#fence stuff

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This is a little early for me! I have. Jury duty. And will be conscious again sooner than I'd like to admit.

Rarepairs! I am honestly kind of surprised I had to make this tag (Harvard & Jesse), it feels like it would be such a Thing to explore and dive into and I was halfway tempted to make it longer, but I think they'd need a few more meetups before they actually committed to long conversations. Captain to captain. I think that if given the opportunity they could be really tight friends.

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I think you can tell I wanted to write this one more like a first chapter to a novel and gave up on it very quickly. I'm ultimately alright with that though lol

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Today's was fun! I mixed a bit of the literal and the figurative, which was a tad unexpected since I did fully intend for it to just be the literal. Things just come out sometimes though, you know? And who am I to stop someone from wiping the wrong shade of concealer off an emotional bruise. Also was not expecting Nick and Aiden to have such banter like they did, but this always tends to happen to me. I need to get these two nerds into settings more often where they can just riff off of each other. It's somewhat similar to the kind of banter Nick has with Seiji, but it winds up with wholly different undertones and allows Nick's emotional maturity to really shine that he is, in fact, on par with Aiden on that front even if it's a different font. If that at all makes sense.

Also they're in college for this. And they're at Ivies because I said so. And I did pay attention to color palettes for said ivies even if they don't particularly matter or really come up. But they're still fencing! Also because I said so. I did not do as much research as I should have.

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This is one of those fics where it's just fluff. Slice of life type of shit. I took the prompt as literally as possible here, something kind of fun to me in a way, where it's literally just a beach day. Filler episode. Off day. Why are they in California? Couldn't tell you beyond better beaches, but they are admittedly there for fencing. Close enough. Why is the playlist exclusively French songs? Vibes.

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Weird one for me. Did have a hunch as to where I wanted to go with this one from day one too, didn't expect it to draw so heavily from personal experience though. Something something, lesbian discovery in a dorm room at a 75%+ women's college (or, in this case, boarding school). I did consider writing for Dafna at first, that was the main thing that changed here. Instead, it became Adrienne and Lia (who I named on a whim, I'll admit fully) a bit more last minute, but something about it flowed better.

Why does Adrienne live on Martha's Vineyard? Why does Lia have a landline phone? I don't know. Distance, vibes. That's the best I can get for answers.

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I actually wanted to keep it tame for the AU day, relatively speaking, and I did totally know I was going 1980s with it from the point it was announced. Maybe one day I'll turn it into a whole fic, but I'm not entirely there yet. Something about sticking the boys in a summer camp as counsellors is such a funny concept to me that I think would actually work really well, and it's also a chance for me to keep working the dynamics for the idea that I have about a story set in specifically the summer of 1985. Which will maybe just turn into a fic. Who's to say?

The concept was almost my thesis, actually! Was one of the three options and just never won out, got used in side workshops instead. Mostly the YA Lit class.

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I don't have much of an explanation for this. Happy pride, lesbians be upon ye. If you squint it's during the '92 Olympics and there's some dynamics at play on what may have once been, I'll give it that much at least.

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I flipped on this super last minute as to what I was actually gonna write and/or do for this day. But like, I've spent so much time in and around bandfic/s that it would kind of be a return to form in a particular way for me. It's probably not the standard in terms of what the lineup would be for a five piece band in terms of the fence boys, but I have a very specific dynamic in my head for how they would work which means I haaaad to throw Harvard on lead guitar. Really the one that I realize is probably a wildcard choice is the Seiji/Eugene rhythm duo, but like... if it's not Nick on drums it's definitely Eugene, and Seiji is more than capable of holding down the fort on bass. While it's the "easiest" instrument of the lineup which isn't as fitting I do know that mf would be doing some Flea style shit. In something longer I'd probably consider letting Seiji and Nick duke it out for lead guitar.

It's a short little snippet all things considered, but I am also trying to take some of my old writing exercises and actually utilize them to see where exactly they take me. Starting predominantly with building character through internal monologue (yesterday's) and setting the scene/moving through time and space (today). I'll have one that's dialogue focused somewhere, a dramatic scene elsewhere, maybe utilize that first three pages of a novel in a different place. So that's also been fun to stretch my brain in a different way when it has not been properly stretched in a long while.