if my prayer be not humble, make it so

[candle_beck]

Comments

[nycscribbler]

Oh, this feels so delightfully bubbly and wrong, and yes "Madison Bumgarner" reads like a name that should either be in bad porn or sending me e-mails about V1agra.

I love how there are rules. I love how some people can ignore the rules. I adore the memory of his first kiss with Keandra Dawn Washington.

[candle_beck]

i do not know why the description of "delightfully bubbly and wrong" appeals to me so much, but there you go. excellent.

and yeah, i can't tell if the rules don't apply to buster or he just breaks them without caring. it is going to be a critical part of his characterization once i figure it out, i betcha.

thanks kid, you always have been pretty damn awesome.

[biketest]

I am so into this new pairing. When I read that you were gonna write a Posey/Bumgarner fic I was immediately like, YES. I loved this. It would be totally awesome to hear Posey's POV.

[candle_beck]

awesome! i need people to encourage me along these new obscurant pathways. buster's pov i am currently horribly intimidated by (what in the world is going on in that guy's mind?), but also looking forward to taking a crack at. thanks very much for reading!

[dodger_sister]

Let me just fall over you for a second. I don't know these guys at all, but I clicked the link and was just at first skimming this to see what you had here, and then I started reading it, and then I was reading it as fast I could because good lord Posey get it together, can't you see what's right there, omg, and I could see it wasn't gonna happen and I wanted Bumgarner to get his shit together but even then I was holding out this hope it would work out and my heart was flipping around in my chest.

And now I'm sitting here completely wrecked.

This was amazing.

[candle_beck]

ha, that is so exactly how i would have wanted people to read this story, mainly wincing and hollering at them both to GET IT TOGETHER. perfect. thanks so much for taking a flyer on this one, it is great to hear that you liked it.

[pretty_blue_gun]

I love this. I love Buster. I love MadBum (yeah, that’s right). I love how young they both are, and how important everything seems, and how Madison can’t help but overthink things on his way to heartbreaking self-discovery

[candle_beck]

aaaand i love you. because YES AND YES TO ALL OF THIS.

the pitcher/catcher dynamic is one of the main reasons i was so psyched about buster (also, because he is buster), and i don't think i really got into it as deeply as i might have in this first foray, primarily because it's a madison pov, but yeah, everything you've said about buster's motivations and thought processes is pretty much exactly where i want to go with it. especially: don't let anyone catch you making shit up as you go along. oh my god, that is going to be like my buster posey motto from now on.

also, the sanchez brothers! such love i have for them. i would actually kinda be all about that (freddy from hollywoooood), but just now ford/burriss is the current giants rps brain worm. because of speediness, and general adorability.

thanks man! best comment of the day.

[sunsetfog]

Poor Madison. Not only is he stuck with terrible nickname possibilities, but Buster's being such an asshole to him. I hope for his own sake, he gets to nail someone else on the team--someone who is actually not trying to mindfuck him, anyway, although I'm sure nothing will take away the eyes he has for Buster.

Love this pairing, so excited you're writing it.

[candle_beck]

hee, he gets to nail someone else on the team--someone who is actually not trying to mindfuck him--well, zito's is gonna mindfuck him, he just might not be trying to. but yeah man, once you go buster you don't go back, i could see that happening too.

thanks very much for reading.