Regency

Deb, I hope everything else goes well for your vacation. Just think a week without us breathing down your neck for fic. Enjoy it, you won't be getting too many breaks.

Yeah, it's been a whole twenty-four hours since I put Tracy in harm's way. I'm losing it...pops out a work-in-progress. Never mind, I've got a suitable treatment for her in the File o' Doom!!! I promise she'll get to be happy at least once. Apparently, it'll be after death, but happiness is happiness.

ETA: What should we do for Jane's Bday. how about a ficathon of all her characters. Usually we stick with TQ, but what if we went nuts with it?

Deb, your story was so awesome. My little Wicked heart is all aflutter. It was so lovely. Happy Early Birthday, Keith

ETA: I totally knew your birthday hadn't come yet.

ILTQ, I had the same fic idea after seeing that clip. It basically write itself. I mean, we think so, why didn't the TPTB follow the natural progression of things? This is why they're the Idiots In Charge.

I liked them there. It was adorable how Tracy was all freaked out. It would've been even better had Luke had jumped out at her from around the corner and scared the living daylights out of her. I mean, if she's gonna be in peril, put her in peril. Says the girl who is her lapdog.

TQ Anonymous: The first step is admitting that I have a problem. the second step is not giving a damn.

ETA: Ya'll know what other important date is coming up? It rivals Christmas in its importance and is roughly a month off...Ya'll should have this figured out by the time I get home otherwise your JE T'Adore card is SO revoked

It's no big, ILTQ. Bosses can be such unfair hardasses. I'm sorry yours is making you crazy.

If you're still hanging out with me in the Bentley of Neutrality, I've got something for ya...The Die Lands. Don't kill me. It's sort of a pick ya up and knock ya down kind of thing.

Brought to you, once more, by the MinervaFan Beta Company, dontcha know?

I just thought I'd dance onto the thread and say that in accordance, though quite exclusively of, Ms. Q's birthday, I've complete the third and final installment of The Same Place. I just sort of randomly started writing it. Uh, not a whole lot happens, but it sounds like an ending to me. Dedicated to you, Staci.

So, part three in the Increasingly Inaccurately Named Duet...The Same Place | We Gather Together -- no, there's no singing.

Ha, and I wrote this thing where Lulu basically lived her life overhearing TQ and Luke making love every night. She finally got tired of it and ran away. Yeah, it was stupid, but amusing.

Deb, read the fic and I demand that you stop making me like them. I mean it, I'm starting to take it personally. In case you couldn't tell, I adored it. In fact, my answer would've been the same had I typed it before I read it. Muy awesome, Deb.

Or something!

ETA: Deb, go look up Laura Roslin now. She has gotten even better looking. The wardrobe people love her and she and Bill are getting it on. Find the screencaps. You will die. I died. She likes boxing. It's canon. They are frakking canon!!!-ish.

But before I go, Lainey and Regency, not sure if you saw ER tonight, but Kerry is getting some action. Not a super lot (eh, she probably got more than we saw), but more than our girl Tracy, nonetheless.

Dude, I so didn't watch because of that contrived bull with Luka and Abby. My girl got some? Argh!!! NOoooo.

I demand that our TQ gets as much ACTION on screen as you give her in your fics!!! Damn it.

*waves to Keaton*

Now, that was a compelling post. Nothing wrong with being a Luke apologist, he's Tracy's loverboy, even if she deserves better.

Hey, Ms. Q I love your banner! It rocks my socks on several levels.

May I just say that I've suffered from Black Monday fever and I'm quite content with the consequences. Yes, I was awake at four AM. No, I did not leave my house. I left my house at three PM and went shopping. It was nice. Dude, I found Xena Season Four for 10 dollars. WTF?

On topic though, I've been ficcing TQ again. It's been sort of difficult given the whole...romantic situation she's been facing. I've just decided to exclude him from her life, or negate him until I'm clear on how I feel about things. So, she's either got amnesia, got PTSD, or is too busy dealing with her twin to pay a great deal of attention to hubby--or not hubby, as it stands. She's got other things she can do with her life. She does not bow down to the altar of the Great Anti-Hero Luke.

And fine, Deb, I'll park the Bentley, but I'm not getting on the bus. I'll take whatever Tracy's taking and right now I don't think that's the LuNacy bus. Not that TQ would be caught dead on public transportation. Ha!

