pop culture clichés catch up with you sooner or later

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Title: pop culture clichés catch up with you sooner or later: side a: track three: 99% of us is failure
Rating: PG-13
Pairing: Mark. Mark/Callie friendship.
Summary: She's two and you’re letting her watch John Stewart?

track one: teardrop
track two: once upon a time

Comments

[nycbadgirl]

I jumped when I saw this update! And the Mark/Callie friendship is great. I love his interactions with his daughter and the fact that he is still hung up on Addison.

Beautiful story, as usual.

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Thank you!

[aclairec]

Love it! Mark as daddy just makes me smile and I'm loving that you brought Callie into the story (she is my fav)! Well done, can't wait for more.

[openended]

I wish their relationship would be explored a little more beyond punishing stupid ex-husbands and offering sex.

Thanks.

[stickypearls]

This was such a lovely update and I really enjoyed the Mark/Callie interaction. Their friendship is written so well in this amid all the awkwardness of Callie's recent divorce (or steps towards it at least) and Mark wondering about Addison, but there is something oddly comforting about them bonding over their issues while playing with a two year-old who waits until dinner to shyly ask if she can have a kitten.

Mark might not be getting everything right (it's okay though - Luke was watching splatter movies and drinking bottles of sprite before he was forming understandable sentences), but his morning hugs, Daily Show reruns, and horsey rides are so incredibly endearing. Good job, you.

[openended]

*tears hair out* I still cannot get a legitimate grasp on how two year-olds act and it is driving me insane so I can only hope that by not writing that simple request for a kitty, people with more knowledge than me can work it out in their own heads in the manner a two year-old should. /problem

You know, that may explain a lot about your brother.

♥ Thanks, Calla.

[skyisgrey]

mark and callie as friends seems like the most natural thing. i like that you made mark still hung up on addison here, and how he is disappointed when callie reveals addison already 'has a guy'. callie is certainly the best person to reveal that kind of news. and mark as a daddy never fails to make me go awww :) great job once again

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*grins* Thank you.

[eighteenthmarch]

This fic reminds me of a movie I saw about a South African gangster who (long story short) ends up with a baby and doesn't know what to do with it. So he makes it a diaper out of newspapers and leaves it in a shopping bag under his bed and feeds it powdered milk from a can. But he's trying, you know. And that's so very Mark. He has no idea how to deal with (or love) a child, but I think he hates to see someone hurting.

The friendship with Callie feels true and real. And getting advice from Derek's mom last chapter made perfect sense. But I'm not sure if I buy Derek and Mark being on this fast track back to friendship. Even if that's what's happening on the show. I guess I'd expect Derek to be a bit of a bitch about it at first and then for the kid to bring them together over time because Mark needs Derek's help.

I would not object to a visit from Addison. But I don't know if there's realistically any way for that to happen.

a t-shirt given to him by his sister proclaiming that hyperboles are the greatest thing ever...

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What movie was that? It just sounds so ridiculously absurd that I think I need to see it.

Regarding their friendship: the concept of time on the show is a fairly fluid and complex and actually impenetrable thing (Bailey's nine-month pregnancy taking up four episodes versus taking three seasons to get through one year of internship, etc) so I feel that I'm validated in creating my own timeline. I guess I don't understand what purpose Derek being a bitch about "it" would really serve in this context.

AHA I LOVE THAT SHIRT (it actually exists and, sadly, I don't own it). No, in Dropsonde I had Rachel (for some completely inexplicable reason) wearing a shirt advertising a Scandinavian sperm donor agency with the tagline "Congratulations! It's a viking!" And yeah, I decided that Mark has a sister. She'll show up later.

Thank you.

[eighteenthmarch]

The movie was Tsotsi. It won an academy award for best foreign language film a year or two ago. There were some really great scences in it, but towards the end it got really "moving" and "powerful" which kind of annoyed me

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My Netflix queue is filled with Fraggle Rock and Dead Like Me because there are no "good" movies recently out on DVD that don't have the adjective "moving" attached to reviews. If I wanted to be depressed (because "moving" is rarely happy, which is dumb), I'd watch the news or read Tolstoy or stop taking my meds in the morning. All three of which are remarkably cheaper than a movie. /mini-rant at modern movie industry

Not to be crazy defensive writer, but this is the third out of at least a definite seven (I haven't decided what to do with Side B yet) and I'm a stickler for detailed outlines before I even start writing the opening paragraph of the first chapter - it's the only way I'm ever able to finish anything or not run into impenetrable writer's block. So while you have valid points, some parts that you've problemetized now have been planned to be addressed later on for a couple weeks.

I once had a shirt that proved that 1 = 2. Nevermind that you needed to do some nifty division-by-zero to get it to work out.