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bluestocking79

51 Questions Answered About Howard Moon (and Quite a Few About Vince Noir, Too)

Apr 26, 2012 18:56

Title: 51 Questions Answered About Howard Moon (and Quite a Few About Vince Noir, Too)
Fandom: The Mighty Boosh
Characters: Howard Moon, Vince Noir, cameo appearances from Naboo and Bollo
Pairing: Very heavily implied Howard/Vince
Rating: PG
Summary: In which the author tells you more than you ever wanted to know about the life, times, and history ( Read more... )

boosh fic, howard/vince, vince noir, fic, boosh, howard moon

Comments 8

ericadawn16 April 26 2012, 23:54:55 UTC

I loved this. Are there others? Naboo?

bluestocking79 April 27 2012, 02:36:30 UTC

Thank you very much! I'm glad you enjoyed it. It was pretty fun to get this deep in Howard's head, and he talked a lot more than I'd thought he would. ;-)

I've written a companion one for Vince, right here, but I haven't written any others... yet. But I have to say that doing these has been a good writing experience for me, and I think Naboo would be a fun challenge--since he is an enigma, after all.

ideserveyou April 27 2012, 07:23:30 UTC

Thank you for this - you have got Howard nailed, down to the last paperclip and shade of brown! And I love the way that he is essentially inseparable from Vince, even though he hasn't admitted that to himself yet...
I'm off to read Vince now. And I would be fascinated to read your take on Naboo, too...

bluestocking79 April 27 2012, 12:50:53 UTC

You know, I think you're the primary inspiration for me wanting to write one of these up for Naboo. You've piqued my interest! I think he would be a really fun challenge for something like this.

And thank you very much! I'm glad you enjoyed it, and agree. One of the things that I discovered for myself, in writing both of these, is just how entangled Howard and Vince really are. They're genuinely inseparable; they are intimately woven into the fabric of each other's lives, which gave me a new appreciation for how horrible and lonely either of them would feel without the other.

duniazade April 30 2012, 23:12:52 UTC

This is fantastic!

I feel I know Howard better than if I had been watching the series.

Most favouritest snippet: just past the Angry Beige and before the Belligerent Umber :D

On to Vince now!

bluestocking79 May 1 2012, 19:19:33 UTC

Oh, thank you very much! What a wonderful comment to receive. It was my hope that this sort of rounds out Howard as a three-dimensional person. I've always liked being able to take all the bits and pieces of canon and fanon and connect the dots--figure out the space in between and find out what portrait emerges, you know? And this was a great opportunity to do that.

~hugs you~

And I'm delighted you enjoyed that line. Howard has a way with the color names, doesn't he? ;-)

concupiscence66 May 5 2012, 02:43:28 UTC

Poor Howard, always over-complicating. He has such a narrow idea of success. Years ago, I read an article that distinguished between two kinds of narcissicism. There's what we think of, the person who adores themselves and finds themselves better and more important that others. Then there's the other kind that is crippled with self-doubt but has wildly unrealistic fantasies of what they could be if only... Figuring out the if only part is the problem because they can't get out of their own head enough to be objective.

My favorite section was the neuroses. So true! Really fun to read and it makes me want you to put them together after Denmark. Just a hint. Just a nudge.

Now where did I put my fic-demanding banging stick...?

bluestocking79 May 6 2012, 14:35:06 UTC

So I had this wonderful response written to this... and then LJ ate it. Boo, LJ! But I'll try to reconstruct.

Howard really is his own worst enemy. There's no simple thing that he can't make complicated, and his definition for success and greatness really is so narrow and unforgiving--no wonder he's afraid he's a failure, if that's the measuring stick he's using. I always think that what I really would like to see for him--eventually, anyway--is for him to learn enough perspective to be able to see that he is great, that he is important in ways that are much more meaningful.

Then there's the other kind that is crippled with self-doubt but has wildly unrealistic fantasies of what they could be if only... Figuring out the if only part is the problem because they can't get out of their own head enough to be objective.Yeah, and that's more than a little bit Howard, isn't it ( ... )