CallieB, the useless reptile

Tumblr: HEATED RIVALRY IS SETTING THE WORLD ON FIRE!

Tumblr: No for real though the world actually IS on fire and we should all be deeply concerned about climate change but also BUDDIE MIGHT BECOME CANON!

My brain: What if, and I'm just spitballing here, but what if we wrote 30k of Downton Abbey fic, a fandom for which we've read some good stuff (like a decade ago) but never written before, and y'know, due to the age and relative obscurity of the show the fandom is, if not dead then at the very least in a nursing home, because we've got some time off and for some reason a Thommy idea just attacked us and won't let us go?

Marble

The house looks the same. That seems somehow unfair to Billy, sitting in Hopper’s passenger seat with his back hot and painful against the leather interior and staring up at it through the window. It’s not yet been twenty-four hours since he stumbled out the front door with Max beside him, and his entire life has been shaken around like a piece of lost luggage—and yet the house looks the same.

“Piece of shit,” he mumbles, and it is. There are scratches in the front door, chunks missing from the cladding. Weeds are springing up here and there in the patchy, icy yard. No one’s taken care of this place in a long, long time.