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Title: Ritual (39): Both Sides Now Author: mystery_sock Pairing/Characters: Peter/Nathan, Arthur, Angela Rating: NC-17 Spoilers: Episode 1.09 "Six Months Ago" and 2.04 "The Kindness of Strangers" (story takes place pre-series) Word Count: about 9400 Warnings: language, incest, explicit m/m sex Summary and Notes: As Peter backs away from studying for a law degree, he finds dealing with his father increasingly difficult... and Nathan seeks to exorcise his personal demons, with Peter's help. It is useful, but not strictly necessary, to read Ritual (27): Dixon first. Gracias to ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) 47_trek_47 and fabrisse for their beta-ing help! Feedback=life. • Ritual Reader's Guide - all Ritual stories in chronological order • ( 'What, is this, like, a date or something?'... )Tags: angela, arthur, fic, nathan, nc-17, peter, petrellicest, ritual
Current Mood:  happy
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I guess I'm really just not a CSI kind of person, though I kind of understand the thing that people have for Grissom (he's such a savant!). I was not into this hour of television, even with the sparing presence of Milo Ventimiglia, tearing up yet again. (Man, that guy gets typecast as a crier. I don't mind, but dang.) I especially hate shows that have the "if you take drugs ever, you will die - or kill your loved ones and not remember it afterwards!" Or, for that matter, almost any hour of television ever that features a "rave". This one is particularly ham-fisted, not to mention that it came out about ten years after the rave scene had already collapsed. Grr! Stupid mainstream media! [/cranky oldster] Anyway, Milo is cute, but not as cute as he would later become. He looks oddly older here than he does on The Gilmore Girls. The character itself is fairly vague and unformed, his plotline only one of three (the CSI standard? Very standard for any kind of procedural, as I've learnt watching House), and the culmination as lurid as it has to be, seeing as it involves drugs. I'll watch the episode again if it happens to be on, but this is not one of my Milo favorites. Onward! Maybe I'll try to uncover some of those Boston Public episodes... aw, who am I kidding? This is what NetFlix was made for. (But do I dare open that hornet's nest? I have such poor impulse control when it comes to movies and TV shows... I just really want to see WINTER BREAK and Opposite Sex, as well as the truckload of embarrassing past Adrian Pasdar credits.) Unnecessary personal update: I'm exhausted. I'm writing, but very slowly. Life is still really busy, but I am poking at Ritual 39 every day. But for right now, I'm going to take a nap.Tags: :(, milo ventimiglia, other roles
Current Mood:  tired
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This is really Paula Abdul's movie, but it sure does have Adrian Pasdar in it, which is why I'm spending neurochemicals watching this. Made for TV, 1997, based on a true story, not at all good, but on the other hand, Adrian, his bubble butt, and a general air of tremendous sexual menace - All right! This is not his finest moment, but at least he gets to be shirtless a couple of times, and intermittently really scary. And he does look good with blood on his face. His character is stalker-tastic, but still takes the time to spritz his houseplants. And of course, he's sexiest when he gives in to his dark side (his hairstyle markedly improves, too). Still, this movie is not, er, good, or fun. But it can be obtained through NetFlix if you feel like viewing this curiosity. Tags: :(, adrian pasdar, other roles
Current Mood: bitterly amused
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Man, I really want to work on those stories! I'm doing something I've never done before - working on TWO at the same time. I just got some really good lines for one of them (inspired by reading the interview with Cristine Rose in the new-ish Heroes Official Magazine), so I started on it, too. Many requests will be fulfilled! *tosses confetti* Perhaps there's a Ritual smorgasbord in the future. But for now - it's just day after day of having no more than 10 minutes a day to work on them. I can't live on 60 words a day. I want to stretch my legs... but yet again, not tonight. And perhaps not tomorrow night, either. Stupid poopy day job, and gosh darn my friends for either needing me desperately, or providing things that I need desperately, or both! Stupid love. It's for schmucks. I listened to the new episode of "Heroes: The Official Podcast" from BBC7 today and it made me all goopy and sentimental. I want my Season 2 DVDs right the hell now, but in the meantime I guess I'll have to soothe myself with my crappy dubbed VHS-with-the-commercials-in. But I think I must. It's so horrible how I've become this format snob recently; I hate watching things on VHS now, especially television. Even my Bad Boyfriend™. It doesn't change the fact that the tape is in the player right now... I just haven't turned it on for a couple of months. But I've got a need to be reunited... to climb back into the thicket of the Drunk!Nathan Beard/Hedgehog of Doom. Tags: status report, whine
