Fic: Devil in a Blue Dress for limited theatrical release exchange

[firecat]

I put in some nominations for limitedtheatricalrelease, an exchange for small to medium sized film fandoms (<1000 works on AO3). I didn't sign up but someone requested one of my nominations, Devil in a Blue Dress, so I wrote a treat for them. It's the first fic for this film on AO3 as far as I can tell.

I highly recommend both the movie and the book of the same name it's based on.

Burn Down the Town (4478 words) by firecat
Chapters: 6/6
Fandom: Devil in a Blue Dress (1995)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Easy Rawlins/Mouse Alexander
Characters: Easy Rawlins, Mouse Alexander
Additional Tags: Friends to Lovers, Childhood Friends, Grief/Mourning, Danger, Revenge, Drunkenness, Drunken Kissing, Past Child Abuse, Teen Crush, Fire, Dreams, Oral Sex, Anal Sex, First Time, Lard As Lube, Awkward Goodbyes, Likely incorrect use of AAVE, Treat, Ambiguous/Open Ending
Summary: Easy Rawlins isn’t happy to see Mouse again. But there’s unfinished business to attend to.


To atone for any dialect errors, I plan to take the class on Dialogue, Dialect, & Narrative Voice from Writing the Other if they offer it again.

Comments

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Oh, I have this on my to-read list (your fic, not the book, which I've read and enjoyed). I like the Easy Rawlins' series a lot. Also, I like the Writing the Other web site, too. It's new to me.

[firecat]

Yay, I hope you enjoy it!

I haven’t finished the whole Easy Rawlins book series, because I’m going to be sad when there’s no more.

The people who run the WTO site are great, I used to see them when I went to Wiscon. And I strongly recommend the book of the same title.

[sabotabby]

Ooh, I remember really liking at least one of those books.

I feel like I need to take a dialect course for my book. The only character who speaks in dialect is the only white guy who doesn't end up dead by the end and I based his speech patterns off someone I knew, but I am still not positive I got it right.

[firecat]

The Easy Rawlins books are wonderful!

What dialect does your character speak? It’s hard with dialect to know how much is too distracting to the reader.

[sabotabby]

He's from Newfoundland. I try to be sparing with the dialect, both for the reader's sake and to avoid stereotyping, but I also just really love the way it sounds and I want to convey some of it in text. I ended up basically erring on the side of his accent getting more noticeable when he's angry, which, granted, is a lot of the time. And not writing anything phonetically but trying to convey it through grammatical structure.