fic what I don't want to write (but can't seem to stop thinking about)

[bluecastle]

In the last couple of weeks I think I have read most/much/the bulk of the Lewis fic out there. There is not surprisingly a lot of hurt/comfort, a lot of curtains fic, and a fair amount of Hathaway = woobie. Or some combo of all three. 

There's also enough fic which has Hathaway wearing makeup to work to make it a _thing_. I don't know, enough anyway for me to note "hey there's fic about that." 

And while I'm all for people writing whatever fic they want to write, my headcanon for Hathway doesn't include base and mascara (or sparkly pink glittery hairspray for his off hours for that matter unless he were headed to a rave-y club kind of thing ...)

BUT

Most of my fic is usually sparked by an image I get in my head. And having seen in my head for reasons mysterious to me, Lewis fixing Hathaway's eye makeup, I kind of can't stop unseeing it. Which makes me think I should write a fic about it. But I kind of can't because my headcanon won't let me. I can't find a REASON for it, a story logic or whatever.

I realized this morning in the shower I could make it work as RPF, if I could figure out a reason for smudgey makeup w/o makeup persons etc. But I haven't seen any RPF in this fandom and on the off chance that I might someday write it I don't know that I'd post it so as not to step on any fandom toes, although otoh Laurence Fox's tweets are fanservice to the nth degree :) 

Anyway ... not the point. I'm as mystified as I can be why this image won't leave me. I find some things in fics sexy. Boys wearing makeup isn't generally one of them. And it I were going to write it I'd more likely do it with AU Merlin/Arthur ... or Eames in a dream or s/thing... not two world-weary Oxford cops!

But hey... its a bunny. And maybe some day I'll figure out how to write it. Meanwhile welcome to my brain.

Comments

[alba17.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'd like to read a fic where Hathaway wears makeup to work. Have you read any good ones? I'm one of the people who finds it sexy.

It is difficult to imagine a good reason for him doing that, though. :)

[valancy-joy.livejournal.com]

if I find/re-find a good fic with that in it, I'll give you a shout. (My guess is its sparked by the real life issues of filming + Laurence Fox's impossibly pale eyelashes!)

and/or when I figure out how to write that fic. I keep having THOTS :)

[carolyn-claire.livejournal.com]

Why not the old "undercover for a case" trope? It's an oldie but a goodie. :) (Stopped by to read you, will be friending you to see if you actually write this, among other reasons. You do community theater too! I costume.)

[valancy-joy.livejournal.com]

Friended you back! I used to costume too :)) Nowadays I'm mostly working with a pro (ish) company based out of New Jersey (I'm in the middle of Pennsylvania) as one of the co-founders lives here now. It's mostly educational/creative dramatics but we also have a travelling fake 40s radio show that we take around to local senior centers and get them to sing along with us and remember the old timey commercials and radio shows. They're lovely to do!

I'll figure out a way to crack the Hathaway + makeup thing. I'm having THOTS ...!!! :)