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dollsome ([personal profile] dollsome) wrote2011-03-15 09:06 am

ficlets : liz/wesley & brittany/santana

It's been awhile since I posted anything fanfictiony! Ergo, from a recent fic meme ...


burn, pine, perish (whatever) (30 rock, liz/wesley)




five

For a fortnight after he's been cast aside by his (ex) betrothed in favor of that damned sky pirate, Wesley pines. Eloquently. Exquisitely. There is some uniquely British brooding, the kind that involves striding across fields at sunrise in his shirtsleeves, and penning tormented letters in swoopy-yet-masculine handwriting and then tossing them into the fire. Once, he jumps into a lake. Not in a suicidal sense, necessarily. More so he can climb out of it again. All wet and white-shirted ...



four

Liz doesn't know if any of the above actually happened. But it's nice to think about. Sometimes. On the rare occasion when the thought crosses her mind. Here are some facts for you, world at large: she rejected the love of an Englishman! Yeah! That's right! Her standards are that high! She spurned the attentions of a man who pronounces 'schedule' with a 'shh', and can say the word 'knickers' without sounding weird. Well, without sounding that weird.

Her standards are that high!

Her standards are ... that ... high ...



three

In her memory, Wesley looks more and more like Colin Firth every time he crosses her mind. Which is not that often.

(She has a hard time watching Austen adaptations. And The King's Speech? Forget about it.)



two

She breaks up with Carol over gunpoint, you know, like some other couple might break up over coffee. She buys herself a cat named Emily Dickinson and she's done. Until she's not done anymore, because her friends are freaks sometimes hot gentlemen with a surprisingly ardent interest in Star Wars want a piece of Liz Lemon, and who is Liz Lemon to deny them that?

So here she is, not-done and single and okay. She's okay. If it happens, it happens. If it doesn't, she decides she's going to be one of those cool spinsters. One of those awesome, prickly old ladies who are quite simply too awesome to have ever let their life be bogged down by those lame old men folk.

Like Dame Maggie Smith.

Liz doesn't know if Maggie Smith is a Dame, or if she's a spinster. But it seems close enough. Unfortunately, Maggie Smith gets her thinking about Colin Firth, because they have to have been in one movie together at some point, right? Right?

Sometimes when she's flipping through her mail she hopes she'll find a tormented love letter, written on paper yellowed with age (shut up. It makes sense. It takes a long time to mail stuff all the way from England) and full of O, Elizabeth!s. So she can laugh at it. Because it's so lame.

That would be nice.



one

There's this infomercial that always comes up on her TV menu, a little square jauntily proclaiming that "Wesley Snipes Uses TotalGym!", and every time she sees it she does this laugh-snort-sneer thing and mutters, "Yeah right."

So she hasn't totally lost contact with reality.

It always cheers her up when this happens, but only a little bit. She doesn't always recognize the feeling for what it is.




zero

(A spoiler, courtesy of the universe: one day, in the distant-but-not-too-distant future, Liz Lemon will turn around and there Wesley Snipes will be, and he won't look that much like Colin Firth, and he will say something so perfectly and Britishly annoying she will want to rip his face off, but this time, she will never quite manage to shake him off, and she will never quite remember how to want to. He will be delighted.)








beauty and family (glee, brittany/santana)





the (far away but not that far away) future


"The cat's not speaking to me," Brittany says.

"Um," Santana says. "Brit-Brit?"

"Cats can't talk," Brittany recites, bored. "But she's not speaking to me. I gave her one scoop of food instead of two this morning because I got distracted by that thing on the blender--"

"Brittany. That's just the blender, okay? How many times do we have to do this?"

"--that thing on the blender, and now she hates me. I'm a bad cat-mom. So you have to be really, really nice to her so she doesn't act out in her teens. She's getting there. Is it just me or is it way easier to count in cat years?"

"What are cat years?" Santana can only remember dog years.

"I forgot," Brittany says. "That's probably why it's easy. It can just be whatever you want it to be."

"You know what I love?" Santana says.

Before she can say Not taking math, Brittany says, "Not taking math. And movies with explosions in them, because fire is sexy. And ducks. But that one is a secret."

"I don't love ducks," Santana says, trying to sound offended.

"Don't worry," Brittany says, snuggling against her shoulder, "I won't tell anyone."

