Okay so these are parts that either had me laughing maniacally or clutching my chest: She stands up. “Blow me, Sasquatch,” she teases, the straw still in her mouth, which she removes haughtily between two fingers like a really long, really plastic cigarette. He rubs at his chin and the substantial amount of stubble that has grown in. He scowls at her.
“You’re being cranky,” she says. “And boring. And I don’t like you when you’re cranky and boring. I’m peacing out of this joint.” She sticks the flattened straw back between her teeth and flashes him the peace sign and pounds her chest. “Word to your mother.”
WORD TO YOUR MOTHER, I love them both separately and I have always loved how they both break and they both have characters who are seriously super ~out there. Sometimes they are ridiculously over the top but they both work so well together.
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And so maybe two years after they met, two years into this story, is the point when things began to tilt and change. Maybe two years in is when they began to act with the other in mind
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Thank you so much, Taylor!!!! I'm so happy to hear you enjoyed this! And omg, has I swung headlong into shipping these two and watching a whole lot of SNL, I kept remembering how you used to post random stuff with these two on your old tumblr! haha DEFINITELY WENT THERE FOR RESEARCH PURPOSES.
FEELINGS EVERYWHERE! WE'RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER! haha
MICHELLE. This is, hands down, the best thing you've written - the best I've read - like, it just aches. Man, it has its own pulse, it's a living breathing thing, and I haven't been more inspired to get my shit together and write than when I was reading this. You created a life here! I believed every word. And it hurt so much? But it was so worth it. Even though I was so weak towards the end and I wanted him to leave his wife, and I was like annoyed at all the SNL dudes and ladies thinking it's hilarious BECAUSE IT'S THE WORST but ugh, so good. So super hot and so super good.
Bonus points for tiny tiny tiny tiny Seth/Amy. That dumbass video I linked you to made me ship them, like, a lot.
Ahhhhhh, Jordan! Thank you so much! I feel like every time I write something I go all THIS WAS THE MOST FUN THING TO WRITE!, but I actually totally mean that this time (even if/when I lost steam towards the end there lol). This was just a blast to write, AND THANK YOU FOR BEING JUST AS MUCH A NUT AS I AM FOR BEING AS INTO THESE TWO HAHAHA. But legit, so glad you enjoyed this! And ahahahha I WAS SO TEMPTED TO GIVE THEM A DIFFERENT ENDING! The whole time I was like . . . this is dickish behavior, how do I square any of that? AND LOL OF COURSE EVERYONE ELSE WOULD THINK IT'S HILARIOUS! Everything is always funnier on the outside!
MICHELLEThis is just, like, I am trying to find words that don't make me sound like a giant loser but this is just, utterly brilliant. I have this whole like, list of shit I want to quote at you but it seems pretty redundant because it is SO MUCH OF THIS FIC OH MY GOD. But honestly this is something else. the RPF 'verse that we all co-inhabit is one thing but this is another level shit, in all seriousness. I adore the scope of this I think more than anything else. The fact that it spans a decade, that it spans all these changes but that this central thing, this pull doesn't change just gets to me. And the way you've written it, all from Kristen's POV like, idk it's just stunning. There's this actual ache to it, the whole way through that sort of crests and ebbs as they come together and move away. I love that it's felt inevitable but that it actually takes as long as it does for them to get to their various stages. And just that running theme of her almost wanting him more but he's always been more obvious and open about it. That this
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Ahhhh, Izi! This entire comment fills my heart with joy! Thank you so much, girl! Clearly, this fic got away from me (OVER 30K WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME), but wow, I had a legit blast writing all of this and I am so glad to hear you enjoyed reading it! I also think writing this has officially tipped me over into full on OTP-ing these clowns lol
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Like for real Michelle this is absolutely brilliant, no word of a lie - it's just got such a great balance of humour and emotion without being like trite if that makes sense? THE BEACH HOUSE IS THE GREATEST IDEA and just the way you described that scene with the wine bottle, I could totally imagine it and just, why is that not a real thing? ALSO THE FBI/REPORTER: INTO IT.
(Omg FWK totally needs the makeover treatment to make it NOT THE WORST. So glad I stopped after like 12 minutes, best decision I've made this year tbh. But yesssss the SNL cast pairing off. Like, Bill and Kristen would be friends with benefits for about forever in this crazy on off thing who get like drunk married in Atlantic City or something stupidly cliché, Seth and Amy totally got married and settled, Maya and JSuds got hitched but can't have kids or something - I NEED TO STOP TYPING.)
