New dS fic by mondschein1

[mondschein1.livejournal.com]

Hallo again! Just posted another fic in my LJ -- it's around 44 K, so it's longish again.

Title: Wrangling With Probability
Category: Um. Gennish, I guess, but I suppose you could read in some F/K pre-slash if you wanted to.
Warnings: gen, angst, violence, swearing(oh no!)
Rating: Maybe R, for language and bloodiness.
Summary: A series of post-CotW vignettes, bookended by non-vignettes that provide plot-line to tie the vignettes together with. (At least, I'm pretty sure they're vignettes -- say something if you've got a better word for them.)

Wrangling With Probability

Comments, critical or not, are appreciated. Also, a beta would really be very nice. *g*

Comments

[gurrier.livejournal.com]

Wow. Just read your flashfiction story, and am smiling madly. And then I refreshed my friends page - and there's another story! Downloading it to read later, but I'm loking forward to it.

[mondschein1.livejournal.com]

*blushes*

Thanks!

Your fic

[themoo37.livejournal.com]

I love Fraser-in-hospital so this is just peachy. Not much need of beta'ing either, I detected maybe a typo or 2. Never seen COTW? It always freaks me how many duesers there are that haven't seen stuff. Anyway, enjoyed that. Nice angst.

Re: Your fic

[mondschein1.livejournal.com]

Oh? Not Ray-in-hospital? Out of curiosity (swear I'm not beating up on you or anything), why just Fraser?

Yeah, the typos drive me insane though. *hammers at computer and stares sadly at the smoking mess* Well, I only meant to beat up the spellcheck, which ought to be able to KNOW when my words are not the ones I wanna use!

No, no CotW yet! But I have a plan to get it. And also episode-related fanfic. *hugs fanfiction*

Re: Your fic

[themoo37.livejournal.com]

Why just Fraser? Um, aw, shuffles toe on the ground, just sort of like bashing the Mountie. Also like deathfic. Nothing wrong with others of the boys getting bashed but it's just that much sexier if it is the Mountie.

Nice ta meecha.

Re: Your fic

[mondschein1.livejournal.com]

um. I'm not reccing myself, here, you understand, because I am just not that arrogant, but. Since you read deathfic. And a lot of people don't.

Ray-death-fic (http://www.livejournal.com/users/mondschein1/1254.html#cutid1)

It's not Fraser. But it was my first fic, and I got, like, two comments, and. Well. It is deathfic, anyway. *looks about shamefully*

Re: Your fic

[themoo37.livejournal.com]

I read that when you first put it out. Didn't fb, though.

I'm not so surprised that you didn't get a lot of commentary. These days around the due-niverse most of the fb is going to F/K slash (oh, fuck me,Ray . . . gag me). I hope the snide-ness is coming through. I tolerate slash if it is really well written but mostly I find it boring.

But back to your fic, I read it over perhaps a little more quickly than if it had been Fraser - snuffing. There are very few stories about blondie in which I actually care what happens to him. He just doesn't butter my muffin. I do find him an interesting character to write because his weaknesses are just so obvious and easy to play with.

Anyway, I do remember thinking to myself when I read your piece that you left off while blondie was still breathing so technically it's a "near-death" fic, I guess, although you make it clear he's on the brink of snuffing it.

I also remember musing whether I would have had Fraser approve heroic measures or not. I'm not sure even now which direction I would go with that if I were writing that scenario.

I confess I also found it kind of cute at the time when you said it was your first fic because, hee hee, in my first fic I killed off Fraser of bone cancer. Since then in my fic career I have gone on to kill him by explosion, avalanche, and had Ray shoot him dead in an alternate ending to VS.

Funny thing, I had thought in my innocence that a gazillion people must have ficced that scenario of Ray killing him instead of his surviving. In fact I was hesitant to write it. It just seemed so obvious.But when I went looking for it on exwood and other archives I just didn't see it. So I went ahead and ficced it because it was always bugging me. I think to this day it is one of my better ones. The thing is, I guess, that few people really do like to write deathfic. Many also avoid reading it. We ghouls have to stick together. Sorry for not fb'ing the last one.

Oh dear, I have gone on and on. I'll shut up now.

Re: Your fic

[mondschein1.livejournal.com]

Eh. I think mostly people like happy endings -- not necessarily happy as in "Ray 'n' Fraser went to Canada and fucked like bunnies for the rest of all eternity", but just "Let's not kill anybody important, okay? Let's come really really close and leave it at that."

Also, I like RayV in canon better than RayK, though you might not be able to tell from my fics. >_< Most of the time, anyway. Except for Mountie and Soul. (Ray is an ambassador! You know he is! Er. Yes.) But RayK is so angsty! So everybody loves him. And he works as a good foil for Fraser when Fraser's feeling angsty.

Well, I am not going to do the sappy stupid ER type of death-fic with Fraser sitting about staring at Ray's heart monitor. Which may be just my failing, but I won't do it. I am MORALLY OPPOSED. *stands on soap box*

Yes! The whole reason I wrote my first fic was because there were lots of deathfics on squidge, but next to none were about Ray or Fraser w/ AIDS. There was one, but it was about how Ray got AIDS by fucking random people in bars while pining after Fraser, which is not why I think Ray w/ AIDS is obvious. So I wrote it. And then people made me post it, even though I was absolutely certain the world would think I was an evil gaybasher or something. Which I totally am not.

Ah, the ramble. So pretty. And, ah, I've friended you. *cites justification in "We ghouls have to stick together."*

Re: Your fic

[themoo37.livejournal.com]

Another friend! Oh, lovely. I shall go now and reciprocate.