Genre Redux challenge by china_shop

[china_shop]

Fraser/Kowalski, 960 words, G-rated.
Thanks to sageness for late-night read-through.

Two Men on a Sled (to say nothing of the wolf)

Comments

[the_antichris.livejournal.com]

OMG YAY. I love that book so much. Just as much as I love this. ♥

[china_shop]

Yay! My dad read me the book when I was a kid. And here I am, sullying that memory. Wooot! *g*

[take-no-ko.livejournal.com]

Lovely - gently funny and very, very due South. And I think you did old Jerome K. Jerome proud :)

[china_shop]

*beam* Thank you so much! It was wildly amusing writing it: Shameful conduct of two abandoned young men is verbatim from the original. *g*

[katallison.livejournal.com]

Oh, this is *lovely*. I would never have thought of it, but Fraser's voice works beautifully in a JKJ pastiche--I love both the concept and the way you've carried it out. What a delight!

[china_shop]

*beam* Thanks so much! When I thought of it, it was going to be in third person, but when I looked at the original, first person just fit so well. :-)

[buzzylittleb.livejournal.com]

This is a thing of beauty.

(did you know that JKJ's father was Jerome Clap Jerome? Perhaps there is some distant relationship with the Frasers as evidenced by their bizarre naming practices)

[china_shop]

Thank you! *beam*

(No, I didn't know that. Clap? What kind of a name is Clap? It's almost as bad as Benton! ;-)

[http://users.livejournal.com/_inbetween_/]

You are disgustingly tease good - now write that fucking book ;)

[china_shop]

Not. A. Chance. *g* Thanks, though. :-D

[buddleia.livejournal.com]

Sadly I have never read Jerome K Jerome. This lovely and happymaking story reminds me, instead, of A Coral Island, by Ballantyne. But the happymaking is in full effect, nevertheless.

[china_shop]

Oh, I've never read Ballantyne. I'll keep an eye out. :-)

Thanks! :-D

[tex.livejournal.com]

Not familiar with the author in the least but it doesn't matter - this was so smart and funny, and so full of all the little things that make Ray and Fraser and Dief my OT3! Fantastic!

[china_shop]

Oh, yay! Good to know it works without knowing the book. My dad read me Three Men in a Boat when I was a kid -- guess I've gone and sullied that childhood memory now, huh? *g*

[sansets]

Yays for chapter headings that are longer than the chapters themselves! (Kind of puts me in mind of Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire too) Very nicely done! :-D

[china_shop]

Oh, I haven't read DaFotRE! I'll keep an eye out. :-)

Thank you kindly!

[vingt.livejournal.com]

We find Franklin! - Diefenbaker relieves himself on historic site.
*snort*

I really enjoyed this piece - funny throughout, excellent Fraser voice and surprisingly poignant at times.

[china_shop]

Oh yay! Thanks so much! *beam*

[fairestcat]

*loves madly*

Oh, this is delightful. You got the tone just right, witty and humorous but also poignant in just the right way. Very Jerome K. Jerome.

[china_shop]

Thanks so much! (And part of the reason it sounds so much like him is that about a third of it is quoted verbatim. *koff* :-)

[eledhwenlin]

Darling, how much do I love you? You are made of AWESOME. For so many things that I can't decide what to quote back to you.

[china_shop]

*twirls* Thank you SO MUCH! *beam*

[shoemaster.livejournal.com]

Attack of a recalcitrant tent: one wounded. and I forget that I am steering. - Interesting result. slay me. I love how much of the story was able to be told through the cliff notes version.

[china_shop]

I forget that I am steering. - Interesting result. is verbatim from the original. *g* This is about a third shamelessly pilfered.

Cliff notes are so much fun to write -- afterwards I kept describing my life to myself like that (Staying up past a reasonable hour to detriment of sanity (entirely predictably). - Flist continues to amuse. etc. *g*). Thanks so much! :-)

[laughingacademy.livejournal.com]

A fantastic idea, brilliantly executed. Brava!

[china_shop]

*BEAM* Thanks!

[pir8fancier.livejournal.com]

I find this so totally briliant. Dear god, am shivering with how clever it is. Bravo!

[china_shop]

Oh, yay! Thank you! :-)

Oh, and I recently read your story with the phone conversations and the Truth or Dare, for the first time, and it was gorgeous, and I am a bad bad person who didn't send you feedback. *hangs head in shame* GORGEOUS!

[custardpringle.livejournal.com]

So many warm fuzzies from this. SO MANY.

My personal favorite: Return hungry and wet. - There is a beauty about Ray. - Drinking my fill.

[china_shop]

Yay, thank you! I think Return hungry and wet is verbatim from the original. It was so much fun weaving Fraser and Ray into the text. *beam*

[laurashapiro.livejournal.com]

Marvelous!

[china_shop]

Thank you! :-D

[metaphoracle.livejournal.com]

Oh, this was fantastic. Perfect selection of genre.

[china_shop]

*beam* Thank you so much! *loves your icon*

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

I cannot tell you how freaking in love with this I am. Oh my lord.

- I forget that I am steering. - Interesting result. - Crevasse number two. - Thirteenth chorus of "Northwest Passage" is final straw. And the entirety of Chapter VIII! And okay, really the entire thing.

[china_shop]

Eee, yay! Thank you! :-D

I forget that I am steering. - Interesting result. is verbatim from the original, but I think chapter VIII was all my own work. *checks* Yes, all except this line:

Shameful conduct of two abandoned young men.

Hee!

[bibliokat.livejournal.com]

Let's try this again:

Unfortunate oversight in the packing process. - One hundred and one uses for tallow.

*dies* This is great! It's amazing how you told an entire story in short phrases and made it sound like Fraser too. I love the ending, very sweet;)

[china_shop]

Hee! So glad you liked it. Yay! Thank you! :-D

[mergatrude.livejournal.com]

Chapter VIII!!!!!!!!!!!

Ray prepares to die. - An arctic hare comes along. - Effect of sudden joy on Ray. - A little supper, long delayed.

[china_shop]

Yayayayaye! The original of that part says, A night search for the picturesque. - Homeless and houseless. - Harris prepares to die. - An angel comes along. - Effect of sudden joy on Harris. - A little supper. - Lunch. - High price for mustard. *g*

*twirls and twirls you*

[laylee.livejournal.com]

I was going to try and pick out my favourite bits, but pretty much the whole thing is my favourite bit I so much!

[china_shop]

Yayayaye! I'm so glad. Thank you!!! :-D

[bluebrocade.livejournal.com]

All my favorite bits have been quoted already! *pouts*

Well, anyway, you are brilliant. *loves*

[china_shop]

*pets you* There's no shame in requoting! (Not that you have to, of course.) *g*

And yay! Thank you! *beams like crazy*

[joandarck.livejournal.com]

I love this parody more than words can say. And it spills over onto you.

[joandarck.livejournal.com]

Fight between Diefenbaker and a wolverine.

WAIT A MINUTE.

[vaudevilles.livejournal.com]

Unfortunate oversight in the packing process. - One hundred and one uses for tallow.

*giggles wildly*

I must read Jerome K Jerome at some stage...

You kick arse lady.

[china_shop]

I recommend getting the pootle to read it to you! :-D

Yay! Thank you! *GLOMP*

[sdwolfpup.livejournal.com]

Wow, this was *amazing*. I completely and totally adored this. It's perfect!

[china_shop]

Eee, yay! Thank you so much! *beam*