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.

[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 :-)

[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.

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

Dear god, I love you.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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*

[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.

[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.

[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.

[lasultrix.livejournal.com]

SQUEE!

[ikhor.livejournal.com]

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

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!

[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!

[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...

[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? ;)

[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.

[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.

[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!

[giglet.livejournal.com]

Eee!

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

[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

[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*

[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. :-)

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

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