heresluck made a vid, In The Mirror, which is kind of my touchstone Ray Kowalski vid. I mean, not that others aren't completely awesome, but there's something that really gets me about this one. The repetitive bass line that's broken regularly, like Ray is moving, moving, moving, then stopping to check. And to me it's all about that line, "You ever feel ( Read more... )

It's Week 3 of our celebration of the dS characters, which means that it's time to rec your favourite Kowalski stories (or vids!) Het, gen, slash and crackfic recs are welcome. As is picspam. *cough* Personal essays on how you came to fall for the skinny guy in the GTO would be great, as is meta or episode recs. (As it is for the other characters ( Read more... )

Back when I got into this fandom, fic first, it was all Kowalski all the time. The trail of recs I followed led me through stories where Vecchio simply wasn't there, and some where one might wish he wasn't. Then one day, someone explained Ray Vecchio to me in a way that I could understand and love.

In Kowalski is Bleeding by cesperanza I discovered that ( Read more... )

By which I mean that I was pottering around in the depths of my del.ici.ous, not doing much in particular, when I came across this story (one of the Team Whimsy entries from this year's ds_match) and went yes! This! With the funny and the characterisation and the funny and the being him and the AWESOME! (also in this category are *points down* ( Read more... )

Vecchio! *adores* I could talk forever about all the things I adore him for, but I think belmanoir's list pretty much covers it. So I'll just give that a big WORD, and do a picspam instead:

( Every man should have some je ne sais quoi. *nods* )

I adore Vecchio. In catwalksalone's fic " Trample Down Barbed Wire," there's a line, "Ray's heart does the skip, hop, jump thing he's taken to thinking of as his Vecchio-murmur." Yep, I've got one of those. But trying to explain why in any kind of comprehensive way would involve me making you watch the entirety of Seasons 1 and 2 and CotW1, and then every ( Read more... )

We're entering Week 2 of the Character Recs challenge, and we'd like to open things up for a love-in, Ray Vecchio style ( Read more... )