Dude, it's like it's in a whole other LANGUAGE.

Apr 19, 2008 18:59

So, I was reading fandom_secrets and you know what? None of the manga stuff makes a lick of sense to me. Same/uke? Yaoi? And the drawing style is often so similar I have no idea if I'm seeing stuff all on one comic/series or what ( Read more... )

pygmalion au, comment fic, fandom

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aesc April 19 2008, 23:25:23 UTC
OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG.

The thing is, Rodney tells himself, he isn't stupid and he isn't sentimental. He doesn't become attached to projects; if he doesn't like letting them go, it's because some of them have to go and stand in hideous chrome office buildings or a nouveau-riche's overdone penthouse and marble deserves better than that.

John deserves better. Rodney rolls his eyes at his reflection in the mirror; he looks like a crazy man with toothpaste foam around his mouth. It's fitting because he feels crazy, strung out and at loose ends, rubbing at his chest and thinking of antacids because heartburn is the only way he can think to explain the hot-edged emptiness underneath his ribs.

On autopilot he pads in the direction the kitchen, because self-pity requires caffeine and sighs when he hears rustling coming from beyond the doorway. Stupid impatient cat, like he's going to starve if he has to wait two extra minutes.

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beadattitude April 19 2008, 23:41:51 UTC
::gives you squealing hug::

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When he opens the door to the kitchen, he can't quite process what he's seeing. There's some guy in his apartment, a canvas drape barely around his hips, head bent over the escpresso machine on the other side of the room.

He's starting to work up to a good, "Who the hell are you -" when he realizes, he knows that back, those shoulders, and the sole of the foot that's scratching the back of a calf he's touched thousands of times. He knows that crazy, nightmare shock of hair.

Crazy being the operative word, because there's no way that he can be seeing what he thinks he sees. Who he thinks he sees.

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aesc April 20 2008, 00:00:17 UTC
The man who is not Rodney's statue, who is probably a hallucination brought on by the psychotic break Rodney has obviously suffered in his sleep, pokes curiously at the espresso maker, pulling the filter basket, opening the boiler and peering inside and muttering something Rodney can't make out. The drape around his hips slips precariously, one hand too distracted to keep it up.

Rodney thinks about saying the espresso beans are in the freezer. He thinks about calling Teyla to tell her she was right about working too much. He thinks about the life-warm curve of back, the hips Rodney's fingers have memorized, how the solidness under them is bone.

"I..." he starts to say, takes a half-step closer, pauses when the... the statue looks up and around, and yeah, that was how Rodney had imagined marble would speak, the streamlined shift of tendon, calligraphy of muscle under skin.

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beadattitude April 20 2008, 02:02:39 UTC
"Hey, Rodney" the not-statue man says, his voice a slow, warm curl of sound. "Want some coffee?" he asks shyly, and licks his lower lip.

Rodney fixates on the motion and the lip underneath, pink and curved and plump and catching the light in a disturbingly familiar way.

He's run his thumb over a white, curving mouth just like that, but now it's flush with life and flattening into a distressingly thin, nervous line.

Swaying slightly, Rodney gropes for the counter to support him, a small, pained noise escaping his throat. He rubs his eyes roughly, takes a deep breath and decides to give reality another try.

The man who looks just like his statue looks at him sheepishly, pink tongue darting out to moisten pinker lip and a flash of white teeth biting down on the lush...

...cold marble unyielding beneath Rodney's mouth. He choked a sigh as he climbed off the scaffolding. Such life and beauty and barely contained potential, all for a stupid clothing store...never appreciate John...customers ogling him. Criminal. Insane ( ... )

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equusentric April 19 2008, 23:26:41 UTC
All the manga/anime stuff makes me go ??? because they all look like the same three people in different states of realism. And yes, the rabid fans are kinda skeery.

...and you can't stop there! never mind eeee!

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beadattitude April 19 2008, 23:42:27 UTC
::pokes:: There's more!

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kellifer_fic April 19 2008, 23:27:42 UTC
Um... yis please.

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adafrog April 19 2008, 23:33:33 UTC
No clue about the Manga stuff. But LOVE the AU :D:D

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hestia_lacey April 19 2008, 23:41:05 UTC
Cracked, certainly, but fabulous all the same and kinda deep if you stop to think about it...

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