ain't that close to love

Feb 12, 2011 00:32

Within like a week of finishing Strays, the incredibly obvious occurred to me in form of the question: where the hell is Billy Beane in the hooker AU that features every other regular ( Read more... )

zito/beane, mlb fic

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izzady March 1 2011, 18:38:58 UTC
Mwahahaha. This is so so so awesome. This is exactly the sort of thing that would happen to strays!Zito. God. Billy fucking Beane. Zito's messed up thought processes. I don't even know.

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candle_beck March 8 2011, 18:27:13 UTC
hee, indeed. strays!zito is the most messed up of all the zitos, which is saying SO MUCH.

and thanks! awesome that you liked it.

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park_hye_in April 9 2011, 20:25:14 UTC
uh, i have no idea how i missed this when you first posted it, but i'm so glad i periodically check your journal.

oh my god, i have so many feelings about this story. i don't even know where to begin. somehow you've managed to put everything i love about fan fiction into this one pairing: heartbreak, tragedy, men, boys, unrealized dreams, sports, hookers, damaged psyches, blow jobs, inappropriate relationships, pain -- the list goes on and on.

strays is such a fantastic mindfuck of a story, and yes, the only thing that could have made it better was this little interlude. man, this pushes my buttons so hard, i can't really describe it without sounding extremely creepy (i am not so creepy in real life, swear, only on the internet when confronted with stories of rentboy!zito).

as much as i love strays, though, you know zito/beane is like my desert island pairing. the glimpses here of optimism kill me, they make the whole thing that much worse. i would quote every line if i could, but: It was good, it seemed like it could have been ( ... )

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candle_beck April 18 2011, 17:04:19 UTC
dude! one of the better comments of all time ever, i am really blown away. thanks so much for taking the time to give your thoughts ( ... )

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candle_beck September 17 2011, 15:59:58 UTC
hee, i like these au versions of a pre-existing au. i think zito would have had to have done way more drugs for billy not to recognize him a couple years later. however! i could see them meeting up and recognizing each other but refusing to acknowledge it, and having lots of really angsty eyes-closed sex.

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