(no subject)

[katallison]

So c_regalis has, like the picture-spamming goddess she is, posted a screencap from one of CKR's new movies, Snow Cake (second image from the top). There ensued some discussion about CKR's attractiveness or lack thereof in this particular shot, but to me? The whole HotOrNot? issue isn't really germane; what's compelling to me about it is that this represents for me a marvelous visual of one of the stock characters of dS fanfiction, e.g., The Ray Who Stayed With Fraser in the Frozen Armpit of the North and Made a Life For Himself There. Older, yeah ... a little heavier, features a little blunter, deep deep creases in the face from long hours squinting in the glare of winter sun off snow. Tough, competent, self-assured -- and happy. I mean, look at him -- can't you tell he's just finished up fixing the snowmobile, and feeding the dogs? In another minute he's going to head on into the cabin, stomp the snow off his boots, pull off his cap and send it sailing across the room in the general direction of the coathook. Fraser (who is stirring something on the stove) will tsk at him, and Ray'll grin and clomp over and grab him from behind in a bearhug, and smooch him on the back of the neck, and Fraser will smile a little and keep stirring.

I swear, this picture makes me even happier than the (admittedly) prettier ones just below it.

[This entry brought to you by Kat's Big Dorky Inner Sap.]

Comments

[estrella30.livejournal.com]

ok. you win. your inner sap just trumped the HELL out of my "wow. he looks kinda creepy."

because you're right. that IS the Ray, sitting in the porch every morning, sipping his coffee and watching Dief and the rest of the dog jumping around in the snow.

[katallison.livejournal.com]

It is a toasty day in hell when my Inner Sap can pump her fists and say "I win!" *g* But, with this picture? HELL yes.

[morgandawn.livejournal.com]

This entry made me happy. Sap Rules!

[c-regalis.livejournal.com]

I'd like to second that. Very happy indeed. Canada!Ray. *sighs happily*

[visionshadows.livejournal.com]

Yes. Just *yes*. I fully support your moment of sap and agree completely. Also, I still kinda find him hot when he's looking like a bum. *shrugs* Maybe I'm just weird like that.

[katallison.livejournal.com]

CKR, World's Hottest Bum. *g* He *is* very tasty when dishevelled, that's for sure.

[visionshadows.livejournal.com]

It's a really good look on him. ;)

[imkalena.livejournal.com]

Beard-growing Plaid Lumberjack is good! It's PsychoKiller that's not so good. :)

[panisdead.livejournal.com]

I'm going to completely ignore the part where you said HOTorNOT wasn't germane, because...what? People don't like the second shot? He looks like a crazy redneck trucker, which is hot by definition.

[katallison.livejournal.com]

Or maybe a happy sexually-fulfilled crazy redneck snowmobiler/dogsledder? *g* I do think he looks great in that picture, even if not conventionally Teh Pretty.

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

I'm sitting here aghast that people don't think he is hot in the second picture. Oh? Also, I am all over your inner sap.

[laurashapiro.livejournal.com]

I'm glad I read this today. I was in need of cheering.

Now I'm all grinny. (:

[katallison.livejournal.com]

Any day I can cheer you is a day well spent! (And strength to your sword arm in hanging in there w/the design critiques and work insanity and everything else! *hugs*)

[laurashapiro.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I really appreciate it. Sword arm's doing better these days, so that's good. ::hugging back::

[c-regalis.livejournal.com]

Oh, and it's actually not a screencap from the film but a pic that someone posted who lives in that town where the movie was shot. I cut her out of the pic for privacy reasons. And because I couldn't link back to where I found that pic. Because I don't remember anymore. But anyway, apparently CKR let take pictures of him with anyone who asked. :)

[katallison.livejournal.com]

Cool! Thanks for the info, and yay for CKR and his picture-taking-permitting ways!

[chickwriter.livejournal.com]

I <3 your dorky inner sap, because yeah.

[katallison.livejournal.com]

Yeah, indeed. *gazes at picture, grinning goofily*

[dsudis.livejournal.com]

Yay for your inner sap! Who can resist that grin?

[katallison.livejournal.com]

None of us, that's for damn sure. *g*

[timian.livejournal.com]

I really, really like your inner sap.

[katallison.livejournal.com]

She gets loose every so often and causes no end of damage to my reputation as Angst-Mistress of Dooooom! (But I like her too. *g*)

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

I wish to address the Inner Sap -

This scenario you drew up right here? This is why I love Jed and Leo. That sentiment is the Big Sap Winner. And it contributes to why I love older men pairings (and yet I can't get behind Adama/Tigh. Go know.).

