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mylittleredgirl) wrote2006-07-21 03:05 pm
mylittleredgirl) wrote2006-07-21 03:05 pm
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hunting season
I'm now officially a multi-shipper.
Fandom: CSI, Original Gangsta Version. Pairings SO FAR -- keep in mind I've only seen half of seasons 1 and 2 to date:
1) Catherine/Grissom. It is like Crusher/Picard, but with more pole-dancing! (He's a socially awkward academic who knows everything about everything, she's a single mom with more than a little snark in her, and they've got a possibly-angsty as-yet-undetermined past...)
2) Sara/Grissom. Geek mating rituals, omg!
3) Sara/Nicky. The cuteness kills me dead in totally unexplained ways!
Ritual stoning may now commence.
Fandom: CSI, Original Gangsta Version. Pairings SO FAR -- keep in mind I've only seen half of seasons 1 and 2 to date:
1) Catherine/Grissom. It is like Crusher/Picard, but with more pole-dancing! (He's a socially awkward academic who knows everything about everything, she's a single mom with more than a little snark in her, and they've got a possibly-angsty as-yet-undetermined past...)
2) Sara/Grissom. Geek mating rituals, omg!
3) Sara/Nicky. The cuteness kills me dead in totally unexplained ways!
Ritual stoning may now commence.
Re: as usual, you and I are so better than the steekin' comment limits *WEG*
Ohemgeee can't wait to see that!!!! That sounds fantastic! Yay. :) And I LOVE how she totally called up Grissom's bone-analyst girlfriend just to force him into going on a date. LOVE IT. It reminds me of TNG relationships in that no matter what sort of sexual/relationship attraction might be there, the friendship is always paramount (this seems true for most of the CSI pairings I've encountered, except Sara/Grissom, I guess).
*SNICKER* Well tis me. We do tend to do that to each other massively. (And eee can you imagine CSI: Atlantis? Now that is an AU *G*)
Wait, you mean 'lantis folk as CSIs or CSI folk in spaaaace? Because I think I like the latter better. What this show needs is a good alien abduction!
It's you, I do not see how in any way shape or form this could be bad!!!!
Trust me, everything I write is coming out massively out of character because I just don't know the characters well enough to get their dialogue! Plus my muse still seems to be stupid. *kicks meds*
However, your challenge is brewing.
Ironically? Nick/Sara is the one that I don't really see in that sense.
I tried writing a Sara/Nicky story that popped into my head, and... it totally ended up as friendship. I think any relationship that would grow here would have to be slow-burn, and that requires lots of writing, bugger it. I don't know why I like them so much, I just... really really do. It just seems like a relationship that wouldn't be explosive, which is nice every now and again!! ;) I guess this is one of those where I really love the potential for their friendship and think they'd be really good for each other, and that it has the potential to grow into something awesome. Y'know?
BWAH! is that a 'per season' thing or overall? because over all? That is a *LOTTA* pairings *EG*
Let's just go with "main characters per season"! That seems a little less exponential.
p.s. Is the Sofia you keep mentioning the blonde girl who shows up later? What's her deal? Does she replace Brass, or...?
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Oh, totally! But wouldn't that be adorable? And so it keeps happening, and it's always ridiculous, until it isn't.
Yeah, it's one of those "I gotta work on this over a period of time and not just BOOM! SEXIN!"
Isn't it just really annoying not to have the option of an 'aliens made them do it' clause??
It's one of my bulletproof kinks. Normalcy in the insanity.
I am SO THERE in the kevlar with you, baby. Like totally non-dramatic angst over someone using someone else's toothbrush, or something. :) I think that's part of the reason why we both love the scene where Catherine's drinking in Grissom's apartment, too, because it's just... so ordinary. I like seeing him ordinary, even though it will be his own brand of ordinariness. Methinks that boy will require a very patient
trainergirlfriend.I'd love to find a series of either short fics or one long one that lets it play really because with *THAT* I'd be able to relax and just go for it. With what I've seen, not so much.
No! Nooooo!! Keep that bunny flock away from meeeeee!! And... snickers? Bwahahaha! (Why does the word "snick" sound so familiar? Like it was a... TV channel or something?) Oh well, it's no worse than Dippers and Drippers and whatever other scary names we had over in the X-Files fandom. And it's oddly accurate, since the fanfic I've passed by in search of good fanfic has seemed a little too sweet, nutty, and without much nutritional value. ;)
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Oh yeah, they just can't stop ending up there and then one day they don't burst into the giggles and next thing Sara knows she wakes up in bed and there's waffles!
