Outside they're painting tar on somebody; it's as close to a work of art as they will ever be.
--Declan MacManus
In dark times, the definition of good art would seem to be art that locates and applies CPR to those elements of what's human and magical that still live and glow despite the times' darkness. Really good fiction could have as dark a worldview as it wished, but it'd find a way both to depict this world and to illuminate the possibilities for being alive and human in it.
-- David Foster Wallace
I am a thirty-five-year-old once-and-future grad student with an incredible and tolerant wife and two adorable, if often punk-ish, little girls. We all enjoy watching the Kim Possible show despite the fact that we haven’t had television for nearly eight years.
Most of the stuff I enjoy reading would not suggest an affinity for a “kid’s” cartoon show. For the most part, the works of James Joyce, Samuel Beckett (whom I snagged my pen name from), Salman Rushdie, William Gaddis, Soren Kierkegaard, and Friedrich Nietzsche would not easily be adapted into cartoons. However, I think this helps explain why I like KP. Most everything else I “enjoy” is pretty depressing, so I need a Technicolor outlet to express my hidden desire for happy endings. This is evident in my fanfiction reading habits. Although I have read Naked Lunch and some of the Marquis De Sade's works without qualm, I get inexplicably queasy if I read a KP fanfic that ends unhappily or involves the break-up of K/R.
So why do I like the show?
The characters are charming and compelling, the dialog’s quirky, and the plots are sufficiently hilarious.
My favorite character is Kim because, although she is the show's heroine, she proves guilty of
imperfect, yet lovable, humanity time and again. Like most normal teenage girls, she is less-than-pleased most of the time and quite often tweaked the rest of the time. Her angry, sarcastic side is what first drew me to her character and, paradoxically, is what gives her sweet, happy moments the emotional power they have. Once I saw the mortified look on Kim's face in "Downhill" as it slid down the bus window when her folks led the bus in a rousing sing-a-long, I was hooked.
Although I doubted its plausibility when I first started watching the show back in early 2004, I gradually became a K/R shipper and was extremely pleased with the final moments of So the Drama.
Although I still believe Ron’s synthodrone dream sequence at the start of “Ill Suited” was icky (and gratuitously so) and felt pretty squeamish about certain events in "Oh No, Yono!", I was pretty amped about S4 and how the K/R relationship was presented and developed.
Kim from “Odds Man In”: “That’s the most weirdly romantic thing you’ve ever said to me!"
The stories I write aim to expand the KP universe somewhat (especially in the pre-teen years of which the show has only given brief glimpses), yet still honor the characters.
Writing these stories is my way of expressing affection for them.
I hope my stories will do the original characters justice and that some readers get a measure of enjoyment from them.
Molloy
Two of my favorite fanarts inspired scenes from one of my stories, "Freckle."
Check out "End of Line?" by Rich Sirois and "Rock and Roll" by CarbonF.
A fanart from Goofmore helped inspire a scene from chapter three of "Until the End of the World" as well. Check out "Concept."
Goofmore's beautiful "Moon River" inspired a scene in chapter five of "Kim Possible: The End."
WarBandit's lovely "Kim and Ron's Valentines" was the impetus for a scene in chapter eighteen of "The End."
Rockie-Roade has done my story "Kim Possible: The End" a great honor by designing a beautifully sad illustration for it. Check it out here.
It is also a ferociously good idea to check out the rest of their amazing galleries.
Chronology of the Freckle Universe
The following is the order in which the stories in my humble "Kimverse" occur. Of course, "The Second Date" kinda happens during "Freckle" ~ I am quite aware this makes no sense. :)
"Cursed Rollerblades, Monsters, and a Skinned Knee"
"Raiders of the Lost Afikomen"
"Shiloh"
"Dressdown Day"
"The Second Date"
"Freckle"
"Until the End of the World"
Now playing...
Kim Possible: Until the End of the World The Kim Possible / Gravity's Rainbow crossover epic. Kim and Ron must race against time and a horde of villains (Drakken and Shego--duh, Prof. Dementor, Monkey Fist, and the unseen semi-omnipresent "They" who run Yoyodyne Enterprises) to find Tyrone Slothrop, a US Lieutenant missing for over sixty years, whose inexplicable connection with the equally enigmatic Rocket 00000 might avert (or cause) the end of the world. The epic will include (in one form or another) lost harmonicas, aggressive Russian octopi, underground naked mole rat empires, gratuitous pig costumes, talking robotic ducks that can fly, cheerleader chorus lines, the Kenosha Kid, Shego's Dutch grandmother, extremely gorchy candy, albino alligators, Mystical Monkey Power's improbable connections with the rainbow-hued spider monkeys of Vheissu, air-born pie fights, Byron the Bulb, and Mucho Maas.
For those who are unfamiliar with Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow and would like some inkling as to how reckless and foolhardy a task this crossover fic will be, I suggest you check out Dr. Laurence Daw's comprehensive and brilliant illustrated summary at The Modern Word. Note of warning: even though my fanfic will not be rated stronger than "T," the novel, and subsequently, the summary, is most definitely rated "NC-17."
And for anyone who might be interested as to what "Tyrone Slothrop" looks like, here is a picture of him playing chess.
Also, the reason why Kim's dad hates "show folk" ~ at least in my universe ~ MrsDrP's former musical crush drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes with Tom Waits.
Also playing ...
Kim Possible: The End -- MrDrP kindly granted me permission to write this sequel to his powerful and emotionally challenging (at least for me) story Kim Possible: Final. Since this is a sequel to another writer's work, it is not, unlike the rest of my stories, part of the Freckle Universe.
Updated after an extremely long delay on June 28th!
Unexpected Third Feature ...
There Will Be Blood -- Am I actually writing a dark fic? Only one way to find out, I guess ...
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