Comments | orangesparks: my feet could step and walk.

orangesparks

my feet could step and walk.

Oct 24, 2010 03:41

Mad Men.
Stan and Peggy go to lunch.

I'll admit it - I really kind-of-almost-love Stan. His character growth was one of the nicer surprises about Season Four, imo. (I also love him and Peggy together - just not, y'know, together. )

( They favored seafood-heavy joints on Fridays. )

fic: mad men

Comments 10

theonlytwin October 24 2010, 08:24:39 UTC

this made me like stan a lot more than the show made me like stan.

orangesparks October 24 2010, 23:46:24 UTC

i'm glad! i went from absolutely loathing the guy in his first ep to warming to him more and more as the season went on. of course, he had to fuck things up when he tried to maul peggy's face, but i can't really blame the guy. if i worked with that girl i'd have a pathetic crush on her, too.

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orangesparks October 24 2010, 23:50:49 UTC

thank you so much! i was curious as to what they'd actually talk about at lunch, now that the rest of creative is gone to act as buffer between them, and i realized he'd probably be too worn down to even put up much of a fight when peggy refused to stop working, heh.

fallen_woman October 24 2010, 19:17:38 UTC

YOU MADE ME LIKE STAN. YOU MADE ME FEEL FOR STAN. Clearly you must be a devious genius because up to now I had nothing but revulsion for him and the idea of him actually being friends with Peggy since I only love obnoxious, pushy semi-rapists if they're named Pete Campbell.

"It still amazed him how many of those she could put away without feeling the consequences." Yes, this is perfect! How he circles around his fascination and grudging admiration for her. I never thought of the religion connection, and gah you write Catholic guilt & unconventional, melancholic Peggy pairings so well you should just patent it.

orangesparks October 25 2010, 00:08:26 UTC

FUCK YEAHHH, EVIL MISSION ACCOMPLISHED.

thank you so much!

i'm still kind of baffled when it comes to my feelings about stan. he started out as paul kinsey 2.0 (if paul had ever joined a frat), slowly became more tolerable (and hilarious), took a million steps backwards when he decided to attack peggy with his tongue, THEN actually gained my sympathy - because of that heartbroken look on his face when she was called into don's office during the lay-offs. (what can i say, i'm easy.)

since he's an italian-american who seems to have been raised working class, i guessed he'd be catholic, too, which made his masochistic crush on peggy make a lot more sense to me. "i'll just let her yell at me and humiliate me and then she'll realize what a wonderful guy i really am!" yeahhhhh, great plan, dude.

cmk418 October 25 2010, 12:20:12 UTC

Loved this. I already like the two of them as a pairing and you really depicted their relationship and the UST between them very nicely.

orangesparks October 27 2010, 10:23:38 UTC

thank you! i'm hoping against hope stan is back next season, even if he and peggy are still stuck in their awkward working antago-friendship. his inappropriateness was one of the bright spots in a dark, depressing season.

jtsbar January 30 2011, 13:30:59 UTC

I never noticed that look on his face when she was called in. This was really good, and really surprising. Hope you write more (and I never would have expected to say this) Stan. With Peggy or not, either way, your version of him is rather a revelation.

orangesparks February 3 2011, 06:29:12 UTC

thank you so much! it'll probably take a new episode or two to spark my imagination again completely, but i definitely have more ideas when it comes to writing stan.

suburban_sun April 8 2013, 21:55:53 UTC

Oh this is fantastic. I know it's a couple years old so not sure if you'll see this, but yeah. I had never searched for Peggy/Stan fic until just now and for all I know this one story may be all there is, but it's such a great, cute and bittersweet little moment, and you're characterization is great too. So glad Stan has stuck around all this time!