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Road Block, for finchandsparrow

Sep 03, 2019 14:14

Title: Road Block
Recipient: finchandsparrow
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 3.9k
Warnings: Profanity and show-level sacrilege.
Author’s Note: Thanks to sweetheartdean for the beta! Prompt: folklore/local color + a remarkable thrift store find/inexplicable moss/a noteworthy amphibian.

Summary: Gordon Walker needs his road opened.

( and make straight paths for your feet, so that the limb which is lame may not be put out of joint, but rather be healed )

2019:fiction

Comments 31

wetsammy September 3 2019, 19:12:04 UTC

Gordon! Love it. Gordon’s interactions with the root doctor were fascinating along with all of your details sprinkled throughout the fic. I could really see and feel the setting. Kubrick makes such a great partner/foil for Gordon. His fanaticism makes Gordon look reasonable by comparison.

I let Sam Winchester go. Oh boy, I was expecting him to write about killing his sister but that wouldn’t have been very much like Gordon. This is perfect.

road_rhythm September 23 2019, 08:28:31 UTC

Thank you! The Gordon/Kubrick dynamic fascinates me; it's played for laughs in Bad Day, but Fresh Blood hints at something deeper, more sincere, and far more interesting. I didn't really get around to it here, but I'd like to excavate that some day...

amberdreams September 3 2019, 20:25:45 UTC

This was so meaty for such a short story - great characterisation for both Gordon and crazy Kubrick, and I loved Mrs Alford too! Such an interesting interlude, I'm fascinated by the rootwork, and the sense of place was vivid.

I may even have a thought about who you are, dear anon - though I'm usually wrong. LOL

road_rhythm September 23 2019, 08:32:19 UTC

Thanks! Hopefully I didn't do a terrible disservice to rootwork of the region; I learned about it from talking to people in the area this is set and was able to find some decent academic sources on it, but I've never consulted a root doctor myself (and didn't feel right trying to).

borgmama1of5 September 3 2019, 20:26:04 UTC

Incredibly vivid writing!

road_rhythm September 23 2019, 08:34:35 UTC

Thank you!

monicawoe September 3 2019, 21:29:35 UTC

Oh wow this was brilliant!!
I love character studies on side characters and Gordon was such a fascinating one. This slides so smoothly into canon and you absolutely nailed his voice (and Kubrick’s).
Marvelous job!!
I love the root doctor he went to see also. It’s a perfectly foreboding ending.

road_rhythm September 23 2019, 08:35:26 UTC

Thank you, so glad you liked it!

themegalosaurus September 4 2019, 12:02:25 UTC

The specificity and oddness of this one is what makes it work - the root doctor's cures, but also Kubrick's T-shirt, for example. I'm always interested in Gordon stories and this one has so much going on under the surface. Love it!

road_rhythm September 23 2019, 08:37:21 UTC

so much going on under the surface
Ahaha, the old "leave a bunch of things out of the text in hopes readers' imaginations will supply something better than you could" have maneuver. Glad that it worked in this case!