Comments | helenish: A thing that isn't happening.

helenish

A thing that isn't happening.

Feb 08, 2011 17:59

I said I wasn't writing this, but then I went and did, a little. (Sort of the writing equivalent of "just the tip ( Read more... )

ridiculous, i know

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maga_nw February 8 2011, 23:29:05 UTC

yesyesyeeeess

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helenish February 9 2011, 01:25:04 UTC

TEE HEE

almostnever February 8 2011, 23:38:37 UTC

I sure never noticed when there was a new kid and he was a beautiful loner with an English accent who lived with his foxy "cousin" who came to parent-teacher night in a three-piece suit and had a really nice mouth.

Baby Eames was too pretty and exotic to be approachable, that's all. I notice that when he talked to the girls they were ready to jump for him right away...

helenish February 9 2011, 01:17:08 UTC

UH, that is because Eames used his amazing skillz at CONNING people, she says authorially.

almostnever February 9 2011, 01:40:00 UTC

Being attractive is a skill! (I feel like I'm echoing thing-you're-not-writing!Mal somehow with that.)

helenish February 9 2011, 02:03:07 UTC

a) if you work too long on a Mal scene you start talking crazy.
b) I feel totally lame EXPLICATING that thing I wrote, but the idea was supposed to be that Eames approached each girl differently based on what he'd sussed out about them (so - Bethany got the agressive/confident approach and Lisa got a shy English schoolboy.)

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la_sikka February 9 2011, 00:18:31 UTC

write more from Mal's POV, or Arthur with Mal, because lord I love your Mal.

Wonderful and treating Eames like an adult and pouring him red wine in jelly jars, and teaching him how to make coq au vin because it is arthur's favorite or something.

helenish February 9 2011, 01:18:58 UTC

oh, yes, see, I am hoping for this type of "DO THIS OR THAT!" direction, although I, uh, can't promise to follow through.

But more Mal, yes, that's in the hopper.

la_sikka February 9 2011, 01:30:04 UTC

it's not like I am trying to order you, so much as like, very strongly suggest.

I would also love to see more of arthur and eames on the job or maybe the scene where arthur teaches him how to fight and then pins eames to the mats. OR! maybe arthur taking eames to get his first suit because i am ridiculous and love things like this.

helenish February 9 2011, 02:16:26 UTC

oh, you are NOT RIDICULOUS. Or ...ridiculous in a good way? Those are all awesome ideas, although I'm not sure how easy they will be to execute. The problem with THE JOB stories is I have to come up with THE JOB and I find it ludicrously difficult work, especially since I know no one cares and just wants the bit where Arthur shows Eames he Trusts Him or Eames Fucks Up But Arthur Saves Him and Says It's Okay or Arthur Fucks Up and Eames Comes Through or...etc. etc., but you still have to come up with some vaguely convincing sounding job for the background.

You can see I have very serious problems in my life right now.

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cherrybina February 9 2011, 00:27:23 UTC

How much do I love that the fic you're not writing is ten thousand words long. SO MUCH.

helenish February 9 2011, 01:21:04 UTC

There is just SO MUCH to SAY, you see. Uh, it will be 13,000 words by tomorrow (ish)?

helenish February 9 2011, 01:42:46 UTC

I should thank you for sponsorship/inspiration/etc. etc. It could not have happened without you!

lobelia321 February 9 2011, 00:41:04 UTC

I love you like a love thing.

helenish February 9 2011, 01:19:14 UTC

awwwww. thank you!