Saw this idea somewhere, cannot for the life of me remember where. But prompted my brain into a 5+1 situation in which Jake, normally put together, hot as the sun, confident and sexy Jake, is an absolute mess of a human in front of this one guy in his apartment building. Apparently cursed to appear messy and clumsy in front of him. And it's always the same fucking guy much to Jake's growing horror.
--- ONE
Staggering in at 7am, still drunk, missing a shoe, has drink stains on his shirt, lipstick smears on his face, tie missing, tear in his pants, feather boa around his waist. He's been at Javy's bachelor party all night, and Javy's sisters planned a banger of a party. Jake is glad he's taken Monday off work to recover. But standing at the entryway is a hot guy who is looking at him with raised eyebrows and Jake just gives him a little jerk of the chin and hopes he never sees him again.
--- TWO
No such luck. Next time Jake sees him he's just coming back to his apartment from the building gym and the same guy is there, waiting for the lift. He's wearing a suit this time, a full three-piece and looks all professional and put together and Jake feels even more hot and sweaty by comparison. The guy seems to be uncomfortable, and Jake isn't sure if it's him or maybe the way he smells. Next time he'll take the stairs.
--- THREE
This is the universe conspiring against him. He gets the call from the delivery company that they're trying to deliver a parcel and he's just spilled pasta sauce down his shirt, is wearing his loosest sweatpants, hair fluffy from his shower. He's only in his socks when he goes down to the lobby to sign for his parcel and of course the hot apartment guy is there and Jake nods in greeting but wishes the ground could maybe open up and swallow him whole.
--- FOUR
He's juggling his bag, the recently bought coffee and the key to his letterbox when his bag slips and spills open, contents going everywhere. It could be worse, he could have dropped his coffee instead. Bad enough to look up and see the feet and long legs of hot apartment guy standing in the doorway and watching him. Hot apartment guy bends down and helps him pick up his things and his smile is absolutely devastating. Jake forgets to even say thank you.
--- FIVE
He's kind of given up thinking he'll ever make a good impression on hot apartment building guy, but he's just spent the morning with his nieces and he's actually put together for once. His jeans are well fitting, shirt nice, no spills which is a small miracle considering how he spent the morning. He crosses paths with hot apartment again as he enters the building and hot apartment guy is leaving and the way hot apartment guy bites his lip and looks at him, all shy and sweet makes Jake suddenly hopeful that he thinks Jake is hot.
Then he gets into the lift and sees his reflection in the mirror - dark smear of what is apparently plum jelly on one cheek and about a dozen pastel coloured butterfly clips in his hair. He thinks hot apartment guys smile is now him trying to hold back laughter.
--- +1
Jake turns up to the wedding rehearsal, he's Javy's best man, the only guy in fact, all the other people standing up beside Javy being his three sisters. Standing up with Natasha are her two sisters, then her best friends Bob and Bradley, neither of whom Jake has met yet, although... hot apartment guy is standing there nursing a bottle of beer and Jake KNOWS he looks good right now, but hot apartment guy somehow looks hotter and how is that fucking fair?
Meanwhile, Bradley's internal dialogue and observations:
Damn, looks like he had a good time. I wonder what he was celebrating? Would it be weird to ask?
Jesus fucking Christ. 🥵🥵🥵 DON'T STARE AT HIM!
He looks SO SOFT. And he smells like tomato and garlic. CAN HE COOK?
Cute cute cute. His ass looks SO GOOD. Don't be a dick. Act cool. Fuck. Apartment 5C. J Seresin. Why is that name familiar?
OH MY GOD Does he have kids? He looks like he'd be good with kids? I can't offer up my child bearing hips, I don't have child bearing hips. 😩😭
+1 - Bradley sees Jake at the rehearsal dinner and his brain is:
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Welp, now I'm thinking of an Online and Anonymous Heated Rivalry fic where (based on @texasteaparty's post (and reblogs/replies)) where Ilya is writing fanfic (it helps him improve his English okay?) and it starts off innocently enough, in a fandom that's mildly active, he gets some lowkey fandom friends who have no idea who he is. He likes this.
Then he's introduced to Hockey RPF and OF COURSE he looks himself up, because he is definitely curious to see what people write about him. It's before his draft, so there is nothing. But there are others. And yeah, it's hot and he's horny a lot and it scratches a certain itch.
And THEN he meets Shane Hollander.
He writes the first ever Shane/Ilya fic because he's horny and he thinks Shane is CUTE, but also, he might act like he's all confident, but he is a little intimidated by Shane. Just a tiny little bit. He's not going to ask Shane for a blowjob, or offer him one. But he's definitely going to think about it and he's definitely writing it all down.
Now this would slip in with canon. Ilya's writing RPF fanfic all the time, because there are HEAPS of fics of Shane and him both, but not as many of them together (although there are PLENTY). He continues to have plenty of sex, but he does take note of a lot of things, who people look at a second too long. Who smiles a little more softly.
