[fic] Happy Birthday, Jesspha.

[apiphile]

Title: Saturday Night's All Right For Fighting (So Is Friday)
Fandom: Bandom RPS [groaty's Thursdayverse AU]
Word Count: 7,000 (ish)
Rating: PG! For violins.
Pairing: IT'S A SURPRISE, MOTHERFUCKERS
Warnings: Violence, icky icky violence
Disclaimer: In the real world, the world where I unfortunately live, none of this happened. All the people involved are

Comments

[channonyarrow]

STILL AWESOME, HOMG.

Also, as I reread this again, I'm finding even more lines and bits that I love. Have I mentioned lately that I still totally love the fact that Joe is just higher than a kite? Nothing he does comes off as forced, it comes off as pot-logic, and the story hangs on that, and it is AWESOME.

Mikey! He's creepy! Vicky-T is pretty and DEADLY! Travis is wise and also, did I mention, a cop for some reason (I really really really wanna know what the reason IS). And also, there is blood and violence everywhere, and clearly, everyone in the hotel is about ten degrees off plane. And that's HOT.

Beckett approves.

[apiphile]

*FLAIL* I AM SO GLAD YOU LIKE IT, seriously. I covet your good opinion in bandom matters because, um, people who are difficult to please are important to please. And stuff. It's six am, don't expect a coherent response. [OMG!]

[channonyarrow]

I like that this (and the original fic, which I think I may have made my opinion on plain by now, but it consists of lots of AWESOME!) is not snuggle puppy cuddle time. SPCT is all well and good, but dude, it is possible to write insane bastards without writing creepy creepy inaccurate characterisations. One SMALL otp-centric example that both you and groaty use: Gabe is a fucking psycho with a history. Gabe is NOT, however, a creepy rapist, at least as has so far been explored. Gabe-as-creepy-rapist is a gimme in bandom: "Hi, this is Gabe, he keeps people in his basement and has WEIRD EYES OMG WATCH OUT FOR COCK." It is possible to take the characterisations we know and love, set them ten degrees off plane, and let shit happen. All done without relying on a gimme! It's possible! It's awesome!

[apiphile]

Personally I think if I was writing about Gabe keeping people in the basement it would be disturbed obsessive possessive love of the "dude's a headcase" kind rather than the "whoa rapist" variety. As commented at comedy workshop, "rapey" and variations are overdone. There can be OTHER KINDS OF BAD IN THE WORLD, PEOPLE.

/soapbox.

it is possible to write insane bastards without writing creepy creepy inaccurate characterisations

Not only that, it's possible to write sympathetic insane bastards! MY ENTIRE RAISON D'ETRE.

... I said I was getting off that soapbox, didn't I? *shoves it in the corner*

[channonyarrow]

Oh, no, it's totally not possible to write a sympathetic bad guy. I'm not thinking of LOTS of them right off the top of my head right now. They just don't exist.

I spent too much time editing A Certain Author. I'm so over rape in stories, it's not even funny, particularly when the author thinks that rape is $edgy. It's NOT EDGY. It was MAYBE edgy in 1982.

But I'll stop ranting about gimmes in fiction as soon as you stow that soapbox somewhere I can't see it.

(Also: *points to icon* What about the non-sympathetic good guys?)

[apiphile]

I was totally going to give you an intelligent answer but then I read your last line and started laughing in a rather disturbed sort of tone. ARwjokbvkascbialcbaikcb a THOSE BOOKS MAKE ME WANT TO PUKE THROUGH MY EYES.

[channonyarrow]

I've just started telling people that I'd rather read The Book Of Mormon and get the dialectic straight from the horse's mouth. They make me really, really, really want to vomit.

[apiphile]

Somehow I have this theory that the Book of Mormon probably doesn't contain the nauseating dick-broken-spine "love story".

[channonyarrow]

(ARGH MY ICON WENT WALKABOUT DAMMIT.)

Actually, I think you would be wrong about that. I AM NOT LYING. I mean, it's not as ghastly, but Joseph Smith had a divine revelation (read: was shooting smack in his eyeballs) that HE could have multiple wives. But when his wife said that was fine, that meant she could have multiple husbands, he had ANOTHER divine revelation (smack and Sterno) that polyandry was wrong and bad and eeeeeevil.

So. Now I kind of want to do a critical reading of both TBOM and Twilight and see how they stack up as far as shitty-ass love stories go.

[apiphile]

Wow, it's not like THAT is an argument that crops up a lot in polyamory circles or anything. *snerk* OH MEN.

[channonyarrow]

No, this might be the first time that God had an actual opinion on it. IT'S THE HAND OF THE DIVINE. What are you, some kind of heathen or something?

(The first time I find a couple who post those ads in alternative papers looking for a bi girl because the wife is bi-curious and the guy wants to see girls get each other off, I WILL CUNT-PUNT THEM BOTH.)

[apiphile]

CUNT PUNT = my new favourite threat.

[channonyarrow]

As it well should be!

I tell you, my swearing has gotten so much more interesting since I found the internet.

[apiphile]

In one of my proudest moments, one of my compound swears ended up in a popular webcomic last year or the year before. :D

[channonyarrow]

Dude, seriously? That's awesome. I totally - okay, I have a friend who Penny Arcade mocked pretty badly in his professional capacity and he was all Fucked in The Head And Morose about it and all I could think was "I would kill to be mocked in Penny Arcade."

[apiphile]

Awww. Nooo! Yeah, Fox Mahassara calls his boss a "fuckbishop" and a "noise-merchant" in one of the older Friendly Hostilitys. :D The former was from one of my oh so charming bilious capslocky rants.