Things I want

[opusculasedfera]

Rereading Gordon Korman because, come on, should we not all be rereading Gordon Korman constantly? Comfort reading ftw.

I really want fic about Commando (The Twinkie Squad) and Sam (No Coins, Please) meeting in university and becoming angry queer activists together! Commando has the encyclopaedic knowledge of the US political landscape! Sam has the rage against the machine! Together they make angry flyers, and Sam makes fun of Commando for living in a country without healthcare!

I can't decide if it ends Sam/Commando, or if Commando and Douglas are still my OTP, and Sam is just his activist soulmate. In any case this fic doesn't have a plot, and would be hard to write, and also no one would read it, but I want it really badly.


It will have to go in the list of other fics I want, but that don't have a real plot. A small selection of same:

-the one where Nuge knew that Sam and Justin were friends before he moved in with them, but had no idea this was going to translate to them fucking loudly in the shared house. He just wants to sleep, why is this so hard? (This one is like 90% him complaining to his girlfriend, who laughs at him and offers to come down to visit so they can get their own back. Sam and Justin's only response is high-fiving her cheerfully in the morning, while Nuge sulks that this isn't what he wanted at all.)

-the one where Pauly and Nealer are dating, and Nealer's giant empty house really is an attempt at disguising this from everyone. I mean, actually what I want are 96 versions of this premise because it is hilarious every time, but what I want right now is a fic in which to put my mental image of Pauly attempting to gently raise the subject of maybe there should be real furniture in James' house? If they want to be at all convincing? and James just leaning back against him, totally baffled, to say, "but, I'm here?" It really doesn't have a plot, just the way that Nealer's eyes get incredibly round when he's confused, and Pauly sighing a lot.

-the one where Hallsy's dating someone and he keeps saying horrifying things about the ~older ladies~, and Ebs keeps making bad cougar jokes, and then she turns out to be like 26 and Whits wants to strangle everyone. The problem with this fic is that it's amusing to me because of the idea of Hallsy saying all of these ridiculous bragging things while actually their sex life is fine, but heavy on her having to tell him things, except that that's actually way too much awkward sex for me to read/write, and also it makes it difficult to transition into the other thing I want, where somehow Whits' rage ends in him having a terrible threesome with his roommates who make bad jokes continuously, while he complains that they are tiny horrible children. (Everyone has a great time.)

-the one where Matt Duchene and Sid have been quietly dating for a year or two (long-distance mostly, with summers in LA), so it's hilarious that everyone still seems astonished that they're even friends. Only I don't want it to be someone-finds-out because I'm bored of that plot right now, so I have no idea what else to do with this, except to write fluff, and I'm bad at that.

Comments

[dine]

that last one really caught my attention, and now I want that to exist SO badly! but I can't think of anything plotwise, except calm domesticity which isn't always gripping reading. at least the someone-finds-out thing offers a chance at a bunch of possibilities, plus all the emotions that could go along. unless no one actually reacted, everyone just when "huh - ok" and wandered off, unfazed. *g*

[opusculasedfera]

Yeah, the difficulty with that one is that part of the amusement factor for me was that irl they really have been friends for a couple of years, and people are still shocked that they know each other, so it would be even funnier if they were also dating! But I feel like I've read too many someone-finds-out fics lately, even if many of them were excellent. It's hard to make "huh, okay" different, and I don't want to deal with the serious side of it right now. /whining

This may have to be one of those things where I just enjoy the image of their calm domesticity in my head. (It's very hockey-focused. There's a lot of giggling. They actually get to go out and do things together because they spend their summers in LA and no one there cares about Sid. Sid reads and can't stop telling Matt random history facts, which is fair because Matt can't stop telling Sid technical things about guitars.)

[james]

I am voting for Paul and Nealer!!! It sounds adorable, even without much plot.

Also, for Sid and Matt - maybe instead of a 'someone finds out' plot it can be a 'one of the boys wants to ask the other to make the Next Big Step (like living together?) and harasses his teammates for advice and courage and eventually the teammates have to get with the other one's teammates and just move all their stuff into one house then they say 'done, stop bothering us.' ;-)

[opusculasedfera]

I also vote for fandom to get on that! ;D They're some of my favourites; I just have difficulties with actual plot rather than "They cuddled and Paul sighed over Nealer's assorted incompetencies. Forever. (Except for hockey, obviously.)"

Hee! That amuses me a lot, though given how much time they're obliged to spend apart, mostly I'm imagining their friends pointedly moving all of Matt's things from his hotel room in Vail into Sid's. Not that he wasn't basically living in Sid's room already so it's really just a question of which room his empty suitcase is in, but he's still indignant about their interference. Sid is collapsed, giggling, on the bed and no help at all.

[james]

To be fair, any story idea featuring Nealer and a happy ending sounds awesome to me. :-)

[bestliar]

I want all of those stories. I had never considered Sam/Justin before, but it's a fun idea for sure. I don't really have anything intelligent to say, but these are all great ideas and I'm enjoying thinking about them very much.

[opusculasedfera]

I find Sam/Justin really interesting because they have the traditional incestuous hockey relationship of having known each other for years before suddenly winding up on the same team, except that Justin is so much less peculiar than that implies. He's weirded out when interviewers interrogate him about whether or not he's best friends with his teammates. He appears to be capable of friendship/roommates without codependence. He shows signs of having actually spoken to non-hockey players. So in my head, it's an interesting contrast to, say, Taylor and Jordan who basically appear to have mindmelded as rookies, after experiencing the hothouse that is major junior. Sam and Justin have a history, but it's a calm history, a casual friendship, even in the versions where they hooked up at Mifflin.