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When You're Happy Like A Fool (let it take you over) by CAPSLOCK_ANNE (R)
Fandom: GENERATION KILL
Pairing: Evan Stafford/John Christeson
Length: 7251
Author on LJ:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
secondheartbeat
We're going to stick with a less-popular pairing for this rec: Stafford/Christeson. They're one of the cutest pairings in the fandom, and the fic is usually of the lighter variety (I say usually; there are also a couple of epics). Again, the fic is of excellent quality.
This is a fic in mostly letters between Evan and John, before and after the DADT Repeal - as the author says, they start with “Dear John” but end with “I love you”. DADT Repeal was a big thing in the GK fandom when it went through, and there was even a fic fest - but some of the best fic dealing with it was actually written in anticipation of the Repeal, and this is one of my favourites.
The voices are spot-on; you can hear the narration, full of slang and Marine acronyms and street-talk. It's cutely domestic (inasmuch as Marines get), slice-of-life - and it's hilariously funny!
Dear John,
Hah, shit man, that's just the way you want a letter to start. Nah, for real though, it's hot as fuck out in this desert. I'm sure you remember how that go: four days no shower, sand in my face, wind at my ass, and I can smell all our funk. Screwby!!! Fuck if that hasn't given away our position yet. Hajis don't smell or they're tired of smelling they own stank so it just don't matter no way.
Mom bootlegged me the new Madea flick. That shit is wack. Felt good to watch a flick though, just me and forty of my best friends and our ball sweat. Don't get jealous, I stepped outside before the circle jerk got goin.
This shit sucks without you. You should reup and come for a visit. You ain't busy for the next four years was ya? That's what I thought. The heat have me trippin. Stay where you at. 3 months, 2 weeks, 6 days and I'll be at your doorstep. If you start the shower for me now it may just be hot enough to get the job done.
So, tomorrow is the big day. Sept 20th. I really think some shit will happen between now and midnight. Don't know why, but just a feeling. Been writing these letters all slick and boring as fuck for so long. I don't know how to get to it. Why the hell we continents apart and oceans and stars and shit. I've been tryin to check out the moon and think how you're checkin out the same one. But I know you ain't lookin during the day and that's pretty much my night. So what we see the same fuckin moon, you know? Millions other motherfuckers be seeing it, too… not a damn one of them I give a shit about. So how does it help if we look at the same damn moon. Fuck the man in the moon, I'd rather just see you and be done with it. No skype at this post is killing me. No email. No fucking fun of no kind. Anyway - Now, DADT is gone (in a few hours) and if that actually goes down, I be sending this. If not, burning it and burying it out here in the buttfuck hillside of sand.
When You're Happy Like A Fool (let it take you over)
Pairing: Evan Stafford/John Christeson
Length: 7251
Author on LJ:
secondheartbeatAuthor Website: secondheartbeat, AO3
Why this must be read:secondheartbeat, AO3We're going to stick with a less-popular pairing for this rec: Stafford/Christeson. They're one of the cutest pairings in the fandom, and the fic is usually of the lighter variety (I say usually; there are also a couple of epics). Again, the fic is of excellent quality.
This is a fic in mostly letters between Evan and John, before and after the DADT Repeal - as the author says, they start with “Dear John” but end with “I love you”. DADT Repeal was a big thing in the GK fandom when it went through, and there was even a fic fest - but some of the best fic dealing with it was actually written in anticipation of the Repeal, and this is one of my favourites.
The voices are spot-on; you can hear the narration, full of slang and Marine acronyms and street-talk. It's cutely domestic (inasmuch as Marines get), slice-of-life - and it's hilariously funny!
Dear John,
Hah, shit man, that's just the way you want a letter to start. Nah, for real though, it's hot as fuck out in this desert. I'm sure you remember how that go: four days no shower, sand in my face, wind at my ass, and I can smell all our funk. Screwby!!! Fuck if that hasn't given away our position yet. Hajis don't smell or they're tired of smelling they own stank so it just don't matter no way.
Mom bootlegged me the new Madea flick. That shit is wack. Felt good to watch a flick though, just me and forty of my best friends and our ball sweat. Don't get jealous, I stepped outside before the circle jerk got goin.
This shit sucks without you. You should reup and come for a visit. You ain't busy for the next four years was ya? That's what I thought. The heat have me trippin. Stay where you at. 3 months, 2 weeks, 6 days and I'll be at your doorstep. If you start the shower for me now it may just be hot enough to get the job done.
So, tomorrow is the big day. Sept 20th. I really think some shit will happen between now and midnight. Don't know why, but just a feeling. Been writing these letters all slick and boring as fuck for so long. I don't know how to get to it. Why the hell we continents apart and oceans and stars and shit. I've been tryin to check out the moon and think how you're checkin out the same one. But I know you ain't lookin during the day and that's pretty much my night. So what we see the same fuckin moon, you know? Millions other motherfuckers be seeing it, too… not a damn one of them I give a shit about. So how does it help if we look at the same damn moon. Fuck the man in the moon, I'd rather just see you and be done with it. No skype at this post is killing me. No email. No fucking fun of no kind. Anyway - Now, DADT is gone (in a few hours) and if that actually goes down, I be sending this. If not, burning it and burying it out here in the buttfuck hillside of sand.
When You're Happy Like A Fool (let it take you over)