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kat_lair ([personal profile] kat_lair) wrote2015-06-25 10:23 pm
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Actor RPS: To Oscillation!

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Title: To Oscillation!
Author: Mistress Kat /  [livejournal.com profile] kat_lair
Fandom: Actor RPS
Pairing: James Franco/Shia LaBeouf sort of. Well, it’s discussed.
Genre: Dialogue only, experimental Franco style?
Rating: PG-13??
Word count: 645
Disclaimer: Not mine and not true, just playing.

Summary: After the interview, Straight James and Gay James discuss the possibility of banging Shia LaBeouf. For art.

Author notes: I wanted to write ficlets in brand new fandoms. [livejournal.com profile] beedekka gave me this pairing and ‘cocky’ as a prompt. Which is hilarious because I know nothing about these guys. However, a brief stint with Google turned up this little gem on an 'interview' and the ficlet will make no sense unless you read that first. It probably won’t make much sense regardless. The quotes are from the Metamodernist Manifesto by Luke Turner and Shia LaBeouf and sourced via the Wiki entry of Metamodernism.



Straight James (SJ): Well, that was a nice kiss. Does it make me gay if I enjoyed it? Or just narcissistic?

Gay James (GJ): Weren’t you listening to a word I said? Kissing doesn’t ‘make’ you anything. Except maybe someone with chapped lips if you do it long enough.

SJ: No problem here; that mirror was smooth. Also, I appreciate you not making a crack about narcissism and actors.

GJ: Well it’s not like I have a leg to on stand here, seeing as I’m still talking to myself. Anyway, that reminds me that there’s one more thing we should discuss. Now that we’ve opened the dialogue so to speak.

SJ: What? You want to talk about us talking to ourselves? Or something? Fuck, pronouns get complicated.

GJ: At least there’s no time travel. I hear temporal fuckery really screws up your tenses.

SJ: Where’d you hear that?

GJ: Some guy in a bowtie told me once. Anyway, that’s beside the point.

SJ: Bowties are always beside the point.

GJ: Oh dude, no. You do not get to have opinions about fashion.

SJ: Isn’t that a little stereotypical?

GJ: No, it’s the truth. Also, I don’t care about bow— Wait a minute. Are you trying to derail this discussion?

SJ: No.

GJ: Yes you are! It’s because you know what I want to talk about, isn’t it?

SJ: Well, yes! It’s not particularly difficult when we’re the same person.

GJ: Yeah, but not at the same time. Not constantly. After all: “oscillation is the natural order of the world.”

SJ: Okay, but the oscillation has to happen around something. There’s got to be a baseline.

GJ: And you’re saying you’re the baseline?

SJ: Well I…

GJ: Go fuck yourself.

SJ: Wouldn’t that…?

GJ: One more word…

SJ: Okay, no, I’m not the baseline. But neither are you. Besides, how is it that when I talk about bowties I’m ‘derailing’ the conversation, but citing the Metamodernist Manifesto is somehow a valid point?

GJ: Because it is. I’m saying that we might know some things when we oscillate in my direction that we don’t know when we oscillate in your direction.

SJ: If you say ‘oscillate’ one more time I’m going to punch myself in the face.

GJ: Why would…? Oh, very funny.

SJ: Yeah, I thought so. Okay fine, let’s talk about Shia.

GJ: …

SJ: What, now you’re being coy? C’mon, ‘oscillation is the natural order…’? You might as well asked me what my thoughts on performance art were. It wasn’t exactly subtle.

GJ: There’s no need to get cocky just because you’ve developed some self-awareness. And, to be fair, he’s doing some interesting stuff.

SJ: And, to be honest, you don’t want to talk about his art.

GJ: I do, but granted not right now. I’d like to table a proposal.

SJ: You’d like to table him, if you know what I mean and I think you do.

GJ: Pot, kettle. Like you haven’t had a hard-on for him since he put that paper bag over his head.

SJ: It was a very worthy project.

GJ: Absolutely. Which is why I think we should make him our next very worthy project.

SJ: Well, if it’s for art…

GJ: Everything is for art. Doesn’t mean that some of those things can’t be for the benefit my libido too.

SJ: Our libido.

GJ: Alright, our li— Wait. Really? Our?

SJ: Sure, sure. After all, I’m pretty sure banging Shia LaBeouf qualifies as “pursuit of a plurality of disparate and elusive horizons.”

GJ: …You’re not wrong.

SJ: This calls for a toast. I’m opening… Okay, so there’s beer or carrot juice?

GJ: Let’s go with the latter, it’s vaguely phallic.

SJ: Here we go! Now, what shall we drink to? I know! To art!

GJ: To oscillation!

SJ: *punches self in the face*

They drink.