Ugh, you make my heart feel full! hahah THANK YOU. And omg the beach house hahaha. There are so many scenes I have plotted out! Like one where Kristen decides she's going to make a liquor store run one morning and Bill insists on going with her and she's like NO, I CAN DO IT MYSELF, NO BIG DEAL, and he's like " . . . do you not know us we are going to need a flotilla of booze," so they drive in silence to the liquor store with obnoxious Christmas music playing on the car radio and the windows are down and that warm beach breeze and when they finally get to the liquor store they get into a fight in the big walk-in beer fridge about which beer to buy which totally dovetails into a bigger argument about the both of them and they're, like, whisper yelling at each other and talking over each other and wind up spending a gross amount on alcohol and when they get back to the beach house and they're unloading the car, someone (who I can't help but picture as Maya hahaha) is like, "whoa, why
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Shit, Michelle but this is fantastic. I barely watch SNL and have, like, only a vague knowledge of both these people but the way you paint them is so rich and varied - the tension between the two of them is so achingly palpable throughout and the echoing of that first sketch he writes for her. And fabulous as it is as a portrayal of these two people and their odd fractured relationship, it's also just a great look at the industry (like Studio 60 without the Sorkin-level grossness LOL) and the way their jobs and their colleagues and the entertainment world moving around them pushes them and their marriages into these corners. I am legit obsessed with your Bill and Kristen voices. I've always liked the both of them but now I just want to crawl into bed and trawl youtube for clips of their faces and watch for signs of inappropriate touching. This was basically just the best Saturday morning read and honestly, lady, we are all waiting on that novel. I'm always so pleased when I see that you've written things in a fandom I know because
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Thank you so much! I am just, completely and wholly flattered by this comment, girl -- thank you. This was just so much fun to write! It's funny, writing this happened to coincide with my spring break trip to New York, and while we were there we went down to 30 Rock and did the whole NBC studio tour and got to see where they shoot SNL and it was just so crazy interesting to me! I am so intrigued by this bizarre workplace environment and lifestyle! And ugh, Studio 60 -- I will forever rue the disappointment that that show was! (It coulda been a contendah!)
I've always liked the both of them but now I just want to crawl into bed and trawl youtube for clips of their faces and watch for signs of inappropriate touching.
THAT WAS BASICALLY ME A WEEK AGO. There are some real gems out there on the interwebs, haha. I think this was my gateway drug, and it was all downhill after that haha.
DELIGHTFUL!!! (But in a super fucked-up way! I-if that makes sense. IDK I REALLY LOVED THIS AND HOW DISASTROUS-BUT-NOT IT WAS. All longing and heartachey and unapologetic. Basically I enjoyed this an insane amount.)
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She stands up. “Blow me, Sasquatch,” she teases, the straw still in her mouth, which she removes haughtily between two fingers like a really long, really plastic cigarette. He rubs at his chin and the substantial amount of stubble that has grown in. He scowls at her.
“You’re being cranky,” she says. “And boring. And I don’t like you when you’re cranky and boring. I’m peacing out of this joint.” She sticks the flattened straw back between her teeth and flashes him the peace sign and pounds her chest. “Word to your mother.”
WORD TO YOUR MOTHER, I love them both separately and I have always loved how they both break and they both have characters who are seriously super ~out there. Sometimes they are ridiculously over the top but they both work so well together.
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FEELINGS EVERYWHERE! WE'RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER! haha
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Bonus points for tiny tiny tiny tiny Seth/Amy. That dumbass video I linked you to made me ship them, like, a lot.
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AND L O L , dying. I DO WHAT I CAN!
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(Omg FWK totally needs the makeover treatment to make it NOT THE WORST. So glad I stopped after like 12 minutes, best decision I've made this year tbh. But yesssss the SNL cast pairing off. Like, Bill and Kristen would be friends with benefits for about forever in this crazy on off thing who get like drunk married in Atlantic City or something stupidly cliché, Seth and Amy totally got married and settled, Maya and JSuds got hitched but can't have kids or something - I NEED TO STOP TYPING.)
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I've always liked the both of them but now I just want to crawl into bed and trawl youtube for clips of their faces and watch for signs of inappropriate touching.
THAT WAS BASICALLY ME A WEEK AGO. There are some real gems out there on the interwebs, haha. I think this was my gateway drug, and it was all downhill after that haha.
Thank you again, lady! &hearts
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So glad to hear you enjoyed it!
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