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Happy birthday, Charlie Andrews. April showers; it's been stormin' all week. Let's all give Hiro-kun a sympathetic fictional hug. .... Working, slowly, on Ritual 39. I am having unexpected difficulties deciding on POV, chronological setting, and whether or not I want it to turn into a longer, semi-drawn-out tale that's as much about Peter and Nathan's relationship with their father as it is about their relationship with each other. It's not as though the former approach is a problem, but if I can't find a parallel between the two subjects, I ought to drop the parent/child Petrelli dynamic and concentrate on the brothers. There's plenty enough going on there in this story as it is (perhaps, even, too much). (And do I really want to write another 11,000 word fic? How many people have the patience to sit through that?) This is an issue that I might have forseen last year, back when Ritual started growing in scope and complexity - as I go along, writing them becomes much harder work. I guess this is just something I do to myself; of course I could just write a simple, straightforward quick dash of smut, but other (cool) ideas keep crowding their way into my mind, and I then have to make decisions about what stays and what goes. I am dying to write about Arthur Petrelli, if only because I'm dying to know him. Who is this guy, really? "War Buddies" gives a hint of how he was when he was in Vietnam (strict, slightly sentimental, lacking in superstition, get-the-job-done, harsh, unafraid to kill in the line of duty but not exactly bloodthirsty either, but also with a streak of cruelty) and we know he looks more or less almost exactly like the adult Nathan (thank you, Jason Badower; you're my favorite webcomics artist!). But there are so many unanswered questions, and Arthur Petrelli is as central to the mythology of Heroes as Chandra Suresh, Thompson, Linderman, or Kaito Nakamura – perhaps even more so. But for me (and other fic writers in the fandom, especially Petrelli-lovers), it's also very personal. How did he interact with Nathan? With Peter? With Angela? (Yeah, seriously, what was going on there?) With the other members of the Company? I really, really wish they'd give us some canon on the show to work with, but I can't tell if they're going to go in that direction at all in their haste to give us lots of tasty supervillains. (Or maybe Arthur is one of those supervillains?...) We need flashbacks (and hell, cast Adrian in the role; powder up his hair, slap some Buddy Holly glasses on him, and let him bust out his thespian chops) and we need them now. DAMN YOU, HIATUS. Tags: arthur, charlie, heroes holiday, hiatus is killing me, writers block
Current Mood:  okay
Current Music: Blitzen Trapper: Wild Mountain Nation
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I have three potential stories to work on now (2 definite Rituals and one potentially not, but possibly yes). Nothing like being too busy to write to really get my engines going... I always want to get to a nice even number in Ritual stories before I take a break from writing them, but it never works out that way (see: Ritual 11, Ritual 16, Ritual 21, Ritual 34, etc.) Oh well. I need to decide on a POV for one of them, and then I'm ready to go - I outlined it yesterday... evening, I guess? before going out. I can work on it over the course of the next week, and maybe outline the next two as well. I hope to have all three stories done by the end of the month, but I'm facing a couple of very busy weeks with job stuff, other job stuff, and scrambling around trying to make ends meet, so... it'll have to be hobby/leisure writing instead of "THIS IS SO TEWTALLY WHAT I DO". Ah well, it'll work out. Tags: status report
Current Mood: coolin'
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Another entry into the "obsessively tracking down every one of Milo or Adrian's screen credits" series... I got the fifth season of L&O:SVU from the library just so I could watch the episode guest-starring Milo Ventimiglia. To my great delight, it also co-guest-stars Michael K. Williams, who portrays my Ultimate Hero of All Time, Omar Little of The Wire. Michael K. Williams makes me really, really happy; he could read me the L listings in the phone book and it would reduce me to loving giggles. ( synopsis, spoilers if you care, and goofing around )Milo (age 25, filmed in 2003) looks utterly choice. Man, he's just amazing; he is delightsome to the eye, especially kind of banged up and with his eyes full of tears. This episode is notable if you want to see him tied up with his mouth covered in a strip of duct tape. I'm not implying anything, but I just thought I'd point it out. Lovely in a blue oxford shirt (presaging the blue oxfords sported by Peter and Adam) and rocking the cherry-red lips, it's classic Milo wrong hotness. Completely worthy of Milo enthusiasts everywhere. Next I'm going to watch the CSI episode from 2000, which I believe will be the earliest Milo material I've ever seen. I'm trying to catch the episode of Fresh Prince of Bel-Air that he was on in 1995, but it's so hard to chase down those episodes on Nick at Night at 2 in the morning when I'm all drunk. I have to, though... Milo at 18? It's worth it! Tags: milo ventimiglia, other roles
Current Mood: pleased
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