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I've been watching Starsky and Hutch lately and boring all my friends by talking about seventies fashion and the progression of buddy cop shows. So I'm not going to talk about that. I've been reading a lot of the fic, but there's one story I haven't seen yet and I refuse to believe it doesn't exist. The fandom's been around for thirty years. Somebody must have written this. So if you know something similar, point the way. I also think it's the best explanation for the boys' behavior on the show.
Way back when they first met, the boys felt this instant connection. Maybe at the Police Academy, maybe later, but they became really close friends really quickly. And that closeness quickly grew into something else.
Pretty soon it's this intense affair—they're arguing all the time and just escalating every dispute, and it's screaming, yelling, throwing things, punching walls, slamming doors, slapping, crying into pillows and then hot angry sex. On the show you see that both of them have tempers and they argue with each other constantly, but whenever one of them loses it, the other one always calms them down. Now imagine if instead of snapping each other out of these moods, they just made them worse. Maybe because of the whole sleeping-with-a-guy thing, maybe because they feel so strongly for each other and are so afraid of losing this, but every little tiny disagreement suddenly becomes a referendum on the relationship. So it's up and down and up and down…
And at some point both of them are like stop—let me off this rollercoaster, and they decide to be friends instead of lovers.
As happens with some exes that stay friends, they both wanted to be the happy ending for the other, but since they couldn't be, they still want to help each other find that happy ending with someone else. Not in an angsty, twisted, displacement/jealousy/deluding themselves way, but they genuinely would like the other one to find love and happiness, knowing that their friendship will be there regardless.
And this is how you get the dynamic on the show—the intimacy between them and the support they give each other in their dating enterprises. There's a little friendly competition, but I don't read a whole lot of resentment or jealousy about the women in their lives (well, in the early seasons anyway).
Occasionally one of them will wistfully reminisce about their fling, and they'll both wish it could've worked out, cause wouldn't that have been perfect, but hey—they've been down that road and it was a nuclear disaster.
Years later, after the show's ended, things have changed for both of them. One of them, and I can picture it being either Starsky or Hutch, seriously brings up the possibility again. The other tries to dismiss it, but he says that they were young and stupid then, and they know each other so much better now, and they know themselves so much better, and they trust each other, they trust me and thee. And why wouldn't it work now? So they try again and discover that while before it had been hot, it had always been angry, rushed sex, now they can be tender and there's a whole new layer to the relationship.
And of course everything is perfect and hugs and bunnies, the end.
That story's got to exist, right? Cause I am way too behind on everything else I said I'd write to contemplate tackling something like this.
Way back when they first met, the boys felt this instant connection. Maybe at the Police Academy, maybe later, but they became really close friends really quickly. And that closeness quickly grew into something else.
Pretty soon it's this intense affair—they're arguing all the time and just escalating every dispute, and it's screaming, yelling, throwing things, punching walls, slamming doors, slapping, crying into pillows and then hot angry sex. On the show you see that both of them have tempers and they argue with each other constantly, but whenever one of them loses it, the other one always calms them down. Now imagine if instead of snapping each other out of these moods, they just made them worse. Maybe because of the whole sleeping-with-a-guy thing, maybe because they feel so strongly for each other and are so afraid of losing this, but every little tiny disagreement suddenly becomes a referendum on the relationship. So it's up and down and up and down…
And at some point both of them are like stop—let me off this rollercoaster, and they decide to be friends instead of lovers.
As happens with some exes that stay friends, they both wanted to be the happy ending for the other, but since they couldn't be, they still want to help each other find that happy ending with someone else. Not in an angsty, twisted, displacement/jealousy/deluding themselves way, but they genuinely would like the other one to find love and happiness, knowing that their friendship will be there regardless.
And this is how you get the dynamic on the show—the intimacy between them and the support they give each other in their dating enterprises. There's a little friendly competition, but I don't read a whole lot of resentment or jealousy about the women in their lives (well, in the early seasons anyway).
Occasionally one of them will wistfully reminisce about their fling, and they'll both wish it could've worked out, cause wouldn't that have been perfect, but hey—they've been down that road and it was a nuclear disaster.
Years later, after the show's ended, things have changed for both of them. One of them, and I can picture it being either Starsky or Hutch, seriously brings up the possibility again. The other tries to dismiss it, but he says that they were young and stupid then, and they know each other so much better now, and they know themselves so much better, and they trust each other, they trust me and thee. And why wouldn't it work now? So they try again and discover that while before it had been hot, it had always been angry, rushed sex, now they can be tender and there's a whole new layer to the relationship.
And of course everything is perfect and hugs and bunnies, the end.
That story's got to exist, right? Cause I am way too behind on everything else I said I'd write to contemplate tackling something like this.
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Dana Austin Marsh has a double zine that basically writes the backstory behind what we actually saw on the show - how they met, their relationship on and off within working together - rather like you mention there. Whether or not they do just what you say, I can't recall (I have a memory like a steel sieve, which makes for very nice re-reading, lol), but the zine is called Evolution (One and Two). I can send you the contact info on purchasing these. If you've read anything by Dana, you know it'll be good. I completely treasure my set. :)
That being said, it's not like other folks haven't tackled the backstory, too - this is just the one I really love.
There are a couple of mailing lists - yahoogroups - to join if you're interested. One is a slash/gen friendly list and then there's also a rec list that offers up lovely stories in themes.
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I've seen fics where they've been buddyfucking for years, and fics where they never realized till after Sweet Revenge, and my favorite where they had a fling and Starsky called it off and Hutch imploded, but never one where they got together and broke up without mountains of angst and don't think seriously about getting together again, cause they know how that ends. (This is like my search for a Sentinel fic where Blair comes onto him and Jim says thanks, but he's straight and there isn't a major freakout).
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I'll drop you a line at your LJ email addy with contact info.