Fic: Absence Makes The Handset Grow Fonder (Sam/Mobile)

[strangeumbrella]

Title: Absence Makes The Handset Grow Fonder
Fandom: Life On Mars
Pairing: Sam/Mobile Phone
Rating: G
Summary: Sam has a visitor from the future. Or the past, depending on which way you look at it.
Notes: For the Life On Mars Ficathon 2007. Written for jantalaimon (Sam/mobile (because there really DOES need to be more!), jealousy, true love). Much love goes

Comments

[ailcia]

Eeeeeeeeeeee, this is just as wonderful the second time round. It does just make me laugh so, SO much! :D

ps. Posted mine (link to it on my lj), but I'm still infinitely glad you just emailed me! Thankyou so much! ♥

[ailcia]

ALSO. THE TITLE IS WONDERFUL. YOU SHOULD CONDUCT ALL YOUR BUSINESS AT 2AM. :D

[strangeumbrella]

CAN'T THINK OF A REPLY TO THIS THAT IS NOT SUGGESTIVE SO I'LL LEAVE IT.

But anyway, thank youuu so much for looking over it completely unexpectedly in the middle of a conversation about George Harrison, because, you know. DISTRACTION FROM HARRISON. ♥

[_afterism]

*makes flaily hands of glee at you*

That was brilliant! Insane and believable in the LOM-sort of way and oh, poor Sam. The phone floating next to Gene was just genius. XD

♥!

[strangeumbrella]

Ah, flaily hands of glee! Warms the cockles of my heart. Thank you. :D

[dorsetgirl]

This is just nuts! I love it! It's been a while since a fic made me laugh out loud, but this did.

"afterism*" used a lovely phrase - insane and believable in the LOM-sort of way which I totally second.

"It's a Siemens," Sam adds, helpfully.

"It's a what?"

Just brilliant. I love the whole thing, the way you've got in all sorts of references to how Sam is used to everything being weird, and the rest of CID are used to Sam being weird!

he does, one evening, cut the cord of the distinctly non-mobile phone in his flat What does it say about you, or me, or Sam, that, after reading your fic, I completely believe he would do this?

Love it love it love it. Thank you.

* btw can someone tell me how you do that hyperlink thing with an LJ user name?

[lozenger8]

Sure. Type in
trypeinusernamehere :)

[dorsetgirl]

Hey, it works! dorsetgirl says thanks, Loz!

[strangeumbrella]

references to how Sam is used to everything being weird, and the rest of CID are used to Sam being weird
Ahahaha, I am glad this made sense, because I often wonder if Sam actually went through reams and reams of particularly weird phases that we never actually saw onscreen and the rest of CID would become less "omgwtf Sam what's up with you" and more "oh, he's off again, sigh". Anyway, thank you very much!

[dakfinv]

This was just absolutely hilarious! TCG is right, Sam's love will never die. "My mobile phone," says Sam, "is not jealous." I couldn't stop laughing after reading that line.

[strangeumbrella]

Glad you enjoyed it, thank you! :D

[lozenger8]

OH MY GOD, MADDIE, THIS IS BRILLIANT. It's absolutely brilliant. I almost killed myself laughing.

ILU, dearly.

I could pretty much quote the entire thing back at you, but my personal number one favourite was;

"Oh, Annie." That grin, that grin she sees so rarely, where his eyes shine, and his teeth part slightly, and it looks like he's trying to split his face in two, presumably because one face simply cannot contain the sheer amount of joy he's attempting to express. "It's so much more than that. It's a different level, a different plateau of communication, a whole - a whole multimedia experience."

Because that is so Sam, it really is. And you completely win for this entire fic.

[strangeumbrella]

asdkjlakdjs Loz you have no idea how much this means to me. ♥! I had serious issues with this fic--which is ridiculous in itself, how the hell did I get "serious" issues with the one and only vaguely flippant pairing in LOM--and really wasn't sure about posting it, except I had to post something, and so I did, evidently, and then I bit my nails for a while, and since you a) organised this whole thing and b) are pretty much the closest we've got to a BNF in this fandom, APPARENTLY THIS COMMENT MADE ME VERY RELIEVED.

IN SHORT: THANKS OMG.

[lozenger8]

If your issues meant you ended up with this --- I'm okay that.

This is really great. Can't you see that? It's all the best things of Life on Mars amplified by nine.

[jantalaimon]

Now all we need is Sam singing "20th Century Boy" into the severed handset in his sleep...