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First things first:

mitethe sent me musical distraction for my happy Friday night work session...and it totally worked. Wow, great song. Don't let the link go to waste! Check it out: Action by Saint Etienne

And onto my current obsession: I love goodies tucked in comments. Thanks to a comment in

worldserpent's LJ, I managed to read the short story Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx online. XD

It's interesting reading the short story after seeing the movie. Overall, I like the story better. The "water under the bridge" moments moved so quickly in the story...after all, what takes two lines of prose can take quite a bit of screen time to show. It moves faster. I also have a strong affinity for words over pictures and sounds. Her prose fits the story, though I wouldn't want to read a novel-length story in that style. What made the reading better was that the moments I thought were great in the movie, those scenes from the movie flashed in my head very vividly when I read them in the story. And only those moments. Otherwise, I didn't visualize the movie at all (that tells you how much of an impression a good portion of the movie made on me). The movie definitely made reading the story a richer experience.

There was, however, one scene in the movie that worked fairly well by itself, but was a thousand times better in the short story.

What Jack remembered and craved in a way he could neither help nor understand was the time that distant summer on Brokeback when Ennis had come up behind him and pulled him close, the silent embrace satisfying some shared and sexless hunger.

The difference between this scene in the movie and the story is why I love reading so much.

And then I broke down and spent some time looking for fics on LJ comms. One problem I had was that what appears to be the two bigger BBM comms with fics allow RPS. I'm sorry, I think RPS of the actors in a movie/series and slash of the characters they play are different fandoms. Heath/Jake is not the same as Ennis/Jack. I got quite a shock upon finding tons of the RPS variety in comms dedicated to the movie. ;_;

I waded through the non-RPS fics, and found some that I thought were pretty good. Some are short and sweet, some are not so short or sweet: