Golden Girls Memorial Drabble Tree

[lunabee34]

As I'm sure you all saw last week, Betty White is the last Golden Girl standing now that Rue McClanahan has passed away.

Fanfic for this show pretty much does not exist (as thelastgoodname can attest), and that's just wrong. Wrong, I say!

So if you love Blanche, Rose, Dorothy, and Sophia half as much as I do, let's change that 100 words at a time!

Femslash, gen, het, slash, whatever you want to write--as long as it celebrates these wonderful characters!

Please signal boost, says the girl with the tiny flist. :)

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Okay, this is sadder than I meant it to be

[lunabee34.livejournal.com]

"What do you think about this one?" Blanche says, pointing to a gold lame halter top dress that Rose thinks would end slightly above Blanche's pubic bone if she were to wear it.

Rose tries for tact. "Isn't it, um, a bit short?"

"Nonsense," Blanche says and wheels herself over to finger the fabric. "Doesn't matter anyway. The bottom half of the casket will come up to my navel. I could be completely nude underneath. Hey, now, there's an idea."

Rose tries; she really, really tries not to let Blanche know how much these funeral plans upset her, but Blanche must see something in her face. "What is it, honey?" she says. "Rose, what's wrong?"

"What's wrong? What's wrong? What's wrong is that we're picking out clothes for you to be dead in!" Rose balls her hands up into fists and tries not to cry. "And I don't understand why you even want me here. Shouldn't Rebecca and Janet be helping you with this?"

Blanche sighs. "I'm sorry, Rose. I know this must seem morbid to you, but it's important to me. Janet would lay me out in some god awful twin piece I wouldn't be caught dead in, and Rebecca would have me buttoned up to the chin and down to the ankles. No, thank you. I love my daughters, Rose, I do, but I have always lived my life on my own terms, and I'm gonna die on them, too." Blanche smiles a watery smile and holds out her hands to Rose. Rose takes them. "You are one of the best friends I've ever had, Rose. You and Dorothy and Sophia have meant the world to me. I know it's selfish of me, Rose, and maybe it's too much to ask, but I can't think of anybody that I want at my side here at the end more than you girls."

Rose squeezes Blanche's hands. "Then that's where we'll be." Rose wipes her eyes, they browse for a few more minutes in silence. "Hey," Rose says, taking a dress off the rack. "How do you feel about sequins?"

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[zillah975]

*clutches heart* This is lovely and sad, but also awesome.

It's good to have friends like that. :)

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[lunabee34.livejournal.com]

Thank you!!!!!

I caught the finale of the show a little while ago before Rue died and I just love that episode so much--how they just all love each other so much and they can't let each other go and I cry every damn time I watch it. Cause that's what we all dream of, right? A handful of people to be there for everything.

*sob sob*

I am so distraughted (to borrow a student's term) over Rue dying.

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[zillah975]

*holds you tight*

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[lunabee34.livejournal.com]

*hugs hugs hugs*

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[lunabee34.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the signal boost, bb!

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[gloss]

I *just* started a rewatch of the show for the first time since it originally aired, and one thing that's struck me hard is Rose's fear -- of being alone, of death, of the unknown.

This is such a great take on that -- Blanche is her sassy, confident self (and I love her SO MUCH) but she's also emphathetic and she *knows* Rose right down to the bone. <3333

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[lunabee34.livejournal.com]

Oh, man. Thank you so much.

One of the things that I love most about GG is that it's a show about older people, and so death and infirmity and all of those issues of aging are part and parcel of the show. And I adore that it treats older people as beautiful, complex, sexual beings.

I just wanted to pay a little homage to that.

And also, I couldn't help but tear up at the thought of Blanche going to meet her Maker in a dress that would have the preacher hot around the collar.

Rose is just so fun. She's so innocent and sweet, but, as you say, she's fearful as well, and I think she can be the cruelest of them when she puts her mind to it because you don't expect it of her.