#readandwritesilver

“What are you doing?!” Annie exclaimed, waving her arms to get her roommates’ attention. They both turned to face her and looked at her as if she was an oncoming train and they were deer grazing by the tracks.

“Well, we want to attempt the Spider-Man kiss, so we thought that one of us could hook our legs over the fire escape and the other could stand on the level below it,” Troy explained. He was currently standing with one foot inside their apartment and one foot out the window, much to Annie’s dismay.

“It seemed like the easiest solution and authentic enough to the source material,” Abed added.

“Is there...I don’t know, maybe a safer way you guys could do it? One that doesn’t involve hanging off of the fire escape?” Annie asked hopefully.

“Hm...I suppose that we could use our bunk bed,” Abed reasoned.

Troy gasped. “Our bunk bed! How did we not think of that yet?”

“I did. I just wanted to utilize the old brick wall outside as a background,” Abed said.

Annie shook her head as Troy climbed back through the window and latched it shut. “That seems like a better idea. And maybe I could sit on the top bunk and hold your legs down so that you won’t fall? And help you back up when you’re done?” she suggested.

Abed nodded. “That seems like a much better idea. Reduces our chances of injury.”

“Great. I’m happy to help,” Annie said with an almost relieved smile.

“I’m happy that you were here to say something before one of us fell off the fire escape. And that you’ll still help us do it!” Troy said cheerfully.

“Of course. Now, the question is...do we take our bed into the Dreamtorium? Or do we make do in our room?” Abed wondered aloud.

“I don’t know, it would be kind of cool to render the environment to make it more realistic...” Troy said.

“Hey, Annie, want to help us move the bunk bed?”

Her smile widened, knowing that this would likely be the start of one of their many great adventures. “Of course I do.”

“I’m glad to have your commitment early, because we’ll probably have to take the whole thing apart and put it back together,” Abed noted as he stepped into him and Troy’s makeshift room. “This might take a while.”

“That’s okay!” Annie quickly assured him, “I don’t care if it takes forever as long as I get to spend time with you guys.”

Her statement elicited an audible “aw” from Troy, who stepped over to wrap her up in a tight hug. Abed quickly joined his roommates, delicately placing a hand on each of their shoulders.

“Maybe when it’s all done, we can rotate and each take turns being Spider-Man and Mary Jane!” Troy enthusiastically suggested.

Melting under blue skies Belting out sunlight, shimmering love Well, baby, I surrender To this strawberry ice cream Never-ever-ender All this love Well, I didn't mean to do it But there's no escaping your love

"Accidentally in Love" by Counting Crows

This is the part of the song I always wind up totally belting out--the rhythm is just great, and so is the imagery. :)

Thanks, Ben!

Tysm <3 

7. Your favourite ao3 tag?

Hurt/Comfort alllll the way. I am an h/c girl at heart. Give me that stoic character who’s always carrying everyone else and show me that character in a situation where they have no choice but to be vulnerable and cared for and I will eat. that. shit. up. 

8. How slow is a slow burn?

I feel like it honestly be as long or as short as you need it to be? Like I’m in the midst of publishing what I think of as a slowburn. It’s 20k and they don’t really have a proper conversation together until 10k words in. BUT the whole story takes place over the course of a week. So it’s a slowburn when you read it, but not in “reality”. On the other hand, you could write a 1k fic that spans, like, 15 years. And that could be a slowburn, even though it’s actually fast to read, ya feel? 

10. Top three favourite fic tropes?

I don’t think I can narrow down a top three, but here are three that I really love. 

1. Unexpected heart-to-heart. Bonus points if it’s somewhere isolated like on a beach, or in the middle of the night. 

2. Hurt/Comfort, and more specifically, I especially love recovery fics that focus a whole lot of time and detail on the character’s recovery process. 

3. Stream of consciousness character studies. Bonus points for angst. 

I think I’m really interested in pulling characters apart and understanding what forces made them the way they are, and that’s why I gravitate to these tropes, tbh. 

5. Do you listen to music when writing? 

sometimes! it depends, sometimes I like putting on specific playlists, sometimes I need to concentrate and don’t like having any background noise, and sometimes I put on vids from my favorite makeup YouTubers lol.

6. If you listen to music when writing, what were you listening to when writing [Fanfic Name]?

generally, I listen to my Jeffbritta playlist or my Brittannie playlist when writing for those specific pairings! I also have a Frankie/Britta playlist, but it’s unique because I actually developed it while I was writing Contemporary Studies in Budding Relationships and Impending Doom and it’s very specific to that fic!! 

16 answered here!!

17. What fanfic tropes do you gravitate to writing for?