Waffles!! OMG. I think breakfast together is my new kink of the day (especially if they go to the IHOP and her hair is still unbrushed), because... yay! And I think the friends-with-benefits trick would be a good one with this pairing.
Star Trek convention in Vegas, somebody dresses up as an alien, there's mind altering substances involved and BOOM! Sexin!
Mysterious deaths at Star Trek: The Experience!
She'd be all *getting out of the shower* and *X* is using her toothbrush and she's all "EEWWWWWW...except, huh?"
OMG. I imagined Grissom having more of a spazfest about that, actually, since his place is so immaculate and Sara's really isn't... but... heeeee. And yes, the freakout. Hee! I think Sara in girly "omgrelationship!" mode would be ridiculously cute and awkward. I don't think she has much in the way of girly friends to powwow with, and I don't think she has that relationship with Catherine so... yeah, she'd totally end up having girl talk with Nicky. Who'd make fun of her.
Gil Grissom goes *grocery shopping*
BWAHAHAHA! He totally goes to the specialty grocery stores and doesn't tell anyone that he cooks because then they might actually want to come over. I now have great desire to have Catherine's daughter sous-chef-ing for Grissom (or, really, him sous-chef-ing for her!), though I can't think of why that would come about.
*choke* So very true!!!! Bless 'em it's the fluffy cute pairing of CSI. (Which makes sense in some ways since Nicky works the cute like nobody's business)
The boy kills me dead with cute. OMG. Although everyone on CSI is kinda mean to him, so I think he should
leave them all and date mepossibly see someone out of law enforcement. I don't think Sara would do well dating outside the coworker pool because work is SO central to her life it'd probably be really essential to connect over that and she'd have a hard time with someone who just really didn't get it... but Warrick and Nicky could totally deal with normal girlfriends!Also, it must be the fluff and potential for football-watching that draws me to this. You know I'm a big sucker for all things fluffy. ;) But there's deliciousness in angst and dysfunction, too...
from the desk of Miss Moneypenny
We can totally share.:)He needs to bump into a really hot girl from like the secretarial pool or something
*bounces* I KNEW there was a reason I became a secretary!!
It'd have to be someone who could help her deal with not taking it home or making it productive and not this horrible big *THING* in the room when they are home.
But I don't think a relationship would last where it was... night and day between work and home. That she'd just arrive home and it would be all "aww, sorry those people died and all, and do you believe what stocks are doing!? And the new fax machine kept eating my originals."
Warrick, I think, it should be a single mom cause he's so cute with kids and such and *flail*
OMG YES. Oh, a man after my own wee heart. I want him chasing around after a mischievous toddler.
fight the system!
Awwwww!! Bwahahaha. It's funny you say that and ended with "because it's SARA" because my thought was that because it's SARA and hey, it's Sara, and he's seen her knee deep in dead bodies, it'll be more like.
Sara: *poke*
Nick: *mumbles*
Sara: "You awake?"
Nick: *half asleep* "Mmm... you're soft."
Sara: *can't fight back a smile* "Flattery is nice and all, but don't I get breakfast in bed?"
Nick: "Huh?"
Sara: "Come on... I let you sleep with me and I don't even get pancakes?"
Nick: *hides head under pillow* "Git your own pancakes, woman."
Sara: *steals pillow* *raises eyebrow*
Nick: *staredown*
Sara: "IHOP?"
Nick: "Sara, we've been asleep for, like, an hour."
Sara: "... well, that wasn't entirely my fault..."
Nick: "You're high-maintenance, you know that?"
Sara: "Just for that, you're buying."
Except the part where she'd probably be way more awkward at some point, but, you know. :)
Bonus points if someone dies by Bat'leth or Tal'shaya (whee Vulcan Neck Cracking! *G*)
CRAZY TREKKIES ON THE LOOSE! Gira just broke my bubble by saying that it'll never happen on CSI because they'd never get the licensing rights. Nooooo! We'll always have fanfic.
It's just not something I think she's had a lot of experience with. The disaster with Hank The Bastard tells me that one *G*
Ooh, I'm yet to encounter that one. Sweet! *looks forward* And damn, the woman needs girlfriends! It is essential to have female company to retreat to for the tomboy's survival, methinks. Maybe she has some random friend from high school she can call and be all "Er, hey, remember me? I'm having a wardrobe crisis!" Also... Grissom!history? I thought she just studied under him at some point or something.
