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FIC: Strange Love (Gilmore Girls, PG-13)

Sep 18, 2006 20:01

Strange Love
by Shaye

SUMMARY: Every day is like Sunday.

RATING: PG-13

DISCLAIMER: Sherman Palladino & CW own everything except the summary, which is all Morrissey.

TIMELINE: Set mid-season five.

WORD COUNT: 4500

NOTES: Going on two years ago, gatefiction pretty much dared me to write Gilmore Girls apocafic. This is what happened. Beta by leadensky andannavtree, ( Read more... )

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Comments 33

dagnylilytable September 19 2006, 03:15:16 UTC

Dude. I almost cried, and it's been a long time since I almost cried.

I can see Luke and Lorelai kissing like people aren't supposed to kiss in real life. And the Lane voice is wonderful.

Did you ever decide what happened to Emily and Richard? Did I miss that in the whole holding my breath from the atmosphere thing?

Dude.

fourteenlines September 19 2006, 03:19:20 UTC

I figure Hartford is pretty low on the list of places to bomb, but it's a city, so I imagine they might have had trouble getting out. And that big house is a prime target for looters. Honestly, I don't know what happened to them. I don't know what happened to Rory, either. I know that Jess was probably in New York.

I'm sure Lorelai's worried about her parents, and Christopher, too, but since this is from Lane's POV, we don't see that.

fourteenlines September 19 2006, 03:51:21 UTC

Oh, and - thank you. Duh, I should have said that first. *g*

anonymous September 19 2006, 03:44:49 UTC

Oh.

Yeah. It still has that punch.

You fixed everything I had a major concern over, and mmm, still with the oww.

I really like everyone still holding it together, still *keeping on*, because Loreli is, and yet she's trembling on the edge of losing it. And Luke - does he have anything to do, anything he can do, except help Loreli go on?

And Lane - yeah, she'll do. She'll do.

I'm glad you're posting this.

- hg

fourteenlines September 19 2006, 03:50:17 UTC

And Luke - does he have anything to do, anything he can do, except help Loreli go on?

I think he's trying? I mean, talking to the bread guy, trading with Gypsy, doing his own thing at the diner all day. But I think he keeps coming back to Lorelai at night.

I'm pretty sure I changed everything you told me to fix, I just didn't do it the way you told me to. *g* Because I'm stubborn like that. Thank you for your help - your suggestions made this a better story.

vee_fic September 19 2006, 03:49:45 UTC

Okay, whoa. WTF. That works. How did you make that work?

I mean, I remember the premise of apocalypse_latr, and how theoretically you could do an apocafic about Ross and Rachel and all that, but, you managed to create an apocalypse in the GG universe and have it feel like it really is that universe.

That is awesome.

fourteenlines September 19 2006, 06:05:05 UTC

Thank you!

I too was amazed at how easy it was to write these characters in a postapocalyptic scenario. I started with the premise of nuclear war, and from there moved on to the most likely real-world scenario at this point in time...and from there, it all spun out, because Lane was suddenly narrating it and Lane would be affected in ways that the other characters wouldn't.

cofax7 September 19 2006, 03:51:40 UTC

Oh, honey. Only you could write apocalyptic Gilmore Girls and make it funny and hot and sweet and sad and moving all together.

Isn't that fantastic. Poor Lane.

Lorelei with her hoarded coffee grounds and Oreos. Luke and the biodiesel. Lorelei worrying over Rory, and the refugees in the inn. And facing down Taylor (go Lorelei!).

And the Koreans! Yikes!

::sigh::

This is fantastic.

fourteenlines September 19 2006, 06:06:33 UTC

*g* I found I couldn't write for this show without making jokes. I don't think these people would survive without gallows humor.

Honestly, I think I'm going to be doing a commentary track for this one. Because there's a lot going on behind the scenes.

Thank you - you're giving out high praise tonight.

cofax7 September 19 2006, 11:31:02 UTC

Commentary track would be *way* cool. Way.

- hg

pene September 19 2006, 04:13:48 UTC

oh dear. mothers.

that was lovely, Shaye. the final moments pricked at my eyes, seriously. the whole tired feeling of it. and kind of hopeless, I think. though I loved Lorelai's sense that there were things she could learn and the way she said, "we can't go on like this" which meant "there's other things we can do." and I loved Luke supporting her, although I've never been a Luke fan, oddly.

I missed Rory enormously. I have a soft spot.

but mostly I loved that you made the very thing that is key to the show, that relationship between people that is aching and family and real, you made that central to a story about Lane and (mostly) Lorelai.

gorgeous job.

fourteenlines September 19 2006, 06:08:08 UTC

Oh, sweetie. Thank you. And yes, you've got the heart of it: mothers.

I wanted to make Rory this big gaping hole in the story, where they didn't even mention her by name because it was too painful. That ended up being really hard. But she's the connection that Lorelai and Lane have to one another, so it made sense that she was missing, and the elephant in the corner.