Comments | mary_marshall: Month of Mayhem, day 13: assorted ficlets!

pipisafoat in mary_marshall

Month of Mayhem, day 13: assorted ficlets!

Mar 13, 2010 17:30

Once upon a time, I was writing a long!fic called Fairy Tale Ending that just never got anywhere worth going, but one tiny little scene was worth keeping, so I kept it, intending to expand on it or just post it tiny some day. The Month of Mayhem rolls around, and I decide I should share it, but I can't find it, so I write a completely new something ( Read more... )

hiatus fun: month of mayhem, zzauthor: pipisafoat, fanfiction

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likelike_love March 13 2010, 23:28:01 UTC

Okay, you broke my heart. You broke my heart with some beautifully written vignettes, but the fact remains, you broke my heart. Twice in a row.

(Please fix them. Thank you.)

pipisafoat March 13 2010, 23:36:12 UTC

I have lots of colors of duct tape! Which would you like on your heart?

likelike_love March 13 2010, 23:43:27 UTC

Fly says pink camo, please and thank you.

pipisafoat March 14 2010, 01:11:57 UTC

Well. As you might guess, pink isn't a color I have. (or camo. though that is because i have too many redneck friends who have appropriated it.) I can offer you purple? teal, to match my checkbook? the teal is really excellent. it's my favorite of the tapes.

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bujyo March 13 2010, 23:50:47 UTC

wow. *swallow*

That was pretty heartbreaking. Raw and unflinching...gotta love it.

Well done!

..now I'm going to go watch the bloopers again to cheer myself up :)

pipisafoat March 14 2010, 01:12:25 UTC

BLOOPERS what a great idea. also yay thank you!

randomrattle March 14 2010, 00:03:11 UTC

He fumbled with keys, left the lo mein on the table, and paused at the door. "I'll come by another day for my stuff, then."

I think I hate you, #1.

Jesus, Marshall, we work together. I can be your partner. I can be your friend. I could even be your occasional fuck buddy - we both know how good I am at that. But I will never be, can never be, anything more than that."

I think I hate you, #2.

Of course, the reason I think this is because both these shorties can be true, ARE true. This is exactly how Mary is, and how Marshall (if he had the guts) would need to react. In order to save himself.

Mary isn't about to change. And Marshall has either got to endure the suffering or walk away. You got both of them dead on right.

(And isn't it GRRR when you've lost a snippet and can't find it?)

pipisafoat March 14 2010, 01:14:02 UTC

I am forever losing snippets. of things on my computer (maybe because everything is called "thing" or "stuff") and things in my apartment and things in my head. OH WELL.

yay for true! yay for reading! yay for hating? YAY FOR HATING. *lets you hug marshall to make up for it*

ruralstar March 14 2010, 00:03:43 UTC

Bittersweet. I particularly liked the second one. Mary is so much this person and so much wants to be the person who actually gets the fairy tale ending in life. She's right, and so are you as her voice here, life rarely works that way. Thank you for sharing. Well done.

pipisafoat March 14 2010, 01:14:54 UTC

thank you! also yes, so many places this idea of the fairy tale ending wanted to go, but so few places my brain could drive it to. OH WELL.

kostgard March 14 2010, 00:23:40 UTC

Wow - those were harsh, but not unrealistic. Poor Mary is so effed up.

Good job!

pipisafoat March 14 2010, 01:15:23 UTC

Poor Marshall! *initiates hug-fest*

Thank you!