Saturday Night At Gil's and that idea is vaguely horrifying to him *G*
Bwahahaha! That's like cold-sweat horrifying. ;)
And also funny because he'd so be falling apart with the nerves when she's in the kitchen and yet all verklempt and cute because he's so not good with these things *G*
Awwww!! Hee. But Lindsey has known him her whole life and she's her mother's daughter, so she totally knows how to handle him and is probably quite patient with his Gil-ness.
She asks him to help practice a reciepe so she can surprise Mom on Mother's Day?
Aww! Or... for some reason he's waiting around for Catherine at her place, and Catherine is late, and Lindsey insists that this is her cooking night, and he's going to have to help, since he's there. And he's all "err..." and they make omelette or pasta (throwing pasta at the wall!) or something else kids make. And Catherine comes home and they're both REALLY REALLY PROUD.
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I just saw that scene! And you are SO RIGHT! It is friendship perfection, and omg, I love her indulgent and proud little smiles as he's on the phone, and it's just... SO WELL DONE YAY. She is so totally different from him, and I love love love all the little scenes where he's drawn to that alienness about her. (How she is not opposed to living humans, for one.) And the bit about how she's comfy in his place!!! Wasn't there a scene in another episode where he's all "I'm not USED to having PEOPLE in my HOUSE" at her, and she's all "Yes, whatever." I love the idea that she's allowed to lounge around his sanctum sanctorum and no one else is. :)
She's such a yenta with him it's adorable.
It's almost like... sisterly priviledges. The way he'd kill anyone else, but he can't kill her because she's Catherine, for better or worse. ;)
I was originally thinking 'lantis as CSIs...
Hrm. I'm having a really hard time picturing how the two bunches of people would interact. Ford and Nicky would have to forge a mutual defense pact to get people to stop making fun of them.
As far as CSIs in spaaaaace? I'm still hooked on this alien abduction notion. :) Actually, I've been jonesing for more X-file-y mayhem in CSI-world, mostly because the opening scenes of CSI and the opening scenes of X-Files are often so similar, and that one episode where Sara's all rooting for spontaneous human combustion and Warrick is rightfully mocking her. (I'd yell Sara/Mulder OTP! at this moment except... they would totally forget to have sex ever.) At any rate.
just keep 'em set in Season 1 and they'll sound like season 1.
But see, so much about the characters' backstory hasn't come to light yet. Like, I was writing friendshipish fic in which Sara and Nicky get hammered (as they would), and then I'm coming across fics online which all seem to indicate Sara is AA, and now I'm all "er?" because that's something I wouldn't know yet. See my dilemma? And also, I really hope Sara's not an alcoholic, because I'm digging on this notion of her just being weird and workaholic and socially withdrawn all on her own without having Dramatic Television Reasons For Making Her Be So, y'know? I'll just nurse that fantasy while it lasts.
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Oh my God, SO very much. And everyone else is just "No. NO. It will EAT YOU." And, hey, maybe once it's all declassified (yeah, right) someone'll pass a paper about it on to Grissom and he'll be chomping at the bit to travel to Pegasus.
Loki abducts one of them. Clone!Sex YAY! *G*
Bwah! Just what the mini!OTP craziness needs.
Hmmm....how to not spoil whilst I explain. *G* Or do you mind a little explanation on that front cause I can offer one but it's kinda involved *G*
Oh, please spoil me! I don't mind for this show at all. Just shows I'm watching in real time. :)
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MiniCSI! *snicker* They'd be so cute!!!
Oh, geez. Sara would just be like "FUCK. YOU." It would be hilarious.
Okay, yeah Sara has an alcohol problem but it only really surfaced in I think Season 5. (I mix up the most recent ones like whoa *G*) It wouldn't affect her being her weird, workaholic self.
I guess the question is -- did she know she was an alcoholic in season 1? Was she already in some kind of recovery? Or was it only discovered later on? I mean... *would* she go out and drink with Nick or would that be a big red flag of disaster?
*squeee* I love the smell of fandom in the morning. ;)
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YES. YES. YES. It's perhaps my biggest pet peeve in fanfic when A and B like each other and so they pretty much hate everyone else all of a sudden. I'm explaining it badly, but it's like... if Grissom and Sara get together, he won't be able to stand Catherine because the ficwriter is threatened by Grissom and Catherine getting together. You know? PET. PEEVE. Rar.
