#kabensi

Lunch with culture, which today is Jane Hearts Maura - A Mixture Tape Fic by kabensi. In a convulsion of life manifesting as art (or vice versa) the tape is actually real, and so is @kbs-was-here/kabensi. They can both be found here.

I’m holding on to the music mix theme from yesterday. This is a story that makes lots of sense to us fossils who remember mixtapes. Depending on your age and persons involved, mixtapes were Serious Business last century. In-story we have brave detective Jane Rizzoli chickening out like a fourteen year old boy and deciding to express her love through the mixtape medium instead of saying “I love you” like an actual grownup.

Not that I’m belittling her for it (if that is in fact a word). I’d be intimidated too if I tried to impress Maura Isles. I think Jane is doing the exact right thing: In my AU view of the rizzles universe, Maura can go out and buy whatever she wants so she would appreciate the personal effort. The complication with personal is that everyone butts in with music suggestions. Some of them are horrifying.

Does it work? The beginnings are auspicious: "You were up all night making me this mixture tape?" It was practically reverent, the way Maura lifted it out of Jane's hand. (see, author and I agree about Maura) ...but there are second thoughts about the music selection and there are the Rizzoli Nerves acting up.

The moment I saw the artist of the last track mentioned I knew what it was. I may not be a gamer but I have played a lot of HALOs. I would not have had the nerves to pick that particular song, but then I probably wouldn’t have shot myself in the guts either.

Considering that it will likely be a perpetual work in progress, it’s probably wiser that you didn’t read it. My usual answer for which wip do I want finished right now is Rough Beginnings. 

I actually laughed because the follow up question to the wips is about kabensi…and basically, all her fics need to be finished right now.

*cough* preferably during business hours *cough* 

*cough* Magic Rush/Simple Touch *cough*

Title: Without you is how I disappear

Summary: Quinn fully embraces her new attitude, but Rachel's ridiculously persistent about getting her to rejoin New Directions. COMPLETE

ALSO HOT LADIES MACKING ON YOUR TELEVISION. WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU. SIT DOWN AND ENJOY THE MOMENT. 

Besides, Faberry would crash and burn if they got together right now. But this is actually a really good sign that there's a chance for them in the future.

Stories have progression. The fun of reading a book is not the end, it's the middle. It's growing with the characters that you've come to love. Faberry is, and always has been, an incredibly complex dynamic. And having the show rush into putting them together before their characters could actually handle a relationship with eachother would be doing their entire story arc a great injustice. Just chill out a little.

Besides, there isn't anything the writers could write into canon about Faberry that hasn't already been written with a 1000x the quality in a fanfic somewhere. 

Title: The hardest part about saying hello is goodbye

Summary: or The Ex-Cheerio Former Teen Mother Motown Jammin' Time Traveler's Lady Wife - Quinn's a Time Traveler, RachelQuinn, Femslash

Title: When all that you touch tumbles down

Summary: Quinn and Rachel attempt a renegotiation of their relationship post-graduation. Will they become friends? Will they become more? These are the paras from the notthatcheerio and berryfunnygirl rp on tumblr.

Title: Preferably during business hours

Summary: After New York, Quinn takes a summer job at Burt's garage only to have Rachel show up looking for a lube job. But, like, as in an actual oil change.