FIC: Hand in Unlovable Hand (Veep, Amy/Dan, PG-13)
Yuletide reveals! I did not actually participate in Yuletide this year -- instead I decided that I would just handpick a prompt that appealed to me to write a treat for and that way, no pressure if I didn't finish it, no pressure about anything, really. And it was a GREAT DECISION -- I don't write my best for prompts that are assigned to me, and so I feel way happier with the way this fic came out, and it was way more fun all around. And it is more fun writing for someone you know!
ANYWAY, for irishmizzy, I wrote a fic where Amy and Dan from Veep get drunkenly married in Vegas and then stay married because it's good for their careers. I am honestly thinking about a sequel where they have a baby because it's good for their careers, because that sounds like something they would do and also I love babyfic.
Title: Hand in Unlovable Hand
Fandom: Veep
Length: 11,589 words
Rating: PG-13 (NO EXPLICIT SEX, WHO AM I)
Pairing: Amy Brookheimer/Dan Egan
Summary: The one where Amy and Dan get married in Vegas and then turn those lemons into career lemonade.
P.S. If you guys aren't watching Veep, YOU SHOULD, it's my favorite show right now. It's crazy funny and everyone is so mean! Even the ladies! And I feel like it's a leveling up of female-lead comedies, because it feels MUCH less explicitly about being a lady (they said they based Julia Louis-Dreyfus's character on LYNDON JOHNSON HAHA AMAZING) but also has some of the best treatments of sexual harassment/assault I've ever seen on TV, and just of the general grinding bullshit of being a lady in politics. Also she is a bad mother which is hilarious and amazing, I can't believe that's allowed. IN CONCLUSION, it has become clear in these later years that Julia Louis-Dreyfus was the real actor comedic talent from Seinfeld, I am stoked she keeps winning Emmys, and you should all watch that show!
ANYWAY, for irishmizzy, I wrote a fic where Amy and Dan from Veep get drunkenly married in Vegas and then stay married because it's good for their careers. I am honestly thinking about a sequel where they have a baby because it's good for their careers, because that sounds like something they would do and also I love babyfic.
Title: Hand in Unlovable Hand
Fandom: Veep
Length: 11,589 words
Rating: PG-13 (NO EXPLICIT SEX, WHO AM I)
Pairing: Amy Brookheimer/Dan Egan
Summary: The one where Amy and Dan get married in Vegas and then turn those lemons into career lemonade.
P.S. If you guys aren't watching Veep, YOU SHOULD, it's my favorite show right now. It's crazy funny and everyone is so mean! Even the ladies! And I feel like it's a leveling up of female-lead comedies, because it feels MUCH less explicitly about being a lady (they said they based Julia Louis-Dreyfus's character on LYNDON JOHNSON HAHA AMAZING) but also has some of the best treatments of sexual harassment/assault I've ever seen on TV, and just of the general grinding bullshit of being a lady in politics. Also she is a bad mother which is hilarious and amazing, I can't believe that's allowed. IN CONCLUSION, it has become clear in these later years that Julia Louis-Dreyfus was the real actor comedic talent from Seinfeld, I am stoked she keeps winning Emmys, and you should all watch that show!