and outfit his room with curtains and then take them down since it clashed with his Johnny Cash poster. Instead this is something SO much more interesting than a genderfuck, where a character has there sexual orientation flipped. There's something twisted and painful about the concept since in the back of my head there's a government official rubbing his hands together and raising an eyebrow going "oh REALLY, where might I FIND such a device," but there is also something that makes me grin brilliantly because despite everything, John is STILL Rodney's BFF. This is a fic that could EASILY be written badly, but it's handled SO well, and with SUCH skill it has restored my faith in the human race. I love it.
Speaking of interesting interpretations:
DEATH NOTE THE LAST NAME: The second movie.
This movie blew me away. Like the first movie, the first half dragged a little since I knew where the story would be going, but the second half was like a punch in the gut, everything was thrown into the air and the minute things started to diverge I was on the edge of my seat and couldn't tear my eyes away.
I love this ending. I love that this where it should have ended, and HOW it should've ended.
But that didn't stop them sticking the knife and DRAGGING it through my chest. Oh God L. When he came down those stairs I was exuberant, so damned happy for him I couldn't even breathe. When I read the manga this is exactly how I wanted things to go, I want him to get UP again for it all to be a trick and have him outsmart Raito.
This feeling only lasted a few seconds before the movie proceeded to rip my heart out and present it back to me, still beating.
L: I only have 20 days left to live. I can't die twice. Once it's written in, it can't be changed. This is when I started crying because I was so close, so close to nirvana only for it to be taken away by an empty victory.
I love how this film has written all the characters as profoundly HUMAN in the end. The 'good' guys were no longer preaching to Raito to change his ways, Raito wasn't inherently evil, just completely mad, and most of all I loved that Raito's father LIED to his family. He didn't tell them everything. He lied. Because Sayu and Raito's mother couldn't handle that. There was such fallibility in the end.
But L.
He broke me, with his sweet smile at the end, and the cheerful eyes that looked so damned scared and ACCEPTING. I hate imagining how he spent those last 20 days of his life, knowing it was coming, all alone and somehow regretful. What would you do if you had just 20 days left to live, counted down to the hour? What did L do, did he try to go to disneyland and enjoy himself, solve as many cases as possible, stare endlessly at Watari's picture in regret, eat himself into a stupor and hate himself endlessly for being so weak? Thinking about it breaks my heart. The smile of his will haunt me. *tear*
ETA: To LIGHTen the mood (THE PUNS THEY GET WORSE): Here is why Top Gun is the gayest film ever, in the history of ever. Because other gay films might have gay cowboys, glitzy rock stars in drag and naked Spartans, but Top Gun has Tom Cruise. Nothing, not ever, is as gay as Tom Cruise.
Straight as a Circle by toomuchplor
Pairing: Mckay x Sheppard, Sheppard x Kate
Rating: NC-17
Summary: John Sheppard wakes up straight.
Why: You know those stories where characters "wake up gay" (ie, pretty much every slash story where the character is canonically straight), this is the exact opposite. Because in SGA, John Sheppard is pretty much the anti-thesis of the 'straight' hero, if John woke up gay, he would be EXACTLY the same but he would probably stare at Rodney's arse a little more than he does already, and outfit his room with curtains and then take them down since it clashed with his Johnny Cash poster. Instead this is something SO much more interesting than a genderfuck, where a character has there sexual orientation flipped. There's something twisted and painful about the concept since in the back of my head there's a government official rubbing his hands together and raising an eyebrow going "oh REALLY, where might I FIND such a device," but there is also something that makes me grin brilliantly because despite everything, John is STILL Rodney's BFF. This is a fic that could EASILY be written badly, but it's handled SO well, and with SUCH skill it has restored my faith in the human race. I love it.
Speaking of interesting interpretations:
DEATH NOTE THE LAST NAME: The second movie.
This movie blew me away. Like the first movie, the first half dragged a little since I knew where the story would be going, but the second half was like a punch in the gut, everything was thrown into the air and the minute things started to diverge I was on the edge of my seat and couldn't tear my eyes away.
I love this ending. I love that this where it should have ended, and HOW it should've ended.
But that didn't stop them sticking the knife and DRAGGING it through my chest. Oh God L. When he came down those stairs I was exuberant, so damned happy for him I couldn't even breathe. When I read the manga this is exactly how I wanted things to go, I want him to get UP again for it all to be a trick and have him outsmart Raito.
This feeling only lasted a few seconds before the movie proceeded to rip my heart out and present it back to me, still beating.
L: I only have 20 days left to live. I can't die twice. Once it's written in, it can't be changed. This is when I started crying because I was so close, so close to nirvana only for it to be taken away by an empty victory.
I love how this film has written all the characters as profoundly HUMAN in the end. The 'good' guys were no longer preaching to Raito to change his ways, Raito wasn't inherently evil, just completely mad, and most of all I loved that Raito's father LIED to his family. He didn't tell them everything. He lied. Because Sayu and Raito's mother couldn't handle that. There was such fallibility in the end.
But L.
He broke me, with his sweet smile at the end, and the cheerful eyes that looked so damned scared and ACCEPTING. I hate imagining how he spent those last 20 days of his life, knowing it was coming, all alone and somehow regretful. What would you do if you had just 20 days left to live, counted down to the hour? What did L do, did he try to go to disneyland and enjoy himself, solve as many cases as possible, stare endlessly at Watari's picture in regret, eat himself into a stupor and hate himself endlessly for being so weak? Thinking about it breaks my heart. The smile of his will haunt me. *tear*
ETA: To LIGHTen the mood (THE PUNS THEY GET WORSE): Here is why Top Gun is the gayest film ever, in the history of ever. Because other gay films might have gay cowboys, glitzy rock stars in drag and naked Spartans, but Top Gun has Tom Cruise. Nothing, not ever, is as gay as Tom Cruise.