I've now talked so much about my posted fics that I have a decent number of director's commentary posts. So I figured I'd make a list for them, since I sometimes make the blog unsearchable, and stick it in my pinned post. I think I probably missed some because I'm bad about remembering to tag, but oh well. This is a good sample.
Stranger Things
Blood, Wine, & Roses (Lonnie's deal)
Blood, Wine, & Roses (Jonathan's conflict)
Blood, Wine, & Roses (behind the title)
Iconoclast (opening scene)
Dear Whoever You Are
dirty sheets pulled to your chin
Will and Jonathan's relationship arc in pdwm
Bonus: not director's commentary per se, but apparently that's how I tagged this explanation of Joyce's backstory in the please don't wake me 'verse, so I'll stick it here, too.
Some smaller details/shorter explanations:
Iconoclast (Jonathan & Lonnie parallels)
Marvel
Daybreak (ch. 6)
Daybreak (Ch. 7--the song)
Salt
X-Men
The plan for like ice about to melt. I wrote this up and posted it because even though I don't consider it officially abandoned, I can't promise I'll finish it.
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I just want you to know the vibe of this story that's almost entirely graphic porn, which is that the band Jonathan is sucking off has a history of regularly changing their name in increasingly stupid ways. At the time of said dick-sucking, they're performing under the name Count Cockula.
The owner of the dive is also there because he's dating the drummer. Cannot stress enough how much dick Jonathan sucks in this story. I'm making up for so much lost time here.
He's not embarrassed about it when he tells Nancy later, but he is a little embarrassed when he tells her the band's name because it's so bad.
It's okay, though. They're gonna fuck about it later. Telling your "ex"-girlfriend about that time you blew five people after a rock show is great foreplay.
I just want you to know the vibe of this story that's almost entirely graphic porn, which is that the band Jonathan is sucking off has a history of regularly changing their name in increasingly stupid ways. At the time of said dick-sucking, they're performing under the name Count Cockula.
The owner of the dive is also there because he's dating the drummer. Cannot stress enough how much dick Jonathan sucks in this story. I'm making up for so much lost time here.
He's not embarrassed about it when he tells Nancy later, but he is a little embarrassed when he tells her the band's name because it's so bad.
I just want you to know the vibe of this story that's almost entirely graphic porn, which is that the band Jonathan is sucking off has a history of regularly changing their name in increasingly stupid ways. At the time of said dick-sucking, they're performing under the name Count Cockula.
Like obviously, that Jancy two bedroom apartment in the Village is a place where everyone uses the second bedroom for a time. Mike, Will, Steve, Robin, Lucas and Max, all treat it as a place to stay while in NYC. But no one is as obnoxiously comfortable in it as Holly Wheeler. She hits that place in the late 90s like a tornado. Somehow her longer stays always coincide with Nancy on assignment somewhere, telling the story of how a small town with a factory got its water poisoned. Meanwhile, her little sister coincidentally shows up with a suitcase hours after Nancy's flight, with only a resigned Jonathan in the place.
And Jonathan wants to push back, but he knows what Holly went through and lived with her for 18 months and loves her fiercely and, fine, he'll make her eggs just the way she likes it. Sure, no crusts on the toast Holly, it's weird that you're 18 and still want this, but fine.
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However, in the massive note file, I did find a fic that I was working on for Jonathan Byers Week but didn't finish that involved Jonathan, in his directing years, responding to fanmail from an aspiring filmmaker who wants him to know what his films and his story have meant to them, a queer kid from a small town.
(1) there's a note about how he has an easter egg in all of his movies, which is that one of Will's paintings appears somewhere in every one and his hardcore fans have made a game of finding them in the films and IRL;
and (2) there's a bit of a rant in the fan letter about this one movie reviewer they're pissed at because he consistently pans Jonathan's movies, and Jonathan responds with this: "I wouldn't worry about Murray's reviews. He's just mad that I won't direct the spy picture he wrote."
Transferring my notes has gotten easier since I started using Obsidian, and I've started actually correcting egregious typos when I make them/not writing in half-assed shorthand on the assumption that I'll just understand later what it means (I never do), but omg the tradeoff for being able to jot down story notes on the go is that by the time I get around to moving them to my laptop to actually use them, I've got my work cut out for me actually, you know, figuring out where they're supposed to go and what the hell I was talking about.
I did consider tagging the dicksucking talk, btw, for filtering purposes. Because it's intermittent, but when I get going, I know it's a lot. But tbh if you can't accept me at my "Jonathan sucking dick" then you don't get me at my classier posting. Thank you for supporting my "Jonathan sucks dick" needs.
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You know, the fact that I haven't finished anything with Jonathan sucking dick at NYU is almost embarrassing at this point. I think I owe it to myself to let that boy suck a dick at NYU (and maybe tell his sort of ex-girlfriend about it).
So important to remember that dark brooding horror-loving Vonnegut-reading people-avoiding Jonathan Byers canonically makes fart jokes with his little brother's friends and was down to watch a silly popular comedy series.
I love his pretentious potential and letting him be the world's most special boy with fancy opinions, but I just know he has super basic, unimpressive, possibly embarrassing taste about something. He can be a Normal Guy™ occasionally. When it's funny.
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So important to remember that dark brooding horror-loving Vonnegut-reading people-avoiding Jonathan Byers canonically makes fart jokes with his little brother's friends and was down to watch a silly popular comedy series.