csi:ny rec. (!!!???)

[cimorene]

yay look! i've found more horrible mac/danny!  so bad my fingernail gouged a painful dent in my jaw while reading it and i didn't even notice. 

yeah, and then... i don't even know how to say this.  i found a really good one at fanfiction.net.  i didn't even know it was possible for really good stories to exist there.  but nonetheless!  yeah.  i don't know what to make of it, except there should perhaps be some kind of religous sanctification for this event (although naturally, in a totally atheist way). i was rendered temporarily speechless by disbelieving braincramp.  i'd probably react that way to a heavenly visitation too. 

there's stella pov, there's humour, snark, stella and danny interaction (!) and all these angry conversations.  and slash, albeit angst and UST.  it all fits in a lovely way with the show, and manages to seem to address all the issues that have come up.

gas food lodging by stellaluna (stellaluna_).  stella pov; stella and danny; mac/danny ust, angst.  stella and danny have multiple conversations on the interstate.  excellent, brilliantly done in a variety of ways; great dialogue, mood and pacing, particularly.  deals with events of tanglewood and references some other episodes.

Comments

[perhael.livejournal.com]

omg you found good mac/danny slash... it exists? i'm speechless. also my brain has melted down because it really was excellent, and now i'm a puddle of squee. *happy sigh* <3

[cimness.livejournal.com]

YEAH I KNOW.

guhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

i'm uploading my tanglewood caps as we ... comment.

[perhael.livejournal.com]

[cimness.livejournal.com]

i got back from the party quite late, huh? :sigh: no writing.

...is that a "squee" hand gesture you're making there?

[http://users.livejournal.com/stellaluna_/]

I am gobsmacked and flattered and thank you. :-) "Gas Food Lodging" is probably the story of mine that came out closest to the way I wanted it to turn out. And I love Mac/Danny--just wish that there was more of it.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

i agree it's the best. the "ten-cent" and "only real boy in new york" series were strikingly good too, but not as top-of-form.

i know it can be hard to deal with effusive praise even if it's pleasing. i apologise for that. it's much easier to squee.

i want to ask you where you got the happy pills thing? i mean, is there a mention in canon that i missed?

[perhael.livejournal.com]

nah, that's just me being gay weird. i didn't have an appropriate squeeing picture.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

it might be hard to properly capture on film anyway.

[perhael.livejournal.com]

it probably would be. and even if i did manage it, it would make me look like a total idiot ;)

[cimness.livejournal.com]

waaaaaaah! you deleted my beloved gary though!

yeah, squeeing does do that. at the slasha party last night some of the helsinki girls kept calling my and chi's sounds "slasher noises".

[perhael.livejournal.com]

he lives! *cuddles him*

[cimness.livejournal.com]

good. i tim was upset.

[perhael.livejournal.com]

*huggles tim too, for good measure*. aww, they're so sweet <3

[cimness.livejournal.com]

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[http://users.livejournal.com/stellaluna_/]

Oh no, squee is good. :-) I was gobsmacked in a good way. But I do start blushing like a tomato.

The happy pills things was from a conversation I was having with another CSI:NY-watching friend, re: Mac's sudden cheer during the dog show episode and after. His sudden perkiness had no in-show explanation, so we came up with the "happy pill" solution. It was either that or pod people.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

hunh, it seemed more... i mean, i think they emphasised it on purpose, but i don't think it's THAT inexplicable. i believe they want to show him making a deliberate effort to loosen up, perhaps. in fact, i kind of fear they were trying to imply that the dog show sort of reminded him of happier times and he rediscovered his inner child, but i take it as my prerogative to ignore bad writing on the part of the show's writers whenever possible.