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Very Possibly My Least Favourite Person Ever by Lady Paperclip (PG-15)
Title: Very Possibly My Least Favourite Person Ever by Lady Paperclip
Fandom: Green Wing
Pairing: Mac/Guy
Categories: Humour, Romance?
Length: 1420
Warning: None
Rating: PG-15
Author on LJ: Lady Paperclip
Website: Unknown
Summary: The first time they have sex, it is bad. Really bad.
Review:
This story accomplishes a great deal in only a few words. Not only does it tackle one of the most notoriously difficult slash possibilities of recent times, but it also subverts the tradition in slash fandom that the sex is always mind-meltingly wonderful and that the pair fall into one another's arms with a blissful sigh amid showers of rose petals. With Mac and Guy, that was never ever going to happen.
For those who aren't familiar with the characters, Mac is a surgeon and Guy is his anaesthetist, and their relationship as seen on TV never really rises above the level of playground taunting - largely because Guy is one of the world's major assholes. He does, however, have a very well-concealed sensitive side - just enough to convince one that he could be worth the effort it might take to bring it out. Lady Paperclip doesn't enlighten us about how the pair got together, but their progress from their first awkward sexual encounter to their tenth when they almost get it right seems to indicate that Mac is prepared to invest time and trouble in Guy and that sooner or later he will be rewarded for it.
They do, however, both stay reassuringly true to their characters throughout; some of Guy's lines are wonderfully spot-on!
"Guy complains, loudly and at length (though never anywhere they can be overheard), about Mac’s hair and the way it moults all over the place. His tone of voice suggests that the few stray hairs that may have somehow ended up on his pillows will somehow eat through his obnoxiously high thread count sheets, and he will get Evil Ginger Diseases."
In short, this is exactly the way this relationship would go if ever Mac was weak-minded enough to allow it; Lady Paperclip knows her characters and writes them convincingly. This is not a big fandom and good slash fiction is correspondingly thin on the ground, but if you're looking for something that doesn’t follow a predictable path this would be a jolly good place to start.
Very Possibly My Least Favourite Person Ever
Fandom: Green Wing
Pairing: Mac/Guy
Categories: Humour, Romance?
Length: 1420
Warning: None
Rating: PG-15
Author on LJ: Lady Paperclip
Website: Unknown
Summary: The first time they have sex, it is bad. Really bad.
Review:
This story accomplishes a great deal in only a few words. Not only does it tackle one of the most notoriously difficult slash possibilities of recent times, but it also subverts the tradition in slash fandom that the sex is always mind-meltingly wonderful and that the pair fall into one another's arms with a blissful sigh amid showers of rose petals. With Mac and Guy, that was never ever going to happen.
For those who aren't familiar with the characters, Mac is a surgeon and Guy is his anaesthetist, and their relationship as seen on TV never really rises above the level of playground taunting - largely because Guy is one of the world's major assholes. He does, however, have a very well-concealed sensitive side - just enough to convince one that he could be worth the effort it might take to bring it out. Lady Paperclip doesn't enlighten us about how the pair got together, but their progress from their first awkward sexual encounter to their tenth when they almost get it right seems to indicate that Mac is prepared to invest time and trouble in Guy and that sooner or later he will be rewarded for it.
They do, however, both stay reassuringly true to their characters throughout; some of Guy's lines are wonderfully spot-on!
"Guy complains, loudly and at length (though never anywhere they can be overheard), about Mac’s hair and the way it moults all over the place. His tone of voice suggests that the few stray hairs that may have somehow ended up on his pillows will somehow eat through his obnoxiously high thread count sheets, and he will get Evil Ginger Diseases."
In short, this is exactly the way this relationship would go if ever Mac was weak-minded enough to allow it; Lady Paperclip knows her characters and writes them convincingly. This is not a big fandom and good slash fiction is correspondingly thin on the ground, but if you're looking for something that doesn’t follow a predictable path this would be a jolly good place to start.
Very Possibly My Least Favourite Person Ever