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[mysid]

Thanks to kindhearted jadis31 loaning me her copies of FAKE volumes 2-7, I have now read the entire series. (vixenette also offered. Many thanks to both of you!)

Mixed reviews. The series definitely improved as it went along. After reading the first volume, I wasn't interested enough to buy the rest of the series, but I did like FAKE fanfiction enough that I wanted to read them--hence my very grateful acceptance of Jo's offer.

I guess I'm just not an anime/manga fan. I became irritated whenever the characters overreacted to things and had "Daffy Duck"-esque hissy fits--or when they behaved OoC (if one can accuse canon of getting its own characters wrong)--or whenever Dee repeatedly attempted to rape Ryo.

But as the series went on, I became more immune to Daffy Duck-ness, the characters became less two dimensional (not quite three dimensional though--two and a half dimensional?), and Dee actually started to act like he cared about Ryo and didn't just want to fuck him senseless.

So, yes, I got hooked. I have now read them over and over. (Although I now skip all frames in which their noses have disappeared). And whoa--loved those R-rated sections of volume 7.

Will I ever write any FAKE fanfiction? I might. As Jo pointed out, the very deficencies of FAKE canon give us lots of leeway, and leeway is what we fanfic writers thrive upon. Why else have we embraced the MWPP generation of HP so thoroughly?

I am no longer singing Because the Night around the house. I knew I had to stop when I heard my four-year-old son sing, "Because the night belongs to lovers..."

Comments

[corporal-katz.livejournal.com]

If you ever get around to writing FAKE fanfiction (there are a few that I could quite happily recommend), do you suppose you'll ever write JJ/Drake? That is one ship that definitely needs more fic. :D

[mysid.livejournal.com]

Will I ever write JJ/Drake? I've learned to never say 'never,' but probably not.

There isn't the slightest hint in canon that Drake is gay, and the odds are definitely against it. In one precinct, we have four bisexual or gay cops: Dee, Ryo, JJ, and Berkley. The odds are way against all four in one department.

OK, JJ is only there because he followed Dee, and Berkley is only there because he followed Ryo, but still. It doesn't pass the plausibility test.

If we make Drake gay too--I just can't see it. We need at least one token male heterosexual. How else will your icon be true?

Which isn't to say that I won't read JJ/Drake, because I've been enjoying one such WIP over at ff.net.

[corporal-katz.livejournal.com]

That's very true. Which is why JJ/Drake is sort of a rare pairing. The only real canon evidence supporting this ship is the epilogue of Volume Seven, 'Like, Like, Love', when JJ and Drake kiss. Unfortunately, TokyoPop cut it out in the English version.

Which isn't to say that I won't read JJ/Drake, because I've been enjoying one such WIP over at ff.net.

Ahhh... Would that be 'Common Ground' by Neekerbreeker/skinship? That is possibily the best FAKE fic I've ever read. But then again, I'm pretty biased, as I'm a hard-core JJ/Drake fan. :D

[mysid.livejournal.com]

They kiss in the original version? Well, that sheds a whole new light on that pairing.

And yes, it is "Common Ground." I couldn't remember the title or find it again, so I'm glad you mentioned it.

[vixenette.livejournal.com]

*throws party* Yay, mysid is now in the FAKE loop! Yeee!

Jo was, of course, right about the leeway in fanfic writing for FAKE. I agreed with that 100%. But I'm glad you thought that the series got better as it went along. :)

I started being a Ryo girl, while I was only sort-of warmed up to Dee. As the series went on, Dee got better. After reading the very last volume, Dee was my favorite. It's not that I liked Ryo less, it's that I thought Dee was fleshed out a lot more as the series progressed.

But anyway, yay! I DO hope you write some FAKE fiction - I've been meaning to write some myself, though I know I've been neglecting my #1 fandom for a long, long time now. *slinks off*

[mysid.livejournal.com]

As long as you're neglecting it for that boyfriend of yours, that's all right. We'll just call it, "Doing research."