No one has any idea - everyone is stuck on their phones and he travels a lot so he uses the time judiciously. No one asks him what he's doing, and if they do he says 'looking at porn' and people don't really want confirmation of that so assume (hope) he's joking (all they can see is text, but... they don't ask more than once).
After Shane walks out, when he's freaking out that maybe there are more feelings at stake here than he had originally planned on. During dinner with Rose she asks if he's ever read any RPF? And he has NO IDEA what she is talking about. She introduces him to AO3.
HIS MIND IS BLOWN.
Of course he finds this writer (oldest fic first search Shane Hollander), and they're treated as THE EXPERT on the Ilya/Shane ship and Shane's like WTF? Why? And then he starts reading...
He doesn't have an account, uses an incognito/private tab, but he's memorised the URL for this particular writer anyway, so it doesn't matter. They've written over 100 fics and they're odes to Shane/Ilya and they are
🥵🥵🥵
Until he gets to a fic where Ilya confesses he's in love and Shane walks out on him and he's like...
WHAT THE FUCK?
He sends the link to Rose.
(I have more thoughts but I have OTHER THINGS I am meant to be doing, JFC).
always!! i love a good crack fic, as you know – rolled an 87, fudged the numbers a bit to give you the clean intro!
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He's not going to hook up with his ex.
He's not going to hook up with his ex.
He is not going to –
"Bradshaw, as I live and breathe!"
Okay, so maybe Bradley has a backbone with the structural integrity of a frosted eclair, and maybe he spent thirty minutes staring at his closet trying to figure out what he could wear that didn't look like trying too hard, and maybe he knew the jeans he pulled on were a bit too tight and made his ass look really good.
Ooohhh... Can I please have 🌾and 🐄 for the canon divergent secret relationship fic? Thank you! 🌻💛
Hehe hai <3 I did this same combo in another response but I will DO IT AGAIN FOR YOU!! (WIP Wednesday game here, come play with me)
Snippet:
“Repeat: do not engage. Dagger Two, return to carrier. Acknowledge.”
Jake says nothing. He sees nothing as he flies blindly ahead, Phoenix’s tail his only guide through the wilderness of his heartbreak.
“Acknowledge,” command says again, hard at the edges.
“Hangman,” Phoenix pleads. “Those bandits are closing. We can’t go back.”
“You cowards,” Jake hisses, disgusted. “Fuck you. If it were any one of you, he’d go back.”
Shamed, Phoenix says nothing.
🌾 - what makes this fic grow? What do you need to make it grow?
I think I need to make up my mind about a few key details, and what I actually want to get out of this fic. I've been frustrated with some of the details I've chosen to include, but maybe I should just get rid of them? I'm excited to do my first big editing pass over this one so I can get the shape of it right.
🐄 - what trope do you feel like you're milking in this particular fic?
Previously I've said "deathbed confessions" and "exes to lovers," but another trope might be mutual pining? The big sense of "this is not over."
Greener pastures and sunnier skies for Mid-Week WIP! 💛
Have a great week too. 🌻
Hi friend!!
Added a couple hundred words to the fic!!
Here’s a little snippet!!
The TV is on when he makes it downstairs, the morning news playing at a low volume. A head of blonde hair is poking out from under a blanket where Jake is curled up on their couch.
He leaves the boy to sleep as he goes about his morning routine. Knowing Jake will hopefully come into the kitchen when he wakes up. It’s easy enough to make a few more eggs, add a few extra strips of bacon to the pan as he makes breakfast. The kid really needs to eat something. He’d barely touched his dinner last night and quite frankly Rick thinks he’s too damn skinny.
“Morning darlin’” Leo greets as he steps into the kitchen, big smile on his face as he beelines for the coffee pot. “I just called Carole and she will be over around eight.”
“Morning honey,” Rick accepts the refilled mug of coffee as flips a strip of bacon, “Jake is asleep on the couch. Could you go wake him up for me? Breakfast will be ready soon.”
Leo fires off a salute that makes Rick roll his eyes with a laugh. Life has never been boring for even single days since he met his husband.
He’s just getting the plates set on the island when Leo comes in followed by a yawning Jake.
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@tgmsunmontue Hi Janine! How's you're weekend going? Hope it's well! Mine should be good! Nice and relaxing, with hopefully lots of writing and crochet time!
Here's another small unedited snippet for you!
Bradley,
So Super Mario fan, I take it? I wanted Princess Diana but Nat wouldn't let me, so we compromised on Princess and her roots from Georgia. Though if anyone asks us, it's cause we're both fans of the video game. Though neither of us were allowed to play games, unless it was board games.
Jake paused. Wondered if it was weird sharing things from his childhood.
