like water, lying (The Event Horizon Remix)
*rushes in, flailing papers*
Sorry! Sorry! I totally confused the deadline for this, and here I am, two days late. So, so sorry, synecdochic.
But here it is. My brazen attempt to crack the Eurydiceverse.
Title: like water, lying (The Event Horizon Remix)
Author: muck-a-luck, posting in brainofck
Pairing: Daniel Jackson/Jack O'Neill, Daniel Jackson/Cameron Mitchell, ( Read more... )
Sorry! Sorry! I totally confused the deadline for this, and here I am, two days late. So, so sorry, synecdochic.
But here it is. My brazen attempt to crack the Eurydiceverse.
Title: like water, lying (The Event Horizon Remix)
Author: muck-a-luck, posting in brainofck
Pairing: Daniel Jackson/Jack O'Neill, Daniel Jackson/Cameron Mitchell, ( Read more... )
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I adore the Eurydiceverse, but I think if it has one flaw, it's that the characters seem to be almost psychic, like Jack can read Daniel's thoughts, and Daniel knows exactly what Cam need and wants, and Cameron has so much insight into Jack. In part, I think it is an effect of the tight point of view and the kind of men that Jack and Daniel and Cam are, arrogant and self-confident and bold.
In like water, lying, Cameron sees this Jack that's so in control, and so Jack has to be that on the outside, but I was hoping that I could make Jack less certain, less omniscient in this. I wanted Cam to be wrong about Jack, too.
Anyway, that's just how I feel about it...
Meanwhile YOU posted fic overnight. Minx. *glowers* Do you KNOW how far behind this deadline screw up has put my RL?!
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That is so totally IT! :D I don't think I have ever seen Jack so accurately and concisely described anywhere!
Yes. But you would probably win teh smackdown. My RL is full and stressful, but in a sort of autopilot kind of way. Plus, I get the big dose of baby cuteness that goes with the work.
I will be gushing about Little Sister soon over in the RL journal.
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God I love that! As a metaphoir, and as a glimpse of smart!Jack. ♥
It helped that when I was in the room, Daniel didn't have eyes for anyone but me.
So I'm a selfish bastard. Like we didn't all know that already.
Yes! So Jack! Gracious in victory, as long as he has the victory.
One thing about being out of the field. All the weird shit starts happening in your own living room....
I've seen pure terror in a lot of places. Again, with the living room.
*love*
"Cameron." Daniel says, in a voice that's all sex, but with a face that would fit in at the most routine, boring briefing. Mitchell's eyes, when they open, are unfocused, pupils blown.
*wibble* *tremble* *shake*
When he uses his fingernails on my nipples, though, I slap him hard on the ass. After a couple of months playing with Mitchell, maybe he needs a reminder. Pushing those buttons with me won't give him the same ( ... )
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Yes! So Jack! Gracious in victory, as long as he has the victory.
Heh. Yup. That's our man. :D
Weird shit. Living rooms. SG-1. What can you do?
*snickers*
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That's it. That's Jack. That's Jack right there from the first sentence, the first paragraph, all the way down to the end. You said in your author's notes that he's not quite in the same place as my Jack, but you know, he kind of really is, and it's amazing. I can feel Jack's uncertainty in all of this, the pain of wanting Daniel and more than that, the pain caused by understanding Daniel, and that knife edge between being freaked out and being turned on, and Jack's flip-flopping between feeling sorry for Cam and feeling jealous of Cam, and the sort of helpless yearning perpetual love for Daniel and all his crazy ideas married with the stubborn determination that he's not going to let Daniel "win". And it's all right there, and it's all simmering underneath the surface, and it's all IN JACK'S VOICE, which, good Lord, woman, you have no idea how much I respect that, because getting Jack to sound like Jack is a struggle and a half.
This is simply exquisite. I have to go read it another ten or twelve times ( ... )
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I love Jack. You can write so many aspects of his character. Like princessofg said, "marshmallow and tough guy." But I was honestly trying to write your Jack from throwing pebbles up the mountain. I liked that he was almost purely the calculating, threat assessing Jack - even if he was applying all that mental skill to figuring out how to field an unexpected proposition from Daniel. Which I thought was only right, if we were inside his head. So anyway, anything I did right in this thing, I put right back in your lap. :D
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Yes! Jack in "Throwing Pebbles Up The Mountain" is early on, and Jack in "Like Water, Lying" is after alllll the shit he's gone through (and Jack in "Grace Notes" is a little reflective, a little quiet, a little hopeful, like an indrawn breath) -- but it's all Jack; his mind is always calculating benefits and disadvantages, how to get what he wants at any given moment, whether what he wants is worth the cost he'll pay for it, etc. I love him so much; he's got layers ten levels deep.
And yes, I love this story. So damn much. It's beautiful and it's hot and it's so amazingly Jack, funny and tragic all at once, and really, it's just stunning. I can't say so often enough.
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Can you give me five to be coherent enough to reply to this?
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Dude, really, really hot. I'm generally not a threesome fan, nor do I ship Daniel/Cameron, but guh. Brain. Dead. Call back later.
Oh, and I wanted to natter on about remixing at you, since I remixed for the first time this year, too, but I don't want to do it here. Feel free to chase me back to my journal, or I can do it on the page where you talked about remixing.
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