[Crossover: Nathan Barley/The Mighty Boosh] Fic: Smoke and Mirrors (3-4 of 4)

[thirstyrobot]

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Comments

[fifteenminutes]

Wow... this is amazing. Love. ♥
Not only am I a sucker for crossovers, but everything in this just worked so well.
I'd never connected Howard and Jones together through the way both tinker with music, but they would get along perfectly in that respect. And d'awww and Howard just wanting a friend when he calls him up.
And Dan hating textspeak and opting to type full sentences was such a small detail, but so fitting. There were so many little things that made me giggle. ♥
-adds to memories-

[thirstyrobot]

Hee, always happy to meet another sucker. I swear, my brain operates in some sort of crossover algorithm. I don't know how the Moog/crab/shoe combo clicked in my head and went JONES! one day, but it did. And LOL, I just couldn't see Dan texting 'where r u' or whatever. Seemed like it would offend his sensibilities.

:D Thank you so much!

[fifteenminutes]

Well, no matter how you came to it I'll love you forever for making that connection. Now I have this happy little fanon spinoff in my head where Howard and Jones are BFFs for life making strange music together. ;)

And god, I can just feel Dan cringing and backspacing over the "where r u'. Good choice.

♥

[storyfan]

Favorite lines:

"Or maybe we'll both fuck up a lot but it'll be all right."

and

"One of them pulls too hard and Vince topples forwards. Howard catches him, because Howard always catches him, even when everything's horrible and muddled like it is now, and though Vince doesn't really think about it, the only thing to do is grab on and cling."

See, you know this is a great fic when a person can read it without knowing the canon or even being vaguely familiar with the characters. I know Vince and Howard decently well, but Dan and Jones are unknown quantities. The latter doesn't matter (yes, I'm a poetess) because of the way you write. The whole thing comes together in a sort of seamless universe. Yes, now I'm just gushing in a berkish fashion, so I'll end this by saying:

I wish I could win the megamillions so you could stay home and write and write and write.

[thirstyrobot]

You are so not berkish, you are awesome. ♥ And Jones is nearly an unknown quantity in canon anyway. I think I've told you he's in the entire series for a total of 5 minutes? I guess there's sort of a fanon norm for him but it varies. Dan's just... imagine me at my crankiest with a few days of stubble. ;P

I wish you would win too, not only so I could write all day, but so that you could. Thank you, sweetie, your comments never fail to bring me joy. ♥

[savanna_says_hi]

I just. Agh. Wow. I have no words. I loved this much more than a little. Umm. Yeah. Sorry for this totally crap comment.

[thirstyrobot]

Don't be sorry! Any comment is great. :D Especially if I've removed the power of speech. ♥ Thank you!

[mandybling]

If humans could purr I certainly would be.

[thirstyrobot]

Thank you! :3 *hands round catnip*

[silent_fields]

Wow. Just wow.

I really love what you did with Jones, the way he relates to people and music and his history with Dan. I found myself feeling the same elation he did when Dan played the guitar. I also really love that you had Dan quit Sugar Ape, but freelancing still hadn't quite worked out for him yet. It showed some progression on his part, but of course he still has a long way to go. Both relationships worked as a great contrast toward each other. I really felt for Howard when he spoke about Jones about Vince.

Seriously, this was fantastic.

[thirstyrobot]

Hooray, thank you! :D I wanted Dan to have made some progress, yeah, and I couldn't see him making any while still working there unless Jonatton fell off something tall. :P But it takes more time than this to fix a wreck that big. Writing this is what made me fall in love with Jones. (and I do love the way Barratt fondles a guitar ♥)

[silent_fields]

Your Jones is very easy to fall in love with. Too many details to choose just one, but he's great.