Though he thinks both Javy and Nat would be happy he was opening up.
But he was a little worried how Bradley would take these little secrets Jake was sharing with him.
Would it make Bradley worried? Curious? Or would it turn him off enough he'd stop wanting to share and respond in kind.
Shit, Jake brought his hands up, scrubbing at his face. This was why he didn't share things about himself.
A, D and E... to start with. :) And if you want to ask me anything... (I'm also curious about W and Q...)
A - Ships that you currently like a lot. (They don’t have to be OTPs because not everyone has OTPs.) Friendships, pairings, threesomes, etc. are allowed.
I really want to like Sid/Geno in Hockey RPF, and I don’t hate it and I’ve read them in Bennguin fic, but I just *shrug* can’t get into it. I love Sid a ton, and I can kind of see it and why people ship it, but I don’t think I can go beyond that.
E - Have you added anything cracky/hilarious to your fandom? If so, what?
Oh gurl, the one thing I ever did that was cracky and hilarious was Sterek as flatworms there even ended up being fanart both by me and someone else, though I can’t seem to find it...
W - A trope which you are virtually certain to hate in any fandom.
I don’t really hate a lot of things tbh? I’m willing to read a lot. I guess the one thing that I don’t like is the “always the opposite sex” one that gets used sometimes. And I don’t mean like genderbend (like both are F/F instead of M/M) or like one of them magically turns into the opposite sex for a period of time or like one’s trans. What I mean is when the author makes one of the pairing the opposite sex and that’s just how they are. I see this happen a lot in Hockey RPF (where like one of them is always a girl and the other remains male) but if I had wanted to read my M/M ships as M/F and het, I would’ve read a het romance novel. It’s cool if you’re into that, but I’m really not. (Though I did accidentally read one and didn’t realize it until I was almost done and it spurred an idea that I started writing instead haha.)
Q - A fandom you’ve abandoned and why.
The very first fandom I ever really got involved in and read fic (only het funny enough) for was Doctor Who, and if you’ll notice my blog is very empty of that. I loved David Tennant so much, and I remember following all these Doctor Who blogs and just loving all the gifs. I remember these two authors that started this whole AU where the Doctor, a rock star, invites Rose, an up and coming singer, to be his opening act on tour with him. The authors would volley the fic back and forth and I just loved seeing the updates and where one would pick up and take the story. But then Matt Smith became the doctor and while I still loved the show and watched it, I kind of stopped reading fic (and this was before I got an AO3, so it was kind of difficult for a newbie like me to find anyway). Around this time is when I started to watch Supernatural, so eventually I transitioned my fandom involvement to that instead of Doctor Who. And as the seasons of DW wore on, I became less and less enthusiastic for the show and so did the DW blogs I’d been following. When Matt Smith left and they got Peter Capaldi, I watched maybe the first 2 or 3 episodes and stopped, and I haven’t seen any since. It kind of makes me sad, but it happens.
In a world where your soulmate's words appear on your skin, the first words they ever said to you, but the words don't appear until the soulmates meet and have a strong understanding of the other. Most often this is because of love, but sometimes it is not. The words also don't appear on a set timeline, usually between 20-30 years, but only if the soulmates have even met. So it's not this magical thing, but it is heavily romanticised in the media. But they're not always romantic soulmates anyway.
Just thinking of a Jake and Bradley who met when they were young children, at an air show like the Blue Angels, and Jake gets lost. Carole is there, reassuring Jake that she'll help him find his mum. And then she's telling Bradley to share his cotton candy and keep an eye on Jake while they all walk run around. Bradley tells him:
"it's okay, come on, hold my hand"
And Jake responding with:
"thanks, do you like planes? I love planes"
Then years later, YEARS later, flight school. Jake and Bradley are biting and sniping at each other, maybe hooking up but nothing more than hurried handjobs which are a little on the edge of too mean and too rough.
What I'm imagining is Bradley hearing about Jake's air-to-air kill and how he hopes Jake is doing alright. The words appear but he doesn't notice them for several weeks because the words are big and on his back.
Jake's words appear post mission, after he's saved Bradley's life and faced the idea of losing him. He sees them pretty much immediately as the words are written over his heart.
Now neither Jake or Bradley remember this random encounter from their childhood, and neither of them think it's the other, but they're mindful that they've each got a soulmate, even if they're both swearing up and down that they have no idea who it is. So they fall into a sort of uneasy relationship and both Bradley and Jake feel like the other is living with a foot out the door.
They kind of have a massive row/fight over it, but manage to work through it. Agree to give it a shot, that they care about each other. Jake asks Bradley to come home with him and so Bradley goes. He is then surrounded by pictures of Jake growing up, and he loves looking at the photo albums.
And then, right there in the photo album, is a photo of Jake and Bradley both as a kids, alongside Carole.
