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I'm so happy to have discovered jimmymcgools's Eighty-Six Years on AO3.

The first chapter hits all the marks for me. I've been hoping to find an author who would give us a BCS story with the ring of truth--a story in which the details of setting, characterization, and interiority would demonstrate the command of the craft that this universe deserves. I stumbled across jimmymcgools's fic entirely by accident. I'll be following this one with interest.

Why did Courtney's "Waterworks" fanvid get me where I lived? After all, I've been watching BCS for all six seasons, and although Odenkirk has strongly reminded me visually of KC since his first appearance on Breaking Bad, I didn't feel a frisson of fannish emotion or fannish character connection until I saw the vid.

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The music was eerily appropriate for the episode, and of course Courtney's sensitive choice and editing of ep clips made the whole thing stunning (almost literally). I really don't remember the last time I was so affected by any fanwork of any kind. It's been decades, maybe.

I've been obsessively rewatching the vid for a few days, and no doubt I'll watch it many more times before the series finale next week. Heartbreaking, as was "Waterworks" itself.

What can ever take the place of BCS? I really have to binge the whole series at some point in the future.