Santana scoffs. Life isn't super great or anything, for the record. She doesn't spend all her time snuggling and having deep conversations about the cat's emotional health and loving ducks. She hates her job. She hates most of her classes. The shower in this shithole apartment has two settings: 'freezing' and 'brown.' She has no real idea what she's doing.

(But the thing is: Brittany, Brittany, Brittany, and it's not like it's new, SantanaandBrittany, they've been glued together since kindergarten, but now it's SantanaandBrittany for real. They picked out dish sets at Target and happy-fought over sheets; 1 bedroom 1 bath, home sweet home. They've got a cat. Her name is 'Sunshine' if you ask Brittany and 'hey, fuckhead' if you ask pre-coffee Santana and 'aw, you' if you ask post-coffee Santana.

They sing duets in the shower. They're good at keeping each other warm.)

"Damn it," Santana says, "they're so cute."

"Ducks love you too, sweetie," Brittany says sleepily. "It's okay."

[identity profile] parisgal3.livejournal.com 2011-03-15 05:13 pm (UTC)(link)
I do not like Liz/Wesley on the show other than in very small doses and never as a real couple, but I really love fanfic of them! Very cute - and I literally lol-ed at the idea of Wesley coming out of a pond soaking wet a la Firth (probably because I just watched his Inside the Actor's Studio and they showed this classic clip).

[identity profile] fragmentedsky.livejournal.com 2011-03-15 05:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh my god, the Brittana one was so adorable. I love that Santana loves ducks and I love the different names for the cat and fire is sexy.

[identity profile] eppic.livejournal.com 2011-03-15 05:37 pm (UTC)(link)
I have a world of love for the second fic. A world of love.

[identity profile] shamethebells.livejournal.com 2011-03-15 05:44 pm (UTC)(link)
They've got a cat. Her name is 'Sunshine' if you ask Brittany and 'hey, fuckhead' if you ask pre-coffee Santana and 'aw, you' if you ask post-coffee Santana. = ♥

I adore the Brittana ficlet.
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[identity profile] nicole-anell.livejournal.com 2011-03-15 05:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Reading these was like getting a big squishy hug through the internet. I'm so utterly in love with BOTH of them. They're so terribly sweet and funny and in-character.
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[identity profile] wondygal.livejournal.com 2011-03-15 06:40 pm (UTC)(link)
THE TRUEST OF ALL TRUE LOVES, rendered into words beautifully! Wesley/Liz, I mean. I don't know Brittany and Santana well, myself. So much adorableness!

[identity profile] ozmissage.livejournal.com 2011-03-15 07:07 pm (UTC)(link)
AWWW! I love that Liz/Wesley ones to pieces.

(Sidenote: isn't it time for him to come back already? IThe universe demands that this ship happen. Preferably, soon.)
Edited 2011-03-15 19:07 (UTC)

[identity profile] wkgreen.livejournal.com 2011-03-15 07:38 pm (UTC)(link)
hehe Loved that :)

[identity profile] alittlesting.livejournal.com 2011-03-15 08:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Sometimes when she's flipping through her mail she hopes she'll find a tormented love letter, written on paper yellowed with age (shut up. It makes sense. It takes a long time to mail stuff all the way from England)

Oh, be still my beating Liz/Wesley heart, this is perfect! This fic is a total joyous ray of sunbeam into my otherwise dreary day, thank you, dear!

[identity profile] theafterimages.livejournal.com 2011-03-15 08:13 pm (UTC)(link)
The Brittany/Santana one! *_* So lovely!

[identity profile] zombie_boogie.livejournal.com 2011-03-15 08:47 pm (UTC)(link)
These are so BRILLSVILLE. My heart-shaped place is pumping excitedly, let me tell you.

[identity profile] shyone21.livejournal.com 2011-03-15 09:29 pm (UTC)(link)
I love that one of Santana's grounds for them being 'for real' is that they picked out dish sets together at Target. It's just so cute.

[identity profile] littlemusical.livejournal.com 2011-03-15 10:09 pm (UTC)(link)
"shower in this shithole apartment has two settings: 'freezing' and 'brown.'" LOVED THAT PART! Really made me chuckle. I love the simplicity of this fic. Its one of those feel-good things. :D xx PLEASE SAY YOU'RE GONNA UPDATE!!!

