[Fic] Pushing Daisies: Tink
Jan. 1st, 2008 02:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
springgreenSpoilers: None
Disclaimer: Not mine!
Summary: tink (v.i.) 1. attempt to repair or improve something in a casual or desultory way, often to no useful effect 2. (vocational) knit backwards
Notes: Written for firstgold for Yuletide 2007
Read Tink
Series information
Pushing Daisies is a TV show about a pie-maker who can bring people back to life by touching them. If he touches them again, they die forever. If they stay alive for longer than a minute, someone else will die.
None of this is really important; all you really need to know is that Emerson Cod is a private investigator who knits.
Some commentary
I actually wrote this prior to seeing the prompt on Yuletide, thanks to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-syndicated.gif)
untrue_accounts saying there should be Emerson knitting fic. Of course, there were about a million Emerson-knits fic for Yuletide, heh.
The fic wouldn't write itself until I figured out that Emerson learned to tink before he learned to knit; otherwise, it was just a fic about knitting that didn't illuminate much about Emerson. Also, Pushing Daisies voice is haaaaard!
For non-knitters, "tink" is actually what knitters call unknitting (it's "knit" spelled backwards), Red Heart is a cheap brand of yarn known for its squeaky acrylic-ness, and I hate hate hate tinking decreases like the ones in the story. Hate.
For knitters, in my head, the knitting needle found in the dog's jaw is a magenta aluminum Boyes straight, to go with the Red Heart yarn of course ;). Also, I want my own Emerson for tinking rows and rows of lace knit in freaking mohair!
No, this is not from personal experience at all...
Disclaimer: Not mine!
Summary: tink (v.i.) 1. attempt to repair or improve something in a casual or desultory way, often to no useful effect 2. (vocational) knit backwards
Notes: Written for firstgold for Yuletide 2007
Read Tink
Series information
Pushing Daisies is a TV show about a pie-maker who can bring people back to life by touching them. If he touches them again, they die forever. If they stay alive for longer than a minute, someone else will die.
None of this is really important; all you really need to know is that Emerson Cod is a private investigator who knits.
Some commentary
I actually wrote this prior to seeing the prompt on Yuletide, thanks to
untrue_accounts saying there should be Emerson knitting fic. Of course, there were about a million Emerson-knits fic for Yuletide, heh. The fic wouldn't write itself until I figured out that Emerson learned to tink before he learned to knit; otherwise, it was just a fic about knitting that didn't illuminate much about Emerson. Also, Pushing Daisies voice is haaaaard!
For non-knitters, "tink" is actually what knitters call unknitting (it's "knit" spelled backwards), Red Heart is a cheap brand of yarn known for its squeaky acrylic-ness, and I hate hate hate tinking decreases like the ones in the story. Hate.
For knitters, in my head, the knitting needle found in the dog's jaw is a magenta aluminum Boyes straight, to go with the Red Heart yarn of course ;). Also, I want my own Emerson for tinking rows and rows of lace knit in freaking mohair!
No, this is not from personal experience at all...