#skypiechats

Sandbox AU is the dumbest thing ever and I love it more than anything <3 uuuuh iiiiit's soooomething mostly me, @annie-mantic and @lambdraws are playing around with! It’s mostly just for fun and shits and giggles but maybe it might become something one day?? It started as "it's winter and life is miserable I wanna write completely mindless dumb teenager oneshots" thing and has grown like 20 times in size the past week and my life is ALL sand now. (the sandbox is just what we're calling it, that we're playing in the sandbox lmao, there's no logical reason as to why it's called that)

As of now it's just a series of loose scenes in vaguely chronological order and like 20k of chatlogs of bouncing ideas and nothing's really fully decided, but the basis of it is - modern day human!AU in which Luca goes to Portorosso on vacation without parents for the first time fully intent on having a hot girl summer, has a one night stand with Alberto, and they somehow stumble into a long distance relationship, but secretly it's about the weird family constellation of moms around them (Giulia’s moms are Luca’s godmothers and Massimo gets a GF and we love her more than anything)

sometimes an idea starts off with something small and dumb as “modern day luberto tries sexting but luca screams in frustration bc alberto only uses those damn cat emojis” and a week later there is nothing but sand in your brain

Maaaan of course you ask for the fic that's been seeing the least progress. There are some super cute parts, but they are The Most Pivotal parts so I'm reluctant to share them. My fav, and the first thing I wrote that kicked off the whole thing, is Alberto's toast to Luca, which ends with Luca crying and Alberto trying to eat his notes to hide the evidence.

But here's a cute lil thing. It's apparently an Italian tradition that the groom serenade the bride from outside her home, so:

HEHE 👀 that one has the potential to be really fun, I just haven't found all the scenes for it! Problem is it's based completely around Italian swears I researched, like the plot relies on some of them that don’t work in English, so it's got something like 50 annotations with translations in only 2300 words. Making it frustratingly impossible to read currently LOL. I blame my stayed-up-all-night-writing brain. Haven’t solved the logistical problem of how to make it readable and also still fun with more (probably bad and wrong) Italian. BUT I cleaned up the first scene for you <3

Alberto’s dad is Kaptein Sabeltann, which explains his fabulous hair, emotional instability and inherited latent homosexuality (we all KNOW about the looks Langemann gets from his captain…)

Oh and Alberto repressed all the pirate memories because trauma and stuff (I haven’t thought this through but I WILL figure it out.)

(And we don’t talk about the whole Caribbean-pirates-in-the-60s-Italy problem)

Help you've found my Achilles heel which is that I am a bad Norwegian culturally. My friends joke that I was raised under a rock because I've never seen Flåklypa. My only interaction with Kaptein Sabeltann is the popsicle (which fucks) and the life size trash can with him my school had (which haunts me). But yes, he is absolutely a raging homosexual.

I picked the gayest looking picture I found on Google. I sense the rituals are intricate. But I am intrigued and laughing. If you can't work out the logicstics to make them related, he can adopt Alberto and raise him to be the absolute queerest motherfucker. There's so much cute fanart of the boys playing pirates, why not make it a reality?

Actually, my brain has been chewing mindlessly on a Norwegian AU for months. Set in... At least somewhere north of Bodø. (Or Frøya, because it's gorgeous and near and dear to my heart). Massimo as a weatherbeaten old fisherman who refuses to wear jackets over his ancient Icelandic woolen sweater. Alberto is his son who's "fuckboy but hiding it by being charmingly nordlending". And they live in a tiny cabin almost falling apart - think "Der ingen skulle tru at nokon kunne bu" - because they're both too stubborn to move. Maybe even on an island with no ferry (or those that go like, once a day at 4.45 lmao). I decided Luca is from a bigger city and like those preppy girls who wear ankle short socks and sneakers in - 10C stottering around the ice like Bambi. Just for fun and cultural differences between them. Preppy city gay VS country bumpkin. And their sea monster designs 1) are based on ugly fish like cod (beards and all) and 2) gotta be a lot larger and chunkier to withstand the cold.