There Are Many Ways to Go About It (30 Rock, Jack/Liz)

[michellek]

Title: There Are Many Ways to Go About It
For: nbckink
Prompt: 30 Rock, Jack/Liz, anal.
Warning: anal sex.
Spoilers: "Cooter," "Apollo, Apollo," & others, but nothing recent
Word Count: 4,251
Rating: NC-17
Notes: I was going to post this anonymously, but when something gets this long, I feel I may as well attach my name to it even if I feel a little

Comments

[mindymakru]

Dude we're posting in tandem again. It's like we're linked pyschically through fic or something...

I haven't read this yet, I think I will take it home to enjoy :-)

[mindymakru]

This is interesting. I think what's impressive about it is that you're able to take quite an extreme situation for these characters (esp. Liz) and still keep it realistic for both characters. I like Jack's care for her in this and I like Liz's willingness to go there with him. And I liked this whole part:

"There's no need to be specific. All you need to know is that it's better with a woman." He kisses her. "Whom I care about."

"Strange place to pause."

Unless... No. Jack wouldn't have had sex with a dude. Unless he met himself. Like in The Time Traveler's Wife. Which is unlikely to have occurred to Jack as he's never disappeared, leaving a pile of clothes behind.

(Particularly since I remember reading THAT scene in the book and going...oh. Okaaaaay.....)

[michellek]

I think the extremeness of it is what made me end up writing the prompt, as it's not something I'm really into, in terms of het fic -- and I don't read, like, any m/m fic at this point in my life, so I suppose I'm just not really into it at general right now -- and when I first came across the prompt my fic thought was how freaked out Liz would be. So then my brain went into, "Try to write this!" which I initially thought I would do in a 'them discussing it' type of way, but then became them actually going there... again, I think because I wanted to do something I've never done, or really considered for Jack and Liz to do. So, suffice to say, I am glad it seemed realistic for them.

I heard about that scene before I read it and I remember saying -- well, typing, since I was told about it over the internet -- "That did not happen!" It's still way too wtf-y for me... that being said, while watching -- most of -- the super boring movie version, I wished there was some crazy Bana-on-Bana action just for the shot of weirdness.

[mindymakru]

Ha, that's interesting hearing your thought process. Especially since I read some of those prompts and just went...nope. That would never happen. Not between them. (What a bad shipper I am!) But then I rarely get ideas from prompts. I always just have to write whatever comes to me and if it fits for someone's prompt then that's cool too. (I recently got an idea for a slightly kinky fic but it came from an episode...and I am not sure whether or not to write it...) I know I've said it before but your ability to write on demand is impressive and shows what a very creative mind you have to find a way in there, no matter what the starting point. (Speaking of which, where's my follow-up to the Carol/Liz/Jack scenario

[bowserbabe]

If I could bottle the way I feel when I see that you've posted something new, I could become the richest person in the universe.

...and then I could own all the TV shows on DVD that exist.

That would be weird. Good weird.

[michellek]

I think we should get on somehow making this bottle system happen. Because then you'd get riches and I'd have the glory of being the person who brought you riches and, from that, TV shows on DVD. I am going to try to post a dialogue-only Jack/Liz thing before I go to bed, so ideally this bottle system would take very little time to figure out.

(I am super sorry for replying to this so late, btw... I've been kind of depressed and haven't felt like doing much of anything that involves interacting with people... or to put it another way, I've been too busy being a sadness pile in a failure bowl.)

[bowserbabe]

You did seem to be... incommunicadoish.

I totally understand about failure bowls. There was about a month a while ago where I pretty much wasn't on the internet or my computer at all. Fun times.

[michellek]

I do think I'm out of the failure bowl for the moment, which is good... but also not, because I don't feel entirely out of it. But, in any case. I'm somewhat better.

[frey_at_last]

While this subject... act... in fic is not really up my alley (SO TO SPEAK, har har) I love that they can stay in character when you write them, especially Liz, whose interior monologue was laugh out loud funny in parts. Like, I had to stop for a couple moments just to appreciate the humor of this section:

Because she was understanding about him wanting to try this with her. Okay. Maybe she wasn't *entirely* understanding. Maybe the first time he brought it up she told him, "No. No. No. You're not serious. Okay. You are serious. And no. No. No."

And: "I assume you wouldn't say 'poop.'" "That is a bet I would not make if I were you. For a lot of reasons."

Seriously, Jack. For someone who says "poop" often enough in non-anus situations...

Also, the fact that Jack has sodomized Dick Cheney in this universe is ... is ... something ...

As always, I like this theme: And this is her trusting him and shouldn't she trust a man for once?

[frey_at_last]

also, AHEM, I just thought you should know that your new tag-line thingy ("We're going to America") shows up on my tabs exactly like LJ's "We're sorry, that page is blah blah" and it is QUITE CONFUSING for me.

Just continuing the tradition of people complaining about the changes you make to your own journal. *g*

[michellek]

ha, it looks like that to me, too. It also looks weird to me because I usually don't capitalize my journal title, but it seemed off to be capitalizing America and not the first letter of the sentence. Or to not capitalize America. Because, you know, just because I think gay dudes should be allowed to adopt doesn't mean I don't love America.

Speaking of which, I'm surprised nobody was disturbed by the header change from Tina-and-Alec to Cast of Weeds.

[bowserbabe]

For the record, I was saddened by the change to Weeds, but you are crazy Weeds lady lately, so it didn't surprise me.

Also the whole "it's your journal you should do what you want" thing.

[peoplewantducks]

Don't feel weird, that was great.

So glad you've set something free! Hope the writing flow is going well :D

[michellek]

Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it. But I will continue to feel weird, as I always feel kind of weird when I write something that's out of my wheelhouse. Though I suppose it is good weird, as I was happy to finish it/write about something I've never written about and feel like it came out reasonably well.

It's on and off, but it's much better than before when the flow was nonexistent. So there is that. :)

[parisgal3]

I want the show to hire you to write all of Liz's thoughts on everything that happens and have them scroll at the bottom of the screen like subtitles. I love your Liz voice so.

While I like the anonymous feature of nbckink, I'm glad you claimed this. You should, it's wonderful and sweet and perfect.

[michellek]

D'aww, thank you! That's a wonderful compliment. :D

Not that the second part isn't also a great compliment. But I can't deny that I really like the first bit most.