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Nothing's loading except youtube, so I'm finally watching the earlier half of due South. I'm on episode four, and wow. It's really different, at least so far. It seems less cracky, and the Ray-Fraser relationship is almost opposite, somehow? Like with RayK, I always felt like Fraser was the one who's got his shit together, and is the stabilizing influence and RayK kind of a mess, but with RayV it feels like Fraser's out of place, a little naive, and RayV is the one who kind of gets the world. Or at least, understands the environment, and seems to be the one who's exasperatedly tolerant of Fraser's weirdness.

It's really interesting. I wish I'd been in this fandom for its meta heyday.



Also, I really like Fraser's brown uniform. I don't think we see it as much in the RayK half of the show.

is there still an active Due South fandom? And where do I find it? The AO3 tags seem a bit slow (Or maybe it feels that way because I'm used to Avengers fandom speed.) and every fic rec list I find is from 2009 or 2010.

I kind of regret not jumping on this bandwagon when it was a thing. Now all the links to fic I WANT are dead and people have purged their journals or abandoned them, and if delicious hadn't eaten itself, I bet there would a be ton of stuff there.


Trying to get into a fandom after the fact feels kind of sad. :(

I'm afraid I won't be able to come up with anything once I get my writer. :| Or life will intervene with writing the fic or i'll forget and miss all the checks, or something.

I did it. I am terrified, but I did it. D: D:


Also.

I CAME ON THE TRAIL OF THE KILLERS OF MY FATHER.

The weird running joke of at first having Fraser explain the basic premise of the show to characters they meet became other (familiar) characters explaining the premise of the show, and now character of the week guys are explaining the premise of the show.

I didn't just notice that this was a thing, but it's such goofy meta comedy. I think I'm using those terms right. It's like the asides and precint conversations that are clearly meant to be hubub, but that someone also clearly scripted. This show has bits of things shoved in here and there.

I don't know what the hell is Turnbull's deal. Maybe he's there to normalize Fraser. Everybody looks normal around Turnbull. But when he was going to fight Ray over insults to curling he actually seemed okay. I don't know what that says about me that I think that's a relatable character trait, but I bet he and Ray could be friends over hockey. Except that Ray thinks the Leafs suck, so idk.


I also want to talk about fathers in this show, but not right now.

I started watching Due South, but at the beginning of S3, because of reasons. Kowalsky's awful glasses are adorable/hilarious.

Also, I can't stop thinking that I would totally read this as a Steve/Clint AU. Or a Steve & Clint AU even.