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[stillane]

 
I... might have committed further ficcage. I do believe I have managed to finish that bit that I've been plucking away at for many moons now. Which one, you may ask? (There are so many that fit that description, sadly.) Why, the one that involves the Rock and Stifler and their big, gay love affair. Kinda.

A long, long time ago, strifechaos put out a plea for fic for The Rundown for her birthday. For those of you who don't already know:

The Rundown ranks among the slashiest movies I have ever seen. This guy named Beck gets sent out to find this guy named Travis, and they spend pretty much the whole movie alternately attempting to knock each other around or bonding. Eventually, Beck expresses his accidental-but-undying affection in a couple very meaningful ways, and they ride off into the sunset together. No, really.

This movie cries out for fun, caper-ish fic. So of course I said, "Oooo, I will write that!" And then I utterly failed to write that. I wrote a little bit of something else instead, though, and then a little bit more. At some point, I gave up and went with it. This is not the fun, caper-ish fic, but I maybe like it anyway. (And strifechaos... um, at least it might exist before your next birthday? Oops?)

With that ringing endorsement: anyone up for a beta? It's about 3500 words, fairly straightforward, maybe PG-13 or soft R levels of roughness and nekidness, and features Beck and Travis getting to know one another. Eventually.

Any takers?

Comments

[lamardeuse.livejournal.com]

Yes to the slashiness of The Rundown. I must get my hands on it one of these days.

[stillane.livejournal.com]

As I said to strifechaos at the time, it's like someone set out to make a gay Romancing the Stone, and just figured no one would notice because of who the actors were. *boggles*

I mean, they're in the jungle, traveling with one very kickass woman, and neither of them even bothers to make an effort. Beck rescues Travis with magical fruit. The alternate ending suggests that they're already planning their next adventure together. How can there not be more fic for this? How, I ask you?

[lamardeuse.livejournal.com]

Especially since the Rock has played gay before, too - and fabulously. *sigh* I adore him.

[stillane.livejournal.com]

Wait, he has? How did I miss this?

[lamardeuse.livejournal.com]

In Be Cool. He was AMAZING.

[palebluebell.livejournal.com]

Yes.

I'll do it, if you don't already have someone.

Because...I've been waiting, and then waiting some more, for someone besides me to realise that this was indeed the *slasiest* movie *eva*.

So, yes, I will beta; I'd pretty much do anything to get my hands on this.

[stillane.livejournal.com]

Eeee! Thank you, thank you, thank you! Okay to ship it to the email in your info?

[palebluebell.livejournal.com]

Sorry for the delay in reply.

It says that I sent my reply at 5pm-ish, but here it was 2.30am. I'd just been woken up by thieving possums trying to eat their way through an entire loaf of my bread. Possums have little respect and no morals, I've found. I saw them off (there may have been a honey sandwich handed over at one point) then decided I'd never get to sleep again and turned to my friend page.

This morning at 9am-ish I got up and thought, Hey! Did I say I'd beta something? There was a mad dash to the computer and a frantic click click, and indeed I had.

Cool! Very cool.

Yes, my email was fine. Thank you.

[terribilita.livejournal.com]

I had no idea that there was fannish activity for The Rundown! That movie is one of my guilty pleasures--my friends had to do a lot of convincing to get me to the theater (The Rock? SWS? Really?) because there's nothing I hate more than spending $10 on a bad movie. But I actually enjoyed it and wow, Christopher Walken makes a great villain. And lets not forget the slashy vibes. Anyhow, if you still need a hand with the beta, I'd be more than happy to take a looksee. If not, I'll wait patiently for you to post. :)

[stillane.livejournal.com]

I had no idea that there was fannish activity for The Rundown!

There's... well, not much. What's out there could probably be counted on your fingers with enough left for a passable game of cat's cradle. How this can be, given the slash potential there, I'll never know. *headshake*

Maybe it's Christopher Walken's fault. Christopher Walken is a creepy, creepy man, and maybe people know he's involved and run away in fear. It has been recently proven that even a happy, boogying Christopher Walken weirds me out. I'm pretty sure that guy could hug puppies and cure cancer and he'd still give me the willies.

