Inconsequential musings on a recent obsession

[pensnest]

Have been reading too many popslash stories. Define 'too many'. Nah, probably not, then.

It struck me yesterday that there are some correspondences with other fannish areas. Namely, Chris Kirkpatrick = Miles Vorkosigan in lots of interesting ways. Lance - Anakin Skywalker. The others are more difficult: JC is like water, difficult to grasp; Joey almost the opposite. Someone tell me where to find a complex!Joey story. Justin is, in some incarnations, a lot like David Feintuch's Rodrigo. Wonder if that will ever make sense to anyone but me.

Well, anyway. Dinner dance tonight, yay, time to get the twinkly shoes out of the wardrobe. It seems we get salsa instruction as well as regular dancing, and the disco lady has borrowed my ballroom CDs so I hope the Beast can remember how to quickstep.

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[copracat]

Complex Joey? What about the story where Chris turns into a girl and dates the hockey player? The Same Inside

[pensnest]

Ah, that was nice! I don't know that it makes Joey complex, exactly - he's sweet, as (practically) always, and yes, he has some inner conflict...

I dunno quite what I meant by complex!Joey. Perhaps his characterisation is more uniform than the others' - for instance, I've read maniac!Chris, fierce!Chris, Master!Chris, bottom!Chris, daft!Chris, vulnerable!Chris (and so forth), and the differing characterisations seem to create a multifacetted ur-Chris (gosh!). Whereas with Joey, although there are variations along the straight-gay axis, he is very nearly always presented as A Nice Man. And Nice Men, while they are my favourite kind IRL, are less interesting to write/read about than unpredictable ones.

I did come across a remix of Merry's 'Wolves and Boybands Mate for Life' story, from Joey's POV, and with Venn diagrams (!), which was delightful, and I cannot for the life of me trace the url. Grump.

Wolves, you say?

[copracat]

http://www.boudicca.com/oncebitten/remix/2004/merry.html

Well, aren't I the unexpected source of Joey goodness!

Re: Wolves, you say?

[pensnest]

(giggles) Thank you!

One of these days I'll sort out my bookmarks and learn my way around this fandom. But Not Today!

Procrastinae now.

Re: Wolves, you say?

[copracat]

I'm reading that remix right now. It's so adorable.

[bossymarmalade.livejournal.com]

Huzzah! A long time ago I did recs that I called "A Different Kind of Joey" because he's more in them than the go-to guy, he's more than the one who comforts them with hugs:

-First and Third by nemoinis
-Rebound by CJ Marlowe
-Beauty Queen by Jae
-Watch by k8
-Daylight by northernveil
-the man/the legend by jawamonkey
-Tough Mama by sandy the older
-Every Song Has a You by kel.
-The Compound by strandia

Hope you find something in that pile that you like!

[pensnest]

Thanks so much for the recommendations. I had found a couple of them before, but - fresh stories! (beam) It's still very new for me, reading and meaning to write in a fandom where the characterisation is a palimpsest rather than a presentation of evidence. 'S cool though.

[bossymarmalade.livejournal.com]

Dude, tell me about it. I landed in popslash after being in comic book fandom and then a couple of tv show fandoms, and the rules are almost completely different here; sometimes it seems like as long as you can write it convincingly, you can get away with pretty much *any* characterization you want. Which, really, is half the fun. *g*