Let me jump on the holiday greetings train with a loud HAPPY THANKSGIVING to all you wonderful people. And propose a toast...TO ABSENT FRIENDS AND THOSE THAT ARE HERE NOW. See ya'll later.

I have relatives to ignore.

Oh, and I sold my LuNacy bus pass. I'm driving in the Bentley again. It's okay though, because I still love Tracy. And she's having drinks with Coleman this evening, so there are worse things in her future.

It took a maximum of two days for everyone to go right back to the old status quo. So expected.

I think in a few weeks we'll all be back where we started. I'll be nipping olives in mah Bentley of Neutrality and ya'll will be yucking it up on the Bus. To me, it's as inevitable as anything else is on General Hospital.

Tracy will do something malevolent in her pain and be shamed, or worse banished again. It will be the same old story. Or maybe she'll dump Luke for Scotty. Ya never know what horsepoo will squelch out of Guza's ears.

Writers, pleasekeep writing for our girl. She deserves at least some creative Genius.

Okay, I think it's a little funny that the day I get on the LuNacy bus everyone else gets off! Is it me? My breath? What the hell?

Ah, well. We can't all be popular.

OMG Ned!!!!!!!!!!!!!

He even spoke. He actually had lines. What do ya know?

MONTAGE!!!

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I'm sorry but no one deserves to come second to this. I frakking surrender. And, as much as it might break Tracy's hearts, I adore her as a character too much to watch her be subjected to unfair comparison. This could never be fair. I am literally crying right now and I never cry.

ETA: Now, that I've gotten some perspective, I've regained my head. LuNacy is awesome, but their chemistry is different. It's something unexpected, unpredictable and spontaneous. I'm sort of fed up with Luke for continuing to engage Tracy when he realizes that he can't give himself to her the way he has to Laura. That isn't right and if he has any feelings for her at all, he'll really go to clear his head. Everything's actually making a great deal of sense to me, suddenly. He's going to go away to recover from this most recent blow to his worldview and figure out that Tracy's where he wants to be. He feels comforted by her presence and she's the closest thing to a stabilizing influence he has. I mean, did anyone think Tracy would be waiting outside of Laura's room to hold Luke when he came out? Was that just me?

I will always love L&L. In fact, there's no chance of that changing, but I accept the opposing dynamic of Lacy. They both exist. There's no negating one for the other or raising one at the expense of the other. I think Deb has already said it, or maybe that was in This Fragile Shell but Tracy owes Laura for the man she loves. And if she can accept that though she won't have the eternal love he holds for Laura, she will have his everlasting affection otherwise, then why should she refuse?

I can't believe I'm saying this, but I'm on the LuNacy bus. F-ing A, Luke & Laura put me on the bus.

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Tracy's back and making faces. And drinking. Hello, Nikolas. Thank you for ruining snarky Tracy. What Jane can do with a facial expression. Ned's still there.

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No mention of TQ yet, but several people on SZ just mentioned that NED makes a brief appearance today!

NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Loves that Number One Son...

Tracy was there. Drinking or pouring a drink. So were Alan & Monica. I'm watching now.

Oh, man, come on, don't villify Tracy. She's been a pretty good and accepting girl of late. This is so not fair. I mean, I know she said that she'd do anything to keep her husband, but there is a point when even I have to just leave it alone. We know, from experience, that Tracy's plans damn near always blow up in her face. Why should this attempt be any different?

Please, don't ruin her!

But GA who played Marco is dead, Blake Gibbons who played Coleman is on recurring, and AG as Luke has another woman in his heart.

See? Our girl is stuck between a rock and a hard place. *sigh*

This reminds me subtly of the movie "Something's Gotta Give" with Diane Keaton. I don't know why but I would just love Tracy to pick up another, maybe younger, guy and move on with her life only for Luke to realize the error of his ways and disrupt her life again with the declaration that he's a changed man. It would never actually happen, but it's just so them.

Anywho, I see no reason why Tracy should be lonely while wedged between a grave and the first wife. Though, as much as I adored them together, I really don't want my Tracy slumming with the barman at Jake's. I do plan to write that in my "she went to jail for killing laura fic." Why not Noah? Or Mac? She could teach them a thing or two. Ha! Noah would take her to AA.

