in green pastures
1 Jan 2014 03:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
minkhollowSo, Yuletide! Once upon a time I had grand plans of signing up and requesting a fix-it fic for a certain Cold Case episode, because a) it really truly needs a fix-it and b) BOOTLEGGING LESBIANS. And then, even though I nominated the characters, I didn't end up signing up.
But I did end up writing it.
I got my gal (who could ask for anything more) was me - short, sweet, not easy but hopeful. I realised after writing it that it can't be a fix-it in the 'and they all lived happily ever after' style. That would do a disservice to canon, which never shied away from how much humanity sucks sometimes. This is a white girl and a black girl trying to get by as a couple in the '30s; it was never going to be sunshine and puppies.
But it fixes the part of canon where it all went wrong, and gives them a chance. I like to think they make it work, but that wasn't the part of the story that needed telling.
(rosabelle, I confess to wondering if you worked out it was me. XD)
But I did end up writing it.
I got my gal (who could ask for anything more) was me - short, sweet, not easy but hopeful. I realised after writing it that it can't be a fix-it in the 'and they all lived happily ever after' style. That would do a disservice to canon, which never shied away from how much humanity sucks sometimes. This is a white girl and a black girl trying to get by as a couple in the '30s; it was never going to be sunshine and puppies.
But it fixes the part of canon where it all went wrong, and gives them a chance. I like to think they make it work, but that wasn't the part of the story that needed telling.
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rosabelle, I confess to wondering if you worked out it was me. XD)
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Date: 2014-01-02 01:56 am (UTC)Thank you again. ♥ It was gorgeous, and I really appreciate that you didn't take the fluffy happily-ever-after ending.
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Date: 2014-01-02 02:24 am (UTC)You're welcome! I figured since I didn't put myself in the request pool I could at least write something for them. (And, well, the fluffy ending may be there eventually. But that's like. Decades down the road. This was the story where the adrenaline wears off and the impulsive plan has consequences and the rest of the world still kinda sucks.)