fic: Wherein the wife watches the in-laws play baseball (997 words, PG-13, Josa POV)

[kayliemalinza]

About six months ago, possibly_thrice prompted me for " anything about the Ex and Joanna and springtime." So I wrote her some happy-funtime-fluff fic, because The Ex is such a happy-funtime-fluff character. :)

NB: I am a cruel and filthy liar.

Additional warning: Political correctness is not something I was concerned with while writing this fic.

Comments

[rubynye]

I continue to adore your Josa. (The line about Leonard having 'no peripheral awareness' -- !!!)

[kayliemalinza]

No peripheral awareness-- yeah. :/ The worst part of this fictional relationship, I think, is writing both POVs and noticing all the blind spots....

I'm glad you still like her! She's-- not really pleasant. But in terms of my personal education and discovery, she's very important-- and parts of her I owe to you (but not in, like, a creepy "I fictionalize my friends" sort of way. Promise.)

[rubynye]

*grin* Thank you for the compliment. (i think. *meeps*)

(:D)

[kayliemalinza]

It took me a few days to figure how to say this non-creepily-- after I had entertained certain ideas of Josa, but before I had allowed myself to develop those ideas more fully, there was an entry on your personal LJ (which I lurked after realizing you were quite handy with flock and filter, so public entries are guilt-free*) which sort of... granted me permission to Go There. So Josa's not modeled on you, but she shares aspects of her past with you: aspects which are more common than anyone likes to think. :/

*I am still being deliberately vague, as not everyone who lurks my journal knows your personal screenname.

P.S. idk if you saw this entry? It's basically an overview of the McCoy relationship.

[possibly_thrice]

He'll keep trying, waiting for her goodness to run out. He knows what he wants and he's a sneaky sumbitch.

BRB BOTTLING MY OCULAR SECRETIONS FOR YOUR PLEASURE

(okay but really I will give this a more thoughtful comment later; for now all I have it in me to say is that I surely do like it when you fill my prompts.)

[kayliemalinza]

*stores the pritty butterfly tears in the super special velvet-lined box*

IS IT LATER YET. :D

[kayliemalinza]

YOU KEEP CHANGING YOUR DEFAULT ICON PUMPKIN I CANNOT DEAL WITH THIS

I DO LIKE THE CURRENT ONE, THO, WITH THE GREYSCALE DEVASTATION AND PRETTY PINK FLOWERS.