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crack_van2010-06-24 11:15 pm
modillian.livejournal.com) wrote in crack_van2010-06-24 11:15 pm
Not a Pretty Girl by idyll (PG-13)
This week's theme is Serious Business Recs.
Fandom: BANDOM
Pairing: always-a-girl!Bob gen
Length: 27,879 words
Author on LJ:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
idyll
Author Website: Masterlist
Why this must be read:
Switching sex to make Bob's character a woman in order to explore Bob's specific character traits as well as the specific difficulties women have in the music industry is so interesting and revelatory for me. I relish Bob's honesty and take-no-shit attitude that isn't exactly inherent, but earned here, and how Bob changes through time and experience. The story follows Bob from the early days in college to joining the band to the latest MCR tour.
There is bonus awesome available in the sequels byflyingtapes, waiting for the lights to go and From Essex County, With Love.
Excerpt:
The accompanying photo is a page back--and, fuck, that means it's actually three pages--and it's of a smiling Bob sitting on the table in the bus' kitchenette. She's wearing black jeans, her old Doc Martins, and a 7 Year Bitch t-shirt that's about twelve years old. Her hands are curled around the edge of the table on either side of her thighs and her legs are blurred slightly because she was swinging them.
But there's so much more to see than those simple details, that straightforward description. There's grit in her smile, a fuck you in her eyes, steel in her spine and freedom in the motion of her legs. All of it is obvious even to Bob who is her own worst critique when it comes to pictures of herself.
The caption underneath, though, is what gets Bob right in the gut. It's a quote of something that she explicitly remembers saying late in the day, when she was comfortable with the journalist and speaking freely, easily: "Guys don't own the scene; they just think they do. Do it your way, on your terms. Not theirs."
"Yeah," Bob breathes. "Yeah."
Not a Pretty Girl
Fandom: BANDOM
Pairing: always-a-girl!Bob gen
Length: 27,879 words
Author on LJ:
idyllAuthor Website: Masterlist
Why this must be read:
Switching sex to make Bob's character a woman in order to explore Bob's specific character traits as well as the specific difficulties women have in the music industry is so interesting and revelatory for me. I relish Bob's honesty and take-no-shit attitude that isn't exactly inherent, but earned here, and how Bob changes through time and experience. The story follows Bob from the early days in college to joining the band to the latest MCR tour.
There is bonus awesome available in the sequels by
flyingtapes, waiting for the lights to go and From Essex County, With Love. Excerpt:
The accompanying photo is a page back--and, fuck, that means it's actually three pages--and it's of a smiling Bob sitting on the table in the bus' kitchenette. She's wearing black jeans, her old Doc Martins, and a 7 Year Bitch t-shirt that's about twelve years old. Her hands are curled around the edge of the table on either side of her thighs and her legs are blurred slightly because she was swinging them.
But there's so much more to see than those simple details, that straightforward description. There's grit in her smile, a fuck you in her eyes, steel in her spine and freedom in the motion of her legs. All of it is obvious even to Bob who is her own worst critique when it comes to pictures of herself.
The caption underneath, though, is what gets Bob right in the gut. It's a quote of something that she explicitly remembers saying late in the day, when she was comfortable with the journalist and speaking freely, easily: "Guys don't own the scene; they just think they do. Do it your way, on your terms. Not theirs."
"Yeah," Bob breathes. "Yeah."
Not a Pretty Girl