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Girl's Gotta Protect Her Reputation by Chris Dee (PG)
Fandom: DC COMICS
Pairing: Bruce Wayne/Selina Kyle (aka Batman/Catwoman)
Author on LJ: Not that I know of
Author Website: Cat Tales
Why this must be read:
It's damn funny, that's why! Oh man, this story brightened my day when I was very very sad, and I would have loved it just for that. But more than that, it's a hilarious take on the Gotham crowd, both heroes and villains. You'll meet everyone, from poor beleagured Catman to the powerful (and quite amused) Jason Blood. There's magic, there's love, there's cats, there's catfights in the Iceberg Lounge...
In this story, Catwoman's tired of the tabloids making up weird stories about her, not to mention the way the regular papers lie. So she comes up with a clever way to set the world straight: a one-woman show.
No, I'm not kidding.
This is just the first in an incredibly long series, and they're incredibly addictive. Bet ya can't read just one.
As he dressed Dick calculated that even with the fastest of the civilian cars, Bruce would have had to cut Batman's patrol short by almost 2 hours to be in Bludhaven now. There was no way he'd do that for anything less than a cosmic crisis. “Dick, I came to talk,” he had said. Bruce wanting to talk could indeed be the portent of a cosmic crisis. Maybe different timestreams were converging again. On the off chance that this was a chatty, sociable Bruce from an alternate dimension, Dick greeted him with a little harmless smalltalk:
“So how was the show last night?”
The scowl made it pretty clear that this was not a chatty & sociable Bruce. Dick backpedaled.
“I, uh, thought Alfred said something about you going to – nevermind. What did you want to see me about?”
“Am I a self-absorbed, self-righteous, inflexible prig?”
Dick suddenly felt like he was playing a LucasArts Adventure Game. He imagined four possible responses to Bruce's question appearing under his chin:
* That's how I addressed your Fathers’ Day card.
* Is that prig with an "r" ? Yes.
* Why, are you having new stationary made up?
* YES YES YES! IN THE NAME OF ALL THINGS HOLY AND TRUE, YOU ARE THE KING AND LORD OF THE LAND OF SELF-RIGHTEOUS PRIGS!
– and no matter which response the player chose, the character would say: “Why No, not at all. Why do you ask?”
Girl's Gotta Protect Her Reputation
Pairing: Bruce Wayne/Selina Kyle (aka Batman/Catwoman)
Author on LJ: Not that I know of
Author Website: Cat Tales
Why this must be read:
It's damn funny, that's why! Oh man, this story brightened my day when I was very very sad, and I would have loved it just for that. But more than that, it's a hilarious take on the Gotham crowd, both heroes and villains. You'll meet everyone, from poor beleagured Catman to the powerful (and quite amused) Jason Blood. There's magic, there's love, there's cats, there's catfights in the Iceberg Lounge...
In this story, Catwoman's tired of the tabloids making up weird stories about her, not to mention the way the regular papers lie. So she comes up with a clever way to set the world straight: a one-woman show.
No, I'm not kidding.
This is just the first in an incredibly long series, and they're incredibly addictive. Bet ya can't read just one.
As he dressed Dick calculated that even with the fastest of the civilian cars, Bruce would have had to cut Batman's patrol short by almost 2 hours to be in Bludhaven now. There was no way he'd do that for anything less than a cosmic crisis. “Dick, I came to talk,” he had said. Bruce wanting to talk could indeed be the portent of a cosmic crisis. Maybe different timestreams were converging again. On the off chance that this was a chatty, sociable Bruce from an alternate dimension, Dick greeted him with a little harmless smalltalk:
“So how was the show last night?”
The scowl made it pretty clear that this was not a chatty & sociable Bruce. Dick backpedaled.
“I, uh, thought Alfred said something about you going to – nevermind. What did you want to see me about?”
“Am I a self-absorbed, self-righteous, inflexible prig?”
Dick suddenly felt like he was playing a LucasArts Adventure Game. He imagined four possible responses to Bruce's question appearing under his chin:
* That's how I addressed your Fathers’ Day card.
* Is that prig with an "r" ? Yes.
* Why, are you having new stationary made up?
* YES YES YES! IN THE NAME OF ALL THINGS HOLY AND TRUE, YOU ARE THE KING AND LORD OF THE LAND OF SELF-RIGHTEOUS PRIGS!
– and no matter which response the player chose, the character would say: “Why No, not at all. Why do you ask?”
Girl's Gotta Protect Her Reputation
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Okay, so maybe I am an insufferable pedant. It's not as if I didn't know what it would be like going into it, given that "stationery" was misspelled in the little sample you excerpted. The story is charming and funny and the characterizations are just so fun. I feel like it's a shame she doesn't have a decent beta to fix the other stuff...
[I think it's appropriate to use the icon of my favorite English teacher, given the ranty nature of this comment.]
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