Of Angels and Angles

[lozenger8]

Title: Of Angels and Angles
Fandom: Life on Mars
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 3080 words
Notes: Sam/Gene slash. Continuation of We Both Go Down Together, Red Right Ankle and Here I Dreamt I Was an Architect. Title from The Decemberists.

Comments

[taurenova]

Mmmm...case-fic.

♥

[lozenger8]

Yes! It started out as mere sex-in-enclosed-space fic and suddenly acquired a plot from somewhere; eee, I dunno.

Thank you!

[nepthys_uk]

Oooo! Another fab installment. I'm on the edge of my seat here...

[lozenger8]

:D Excellent, thank you!

[jantalaimon]

I'm going to say something that will probably sound exceedingly odd.

Sometimes, when I'm reading your fic, I want to roll around in your words. It's obvious how carefully you choose them, how you want your readers to luxuriate in the way you've chosen to string them together, and I love it.

They're words you can curl your toes into. The rhythm is delicious and soft and comforting.

(On an unrelated note, it's "Ramsay," BTW. :))

[lozenger8]

♥ I like this exceedingly odd comment.

I think --- I'm a very written writer. My exposition is not all that natural, there isn't a great deal of flowery prose - it's designed to play with words. And yeah, sometimes I will spend a long time on a single sentence, to get it just right, which probably indicates how much time I spend on writing.

Oh God, thank you. I googled and everything. This is my number one defence. "I googled!" Because, clearly, this is indepth research, nyeugh!

[jantalaimon]

:D I'm glad. ♥

You are a very written writer. But I disagree about your exposition being unnatural, simply because given the canon of the show, it actually seems a lot more natural than it would be. The show is about one man's artifice, after all, so it's fitting that something written within and extrapolating upon that universe should be so as well. At least, so I think. :D

(Here: gordonramsay.com. I was a bit surprised to learn he's apparently an OBE. J's response to this was, "Guess they're knighting everyone nowadays, aren't they? ;)" XD Though in truth, I do adore him. But you might have guessed that might be the case. XD)

[lozenger8]

Hee! :D That's a really cool way of looking at it.

Kylie Minogue just got an OBE, so yes! If I tell you now that I've never seen one of his shows, will you smack me? And can you do it harder? >:)

[duckyone]

I agree with Janni, I love the way you string words together because you are able to create such a complete reality with them. A reality that I would gladly lose myself in. I am a total Life on Mars junkie and I need to have more to feed my addiction than what the creators of the show were willing to give. Yours are the only stories that so completely scratch that itch for me.

I have to keep telling myself that you are being true to Gene and keeping with canon when I find myself cringing at the way he treats Leonard.

And now you have me wishing I could write because I have a scene in my minds eye that I totally want to see in this fic but which will have to remain in the confines of my brain. Besides, it's light comedic and I don't know if your story is heading in that direction. Angsty, cliffhanger girl that you are.

BTW, since you're on the other side of the world, HAPPY 2008!!!!!!!

[lozenger8]

♥

Thank you, Ducky!

Believe me when I say, I was cringing with you - but I decided that, for once, I was going to have Gene being just as awful as he can get in the show, and never more disgusted have I been than the way he treats both Leonard and Ted Bannister.

But, then, he saved Leonard's life, because Gene would do that too. He's a contradiction, our Gene.

Oh, tell me your ideas! I am planning more comedy for the next installment - light and shade!

[dorsetgirl]

...the way he treats both Leonard and Ted Bannister.

It was just the time. In my Year6 class at school (age 10-11, ie 1968), there was a deaf boy called, yes, Leonard. He'd had meningitis as a baby, and wore a large beige hearing aid with tangly white wires, and he always had a rather frightened look on his face, just like Leonard in the show.

We called him Daft Leonard, and Loony Lennie, ignorant gits that we were, and the teachers must have known, but no-one ever said anything, so I can only think they saw nothing wrong in it.

[lozenger8]

Well, obviously, I know it's the time - but Gene, as with everything, does take it to extremes.

Kids are cruel. I know this from personal experience and seeing them as I teach. You have to teach them compassion, it doesn't come naturally. And you were a kid and learned from your mistake.

[lozenger8]

I often make Gene nicer than he is --- or I allude to his nastier nature but don't actually show it. It's a tempting course of action.

Thank you! :D