Also, I spent all of the villan scenes going, "No! Broots-from-The-Pretender, you cannot be a baddy!"

Anyhow, if you still need a hand with the beta,

Whee! Thank you! I'll ship it your way momentarily.

[terribilita.livejournal.com]

What's out there could probably be counted on your fingers with enough left for a passable game of cat's cradle.

Well then. No wonder I wasn't aware of the fandom. But it's so slashy! Two guys wandering the Amazon together, one against his will! The slash can practically write itself. :0

He's creepy as hell, but I love Christopher Walken; he always plays an awesome bad guy. Wayne's World 2! And he's part of one of my most favorite TV duos in Batman Returns. Him and the Penguin--evil, sadistic bastards. And through his evil actions, he single-handedly "created" Catwoman! Yes!

[raucousraven.livejournal.com]

If only I knew anything about that movie beyond your blurb -- but alas. And my research muscles are all totes pooped, so all I can offer is my eventual loving mockery of your Rock. (I don't know how he sets off every single last one of my mock-now alarms, but he does. I don't fight what works ;)

[stillane.livejournal.com]

*snorts* The guy kinda walks that fine line between really, really silly and just overproduced. What saves him, in my book, is that he knows it. Kind of like Fabio; if he just went around fluffing his hair and staring meaningfully at cameras, I'd have to despise him, but every now and then he comes out with something so self-mocking that you think he's maybe not buying his own press. Although, really, what can you do after you've been beaned by a seagull while riding a rollercoaster?

And my research muscles are all totes pooped

Gee, I wonder why? You mean you aren't just itching to go spend some time in a library somewhere, surrounded by miles and miles of semi-relevant texts with organizational systems which make sense only to drunkards and orangutans? Wimp. *g*

*quietly envies your advanced degree*

so all I can offer is my eventual loving mockery of your Rock.

But you will hurt his poor, delicate feelings! *sobs*

Heh.

[kickthebeat.livejournal.com]

the rundown is -- hand to allah -- one of my top five action movies of all time. IT IS GAY AS SHIT, HOW COULD PEOPLE NOT HOLD IT DEAR TO THEIR HEARTS?! i could sit and laugh at beck's dismay over ruining his designer shirt -- AND KICKING FOOTBALL PLAYER ASS -- all day, every day. i even have a copy on my computer, because i love it so. :( if i weren't the laziest beta in the history and time and space, i would offer my services here and now.

[stillane.livejournal.com]

We need more fashion-conscious, recipe-loving, muscle-bound, ass-kicking hero-types in film. *nods* I believe this wholeheartedly. Preferably ones who develop strange and unforeseen attachments to snarky, bright, surprisingly honorable other men. Yes.

Seriously, I love that the movie knows exactly what kind of movie it's supposed to be, and takes a left turn at Albuquerque because of it. You get the big damn explosions, but with a side of bizarre Scotsman reciting poetry. Not to mention that the whole thing is structured like a romantic comedy with two male leads. You gotta love that. *g*

[babelmira.livejournal.com]

I read that as knock each other up

[stillane.livejournal.com]

That may have made me swallow my tongue. Heh.

[(Anonymous)]

Yay, yay, yay! Rundown fic by you! I love that movie so much. I've always wanted to write a big gay adventure for it, but having you do it is much, much better. (Less work, more pleasure!) Can't wait.

-docmichelle

[stillane.livejournal.com]

It's such a gloriously fun movie! I really wish they'd do a sequel to it, but I don't think it was enough of a box office draw. Damn it.

I've always wanted to write a big gay adventure for it

See, me too. And then there was this thing, which is not that. Sorry. It's kind of more of an anti-adventure, really; it's more Beck wanting a nice, boring existence and Travis just refusing to leave him the hell alone. Although, I have the sneaking suspicion that somewhere along the line I might tackle the big gay adventure that they're discussing in the alternate ending, so all hope is not lost?

(That may have to wait until after I convince myself that Jericho and the Magnificent Seven wouldn't make the best universe fusion ever, though. *sigh*)

Oh, and also: hi, you! Long time no see. Hope everything's been okay in your world of late.