HEY LOOK ask me five things about Quatre, Wolfram, Fraser, Mac, or Aziraphale. The answers will be AU, blah blah blah, you know the story, etc., etc.

I like bandwagons. Also, as I am a failure, you will probably not get responses for a while. BUT I WILL BE THINKING.

Ray already recced a bunch of fics here. I'll be reccing ones that she hasn't, or trying to at least. (Everyone recs CMW. It's required.) Most if not all of these contain slash and/or hot mansex. They are without a doubt all Fraser/RayK in some way, shape, or form. I'll eventually add summaries/what-have-you. For now, you just get links. :D

Academic Punk, the hoyden

Chicago's Most Wanted, speranza

Enduring Distance, speranza

Inertia, lamardeuse

Take Me Out, lamardeuse

That's Where All the Gangsters Live, minervacat

They Eat Pizza, Don't They?, brooklinegirl

Two Men in a Boat, or Adventures on the African Queen, sihaya black

Seeing Red, lamardeuse

With Six You Get Eggroll, speranza


Updated 30 July:

Beguiled: Cabbages and Kings, rhi marzano

How Many Ways, pearl-o

Merry Bells Keep Ringing, pearl-o

Ray Is Not Actually Graphing The History Of His Relationship With Fraser--That Would Be Pathetic, And Ray Is Not Pathetic--But If He Was Graphing It, Even Just In His Own Stressed-Out, Messed-Up Brain, It Might Look Something Like This, sprat

Snapshot: Bell Curve, rageprufrock (crossover with SGA)



Also. This will be updated. Because I devour fic. Roar.

I. I love harukami and the sick way that her mind works. I love her so much.


"That, Ray, is the true reason I became a detective."

"...because he ...looked for clues and had a dog."

"Because I love him, Ray."

"Fraser, that's stupid. Nobody's in love with Steve from Blue's Clues. He's... Steve."

"Ray, with all due respect, if you speak ill of my Steve, I may be forced to engage in fisticuffs."

"What."

"I will punch you in the face."

"...I know what they are, Fraser."

"Then, desist. Because, you see."

"What now."

"...Steve is, ah, cold."

"...Cool, Fraser. And he's not cool. He's, like. Anti-cool."

[THWACK]

"WHAT THE HELL FRASER YOU JUST PUNCHED ME IN THE FACE."

"I did warn you, Ray."

"Okay, look, look. God. I can't believe this, Fraser. You like Steve more than me."

"Ray."

"I just can't BELIEVE--"

"Ray. Ray. Ray. Ray. Ray."

"WHAT."

"Please don't make me choose between you."

I plan on this being a list. A massive list of lines in dS that makes me go "............WHAT". For great justice. Carry on.

"You're not going to shoot either."
"Why? You think I'm not a killer?"
"No, I think you're an evil psychopath. But if you try, Detective Vecchio will blow your brains off."
"Out."
"Mn, I'm sorry, I stand corrected: he will blow your brains out."

I figured that while I'm trying to get canon uploaded I'd link to some YouTube clips. Because, really. But first, a brief summary of due South:

Constable Benton Fraser's father, famous Mountie Robert Fraser, is murdered by a hitman posing as an American dentist. Fraser tracks the hitman down when he travels to Chicago (with the help of Detective Ray Vecchio)! He finds out that the hitman was hired to off his father because Fraser, Sr. had discovered a plot by the government to flood Canadian wilderness (damaging countless things) because of a nearby dam's incapability of supporting the water it needed to hold -- so Fraser, Sr. was murderinated. Fraser finds all of this out and implicates a good load of government officials and higher-ups in this plot, and because of this everyone figures that it's better that Fraser stays in Chicago, attached as liaison to the Chicago Police Department for the Canadian Consulate.

Ray Vecchio is a streetwise Italian detective who's fast-talking and abrasive. He dresses in Armani and is smooth. At the beginning of the third season he also disappears undercover to assume the role of Armando Languistini, a recently deceased mafiaso who Ray bears a resemblance to. In order to aid his work, Ray needs to be replaced back in Chicago.

Enter Ray Kowalski. Before I go anywhere else, I would like to point something out: this is Ray Vecchio. This is Ray Kowalski. Now try to wrap your mind around the fact that RayK is supposed to be RayV. Exactly. Welcome to due South, population: WTF.

Ray Kowalski has his own set of issues. Ha ha. Oh Ray. I won't even touch that. His player can write a 15-page essay on his issues, and I'll write a 15-page essay on Fraser's daddy/woman issues, and it will be awesome.

So basically Fraser works with his best bud RayV, who turns into RayK who also becomes his best bud, and the series ends with Fraser and RayK dogsledding off into the sunset together. I'm serious. It's maybe the best thing I've ever seen ever. Also, Fraser has his deaf half-wolf Diefenbaker, his dead dad who haunts him and lives in his closet, and the rest of the cast there for the show. It's a fun thing.

