Sunday... Eight

[breathedout]

From the Good Place Eleanor/Tahani bodyswap fic that I'm aiming to have done by the end of February so as to focus on the pesky WWI Canadians of my heart (NB I am aware that bats are not actually rodents):

It wasn't like the guy had exploded at her or anything. He'd actually been pretty nice about the whole deal. But it'd been obvious he was disappointed; and frankly, Eleanor thought, to kind of an unreasonable extent. Plainly, when Bambadjan had heard the word "soulmate," he'd expected someone who shared his passion for small nocturnal flying rodents: for reading about them; for identifying them; for spending the entire night observing them in silence with the help of night-vision goggles, as his later note informed her he was doing himself. Just as plainly, Eleanor's inability to deliver on that promise was a blow. All things considered the timing hadn't seemed great for springing on him the news that in addition to her lack of bat-related knowledge she was also a vast cosmic mistake who should probably be burning in acid fire or having her appendix plucked out by ferrets or something instead of perching awkwardly on this sofa, drinking a passable if milky iced vanilla latte. Probably the real Eleanor loved bats; would provide all the bat-related camaraderie he could want. Probably this thought would occur to Bambadjan, too.

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[greywash]

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[breathedout]

\o/ \o/ \o/

[little_brisk]

I stopped reading at "Eleanor/Tahani bodyswap fic" (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) because I got too excited and didn't want spoilers. (!!!!!!!)

[breathedout]

LOL I had the same reaction when I saw the prompt on the Femslash kink meme. Hopefully I can do it justice; it's been so odd for me to be writing Good Place fic because there are ways in which it is really outside my comfort zone. Hopefully it'll come together, though.

[eccentric_hat]

It turns out I had no idea how "Bambadjan" was spelled! Also I ought to catch up on this show.

[breathedout]

Me too, honestly. Everything I'm writing/have written for it is set back in the Good Place/Bad Place time loops; I'm way behind on S3.

[teaforlupin]

LOVE

[breathedout]

Eeee, thanks!

[starshipfox]

Oh man, I relate to Bambadjan so much, and I too long for some bat-related camaraderie. I'm excited to read this!

[breathedout]

Thank you! And yes, Bambadjan's bat-loving persona is pretty charming to me too.

[lunylovegoodlover]

I am *so excited* to read the rest of this oh my god. The premise alone nearly made me scream, but mostly I’m in awe of how well you captured Eleanor’s voice, even in such a short passage.

[breathedout]

Aw, thank you so much! Eleanor's POV is super fun and hilarious to me, and then Tahani's POV gives me sad feelings. I definitely need to do a smoothing pass to get a more consistent tone. But hooray that the Eleanor voice is working for you!