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http://community.livejournal.com/j2_everafter/46838.html

http://spnanonhaven.livejournal.com/6670.html?thread=27838222#t27838222

Um, no.

Um, just letting nonnies who only follow the discussion post that there has been discussion elsewhere.

Full disclosure: I've never seen Spirited Away, I have no idea what it's about. But I really liked this one. It goes really fast because chash's writing is awesome and I was sad when it's over. Highly recommended.

This was cute, but there was more action plot than relationship stuff. I would have liked to see more develop between Jared and Jensen.

Anyone who've seen spirited away care to weight in? I love that movie and I'd hate it if the fic butchered the magic.

The fic is not that much like the movie. I personally prefer that in an AU, but if you go into this as a fan of "Spirited Away," you're going to be disappointed.

Basically, Chad and Jared land on a mysterious planet. The fog rolls in and Jared loses comm contact with Chad. Jensen shows up and helps Jared get a job in the bathhouse so he can hide out until he can find a way to rescue Chad. Instead of being turned into a pig, Chad has been taken to fight in a arena (to the death, natch). There's no magic or spirits involved.

There are echoes from the movie. Jensen and Jared met in the past, Jared has to go visit the sister of the person in charge etc. but it's done very differently from the movie, and everyone is a lot nicer and less scary. It's more like the plot was a framework that the author has written an original story onto.

ayrt,

thank you very much nonnie! :) I'll read it as an unrelated AU then.

I really enjoyed this. The relationship mostly consists of flirting and attraction and crushing. It's very cute, but not the thing to read if you're all about showy feelings or sex. Not that it reads like a gen fic or anything, but I could feel pretty comfortable letting my child/grandparent read this.

Quick aside, there's the standard RPF characters (Alona, Aldis, Chad), but there's also a few others that strike me as excellent choices for a Disney challenge, but may cause giggling or eyerolling depending on your background. Just go with it.

Does it start with 'J' and end with 'replaced by Justin Bieber'?

You've got the general idea, but all female.

Lol, oh god.

It was funny! It worked for me.

No, I'm not being negative, I swear. I dabble in tweendom. I'm just not used to tweendom dabbling in J2.

Yeah, those Disney RPF characters were an odd choice. The teenage aspect made the whole thing pretty ridiculous.

I really liked it, nonnies!!

It's been years since I saw Spirited Away, and that one was a lot more creepy and dream-like. Other than that, a lot of the basic plot was similar, but mostly it was OF. And, well, IN SPACE.

Not super much character or relationship development but I liiiiiked it. A lot.

JP: Hi, I’m Jared and I’m a struggling actor and PA on the top rated genre show Modern Sorcery starring the absolutely dreamy David Boreanaz

JA: Hi, I’m Jensen and I’m a genie.

JP: Really?

JA: Yep, this is an Aladdin AU. Oh, and by the way, David Boreanaz is totally an evil wizard and a douchebag.

JP: I don’t believe that!

JA: Yeah, you’re gonna remain bullheadedly oblivious to that throughout most of this story, despite the otherwise universal consensus that he’s an asshole.

JP: But the show’s really awesome all because of David and the production crew is awesome and sweet to me after I get soaked by the rain on the way from the train station. Even my boss, Misha.

JA: Well, he’s Misha, of course he’s awesome.

J2: **sigh** Yeah…

JP: Anyway, after the Suits from the network get all pissy on David because he’s unilaterally decided that we’re changing this week’s episode from an Arctic ice-queen adventure to an Arabian Nights-themed desert romp, David is all sweet to me and asks me to get a super-special-secret genie lamp prop from the prop warehouse which is giant and scary and guarded by Jim Beaver, who will only grant me admittance because I’m awesome and somehow the only PA for the show permitted to go into the prop warehouse.

JA: **snorts** Because it’d be a real shocker that you’d need a genie lamp for an Arabian Nights-themed episode. WAY to be subtle there, Evil Sorcerer Boreanaz™.

JP: **raises his hand** I shan’t hear a negative word against my beloved David. Anyways, it’s how we’re going to meet so you shouldn’t be bitching so much.

