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So a while ago during an eyai drabblefest I was all, oh yeah, I'd like to do a drabble or two about how Dominic and Julian's relationship began, because it happened mostly in the whopping great chronological gaps of Three Bags FullAnd...here's how that turned out
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Jules, Dominic is realising, would probably have ended up writing depraved and unrealistic erotica had the opportunity not arisen for him to act it all out instead.
I mean, I spent this whole thing laughing in delight, but this is the point where I actually had to close the laptop and cover my face and crack up in the middle of the coffeeshop, because, OH MY GOD. OKAY, JULIAN, I LOVE YOU, YOU PERVY BASTARD, AND OH MY GOD, OLIVER WOLF'S OPINION OF THIS (AND HOW IT INVOLVES DRESS UP) THIS IS LIKE THE ONLY THING THAT IS BETTER THAN THE KITSCHY CLOTHING. HELP. HELP ME.
OH GOD I ship them so much, such a ridiculous couple, I love them. They are in loooooove. Julian is a chaaaarmer. Dominic is screeeeeeeewed. DELIGHT. I AM FILLED WITH DELIGHT.
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The only thing that got me through this was the fact that I gave myself permission for RIDICULOUSNESS, so when things like that popped into my head (as they do) I didn't just snigger to myself and then move on, I actually put them in the story! But...Julian IS an inherently ridiculous person, which amuses me because of how unridiculous Aggie's story is going to be.
(I like to think that Oliver Wolf would be delighted okay. And maybe sit and watch with his chin in one hand and occasionally give Dom helpful pointers.
There needs to be an in-universe DRAMATISATION of the Revolution so that it can be like the T-shirts all over again. And Wolf can spend two days trying to engage Nacio in discussion of all the ways in which the actor playing himself was accurate or inaccurate.)
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THAT SAID:
>>Whether he could have written something into them, somehow, to make them immune<<
THIS REALLY CHILLED ME.
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As always, your writing is elegant and the imagery is wonderful, particularly the way you're able to take a particular idea and develop it throughout the fic. Great stuff.
Like schiarire, I found this
Whether he could have written something into them, somehow, to make them immune
quite disturbing.
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Mm, it was interesting reaching back to the initial automatic response of the eyai coders, which was: how did this happen and how could it have been prevented? And can we fix it? It's the same response they'd have to any malfunction.
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QUOTES FOR YOU, MY JETSETTING MADAM.
The motion aftereffect is of absolutely no use in the real world. It is purely an artefact of design, an illusion spat out by the visual system because the ability to adapt to continuous input is of use, under other circumstances. Dom believes in the elegance of the human machine, and spends far more of his time trying to replicate it than trying to improve upon it, so Blacksheep eyai -- indeed, most eyai except those coded by the most pedantic and strange -- will experience the waterfall phenomenon. It's easy enough to include the technical explanation for the illusion in the basic store of scientific knowledge uploaded to any given model, but approximately 60% of the time Dom doesn't bother. Humans, after all, don't come with their own psychophysical lexicon, and they've had to work it all out for themselves, piece by piece, culminating in people like Dom who see the human mind as an ( ... )
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Julian, however, rechannels his fanaticism into less high-minded pursuits, leaping from a discussion about logic loops in the barely-comprehensible Verey coding language, to impressing Dominic's footy-mad brothers with his new appreciation for the offside rule and season averages, to weaving his imagination and physical energy around Dominic in a fixed and giddy orbit ( ... )
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Writing the bit about Pru was very informative for me, because I hadn't devoted a lot of thougt to her particular talents before.
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