Meme: DVD Commentary

[angelita26]

elrhiarhodan got this one started today, and I love to play this meme so much. Ask me about any fic in any fandom that I've written, and I will happily divulge details.

Here's how it works:

Pick a passage from my stories, up to 500 words, from anything I've written in my LJ masterlist and on AO3 (my AO3 masterlist has my Teen Wolf fic in addition to all the WC and WCRPS goodies), and comment to this post with that selection (including a link to the story being excerpted). I will then give you a DVD commentary on that snippet: what I was thinking when I wrote it, why I wrote it in the first place, what's going on in the character's heads, why I chose certain words, what this moment means in the context of the rest of the story, awful puns [perhaps], and anything else that you'd expect to find on a DVD commentary track.

If you would like to ask about multiple stories, that's awesome. Please post the passages in separate comments so that I can respond coherently about each one. :)

Note: My LJ masterlist was updated recently, and the only things missing are the recent Fic Alphabet Challenge ficlets, which are also available for use in this meme.

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[elrhiarhodan]

It took a minute for Tim to remember what he was looking for, and then he scanned the books around him to see what section he was in. Poetry, perfect. He followed the alphabet down to the Ns, but didn't see anything that he wanted.

Bracing himself, he looked around the corner and saw that the man at the counter was working diligently on something, maybe a drawing. His head was down, concentrating as his hand swept across the paper. There was something in it; charcoal he realized a moment later. There was a smudge of it across his cheek too.

"Excuse me. I was looking for Pablo Neruda, but I don't see it back here."

When the man looked up, a curled lock of hair fell across his forehead and all Tim wanted to do was brush it back for him. He smiled again and made his way around the counter. The snug, faded FDNY t-shirt and loose-fitting slate gray cargo pants were quickly overshadowed by the black forearm crutches the man was using. Tim was surprised but tried not to let it show. There was something very sexy about the ease with which the man handled the crutches.

"Y aquel reloj cuyo sonido era la voz de nuestras vidas, el secreto hilo de las semanas…" He quoted as he dodged a display of calendars and the rotating rack of 'leave a book, take a book' paperbacks. "Are you looking for a specific book?"

Tim's mind went blank, and he froze, wide-eyed, until the other man laughed.

"It's okay. I know we have three or four copies over here." He crutched around the corner from where Tim had been looking. "I'm Matt, by the way."

That's from Ode to Broken Things, the very first Bookstore story.

My question: Why did you write this as RPS and not simply a WC A/U?

[angelita26.livejournal.com]

Ode to Broken Things started as a response to a prompt that embroiderama left on her RPF AU meme. I don't remember the exact prompt anymore but I think it was simply about Matt working in a bookstore.

Since it was for the RPF AU meme, I never considered it being a WC AU story. The characters quickly took on lives of their own, and it was very clear to me that they were not Neal or Peter. I took inspiration from WC promo interviews and videos to create the characters of Matt and Tim and filled out the rest of their personalities based on the backstories I created and also how I needed them to be similar or different in various aspects.

It was only meant to be that first short story. However, I wrote this line "That's more of a third date kind of story. Don't want to send you running off too soon." and I got several requests for the third date. To write the third date, I had to write the others. And by then I was in love with the 'verse and had to write more.

Pablo Neruda was the first poet I thought of. He's one of my brother's favorites, and when I read a couple of his poems (in English as my Spanish is terrible), I knew he was the poet that Tim would be searching for, just as I knew Matt would be able to quote a poem. As I was re-reading though, it struck me that it means they're both quite proficient in Spanish. When I write the wedding, there will be Neruda quotes in at least one set of vows. :D

Thank you! I could talk about Bookstore for days :D