2009-03-15

By which I mean that I was pottering around in the depths of my del.ici.ous, not doing much in particular, when I came across this story (one of the Team Whimsy entries from this year's ds_match) and went yes! This! With the funny and the characterisation and the funny and the being him and the AWESOME! (also in this category are *points down* the previous recs, which other people got the joy of going all handwavey about, so, y'know, I'm just going to second people reading those. Loudly)

Title: Shot to the Heart
Author:

elementalv (Tara Keezer)
Rating: PG-13
Length: 5.600 words
Why I'm reccing this: uh, see the illiterate keyboard mashing with caps up there? Pretty much that, times really quite a lot. Yes, this story is humourous and whimsical, but it's also a truly marvellous picture of RayV looking at the wrold around him and maybe realising that letting some things happen may be scary, but they also have the potential to be really really good.

( a brief excerpt )

Shot to the Heart

There are two moments that come to mind when I think about why I love Ray Vecchio. One, in the pilot, is when cynical Detective Vecchio is sitting there at his desk with a pile of open cases, mouthing off about 'the dead Mountie thing' to a stiff in a red suit, and Fraser says says the dead Mountie is his father. And Ray makes a decision to help.

The second is Ray paying people $100 to come in off the street and listen to a Candian quote an American revolutionary, so that Fraser can filibuster the council.

Here's a vid I can watch anytime I forget why I love him so:

sdwolfpup's I Don't Care as Long as You Sing.

Finally, Father Confessor is my love letter to Vecchio, one end to the other.

2009-03-15

Kind of the delayed version of an insta-rec

Ray Vecchio: Adorkable and Trying so Hard to do the Right Thing