[identity profile] allthingsholy.livejournal.com 2011-03-15 10:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Both of these are aces. I've turned into such a Brittany/Santa shipper. BTW, you should come here (http://allthingsholy.livejournal.com/147648.html) and fill some prompts. (THERE ARE SOME GREAT PROMPTS.)
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[identity profile] snoopypez.livejournal.com 2011-03-15 11:31 pm (UTC)(link)
N'awwwwww, Brittany and Santana. <333333

[identity profile] jesshelga.livejournal.com 2011-03-15 11:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Santana scoffs. Life isn't super great or anything, for the record. She doesn't spend all her time snuggling and having deep conversations about the cat's emotional health and loving ducks. She hates her job. She hates most of her classes. The shower in this shithole apartment has two settings: 'freezing' and 'brown.' She has no real idea what she's doing.

I just love the idea that things are not perfect, like you imagine love in high school, but they are wonderful (and Brittany, Brittany, Brittany).

Much love, of course. So funny and the rhythm of their barely-a-conversation is delightful.

Liz/Wesley Snipes is always welcome too (hee hee).

[identity profile] spankulert.livejournal.com 2011-03-15 11:37 pm (UTC)(link)
"--that thing on the blender, and now she hates me. I'm a bad cat-mom. So you have to be really, really nice to her so she doesn't act out in her teens. She's getting there. Is it just me or is it way easier to count in cat years?"

This made me lol. Super cute!

[identity profile] earlgreytea68.livejournal.com 2011-03-16 01:02 am (UTC)(link)
Love the Liz/Wesley! I confess I loved Wesley passionately and didn't understand what I was supposed to find annoying about him. I think I skipped directly to the "zero" portion of the fic! Anyway, fic based on sitcoms is so hard to write, and you do it so perfectly here. I love the very Britishness of Wesley in Liz's head.

[identity profile] joirerson.livejournal.com 2011-03-16 03:12 am (UTC)(link)
*adores the Colin Firth references*

*runs off to go rewatch Pride and Prejudice- the good version*

This was lovely!!!!!

[identity profile] subtextrules.livejournal.com 2011-03-16 03:26 am (UTC)(link)
Ba ha ha that was so cute! I loved the bit about Santana calling the cat fuckhead before she's had her morning coffee! Sounds like my ex...*shutters* Great job!

[identity profile] magpieinthesky.livejournal.com 2011-03-16 04:18 am (UTC)(link)
Oh my lord, these are both wonderful in their own ways!

Liz's memory of Wesley turning more Firthy (OMG THE LAKE SCENE) was just kind of perfect and such a Liz thing to do, and deciding to be like Maggie Smith and just everything!! LOVE.

And then the Brittana. Oh, oh Brittany. Oh, Santana. You know their voices, and thus the way to my heart. ♥

[identity profile] ever-neutral.livejournal.com 2011-03-16 07:00 am (UTC)(link)
aaaaa the Brittana one! ♥ SOB. for the love of ducks, let it happen.

[identity profile] oltha_heri.livejournal.com 2011-03-17 05:31 pm (UTC)(link)
I love these both so much! I stopped watching Glee but I still appreciate and love the Brittany/Santana fic. Brittany seems totally ridiculously in character and Santana's love for ducks! :)

And of course LIZ/WESLEY! Oh so, so, so much love. I love the structure and:

Liz Lemon will turn around and there Wesley Snipes will be, and he won't look that much like Colin Firth, and he will say something so perfectly and Britishly annoying she will want to rip his face off, but this time, she will never quite manage to shake him off, and she will never quite remember how to want to. He will be delighted

FLAILYNESS! That is beautiful and perfect and lovely.
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[identity profile] xmarisolx.livejournal.com 2011-03-18 01:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Once, he jumps into a lake. Not in a suicidal sense, necessarily. More so he can climb out of it again. All wet and white-shirted ...

That is not like Mr. Darcy. Not at all.

Her standards are ... that ... high ...
ha!

Overall, nicely done.

[identity profile] grimorie.livejournal.com 2011-03-20 01:33 pm (UTC)(link)
HOW DID I MISS THIS? Your writing gives me a lot of feeeeelings!

I love reading about their future (because they have to be endgame, dammit!) and I love that it isn't perfect but they make it work and it's perfect for them because it's SantanaandBrittany for real!

I love them so much!

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