Fic: Did it Hurt? When you clawed your way up from the depths of hell?

Oct 25, 2012 00:17

Title~ Did it Hurt? When you clawed your way up from the depths of hell?
Fandom~ Victorious
Characters~ Jade, Tori, Cat, Moose, Beck (Jade/Beck, Jade/Beck/Cat, speculative Jade/Beck/Moose)
Rating~ Teen
Word Count~  3800+
Summary~ Jade West doesn't believe in competition - leading up to the break-up and after; Spoilers through "Three Girls and a ( Read more... )

long list of spirit animals, fic:victorious, flist hearts, ww: that show about kids, fic happens here, vict: where every ship is a ship

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smells_corrupt October 26 2012, 20:04:08 UTC
I don't even know what to do with myself right now, because this is so perfect. Like, I seriously think you are a mind reader or something, because this is the Jade story that I have been desperately wanting, but unable to find and then you wrote it and it's amazing. Because, just, yes. YES to all the insecurities and it not being about winning, just about ~not losing. And she wants things so much, and she tries so hard, and she never gets as far as she wants to (I try so hard and I'm never the one). Also, I'm amused because I have a collapsed word doc that I started working on last week and it is super similar to the 'Jade working and working and working and Beck being there and sort of silently supportive' threads of this story. Great minds think alike?

It felt like Reality. Like a state of Being. This so much ( ... )

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Jade is the Mother-F*cking Princess kwritten October 27 2012, 03:15:37 UTC
I don't even know what to do with myself right now, because this is so perfect. You spoil me with your compliments! keep them coming I'm SO glad you liked it - I was so nervous about this piece! It felt so... selfish? IDEK if that's the right way to say it, but it was so personal cathartic to write (because I overidentify with Jade so hard)... So I'm glad you liked it, too!

And she wants things so much, and she tries so hard, and she never gets as far as she wants to (I try so hard and I'm never the one). YES. And also: this is all your fault.

I loved the tiny little descriptions of what everyone was doing at Tori's house, and later how Jade knew everyone was asleep. Because I kink!family these kids SO HARD. And of COURSE Jade knows everything that everyone is doing - and notices the little details (that Robbie is not one of the boys, that Tori and Cat LOVE EACH OTHER, etc.) It makes me happier than it should to imagine all of these kids just lazing around together.

That whole scene in the dance studio did stupid things to my ( ... )

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smells_corrupt October 27 2012, 19:02:38 UTC
I was so nervous about this piece! It felt so... selfish? IDEK if that's the right way to say it, but it was so personal cathartic to write (because I overidentify with Jade so hard)... So I'm glad you liked it, too!

It was pretty cathartic to read, as well. Because I'm right there with you on the overidentifying, and I get the feeling that, unlike with Beck, we're overidentifying in pretty much the same way...

And also: this is all your fault.

*Kanye shrug*

It makes me happier than it should to imagine all of these kids just lazing around together.

Because it is an adorable mental image. ADORABLE.

the reality of their desire to be actors is not lost on me, as a previous theatre-kid. YES. I didn't act, but I was a techie in high school and hung around with all the theatre-kids, and just YES. Also, I've taken dance my whole life, so Jade running through the routines over and over until she was literally too tired to move, really worked for me :D ( ... )

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Re: kwritten October 27 2012, 20:08:28 UTC
It was pretty cathartic to read, as well. I'm so glad! ((And I feel that we are having the same-same Jade feels. Which is awesome.))

Also, I've taken dance my whole life, so Jade running through the routines over and over until she was literally too tired to move, really worked for me :D \o/ I'm so SUPER glad! Jade/dancing is this horribly sado-masochistic ship that kinks all my kinks.

I like your sweating explanation! THIS SHOW. It thinks it doesn't have ~depth BUT IT DOES.

Jade/Tori is lovely and painful and just. Gods I love them like WHAT.

Right? She gets them into so much crap, but everyone loves her, and it's pretty cute. I'm so "if I love you and you love something, I'll love it too" and ... so I love Tori because they love her. It works for me! (It's like someone wrote this show for me and it just... IDEK how that happened? All the threesomes and the love and the drama-kids and the family!kinks... how did this happen?)

Not because they don't want to be together, but because they can't imagine not being together, and the ( ... )

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Re: smells_corrupt October 28 2012, 00:10:49 UTC
And I feel that we are having the same-same Jade feels. Which is awesome.

Quite awesome!