CLIPS!

Firstly, blooper reel. From the last two seasons, it documents the cast of due South being idiots. And also devotes an entire section to RayK and Fraser's big gay love. Oh, due South. I love you.

Fraser meets "Ray Vecchio". Has no idea what's going on. Where did his Italian go? D:

Fraser and RayK play poker for air. "Once again, crowded home." "House." "Crowded house." "...full house." "Full house, full house."

RayK and Turnbull fight about curling. "Hey, you're empty-handed." "But I am not empty-trousered."

Fraser sings sea chanties. I can't spell chanteys. Er. Paul Gross owns my soul.

Finally, a RayV clip! Fraser is paralyzed. RayV is carrying him. Fraser is... singing. Just. Yes.

Buck Frobisher, the renowned Mountie who carries a passing resemblance to the actor Leslie Nielson, gives a... very rousing speech. "Our names will be as like... household names!"

RayK and RayV confront each other. Testosterone abounds. They bond over... mocking Fraser. A++, boys.

...RayK has issues. So RayV shows back up and RayK realizes that he... is no longer Ray Vecchio. And then he has this talk with Thatcher. And... oh, Ray.

And Fraser and RayK ride off into the sunset. The end. ♥



Alsoalso, there is a place to download dS episodes online but it's one of those supersekrit "don't tell anyone in public" places, so if you're at all interested? IM me at transfiguratio, reply here with your email address, or PM me in the chan (under Fraser, Mac, Wolfram, or Aziraphale).

Voting post goes here.

Character: Constable Benton Fraser
Series: due South
Character Age: approx. 37
Job: Forest Ranger
Canon: Due South is well-summarized as "that Mountie in Chicago buddy cop show": Constable Benton Fraser of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police travels to Chicago to track down his father's killer, uncovers a government plot to recklessly destroy the environment, and opts to remain in Chicago until less people in Canada hate him for uncovering said plot. As liaison to the Chicago Canadian Consulate, Fraser works with his deaf half-wolf Diefenbaker and Detective Ray Vecchio -- and later Detective Ray Kowalski, who is undercover as Ray Vecchio -- to solve crimes and keep the peace.

Benton Fraser is an amalgamation of Dudley Do-Right, Sergeant Preston of the Yukon, and Superman (without the dickery). In his Red Serge uniform and flat-brimmed Stetson, Fraser climbs every mountain and forges every stream; he believes in the intrinsic goodness of people; he is unceasingly polite; and he has the particular habit of promising to help people and never going back on his word. At the same time, Fraser is weird: he was reared in the Northwest Territories by his traveling librarian grandparents (his mother died when he was young and his father was always gone, off being a renowned Mountie) and he has never adjusted to life in Chicago. He tastes everything to identify substances, has an acute sense of smell, and can track cars. He knows at least eight languages, and tells Inuit stories and other parables readily. He carries out full conversations with Diefenbaker who, will deaf, excels at reading lips. He has the uncanny ability to make women (and sometimes men) fall in love with him at the drop of a hat. He also has his flaws, of course: he sometimes becomes impatient and snaps at people he is close to; has a razor sharp wit which he often employs to subtly mock; is incredibly bitter when it comes to his father; and threw the only woman he ever loved in jail because it was the right thing to do. He's also haunted by the ghost of his dead father, who lives in his closet.

Note: at the end of the series, Fraser and Ray Kowalski dogsled off into the sunset to take the Northwest Passage -- to find the Hand of Franklin, reaching for the Beaufort Sea.


Sample Post:

Ah, greetings. I hope I have not intruded on anything, but I find myself in a bit of a quandary. This is neither Aklavik, as it should be, nor is it any part of the Northwest Territories. Geographically speaking, it is impossible to have continued north by northwest and ended up, if I have calculated our current latitude correctly, in the southern United States of America. I have not yet determined our longitude, but the local vegetation and wildlife suggest the swamps of Alabama, or perhaps Louisiana.

Diefenbaker. Diefen -- I'm sorry, he's deaf, you see; he can read lips if you enunciate and are looking straight at -- Diefenbaker. I don't think we're in Canada anymore. How this is possible, I haven't the slightest idea -- oh, what's this? Dief, hand it over. What -- an assignment, surely, but. I... see. This must be a mistake, as I am on leave, but. Yes, Dief, it does sound very serious, doesn't it? ... Well, in that case, allow me to introduce myself:

Citizens of this fine encampment, I am Constable Benton Fraser of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. I have come to Louisiana on an adventure for the Hand of Franklin and the Northwest Passage and, for reasons which I don't know and as such don't need exploring at this juncture, I have received instructions to remain, attached as... Forest Ranger to this facility.

Ah, sir, that is very kind of you, but I think you misunderstood. When I said that I was searching for the Hand of Franklin, I did not mean it literally, so if you would like to reattach your arm then I'm sure we could...

Oh. Oh dear.