Comments | teethlikedog: it's different now that I'm poor and aging

teethlikedog

it's different now that I'm poor and aging

Mar 27, 2009 16:33

I have been listening to too much Interpol lately. Also, my grasp on punctuation (not to mention propriety) seems to have abandoned me entirely. Guh.

we have lingered in the chambers of the sea

(Dan/Rorschach)

( not a love song )

watchmen, fic

Comments 32

bionic March 31 2009, 05:43:56 UTC

That...was beautiful. Such great characterization, so real and tragic. And also, hot!

teethlikedog March 31 2009, 11:36:19 UTC

Thanks, glad you liked!

dana_norram April 2 2009, 02:39:41 UTC

Such a missing moment from the GN. And what moment. Perfectly done, beautifully pointed up and made of awesome bitterness. :D

You can have my children. All of them. *_*

Dan sleeps, and his dreams are Kafka cartoons, scuttling on too many legs through dark water, always searching and always useless, always too late for anything that matters. He wakes and finds Rorschach belting his trench coat, sliding on gloves, talking corpses and torture and it's as if nothing ever happened, slate washed clean in black and white ink. And if Dan is a little harsher than he means to be, if he lets Rorschach's apology grip his hand a little too long before pulling away, it's nothing. It's nothing at all.

~ fuck yeah.

teethlikedog April 2 2009, 07:08:15 UTC

Hah, thank you, glad you enjoyed! I'm v. pleased my shoe-horning into canon worked, because honestly the whole thing would have been pointless if I couldn't work in that handshake at the end. *loves on your icon*

seularen April 3 2009, 21:41:20 UTC

it's nothing. It's nothing at all.

Broke me. Absolutely fucking broke me.

teethlikedog April 6 2009, 07:41:04 UTC

Thank you, glad you liked.

spookie_v April 7 2009, 21:40:23 UTC

Haven't read this yet (but I will. Totally will! I have a huge back log of fic that I have lined up to read), but I wanted to let you know it's impossible to listen to too much Interpol.

: )

teethlikedog April 8 2009, 09:51:21 UTC

Oh man fic backlog, I know the feeling; there's too much awesome fic in this fandom AND I HAVE AN EDUCATION TO GET, DAMN IT!

Re: Interpol, you speak the truth. Too much is not quite enough.

subcutis May 10 2009, 20:48:14 UTC

Wow! Beautiful!

asdfghjkl AND PRUFROCK. I never even realised how perfectly they fit... I just might have to do a series about this... will definitely credit you if I do. Anyway, AMAZING.

Just. Augh. Grimy and sensual-- perfectly Eliot, perfectly Watchmen. Brilliant.

Also "Kafka cartoons" is a wonderful phrase-- again, it's got a very apocalyptic, hopeless Watchmen-esque feel.

teethlikedog May 13 2009, 16:26:05 UTC

Thanks so much, glad you enjoyed. A lot of Eliot's poetry fits quite well with Watchmen, I think, full of pathos and futility and everyday tragedy. I'd be tempted to do something with The Hollow Men but I'm worried it would come out a little too on the nose!

I'm very pleased you liked the "Kafka cartoons" phrase - I've been hankering to do something with The Metamorphosis (because Dan is so Gregor Samsa) but in the absence of time/inspiration I sneaked a little reference in here.