New Pippi Longstocking story

[resonant]

No, that's not a typo. cesperanza says HP has had a degenerative effect on my brain. But I defy anybody to read "Pippi Is Shipwrecked" without seeing this in the future.

Pippi Says Goodbye
Pippi/Tommy/Annika -- PG-13 -- 9K
Annika is the bravest of all of them.

Thanks to cesperanza and darthfox for beta.

The sex is offscreen. Don't be afraid.

Comments

[northern]

though I'll tell you frankly that I don't understand your concerns. I thought closeness was the point of family.

I love Pippi Longstocking. Thank you for making slash with that same Pippi style. Of course, I've never read it in English, only in Swedish, but it still feels like her. Yes.

[halimede.livejournal.com]

I concur. I've read it in Dutch, seen screen adaptations in Swedish with Dutch subtitling, with Dutch voice-overs and in English with Dutch subtitling and it does indeed still feel like her. I particularly liked the nail-polish and the kimono and the motorcycle and stuff.

[cathexys.livejournal.com]

omfg!!! how dare you ruin my childhood memories??? LOL.

i love pippi's voice...Why, if we always kissed people who weren't going anywhere, we'd never do anything but kiss and annika's and tommy's interactions...it's just very, very right (and very, very wrong :-)

the only doll i ever had, i named annika :-)

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Heh. Next up: Road Runner/Wile E. Coyote.

[kassrachel.livejournal.com]

Oh, my. You've gone and done it again.

It's possible HP has had an effect on you, yes, but if that's so, then it's an effect I heartily support!

This is actually quite poignant, and you even skirted the brother/sister thing successfully. Go you.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure how well I would have handled the brother/sister angle if I'd written it in any more detail -- but I *couldn't* write it in any more detail, so it worked out OK. I figure everybody's free to imagine whatever they want.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_swallow/]

Dear god, I love you.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Aww. Thanks!

[helenish.livejournal.com]

oh! ah! ee!

I, yes. should have seen it coming, but now I'm SAD, for they'll never be the same. snuffle.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

I know! It's depressing, isn't it?

[brooklinegirl.livejournal.com]

I - wow. The whole Pippi Longstocking series was a big part of my childhood and I clicked here with great trepidation, but dear god, okay, yes, damn you, this makes really - utterly - perfect sense. Also? You got the writing style and the way Pippi talks down perfectly and I am astonished and full of admiration.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I'm glad it worked for you, perverse though it was.

[ikhor.livejournal.com]

Oh my god, Res. I think you killed me dead. Dead, I tell you.

I personally don't have much of a problem with having my childhood memories corrupted. I've written a story myself in which the main character has neighbours, a couple, named Tommy & Annika. I think I'll always be giggling whenever I think of that time I dressed up as Pippi for Halloween. Tee hee.

But you did this so well. You've captured Pippi's bright & freckled personality just marvelously, and the lines about the camel and the coffee party on the roof were just brilliant. And Pippi's parting words? So great. :)

Now, is there any way I could convince you to write more? *grins*

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Don't you just *know* Pippi would be a fabulous teenager? She's almost like a teenager even when she's a kid.

[ellen-fremedon.livejournal.com]

This shouldn't work.

And it shouldn't be so *perfect.*

And it shouldn't make me so sad to know that, years down the road, Tommy and Annika will both be married to respectable, boring people, and both looking wistfully back at Pippi and wishing that they'd dared to try to stay with her, and consoling themselves not with the thought that it would never have worked, but with the thought that the other would have been heartbroken, even though they know it's not quite true.

[ikhor.livejournal.com]

*points* Yes. What she said. That's exactly it.

[norah.livejournal.com]

It is PERFECT! I am going to go pimp it at rarelitslash right NOW. Pippi is so lovely, and you capture the feel of the books perfectly. With kissing. And (elided) sex, which in my opinion only improves anything and everything.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Cool! Thanks.

[kattahj.livejournal.com]

This is quite fabulous. Astrid Lindgren would be proud, I'm sure – well, once she got over the initial shock, anyway. I've seen professional Pippi Longstocking fanfic that wasn't half as good.

One of the women at slasher_swedes is a huge Astrid Lindgren slash fan (she's the one who has made the rest of us try and write it). This'll be just the thing to cheer her up.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

She might at that. A character like Pippi can't possibly not have another life off the page.

Thanks for the rec, too.

[lasultrix.livejournal.com]

SQUEE!

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

[beaming at you]

Pippi grows up

[jelazakazone.livejournal.com]

This is hilarious! You've perfectly captured Astrid Lindgren's voice. I can just see Pippi doing this in her future. Brava!

