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FIC: Ask Me No Questions (I'll Tell You Lies) (Black Donnellys)

Mar 16, 2007 23:04

Title: Ask Me No Questions (I'll Tell You Lies)
Characters/Pairings: Joey Ice Cream
Rating: PG
Warnings: None
Word Count: 500
Spoiler alert: general series spoilers, no real specifics
Summary: I always wanted brothers like that. Joey Ice Cream in five hundred words.
Author’s Notes: Unbetaed. Weird. Full of pretentious stylistic choices and abuse of ( Read more... )

genre: angst, char: tbd: joey ice cream, fandom: the black donnellys, genre: backstory

Comments 8

resounding_echo March 17 2007, 05:00:27 UTC

What a lovely little thing. I've a soft spot for Joey and I think you did him justice here. The parens seem staple to his narrative style, but I like that you took a risk with the strike-through. It works well in print but I don't know how well it translates into his character (because the canon source is performed media, not written). That said, I think it works. I read the strike-through lines as everything he would never say, but the meaning is still betrayed in his deliever (a vulnerable look, a stumble in his story). Nice work.

fandomfrom3 March 17 2007, 05:22:36 UTC

Thank you so much for reviewing! This piece worried me, because the format's very experimental for me--I'm glad the strike-throughs worked for you. Because we've been presented with Joey in a uniquely performance media, it's a little harder to capture the same persona on paper, so I was aiming for more attitude and outlook than exact mannerisms. I'm glad that came across. :)

Thanks again! *hugs*

resounding_echo March 17 2007, 05:27:01 UTC

Of course. :)

I'm glad you took the risk.

tinkerbell99 March 17 2007, 16:31:45 UTC

The strike throughs and the parentheses SO worked for me! They're a genius way to write the character with all his backtracking and lies and, "Oh yeah...it was really this way." It made it really interesting for me as a reader, because do I trust the strike throughs? Or the parentheses? Any of it? None of it? You've managed to put Joey Ice Cream's personality on the paper (err, screen) both in the words and narration and somehow very literally in the way this is written.

(None of that probably made sense, just know I thought it was brilliant, okay?)

fandomfrom3 March 18 2007, 03:23:48 UTC

Makes perfect sense! Thank you so much! One of the main things I really wanted to put across was the untrustworthiness of everything you're being told here--how any of it could be a lie, or truth, and you're never really sure which is which--because that's the thing that fascinates me about Joey's narration on the show: he's always lying but there's truth in there and it's never really clear where the line is drawn. So I'm glad that came across. :D

And again, thank you so much for such a lovely review!

lavenderfrost March 20 2007, 13:34:59 UTC

Oh, THIS is awesome. XD XD XD

fandomfrom3 April 14 2007, 04:18:35 UTC

Thank you so much!!

crickets July 15 2007, 22:38:08 UTC

Holy crap this is amazing. God. I just.. I'm speechless. The format works so well. (Unbelievably well!) And it makes me wanna hug that little irish dude so hard! Hahaha. Seriously. This is...just... There are tears in my eyes right now it was so good. Aw... Joey. Dude, why haven't I read this before? God! I'm glad I posted that request!