JA: Objection rescinded.

JP: Though you may be on to something because he throws me out of his dressing room after I hand him the crappy brass prop, before I can show him the beautiful blue-glass ‘I Dream of Jeannie’ bottle that I had in my backpack.

JA: Told you so.

JP: Yeah, well, he’s not as big of a dick as the Suit who suspends me for a week for missing an all-crew meeting while running David’s errand. I’m so miserable that I have to take my dogs to a secluded rocky beach completely isolated from all-prying eyes so that I can wallow in my misery and realize I’m still wearing the clothes from the wardrobe department that Misha lent me earlier.

JA: What’re you going to do about that?

JP: Strip down to my skivvies and then realize the other lamp is still in my bag so that we can have our Meet Cute while I’m in my undies.

JA: **puts his thumbs up** I approve!

JP: Excellent. I’ll then waffle about thinking about rubbing the lamp for about three hundred pointless words before giving into the urge and poof.

JA:

I’M ENORMOUS!

JP: Yes, yes you are. With chiseled abs and arms like football fields and stained-glass green windows for eyes.

JA:

And what with the fact that I’m wearing billowy silk genie pants, it’s a good thing this beach is completely secluded from all possible witnesses, isn’t it?

JP: It is, though, frankly, those aren’t the most embarrassing pants you’ve ever worn, are they?

JA:

If the words ‘brick’ and ‘pants’ come out of your mouth, I will turn you into a dung beetle.

JP: It’d be a lot easier to take you seriously if you weren’t bowing before me and scaring my dogs.

JA:

I’m bowing before you? Oh, fuck, I’m a slave, aren’t I?

JP: Jen, believe me when I say it gets worse. But in the meanwhile, could you shrink down and get us home so that we can have the first of many, many Exposition Dumps?

JA: Your wish is my command.

JP: Oh, that’s never gonna get old. But by the way, that wasn't a wish.

JA: Oooh, you're lucky that I seem to compulsively hand you freebies because you're nice and gorgeous and have dimples.

Ooops, mispost!

Um, wrong story there, J2!Summary nonnie.

I read this immediately after reading The Last Colony by John Scalzi, who's kind of the Chash of military science fiction, only with political instead of sexual tension. Lots of snappy dialogue from not very distinct characters, little description. This was a mistake, because I came into this story with my head still full of the political and economic issues surrounding planetary colonization in that setting, and spent the whole fic twitching because this setting doesn't make a lot of sense. I don't look to J2 AUs for rigorous hard sf, but it was hard to change gears.

Still, cute story. Not much substance. Chash seemed to be setting Jared up to effect a much larger change on the Hyperion social structure than he ultimately did, which is disappointing. Actually, in retrospect, the net effect of Jared's actions was to remove the resistance's highest-placed insider, who would have eventually inherited the entire planet and been in a position to make major changes for the better. ...huh.

who would have eventually inherited the entire planet and been in a position to make major changes for the better

When I started reading this, that's what I initially assumed the outcome would be. That Jared would stick around and help him from the inside and they would somehow save Chad from certain death. But... that didn't happen. They just left. I was so disappointed :(

What about Alona and Aldis, who are still trapped there, mildly okay but ultimately slaves? DDDDDD:

ayrt

The more I think about this, the more it bugs me. I wish there had at least been some indication that they were planning to come back and/or blow the whistle. The story states outright that it is not that hard to get someone off the planet if you have a ship (since apparently no one is monitoring air traffic) and a man inside. Hyperion wouldn't be making such an effort to stay hidden (the means and mechanism of this make no sense either) if their operations were legal, so in theory they don't even have to go back, just take their story to someone who can do something about it.

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I’M ENORMOUS!

And what with the fact that I’m wearing billowy silk genie pants, it’s a good thing this beach is completely secluded from all possible witnesses, isn’t it?

If the words ‘brick’ and ‘pants’ come out of your mouth, I will turn you into a dung beetle.

I’m bowing before you? Oh, fuck, I’m a slave, aren’t I?

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