all right, so you're nonchalant ([info]runpunkrun) wrote,
2003-09-22 23:07:00
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this is not a drabble

I suppose I owe it to you, the public, to announce that our staggering genius is now available in one bite-sized piece.

[a clark/lex epic of staggering genius]

I'm very tired now. I posted Scully, I wrote and posted some staggering Lex and Clark, I started to beta [info]wearemany's My So-Called Life fic, I even wrote some Sports Night somewhere in there. So much fandom. So little Punk.
Tags: fan/fiction, men of steel

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[info]echoskeleton

September 23 2003, 15:08:56 UTC 8 years ago

Would it be possible for me to marry this, um, story? Because, wow, I loves it very much. Brilliant, and funny, and I've seen a few people who try and write fanfic with experimental styles, but I've never seen it work like this. I'm so impressed. And I love it. Love it.

[info]runpunkrun

September 23 2003, 22:49:37 UTC 8 years ago

You wouldn't want to marry this story. It would make fun of you behind your back. It would lie to your friends when they called to talk to you. It would say you didn't want to talk to them, that you secretly hated them and only put up with them because they took you out to dinner. It would drink all the soy milk, even though it always complains how disgusting soy milk is, and then it wouldn't buy any more.

This story is fickle and jealous. You can't trust it. But I am glad you liked it. Shana and I had a lot of fun playing around with Eggers' voice and Lex's world.

[info]echoskeleton

September 24 2003, 00:21:14 UTC 8 years ago

Maybe marriage would take it too far. But I very much want to have a wild one night stand with this story. Complete with punctured mattresses, fractured bed frame and inexplicably smashed lamps.

And, yes, I loved it. And I was surprised but not really surprised how well Egger's voice and Lex's world meshed. Somehow it all seemed appropriate, and not like you were altering canon to fit into a specific style, which is the truly magical part.

[info]runpunkrun

September 24 2003, 00:40:40 UTC 8 years ago

Oh, yes, this fic is *made* for one-night stands, especially the kind with broken lamps.

I think Eggers' tone matched so well with Lex because Lex has a lot of the same sweeping epic grandness to him. I mean, come on, the guy's fascinated by ancient history and loves to say things like, "We have a future, Clark. I don't want anything to stand in the way of our friendship." Lex is all about grand gestures.

[info]echoskeleton

September 24 2003, 01:35:17 UTC 8 years ago

I think Eggers' tone matched so well with Lex because Lex has a lot of the same sweeping epic grandness to him.

Definitely. Plus there's the fact that Lex has that sort of fractured density, where everything is sort of linked together, in a very odd way that only makes sense to him. Much like with Eggers. But, yeah, this was brilliant.

[info]zitremedy101

December 22 2005, 20:04:36 UTC 6 years ago

Brilliant

[info]runpunkrun

December 23 2005, 07:28:32 UTC 6 years ago

Thanks!

[info]fancyspinner

December 25 2005, 23:57:18 UTC 6 years ago

...and oh yeh This is like the total coolness of Lex! In love and totally besotted and consequences be dammed. go Lex!

[info]runpunkrun

December 31 2005, 06:17:20 UTC 6 years ago

Thanks! Dave Eggers' writing style is so over-the-top it's just perfect for Lex and his enormous desires.

[info]raiining

March 29 2007, 01:07:20 UTC 5 years ago

Oh this was far too funny - the cow was a personal favourite, but the diagram of the appartment and the phone was another sure highlight - I love the end, though: very very sweet, and it makes me never want to watch the series again because I know things can't end like this. /sniff.

[info]azure_k_mello

October 1 2008, 05:12:30 UTC 3 years ago

Every time I read this I want to hold it close to me a little bit more. And I wonder, if the cow is what it's all about what the point could be. This story has actually led my friends to announce in moments of silence when they can't think of anything "here is a drawing of a cow" because it works.


I have never read Eggers and I feel I ought. Maybe then I would understand why inertia is not vanquished nor is dinner achieved. I really enjoy the way you make Lex so amazingly empathic I mean, it helps that I already love him, you girls have him down.

[info]runpunkrun

October 1 2008, 21:42:40 UTC 3 years ago

I think, I can't remember exactly, but I think this entire thing started around that drawing of a cow.

The preface to Eggers' A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius ends with "here is a drawing of a stapler." We borrowed so much from him to write this, so the style is, well, near exact, but his subject matter is much more dire.

Thanks for the wonderful comment!

[info]trill_gutterbug

September 14 2010, 07:01:06 UTC 1 year ago

This is absolutely the best thing ever. Holy cow. (Yes, I mean a cow that is holy.) So in love right now.

[info]runpunkrun

September 15 2010, 18:57:18 UTC 1 year ago

Thank you! On the subject of the cow: I still think it looks remarkably good for something I drew in MS Paint. *g*
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