To Gil she *IS* better at it than he is, much better and he's absolutely fascinated by it. It's just adorable to watch him try and figure it out while Catherine tries to *show* him and fights how exasperating that can be *G*
Love it! And she flies off the handle so easily, and he just kind of waits her out, because really, he would have zero clue how to relate to her on that level, and it's better to just wait until she becomes mostly-sane and open to logic again. I can see her early in their working relationship having lots of moments of "But doesn't that PISS you OFF!?" and he's all "... no. It's just evidence." But because she has at least SOME EQ, she figures him out before he figures her out. But they handle each other well, so yay. BFF! ;)
It was the one where she got that guy killed by telling the husband about his affair with the dead wife.
No, it wasn't! But I love that scene. The scene I was talking about was once when he got taken off a case and so Catherine rounds up the gang to help him out with it on their off-time (it was... a serial killer, I think? It might even have been the one where he royally pisses off the Federales). And she just waltzes into his place while he's there alone and he's all pissed and she's all "That's nice, Gil, now recognize that I'm being nice to you and let's go solve this case." Because all the rest of them are hiding outside his place, and she had to go in and get him, either because she drew the short straw or because she's the obvious choice.
But the scene with the affair and the dead wife... I LOVE that scene! She totally hit him where it hurts, because she knows him that well, but he totally doesn't react to it the way she would, and they're both just "I DON'T GET YOU BUT I'M PRETENDING I DO!" I also like how both she and Sara have said that they want to be like Grissom, but Catherine was being sarcastic and Sara really means it. (Oh, so THIS is why multishipping is so cool! You get to analyze different pieces of the characters based on how they fit together! I get it now!)
(HEE! CSI BBQ! Analyzing the burn patterns on the chicken! *G*)
OMGEEEEE!! PLEASE say you have written this! That's just fantastic. :) Actually, I don't know that it needs to be written -- the mental image may just be enough. I see Grissom at the grill and Warrick and Sara behind him arguing about something about it, and Catherine and Nick egging Lindsey on to torment Greg, and it would just be really cute.
Yet she probably breezes through the door with like dinner and maybe even Lindsay in tow and is all "yeah, Linds has a science affair thing with an ant farm..." and *KNOWS* Grissom is going to be all over *THAT*.
Oh, how perfect! Grissom totally buys Lindsey stuff like ant farms and then the ants escape and Catherine goes on a rampage and Lindsey and Grissom are screaming "No! NO! Don't kill them!" and it'd be great.
Lindsey is totally the Cassandra of this show -- she's everybody's surrogate offspring because they have none of their own. I think one of my favorite scenes so far is totally the one where Nick and Grissom buy Lindsey the same chem set for her birthday and are totally bouncing about it. *squeee* Man, I should totally hate on myself for wanting kid!fic, but I just... always do! I'd love to see how each of our intrepid heroes would behave for an hour or so alone with Catherine's tyke. I imagine all of them have probably had to do it at one time or another. :)
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Yeah. There's something beautifully cruel about that moment. It reminds me of being a little kid and just saying the ONE thing that you've known all along but haven't said because it's totally not nice. *evils* I love how they both react, though. So perfectly telling about their characters, that she gets defensive and screams and lashes back and he... doesn't. I like that she's a little bit cruel, too, and it's awesome that he just lets it go and asks for a truce (love it!) and isn't wary of her because of it.
:)
I'll trade you chicken burns for ant guts *G*
It's a deal. :)
Kid!Fic is fun. Especially in a fandom like this, it becomes an escape and we needs our escapes we does. But with this? They're all so cute about her that it's just...it's like chocolate *G* fic chocolate *G*
Yes!! Totally! Chocolate is awesome. Man cannot live on angst!fic alone! Mmmm. And they really are freaking adorable about her, and I'm sure she doesn't mind at all at that young an age having adoring pseudo-relatives running around everywhere, even if they do all fight over who gets to help her with her science fair projects. And Catherine's all "This is for second-graders, guys. Guys?" And then Greg shows her how to make plasma in a microwave by sticking a toothpick in a piece of bread, and everyone else is still arguing while she draws her report.
I'd say pretty easily they all have!!!!! Definitely all have and we need to see some of it because *EEEEEE*!!!!
Eee! Yes!! I have a hard time imagining Sara actually *playing* with her. I think she'd be a little wary of children, since they respond to commands less well than, say, dogs, and are unlikely to stay in one place. At least, not until she gets to know her. Then she might mellow out a bit. ;)
OMG CHILD CUTENESS!! Thank you, CSI, for giving us something other than pain and death.
