An addiction to hands and feet

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I always used to be kind of shy about doing this meme -- I wrote? really?? -- but I figure my recent fic output justifies this thing, so hey! Why not!

Pick a paragraph (or any passage less than 500 words) -- it can be more than 500, if you wish! -- from any fanfic I've written, and comment to this post with that selection. I will then give you a DVD commentary on that snippet: what I was thinking when I wrote it, why I wrote it in the first place, what's going on in the character's heads, why I chose certain words, what this moment means in the context of the rest of the fic, lots of awful puns, and anything else that you'd expect to find on a DVD commentary track.

My fic can be found under the fic tag, bbs!

(It was either post this or talk about all the ridic stories that a Regina Spektor song makes me want, okay. Humour me!)

Comments

[go-gentle.livejournal.com]

all the ridic stories that a Regina Spektor song makes me want

ridic figure skating stories?

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yes. /o\

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tell me more!

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dance anthem of the 80s

1. The Regency AU where Johnny enters the Season with all kinds of disadvantages stacked up against him because of his reputation, and Galina's his chaperoned. At some point "meat market" is referenced, and Johnny smirks meaningfully and everyone else groans because this doesn't really help his chances of getting a husband.

2. The one where Evan watches Johnny sleep. What, plot?

(No, but seriously, I love that scene in the accidental marriage fic where Evan watches Johnny sleep surreptitiously, but really he just looks creepy and confused.)

3. The lame boppy high school AU where Johnny isn't a cheerleader, and Evan doesn't play football. Johnny decides that relationships are so lame, and that he'll just "go solo" until he graduates! Everyone lines up to change his mind.

4. The melodramatic one where Evan stumbles down a street like a drunk but-not, like someone sad but-not. And Johnny sees him, and even from a distance he can tell Evan's lumber is different from what it usually is. Normally this wouldn't worry him (since when does Evan Lysacek ever worry him, anyway?), but Evan's seriously lurching, so he goes over and says -- "Hey. Hey. What's wrong with you?"

"What do you mean?" Evan mumbles. "What's wrong with you?"

Drunkenness means there are no personal boundaries, so Johnny can feel Evan's breath fanning hot on his neck.

... etc, etc.

[go-gentle.livejournal.com]

I WOULD READ ALL OF THOSE BUT ESPECIALLY THE RECENCY ONE AND THE SLEEPING ONE. *___________*

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Right?? The Regency fic needs to exist right now. There are even pictures and everything! I'm not sure if it should be Johnny/Stephane or Johnny/Evan. THOUGHTS PLZ.

[go-gentle.livejournal.com]

i always vote for stephane, but i'd honestly read either.

plus, there are the eight million prince charming costumes. maybe he is a ~mysterious foreigner from the continent? so he's new in town, and he wasn't around for Johnny's scandalous period (even if gossip tells him them all anyway) so he's a better hope for johnny since he didn't actually witness johnny doing whatever johnny did? and johnny is a little bit distressed by the thought that his only hope for a marriage is with some random swiss guy. (and no one knows his name! he's just 'that swiss guy'!)

fyi, i know NOTHING about regency, not even as filtered through fandom and romance novels so i'm just making shit up without any thought as to plausibility ('plausibility').

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Ooh, yes! And the thing is, he's so hard to figure out. Johnny came into this season primed for bitchy repartee and thinly-veiled gossip! And this guy's just interested in, like, getting to know him. Couldn't he have just looked it up in Burke's Peerage? All the stuff about his family is in there.

Then they get caught in a compromising position (oh, Stephane, you seriously have to stop cuddling people), and have to get married. :( O SHIT, Johnny Weir. He doesn't even want to live in Switzerland.

I know very little about the Regency period too! But what you've got so far is definitely workable I think...

[go-gentle.livejournal.com]

why is stephane in england looking for a marriage? (is this even set in england?) his family sent him there to get married because....idk. maybe johnny has a large fortune and their families either arrange or strongly encourage it? (maybe it's through Galina? if we knew why stephane went to jersey to train, we could borrow that piece of canon.)

and stephane cuddles everyone, it's just he got caught with johnny, and johnny knows about that but doesn't know if he's special or just unlucky or what.

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I think he wouldn't be looking for marriage! He just wants to hang out, but then he stumbles into the middle of the Season and suddenly there are all these people wanting him to marry their brothers/sisters/sons/daughters, and the nuances of this might be lost on him. He's just like, "Everyone is so welcoming! :D :D"

Idk if Johnny would have a large fortune. In the light of his recent "trophy wife" remarks I'm reading him as the one who has to marry for money, only that's kind of difficult given that his reputation is what it is.

Stephane cuddles Johnny in a dark place, and Johnny, for once mindful of the maiden virtue he has to preserve, tries to shrug him off! Only in the midst of this struggle someone comes upon them and interprets it as sexytimes? :D? (Oh my god, Stephane would feel so guilty about this.)

Also, on listening to that damn song for the like 50th time: ridic story #5: Hooker AU. I DON'T KNOW OKAY. /o\

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Jumping in to say OH MY GOD I want this fic so badly now.

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I THINK YOU SHOULD WRITE IT. Yes.

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noooo it's less fun that way :(

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It's for the common good!