Jade/dancing is this horribly sado-masochistic ship that kinks all my kinks.

It's a good one! also that one time when she and Beck took salsa dancing

It thinks it doesn't have ~depth BUT IT DOES.

It totally does! And on a shallower, Jade-hates-sweating note, one of my squares for kink bingo is bodily secretions, and there's a pretty good chance that it's going to end up being sweat, Jade/Beck, and something along the lines of "Hey, I know you think sweating is gross, but I bet I can make you sweat in a fun way."

(It's like someone wrote this show for me and it just... IDEK how that happened? All the threesomes and the love and the drama-kids and the family!kinks... how did this happen?THIS IS WHAT I'M SAYING. I just meant to watch a couple episodes because it was summer and I was bored and there was nothing else on tv. And then somehow this silly little kid's show started hitting ALL OF MY KINKS. I'm pretty sure there isn't any other ( ... )

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kwritten October 29 2012, 14:43:41 UTC
And then somehow this silly little kid's show started hitting ALL OF MY KINKS. I'm pretty sure there isn't any other show that hits as many of my kinks. There are shows that hit certain kinks a lot harder, or hit bigger kinks, but I can't think of anything else that hits as many total. Especially if I'm counting kinks that aren't canonically there, but probably would be if it wasn't on Nick... And I'm just over in the corner, all "Wait, how the hell did this happen?"

EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS! YES.

:DDD one of my sort-of written stories is has some of this happening in it and maybe I'll finish that up tonight

*grabby hands*

is that there isn't a lot of sex stuff that makes them uncomfortable

The amount of times Jade mentions "good pain" and the "tummy rubbing" incident, combined with the handcuffs and the "time out" scene...... THIS SHIT IS CANON.
And - idk - in my head, this is a major reason why Beck/Tori is so awkward-friends level interaction. Because she's such the baby of the group, to me. Possibly because she's so gay and ( ... )

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smells_corrupt October 29 2012, 18:15:54 UTC
*grabby hands*

So I did not finish it up this weekend, mostly because my common sense kicked in and insisted I spend time on the large amount of homework I have due tomorrow. But I feel bad because I said I was going to finish it and didn't, so here have an excerpt from it instead:

"It’s over. He’ll move on. Or, at least, he’ll move forward. But it’s hard because she’s everywhere he looks. Everywhere he goes. And if she’s not there in person, she’s left reminders. She’s still all over the RV. Her clothes taking up space in his closet, a pair of her boots sticking halfway out from under his bed, her books on his table, her handwriting on his whiteboard, and a black stain of eyeliner on his (her) pillow from makeup she’d forgotten to take off before falling asleep. He doesn’t know what to do with any of it, so he leaves everything where it is and hopes Jade will come collecting soon.

She doesn’t. He deals.

(He doesn’t). "

The amount of times Jade mentions "good pain" and the "tummy rubbing" incident, combined with the ( ... )

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kwritten October 29 2012, 18:45:10 UTC
NEVER FEEL BAD!! HMW IS IMPORTANT!

so he leaves everything where it is and hopes Jade will come collecting soon.

Just break my heart why don't you?

but it has less to do with being good at sex and more to do with being good with each other.

See... now I want ALL THE FIC of them trying to be sexy with other people and just utterly, completely ~failing at life. Because if you grow up around a person like that - there's no way that you'd be "normal" by the same standards as other people, you know? Everything about the way you think about bodies and your body is so tied up in that other person ... engaging in a new physical relationship would be a whole new level of awkward and scary. POOR PUPPIES!
This may or may not be an utterly and completely true fear in my life right now

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smells_corrupt October 29 2012, 20:13:50 UTC
HMW IS IMPORTANT!

But it's so very much the opposite of fun... (Peer critique question sheets for two of my classmates short stories)

Just break my heart why don't you?

I try :D

ee... now I want ALL THE FIC of them trying to be sexy with other people and just utterly, completely ~failing at life.

This is all I want from life, basically. Also something I am definitely going to write. And possibly answer your trick or treat on my halloween meme with it. And by possibly, I mean I'm writing you comment fic as we speak.

Because if you grow up around a person like that - there's no way that you'd be "normal" by the same standards as other people, you know? Everything about the way you think about bodies and your body is so tied up in that other person ... engaging in a new physical relationship would be a whole new level of awkward and scary. POOR PUPPIES!YES. EXACTLY. Because when you're young like that and exploring and neither of you any prior experience and not many occasions to talk about sex with your peers in a non- ( ... )

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