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Queering the Text by Diana Michelle (PG-13)
Fandom: DUE SOUTH
Pairing: Benton Fraser / Ray Kowalski (pre-slash)
Author on LJ:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
butterfly
Author Website: http://dianamichelle.5u.com/index.html
Why this must be read:
By accepting what his twenty-twenty hindsight tells him about Stella and their marriage, Ray is able to see and accept Fraser in a truer light and become fascinated.
A series of post-episode vignettes containing Ray Kowalski’s thoughts and remembrances starting after Burning Down the House. Not a WIP (although I don't know if the author plans to add more) since each ficlet can stand on its own, but also because together they form a cohesive look into Ray Kowalski. While the accepted wisdom is that Ray Kowalski took the undercover gig as a way to distance himself from his divorce, I don’t know any stories that deal with that emotional baggage as well as these do. I also don’t know many stories that so delightfully showcases the slow tug of increasing interest and attraction as Ray becomes intrigued with Fraser.
Only Fraser was somehow a psychic or something, because he'd known that Ray loved him symbolically. Which was a neat trick, because Ray didn't even understand how anyone could love anyone symbolically. It didn't make any sense, it wasn't supposed to make any, it'd just been a take-back. Because guys didn't say things like that to each other. Only, Fraser did.
Well, and he did. But that'd been different -- heat of the moment crap. He'd been hyped over Fraser proving him right, so out came that 'I love you', like it did every time that Stella had stood up for him. Instinct, that was all. It didn't mean anything. But to Fraser it did. Because that's what symbols were -- things that meant something.
So what the hell did loving someone symbolically mean to Fraser?
Because symbolic love, as far as Ray could see, had to mean love that meant something else. Like, when he'd said it, he was really saying, "Thanks, Frase. You made the Ice Queen look stupid in order to make me look better. That's buddies." But Fraser was the one who'd done it, so maybe to him it was more like, "I would much rather you be right than my bitch of a superior officer who is constantly jerking me around with her hot-cold act."
Queering the Text
Pairing: Benton Fraser / Ray Kowalski (pre-slash)
Author on LJ:
butterfly Author Website: http://dianamichelle.5u.com/index.html
Why this must be read:
By accepting what his twenty-twenty hindsight tells him about Stella and their marriage, Ray is able to see and accept Fraser in a truer light and become fascinated.
A series of post-episode vignettes containing Ray Kowalski’s thoughts and remembrances starting after Burning Down the House. Not a WIP (although I don't know if the author plans to add more) since each ficlet can stand on its own, but also because together they form a cohesive look into Ray Kowalski. While the accepted wisdom is that Ray Kowalski took the undercover gig as a way to distance himself from his divorce, I don’t know any stories that deal with that emotional baggage as well as these do. I also don’t know many stories that so delightfully showcases the slow tug of increasing interest and attraction as Ray becomes intrigued with Fraser.
Only Fraser was somehow a psychic or something, because he'd known that Ray loved him symbolically. Which was a neat trick, because Ray didn't even understand how anyone could love anyone symbolically. It didn't make any sense, it wasn't supposed to make any, it'd just been a take-back. Because guys didn't say things like that to each other. Only, Fraser did.
Well, and he did. But that'd been different -- heat of the moment crap. He'd been hyped over Fraser proving him right, so out came that 'I love you', like it did every time that Stella had stood up for him. Instinct, that was all. It didn't mean anything. But to Fraser it did. Because that's what symbols were -- things that meant something.
So what the hell did loving someone symbolically mean to Fraser?
Because symbolic love, as far as Ray could see, had to mean love that meant something else. Like, when he'd said it, he was really saying, "Thanks, Frase. You made the Ice Queen look stupid in order to make me look better. That's buddies." But Fraser was the one who'd done it, so maybe to him it was more like, "I would much rather you be right than my bitch of a superior officer who is constantly jerking me around with her hot-cold act."
Queering the Text