ETA: No, I'm not on the LuNacy bus, but I recognize LuNacy as Tracy's most viable relationship right now. I am one to cede to the inevitable. Unless someone gets some common sense and brings someone appropriately handsome to hold carry Tracy's purse and give as good as she gives. Eh...damn it, that's Luke. I meant someone else! Like I said, unless someone better and more worthy comes alone, this is it. I say make the most of it, as well as spend an inordinate amount of time writing her in the romantic company of people no one would approve of (i.e. Jax, Helena, Robert, and some random woman named Nora.)

But he should definitely be someone that challenges Tracy. A Luke like character, but without Luke's hangups.

Can I just say, if only? That's what makes it so difficult, for people who aren't Deb, to write someone new for Tracy. Pretty much any relationship in which she would thrive would have to resemble her relationship with Luke. And when you do that, what's the point?

Though I suppose that could be fun. You know, watching Luke watch her banter with someone else, without the underlying tension of a rutabaga--though a darling rutabaga--as an obstacle to feelings that could become very strong. That is Tracy's convention and, dare I say it, her idea of love.

Edited because I totally ignored the rest of your post, ILTQ. The rest of my fics are with Deb and are in safe hands. I'm currently writing more LuNacy that isn't all angsty and such. I'm sure you've figured out that when I say I plan to post "tonight" I mean three nights from now after true inspiration has struck and improved whatever dreck I started with. *nods*

And, I'm so not on the LuNacy bus. I'm like an optical illusion. It only looks like I'm there.

I don't think Tracy's pathetic. I adore here and will sympathize with her up to the very moment she kills someone's newborn child--which Guza will hopefully never have her do. It just seems really sad that Tracy would have to settle for being someone's third priority. Maybe that's just me hurting for her because, as Edward stated, she deserves better. She may have never been THE love of someone's life that doesn't mean she shouldn't be.

Hell, she's the love of my life and we've never met. I should send her a post card.

But, seriously, she doesn't deserve better than Luke. She deserves Luke, or his romantic, emotional equivalent. She deserves someone who would put his entire life on hold to make a moment of hers easier. Someone who accepts her faults and never makes plans to improve or change her "for the better." She deserves that certain twinkle Luke used to look at her with. She deserves Luke.

I just don't want this version of him for her. *shrugs*

Tracy isn't Skye, so she can put up with being third or fourth best.

So I wonder..........

I don't know why but this so struck a chord with me. Does it make Tracy superior to Skye because she'd be willing to put up with being someone's third or fourth best? Or does it make her really, really, REALLY pathetic?

In other words, should I be rooting for Skye because she has standards or Tracy because she's lived and learned to accept that to be loved we must compromise?

I don't care for this train of thought.

Is it weird of me to say that as of today I've developed a rather unhealthy fixation on Tracy Quartermaine? I mean, I was just sort of moved by her in some deeply emotional way. And no I don't really get it either.

ETA: I feel oddly vindicated from having received exactly what I expected, nothing. I am also sorry that everyone's so down right now. It'll be all right. LuNacy has a future in here somewhere and even if they dont, Tracy does. I have a feeling she won't just disappear. They have to make Jane worth the money they're spending to keep her.

Okay, everything has been timed perfectly. GH coincides with my lunch break, but I've already eaten, so yay! Now, to have everything else work in my favor. The lady was pretty darned determined to show Barney but fate loves me.

Now, I'm watching GH and I've seen no Tracy. A moderate amount of Laura, which is nice, but no Tracy.

And everything that just went wrong in the workplace is my fault. Great.

ETA: 2:29, Well, holy heck. I have a whole new respect for what Jane can do without words, both Jane and Genie. Yikes.

ETA: 2:35, Jane owns me. LuNacy is history unless Luke does something drastic. I love Tracy unequivocally. Wow. So glad I have this on tape at home.

ETA: 2:45, mmm, girl can do so much with a short scene. And she looked so beautiful with Dillon, who becoming more and more like Paul Hornsby with a heart, except no brain. My Loving Laura&Tracy heart is breaking.

ETA: 2:55, how frakking on target was I? Tell me. Not that she wasn't awesome, but how close did I come? Man, I love me some Tracy/Edward interaaction and Luke, despite his best intentions, needs to die.

ETA(for the last time) : Well, that was some breakdown. Way to go, Jane! Guza, don't frak up Laura's farewell, or LuNacy. I mean it. And now my break is over.

good. Go forth and write!!!!!!!!

I gueeessss. Okay. Lata!

*waves to knh*

I am sort of hanging around here searching for someone to talk to and finding people in passing. Now, I suppose to have to go write. Menta-ficcing seems to fail when I have to distribute it to an audience.