30 Days of Shipping Meme

[karaokegal]

Meme of doom ganked from The Fabulous Ree

Question List

Day 15: What is your favorite real life pairing?Hugh Laurie/Robert Sean Leonard

Comments

Re: Long Ramble Is Long

[karaokegal]

I'll admit one reason I'm attracted to RPS/RPF is that it's sort of a double-down on the naughtiness of writing fanfic in the first place.

I think my Hugh/Bobby series started because I saw someone else's fic and thought 1. Yeah, this is definitely happening and 2. I can write it better. So I wrote a whole saga starting with the earliest on-set flirting, through first kiss, into a full blown love affair and then the break-up. I KNOW none of it ever happened, but I incorporated so much "real life" into it, right down to researching the name of Gaby's horse, that it felt like it could be happening.

And then the show went to pieces AND Hugh & Bobby gave that interview and I could never bear to go back and re-visit. I will say that if I was ever tempted to scratch off the serial numbers and try and convert any of my fic into a "real" novel, it would be those stories, although I think it would be difficult to scratch enough. Even as a Roman a Clef, the source characters would be pretty obvious. (Not that that ever hurt Harold Robbins or Jacqueline Susann.)

Re: Long Ramble Is Long

[beta_goddess]

If you ever go there (and I know you won't, really), I am SO there with you. I still adore all those stories to pieces. Man, they were fun to work on.

(I'm starting to catch up on your blog posts for the last, oh, MONTH.)

Re: Long Ramble Is Long

[karaokegal]

Hopefully my scabies saga won't be too squicky for you.