[katallison.livejournal.com]

I was thinking about you and Jed and Leo just a little while ago! I was watching a West Wing rerun on Bravo, which was ... um ... (*scrabbling around on zap2it.com*) A Change Is Gonna Come, and there's this marvelous scene toward the end (which you doubtless know well) when Leo walks in and Jed is so *overjoyed* to see him, and gives him this big lingering hug, and then Leo turns to walk out, and pauses and turns back, and Jed's just giving him this *look* . . .

Well, as I say, I thought of you. And yeah, the older guys *rule.*

[engenda.livejournal.com]

Sap rocks. And that is so the Ray that I want to see. Doing his thing, living his life and loving his man.

[katallison.livejournal.com]

Yup yup yup. And the fact that I don't often see it as entirely *probable* doesn't mean I love it any the less. *g*

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Oh, Kat, I love you when you write stories that break my heart with how this could never happen, and I love you when you write tiny perfect paragraphs like this that make my heart freeze up with glee. You rock.

[katallison.livejournal.com]

*sneaks up on you, grabs you in a bearhug, and smooches you on the back of the neck, just on general principles*

Thanks, sweetie!

[askye.livejournal.com]

I think he looks good in all the pictures. I had to go back and check them out a few times, really look hard, to make sure.

Actually, in the candid pictures he looks like he could be one of the contractors/construction guys that we've had around here. Except for the down vest thing since it's FL and he'd be too hot in it. But he looks like a normal guy. A hot normal guy.

We have a locksmith that comes by regularly, and he's got that lanky CKRish kind of charm.

[katallison.livejournal.com]

Glad you went to the trouble of giving them that extra-special scrutiny, because lord knows, one wouldn't want to misjudge through undue haste. *g*

And yeah, the mix of normal-guy and supernatural hotness is definitely one of those distinguishing CKR trademarks...

[copracat]

Tough, competent, self-assured -- and happy.

Yes. Yes yes yes.

[katallison.livejournal.com]

Absolutely. The Ray in, say, Hth's East O the Sun, West O the Moon. His freedom, his grace, his balance, his strength, his pride -- they were not gifts from me, much as I might have wished to be the giver. He built them in ice and blood and courage, and he wears them well.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_divya_/]

That's exactly what I was just saying to someone in IM. Though I said it with fewer words and less gorgeous imagery. I just said, "That's Ray, 10 years post-CotW." What you said was implied in what I said. *G*

[katallison.livejournal.com]

GMTA! And I left out the part where later on there's some slow comfortable easy sex, and some quiet laughter and mumbling conversation, and then they sleep, tangled up together under the pile of rough quilts, all through the silent frosty night.

[jackiekjono.livejournal.com]

Kat, I love you dearly. That was lovely. Will you please write my life for me?

[katallison.livejournal.com]

But of course, m'dear! Um ...it will have many dogs it in, that much I know. Dogs, and ostrich-blueberry stir-fry, and vids, and much delightful strangeness, and *much* less stupid job-type work, and . . . (*scribbling away*)

[jackiekjono.livejournal.com]

And time for Laura to wirte posts that distract me at work and cute boys with West Point shoulders and...

[renenet.livejournal.com]

I keep coming back to this post and re-reading it and grinning *hugely* every time. Yay!

[lalejandra.livejournal.com]

My big dorky inner sap, whose existence I will firmly deny if ever asked, feels a lot of love for your big dorky inner sap.

Plus, I do think he looks hot there. Eye wrinkles and plaid always win my heart.

[thisisbone.livejournal.com]

Yes, yes, yes.

I see it all clearly, just as you describe, and it takes me to a very happy place. :)

[ardent-muses.livejournal.com]

I like Kat's Big Dorky Inner Sap. :)

Thanks for the linkage. He looks lovely. Awww.

[stormymouse.livejournal.com]

damn, you have no idea how right you are! ::dreamily stares at picture:: the perfect description. now i wanna write post-cotw fic!

[flambeau.livejournal.com]

[This entry brought to you by Kat's Big Dorky Inner Sap.]

Hah. I knew it had to be in there somewhere. ;)

[bonspiel.livejournal.com]

Yay! That's a much better-put version of my similar reaction (which was more like 'self-assured, competent and happy, yum').

[the-shoshanna.livejournal.com]

I love your inner sap. I would pour your inner sap on waffles and lick the plate.

[veredus.livejournal.com]

You are adorkable!

[axiom_of_stripe]

awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww! <3

(linked to by pearl_o)

[nightlarke.livejournal.com]

How is it that even your impromptu, happy, Inner Sap writing breaks me? Really. My throat just clenched up there.