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Bet she rides that motorcycle without a helmet, too.

[birdisland.livejournal.com]

This is perfect. Perfect. I can so see this happening. <3

(I'm the slasher_swedes chick Katta mentioned, btw. she directed me here and for that I'm thankful. :) I've written a couple of Astrid Lindgren slashfics myself and have always wanted to do Pippi/Annika but never had the guts for some reason... hmm. :))

Very well done. Wow!

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

I've written a couple of Astrid Lindgren slashfics myself

Yeah? Are they online? I'd love to read them.

[katherine]

Marvelous. Thank you so much!

I actually re-read those books just a few weeks ago, and it made me hope for well-written fanfiction...

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

The books are terrific, aren't they? Though I was a little depressed to discover that I sympathized with the adults, this time around ...

[kriscat.livejournal.com]

Wow, just wow. I bet that if Astrid Lindgren had written slash it would've been like this. Pippi was so Pippi. And the little things, like saying that the horse (Btw, what is his english name? In swedish he's called Lilla Gubben wich is sort of like Little Man.) just need a cup of coffee now and then and the 'tale' about the girls in Morocco makes it perfect. I only have one question, what've happened to the monkey? ;)

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Oh, I never realized the horse had a name! In our English translation, he's always just called "the horse," which I always thought was a little odd.

I really should have included Mr. Nilsson, but, first, I couldn't bear the idea of having a little primate voyeur, and, second, I was afraid that if I did any research, I would discover that a monkey would be dead of old age before Pippi was 18, and I couldn't bear that, either.

[villeinage.livejournal.com]

Pefect, perfect, perfect! The tone, the phrasing, the voices were dead on.

And the line about Morrocco and the camels had me snorting with shock and delight.

Lovely and audacious, much like Pippi herself.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Aww. Thanks!

[kleenexwoman.livejournal.com]

You rock.
When I was a kid, I loved those books. I recently went into the kid's section of the library and found those books again and reread them and they were even better than I remembered.
This is the kind of fic that doesn't warp my childhood memories but makes them even better. It's like the characters are growing up and discovering...things...along with me.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Oh, good. I couldn't write, like, Pippi Is A Dominatrix or something (though, actually, now that I think of it, that's scarily plausible) -- but nice friendly sex seems like one logical conclusion of the books.

[semielliptical]

You write Pippi's voice so well that it brought back memories of the books that I didn't know I had. It's been...25 years, I think? since I read them. Wow. This is wonderful!

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Good! I've internalized the voice quite thoroughly from repeatedly reading the stories out loud to the five-year-old.

[giglet.livejournal.com]

Eee!

You got it right! And have totally warped my brain. More, I mean.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

M-hm. Don't blame me for that.

[firesprite1105.livejournal.com]

*guffaws*

Dude, Resonant, I cannot believe you pulled this off, but it's note-perfect. And not only that, you did the whole brother/sister thing without squicking me, which I did not believe was actually possible. I am terribly, terribly impressed. Also, kinda afraid of which of my childhood institutions is next to go. ;D

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Hee! Thanks. I'll tell you the truth; i can't actually picture the sex itself, which is why I faded to black where I did. Though I can very easily picture a lovely book-style drawing of naked Pippi on the bed, with her legs crossed and a cigarette between her toes.

[bethbethbeth.livejournal.com]

Oh yes indeed (...in that "oh my God!" kind of way)

You know, I so wanted to be Pippi when I was a kid (I even made my sister roam the alleys behind our house and be a 'thing finder' with me *g*). And now? Oh, my Pippi is all grown up, isn't she? *g*

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Oh, me too! She had more fun than anybody, and always will.

I'd like to see Pippi as an old lady, too, scandalizing all the grayhairs with her motorized wheelchair.

[maeglinyedi.livejournal.com]

This was so cute! And I think you've got Pippi's unique way of reasoning down perfectly. It sounded exactly like her. Lovely little fic. :-)

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Aww. Thanks!

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

Absolutely lovely. Every single voice, dead-on. You always astound me and I love you so!

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

[absolutely worshipping your icon]

[vampiresetsuna.livejournal.com]

LoL, you bring back such memories! I looved those stories when I was young. The bad part is, that so did everyone else, and since my mother made me wear my bright red hair in two braides, well, you can imagine the teasing that ensued.

Very good fic!!!

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Hee! So you were Pippi in person.

[silveryscrape.livejournal.com]

Every nail a different color and one sock on: the perfect bridging images from Pippi-the-little-girl to Pippi-the-woman. Love this story. The language is just right.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Don't you just *know* she'd be a fabulous teenager!