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beedekka: Gary Daniels flipping the bird like a badass (JesusTV)

[personal profile] beedekka 2015-06-25 11:07 pm (UTC)(link)
*clutches hands together*

Oh my goodness this is perfect. And you turned Franco's pseudo-postmodern interview into a metamodern text through the cunning combination of 'fancying Shia LaBeouf' and... Doctor Who. I'm dying XD

Thank you, so, so much for being probably the only person in existence (apart from maybe James Franco. And James Franco) who would write this ridiculous request of mine, and take it in this direction. Love it :D
Edited 2015-06-25 23:09 (UTC)

[identity profile] kat-lair.livejournal.com 2015-06-26 02:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Don't' die! Who will appreciate my metamodern transformative textual art then? Hehe, as soon as I saw that article I knew I had to do something strange and irreverent like this with it. Also I don't know anything about these guys beyond what I've googled now so could not pulled off anything serious or plot driven. I'm glad you approve of the product and let me assure that the process was most enjoyable too.
beedekka: A close up of Dolph Lundgren's abs as he is lying down wearing leather trousers. (Apply Within)

[personal profile] beedekka 2015-06-26 09:13 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't know anything about these guys beyond what I've googled now

It is important to note that THIS MAKES IT BETTER. Yay, postmodernism XD

[identity profile] kat-lair.livejournal.com 2015-06-27 04:33 pm (UTC)(link)
CANON IS DEAD

[identity profile] margaret-r.livejournal.com 2015-06-28 10:33 am (UTC)(link)
You certainly took that interview and ran with it! The result is quite fun:)

[identity profile] kat-lair.livejournal.com 2015-06-28 10:23 pm (UTC)(link)
How could I not? It was such an... interesting interview after all. Thank you, I had fun writing it.

[identity profile] moth2fic.livejournal.com 2015-06-28 02:51 pm (UTC)(link)
I really enjoyed your ficlet - and the googling that had to happen before I could appreciate it!! In the process I found out that Shia has just suffered head injuries in an on-set accident where he had to put his head through a window and it all went wrong. Seems somehow to fit into this 'universe' though it would have been better if it had been a mirror... I hope the guy recovers quickly!

Meanwhile, kudos for managing off-the-cuff meta-modernism referencing Dr Who.

[identity profile] kat-lair.livejournal.com 2015-06-28 10:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah I saw that too. There's probably a paper bag related joke to be made here but I'm too tired to brain that much :D

Thank you! This was great fun to write and bless you for reading!

[identity profile] pushkin666.livejournal.com 2015-06-28 08:47 pm (UTC)(link)
I enjoyed this and sometimes it's good to go outside of our comfort zone - for writing and for reading. This was fun to read.

[identity profile] kat-lair.livejournal.com 2015-06-28 10:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Well the funny thing is I always feel, pretty comfortable writing strange things like this, or essentially any characters that are unhinged form some reason because that means I can ignore or play with internal logic. For reference see The Master, Dean in Berlin Wall, Young Bloods Patrick, the whole of show me your teeth series...

Anyway, thank you. This was fun tolerate too.

[identity profile] dreamersdare.livejournal.com 2015-08-05 09:59 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm not exactly sure what is the best part of this complete and utter insanity, but I think, I think, its the goddamn Dr Who namedrop.

I love your brain :)

[identity profile] kat-lair.livejournal.com 2015-08-06 08:10 am (UTC)(link)
Hahaha oh man, can't believe you read this :D It was such fun to write. This is most hipster thing I've done I'm sure. Dr Who reference was practically compulsory.

Thank you! My brain loves you back!

[identity profile] dreamersdare.livejournal.com 2015-08-07 09:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Eh, it intrigued me. And was then ridiculously awesome in its what-the-fuckery :D

Although, my brain did get stuck on the Shia laBouef thing. Have to admit, I really only watched the first two transformers movies to see if he would get squished by a giant, talking car. I was most disappointed in the Decepticons.

[identity profile] kat-lair.livejournal.com 2015-08-09 09:17 am (UTC)(link)
Heh, I've seen the first Transformers movie for sure and maybe the second one... IT all kind of blurs and these are movies I've watched with one eye on TV whilst doing something more interesting on my laptop. And I knew Franco from the movie Milk where he did a really good role. But that was the extent of it, and I certainly didn't realise they had such pretentious metamodern ambitions in common... :D

[identity profile] dreamersdare.livejournal.com 2015-08-10 10:08 pm (UTC)(link)
I got dragged to the cinema to watch the first one (for some bullshit reason that actually boiled down to "I wanna watch car robots, come with me!). James Franco, on the other hand, will always be Harry Osborn from Spiderman for me :D

I do feel that the internet is such a useful source of fanfic inspiration. How did we cope before it?

[identity profile] kat-lair.livejournal.com 2015-08-11 11:52 am (UTC)(link)
Of course! I'd completely forgotten he was in Spiderman! It's the beard...