#spext

I'm a sucker for Hal having to get comfy borrowing Dave's hand-me-downs while crashing at the cabin post-Shadow Moses; I cannot imagine anything smaller in that wardrobe than old standard issue from when Dave was 18/19, so Hal gets to look like an army brat while Dave looks like a backwoods logger

I think part of this also ties in to how exposed to modern reality people are. people lead such boring, introverted lives (whether it's their own fault or not) and are often so detached from their surroundings that they can only conceptualize equally uninteresting lives for their favourite characters. hence all the cookie cutter barista/florist-and-tattoo-artist AUs that all read like the author only has the most passing, surface level understanding of what they chose as the centerpiece yet also lacks the writing chops to at least make the surroundings compelling. schlock.