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EXACTLY!!! I mean, you might have to come up with some kind of a reason why so-and-so left character A for character B, or chose one over the other, but you don't have to completely assasinate anybody's character in doing that!! ARGH. I just want to scream every time grown women run away and start sobbing in jealous rage whenever ONE COWORKER SPEAKS TO ANOTHER, because... omg! These people are not 12! They're really not! Not that I keep stumbling across those fics or anything, noooo.... (I hate the wolf-in-sheep's-clothing effect with fics. Like, when a writer is actually a decent writer and spells well, and then does something like THAT!)
He's just like "Whoop, Mount St. Catherine blowing again, wow, isn't that lava pattern fascinating? Best move out of the way and stare while I wait for the reaction to settle...ooh lookit, bees!"
Bwah! Exactly. And it's nice because he's got that it's just part of her, so he doesn't fret about having to rise to the challenge and figure out how to talk her down or anything.
They're looking at a brutalized body or something and he's just examining a scraping on a thigh and Catherine's already well into FURIOUS!Cath mode and he's all "buh? does not compute."
Fortunately, he's good at tuning people out. :)
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I know I *will* get steadily more obsessed as I keep watching. The question is... do I really want to? Because maybe I should be filling my head with flowers and kittens and rainbows instead of dead bodies mangled in wood chippers? Just a thought. ;)
This is the point where you should enable me.
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Well, actually, maybe I should just get used to it if I'm in this fandom now. Eyefucking over corpses! Wheee!! Er.
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Warrick/OFC FBI Agent. Scandalize Grissom :-p
Scandalize Grissom? I think this is one of those things that I haven't yet seen in my first-and-second-season world. Oh well! :)
It's absolutely one of the best written friendships on screen and I keep wanting to grab people and say "don't you know how rare as hen's teeth that is?!!!"
I know I know I know!!!! And I'm LOVING how Catherine's husband keeps insinuating that she and Grissom are together, and neither of them even bats an eye. I just saw the scene where he throws her husband off her all RAR PROTECTION RAR, and I just about died of joy. I mean, I love anything that gets a rise out of Grissom, but zomg. IT IS SUCH GLEEE!
However, CSI does manage to be a little heavy-handed with it's "evil" characters... Catherine's husband is at least honestly a bastard loser in a believable way, but Eckley is just... cartoony. It's so funny.
And back to friendship... I LOVE TV FRIENDSHIPS!!! It's like... I should be a slasher, because I most love watching guy's guy friendships (like O'Brien and Bashir on DS9 and Nicky and Warrick on CSI) but I really really don't want them to do sex. It's possible this is just heteronormative of me... but guy-best-friends don't always have sex with each other! Really, they don't! And I just like some of these pairings better without sex and unrequited lust and stuff.
We freaking rock.
*ponders* Omg! I totally answered this one already, but LJ ate it, and I think I copied it to a word file at home. Never mind! I will retrieve it when I get home. Because there was squealing. A lot. Yay :)
I need CSI icons!
Re: We freaking rock.
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We clearly rule at it and all should try to emulate our spamminess (while sekritly weeping in dismay at the fact they'll never be this awesome *G*)
Their awesomeness is INSUFFICIENT! Take that, rest of livejournal. ;)
Grissom *REALLY* hates the FBI.
There was that one episode when the Feddies showed up and were all declaring the case solved right and left and everyone's all "But! We haven't! Wha?" And I just saw that episode where Sara was all "I AM RUNNING AWAY AND JOINING THE FBI," so I suppose that threat makes more sense now that I know that he's especially opposed to them.
it's so damn hard to get a real rise out of Grissom with anything but man, that one he was just...I *squealed*. It was just a scene that hits all my kinks and Grissom mad is just rare as rare gets and it's so *HOT* when he lets himself react.
I squeal just thinking about it! OMG. Grissom all pissed off and defending someone is just... MORE, PLZ. I waaaant to know the history with him and her and her marriage, dammit! All I know is that he somehow knew Eddie was cheating on her and didn't say, so I was all "oh, he must've been friends with her ex" and now I have no idea. I am totally loving it all through my ignorance, though!
The writers were *CONSTANTLY* going "Blah, blah, me, stripper, single mother, eddie, blah, blah..."
I know! It's kind of a wonder that she manages to get up in the shift-specific-morning and get any work done with all the baggage she's carrying around. It would be nice to see her... get over it. And not just in a shut-UP-already! sort of way, but to see her go "you know, I think I'm done being defensive/vitimized/traumatized by X and am ready for the next thing." I think she's just as drawn to and fascinated by Grissom's apparent serenity as he is to her emotional impulsiveness. Like... neither of them quite know what to do with that part of the other, but recognize that they're missing it, and so find it mostly fascinating and a little infuriating. :) Friendship tehr0xx0rz!! :)