T-Minus 38 Hours....

[redbrunja]

Do you know what I'm doing tomorrow morning?

Packing.

*grins*

Stolen from everyone on my flist:

If you had me under your command and could make me write anything, what would you love to see me write? I'm not actually going to write any of these (unless something strikes me), but I am curious. (Not required, obviously, but "why" would be nice.)

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Re: Now You've Flattered Me, So I'm Helpless

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

Gojyo/Kanan AU? YES. YES, YOU NEED TO POST IT. Please? *puppydog eyes*

And yes, if flattery is all that it takes, you should have told me that ages ago! Just let me go get a shovel... ;)

It hardly seems like cheating to me, if it's a case where you like the idea of bouncing those personality types against each other but can't see it working with the canon characters because you read them as purely straight, then forcing yourself to write them slashed would be about as AU-ish from your POV as doing a genderswap. And it's just such a *fun* sort of AU, even aside from shippiness, I just love the idea of a girl version of Gojyo, there seems to be so much potential for interesting things to play with there; the unapologetic sluttiness in particular would get her even more disapproval than it does with him as a guy, the facial scarring would tend to read even more strongly as disfiguring rather than rakish, and there's room for so much extra stepmom-angst if being female makes Gojyo an even stronger reminder of her human birth mother... (And can you imagine Gojyo with PMS? *snicker*) And adding in the shippiness, well, that also seems like it raises the potential for tweaking the angst in different ways than if it were slash -- since girl!Gojyo would be about as different from Kanan as possible in just about every way except simple physical gender.

_{Heck, if it eases your conscience any more, you could make BOTH of 'em girls, since heaven knows yuri is even rarer in this fandom than het! I would not complain, either way...I so wasn't kidding when I said I like any permutation on that pairing. It's the intense friendship and the contrast in personalities that gets to me, and that would push my buttons no matter the genders involved.}

I suspect I've had this on my mind a lot because I've been trying to find something that pushes the same buttons as Perversion but in a slightly girlier way to be a new everyday fragrance, and since that one is my Gojyo scent I've inevitably been thinking of the candidates in the same personified terms. (Right now it's looking like the two main candidates are Bandit (http://nowsmellthis.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2006/9/26/2362609.html) and Habanita (http://nowsmellthis.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2007/4/5/2859026.html). That second review in particular made me rush out and hunt down a sample -- "If you can imagine dousing yourself in baby powder, donning an old leather jacket and then smoking a cigar in a closed room with a single rose in a vase 10 feet away, you'll get the general idea" sure sounds a bit Starbuck, eh?

Re: Now You've Flattered Me, So I'm Helpless

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

That scent is Starbuck to a T.

And do you have a link to that both of them girls kink meme fic? Because I couldn't find it the last time I looked.