New Hancock story: Carry

[resonant]

I've posted a new Hancock story to my website. (For the four people on the planet who are interested in Hancock slash and who didn't already beta for me.)

Carry
Hancock(/Mary)/Ray -- NC-17 -- 5,800 words
Mary sends her love.

Beta thanks to celli and rivkat.

Comments

[mildmannered.livejournal.com]

Ok, you know what, this was so good it made me see the movie.

And now I have a frackin' essay to write, because Ray? is Hancock's magical Negro (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magical_Negro). God I love this movie, skating on the edge of so much bad race politics and then neatly subverting them.

Thanks for making me see it...

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Oh, now that is hilarious. Because Ray is not just a white guy, he's a white P.R. guy, which seems like taking white to the next level, you know?

The movie was surprisingly subtle about some things, wasn't it? while being predictably unsubtle about so many others, of course.

[mildmannered.livejournal.com]

Dude, I KNOW. He's like, the whitest white guy in whiteville. And yet he's totally the vessal for Hancock's self-actualization. In fact, it's his very mystical whiteness, one might argue, which allows Hancock to self-actualize.

I was really worried at first there -- like, just what the world needs to see, a flying black man holding a bottle of malt liquor. But things got infinitely weirder and deeper.

I was so happy at the end when they acknowledged that Hancock was basically lynched. I was kind of expecting them to ignore his (perceived) race, since it had kind of been this unspoken subtext throughout the movie - something all the characters had carefully avoided mentioning. And then, Boom!

Overall, it was a fascinating mess of a movie. I can't believe it even got made, and that it came out as good as it did.