Slash that should be.

[rsadelle]

Jerry/Kramer I've been watching a lot of Seinfeld reruns on Fox 30, and it's become desperately clear to me that Jerry and Kramer need to be together. "The Bizarro Jerry" is the quintessential Jerry/Kramer episode, but there are many slashtastic moments in other episodes as well.

Gabe/Tycho I read through the last year's worth of Penny Arcade strips the other day, and I really think there should be some Gabe/Tycho. I would post to RareSlash about this, but it's one of those pairings that's just a bit ambiguous on the RPS issue. Gabe (in yellow) and Tycho (in blue) are characters in the strip, but Gabe and Tycho are also the pseudonyms of two of the guys involved in the running of the site.

Some strips worth mentioning from the last year:
Gabe worries about Tycho's impression on his parents.
A little voyeurism never hurt a slash pairing.
Gabe cheats!
Love over breakfast.
True love.
This one's just funny.
Phallic fandoms make them happy.
Poor, lonely Gabe.
Phallic construction.
Lunch date.
Even Tycho's aunt thinks he's gay.
Sometimes Gabe asks Tycho to do certain things for him.

And now I've started reading from the very beginning. They were in love from day one.

Comments

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Well, there's this (http://www.fanfiction.net/read.php?storyid=1511821), but it's pretty crappy. (I know I've seen another, equally crappy one on ff.net, but perhaps it was taken down.)

(Still reigning Queen of Finding Rare Slash!)

[rsadelle]

I saw this in my e-mail this morning and thought, before I clicked on the link, "There is Penny Arcade slash!" But then I thought, "No, no. It must be some Seinfeld slash." But no! It is Penny Arcade slash! And while you may call it crappy, I call it hilarious.

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Heee! Well, I only skimmed it, and it may be more hilarious if I were more familiar with the fandom itself. :)

I'll see if I can find the other one tomorrow, though that one really was crappy. Gabe (I think) had an abusive boyfriend and Tycho had to save him and the reader was just left very confused.

I can look for some Seinfeld slash as well, if you'd like.

[rsadelle]

It really was funny.

I'll take it! I don't care how bad it is, just knowing that someone else is willing to write such a thing warms my little OTPing heart.

I'd love Seinfeld slash too, if you happen to come across any. (I try to avoid ff.net, so I haven't even tried there.)

[rsadelle]

Are you sure it was a boyfriend and not Sega?

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

...

Come to think of it, I think it may have actually been Sega, yes. Which just adds a whole level of surrealism to the whole thing, I think.

[rsadelle]

But it's SO FUNNY. And it's such devotion when a gamer rescues his one true love from the grip of a gaming company.

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Funny in a weird, surreal way, yes. :p But it is indeed such devotion. Aw!

[rsadelle]

It's True Love! And also canon. What more do you want?

[eriond.livejournal.com]

It's good to see that PA slash writers notice the little things (like the watch that changes ownership everytime one of them 'dies')

First seen: here, in watch out! (http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=1999-11-01&res=l)

I think this is next: when Gabe gets crushed by rubble (http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2001-03-02&res=l)

Look! Now Gabe's got it again! (http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2002-02-25&res=l)

More transfer of ownership during favorites week:You have to love running gags... (http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2003-04-04&res=l)

So, basically, I'd love to see more PA slash, but it'd have to have little things like that to reward 'the fans'.

[rsadelle]

Well, any good slash has to pick up on details from canon.

(I haven't heard from you in a while. How's life?)

[eriond.livejournal.com]

Life's good. Bednar and I are both working full-time jobs now, out in the scary real world. He works at the School of Pharmacy, but _I_ have a cooler job, working at WUNC-FM. We're both computer tech support people, so we just come home and compare notes in the evening.

Aside from that, things are pretty much the way they always have been.

How're things in Cali?

[rsadelle]

Ah, yes, tech support. At one of my jobs, I'm the entire IS department for a small nonprofit with no computer training. It's an interesting experience. In my other job, I do layout/editing/website work. I really want a whole new job somewhere else, but no one's hired me yet.