Randomness and Due South love

[bigmamag]

I'm making a bunch of icons, and I actually like a lot of them.  I learned how to do bobblehead animations, so I'm making a few bobbleheads for fun.  I may even let you guys request bobbleheads, because they're not so hard to do and I love y'all.

RANDOM THOUGHT:  WHY HAVEN'T SAM AND DEAN HAD CPR YET?  WTF KRIPKE??

Also, random squee over Due

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[sadiane]

I was actually thinking about a lot of this stuff in conjunction with watching (and quite liking) Passchendaele, recently. There's something about Paul Gross/ Benton Fraser that forces me to set aside my cynicism and just purely love things, to feel things more deeply and uncomplicatedly than I am typically capable of.

I didn't expect to love the show - I thought it was one of those shows where you did the canon to get to the good fandom stuff (podfic! lots of podfic! I spent 10+ hours a day on my Ipod, so I'll go where people record me porn) . At best, I excepted it to be flawed yet enjoyable (see also:Stargate Atlantis, which I think I love more than most of the fandom), but fell for dS hard and fast. I remember being 20 minutes into the pilot, and there's this thunderclap moment where I fell in love with Benton Fraser (he's sitting at a table in a diner, alone, reading his father's journal, and I remember thinking "I'm going to let this man break my heart" and it was like stepping off an edge, like suddenly I'm dividing my fanish life into pre-Fraser and post-Fraser eras).

And he's good, but he makes it interesting - he knows that his goodness is a flaw, that he's hurting himself and the people he loves because of it, but he can't stop - it's as complicated a portrait of of "good guy" as I've ever seen.

And then Kowalski! I was scared about Kowalski - CKR as Leoben TERRIFIES me on Battlestar Galactica. Like nightmares, episodes that left me crying and shaking for hours terrified (no, I don't know why I still follow the show),. But then he's there, and he's so strange and graceful and vulnerable, and he feels everything so much. So yeah, I loved him too, maybe not as instantly, but just as deeply.

(Plus, I love angsty porn. And there's something about the emotional vulnerability and overwhelming physicality of both of the characters that makes the fic really hot! *is shallow and pervy*)

[bigmamag]

I was the same way with Fraser. I don't remember which scene it was, but by the end of the Pilot, I was in love. And Ray K took me a while. I liked him, sure, but it took several episodes for me to fall in love. But hoo boy, do I now!

And yes about the good guy portrayal. He's this great guy to the world, yet the only ones he can talk to with his full bitchiness are his father and Dief. Mostly because he's sure they're permanent and won't leave. I was just watching Burning Down the House again and at the end Fraser asks his father, "What the hell would you do with an office?" So bitchy and hilarious, and now I want to watching Letting Go because it's full of bitchy Fraser because his worldview was screwed with by Victoria. ♥