#gibving

i keep thinking about a gibsonirving modern au where irving accepts his sexual orientation enough to be in a public relationship with a man but still is bound by traditionalist christian values enough to be very invested in erring as close as possible to that kind of heterosexual ideal (because if it's not so different, maybe it's not wrong after all - maybe even his family/childhood pastor/etc will see how close he's come to what they want of him and accept it as good enough. and besides, how else is he supposed to measure his success as a man?) & billy, as a practical and beautiful young man who does not want to be a service worker for the rest of his life and is painfully aware of how few prospects he has (& unaware of his own naivety, and of what a man like that might do to someone in his position), decides that, although irving does not have the outlook or wit of a man he would like to love, he is upper middle class enough that it would be foolish to refuse his attention and, after about a year, decides it would be foolish to refuse his proposal and marries him. i just think things would get really miserable which is awesome