Did I Make The Most Of Loving You
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So, first, in answer to the meme I posted yesterday (probably my favorite meme of all time):
Comment here if you want to play, and I will give you three-six couples that I associate with you, and you make an entry in your journal talking about those couples and fics that you wish the universe would write for you.
(answering for earnmysong, waltzmatildah, helsinkibabyi and mammothluv)
Yes, you read that correctly! It’s never quite sat well with me, fandom’s overwhelming opinion that Jo and Laurie just pined for each other for all time, unhappy in their marriages, when to me, that NEVER seemed the case. Particularly that she never pined for him, other than missing him in her life as her friend and brother, and maybe until things were settled with Frederich, she felt a little lonely in her life, but I never got that she felt that way specifically towards him. And as for Laurie, I think he wanted to romp and play with his best friend forever, and with Amy, he made himself grow up and be a man. And they were so much better suited for it.
Ahem. Anyway. Things I’d love to read about Amy and Laurie are mainly of the missing scenes, fill-in POV variety. It truly is one of my all time favorite tropes that a Little Sister-type has a crush on a Sibling’s Best Friend forever and one day, they see that she is all grown up. I would love for Bess to eventually grow healthy and strong, and maybe they oversee some sort of ‘prom’ equivalent for her (church dance, maybe?) and reflect on the life they’ve had together, from children playing theatre in the attic to parents.
Yes. Still. Forever. Judge me all you want. I will go down with this ship.
The one that’s really played over and over in my head since 1989 came out (and I never did a post about it, but yeah...this whole album is about him...and you know I don’t argue about it, so don’t even try)- is some sort of Snowed In/Trapped Together fic. (Another favorite trope of all time.) Something like...after the end of her 1989 tour, she is trying to get home to Nashville to spend Christmas with her family, and they are both stuck at the airport (or a more glamorous location…), basically just stuck somewhere because of lots of snow and they can’t run away from each other or hide behind anything. And feelings come out. And Stuff Happens (i.e. sex). And it’s her birthday at some point. And he reflects on, like, how she’s grown up. She’s not the awestruck girl she once was, and he’s grown up too.
And of course, all of the old stand-by’s. Any of the They Lived Happily Ever After variations. That whole idea based off Kenny Chesney’s ‘You & Tequila’ (which is basically the same idea as the Snowed In idea, but on a beach). I heard Michael Buble’s ‘A Song For You’ yesterday and it still bowls me over as probably my MOST J/T Song of All Time (that is not by either one of them).
waltzmatildah said she would TRY to fulfill one of these wishes (though I’m not holding you to anything), so in this section, I’m addressing her directly, but of course anyone is welcome to jump into the sandbox.
Having just gotten through a full series marathon, I feel like the three key points that she would have showed up for was of course the hospital shooting, the plane crash and Derek’s death. And in my own headcanon she at least had a MAJOR wrestle with her conscience and personal demons and drove to the airport and had to grip the steering wheel with white knuckles to not get out of the car and fly to Seattle, but further to the last point…
In She’s Leaving Home (the ep showing the year after Derek’s death), Alex desperately pleads that he’s called Thatcher, Cristina, ‘everyone he knows’ and I’ve been crowing HAVE YOU REALLY????? ever since. So one idea is that Meredith flees to the relative safety and comfort of wherever Izzie is (off a fic mammothluv wrote, head canon is Ft. Lauderdale, which puts her about as far away in the US as she could get from Seattle, geographically, climatewise and culturally), and hides out there for a year. And I don’t know, maybe her and Alex connect sooner than he does with Meredith in the show, but that’s the jumping off point anyway, when he goes to her after she gives birth.
The other big idea I have rolling around now is in that same Ft. Lauderdale setting, Izzie is now a pediatrician (though not a surgeon; internal medicine) and a patient of hers is Nicky, Alex’s half-brother from his dad. Something happens with Nicky where he needs some sort of transfusion or transplant (bone marrow? liver? something?) and Naomi (Nicky’s mom) says off-handedly that Nicky has an adult half-brother in Seattle whom he’s never met. And so THAT begins…
The other idea is sort of similar to that, but I don’t know how you would feel about it. Izzie was pregnant when she left in s6 and she was scared and alone and kept it all to herself, and the longer she kept her secret, the worse it got, so she was raising her child alone, and again, some sort of illness, needs some sort of transplant/transfusion, and she braces herself to go back to Seattle. But that doesn’t put her in the best light.
Somewhat similar to THAT, Izzie is now wanting to use the frozen, fertilized eggs that she made with Alex when she was sick. So. THAT.
*Fallout with Jo is optional with any of these.
And then of course, my two old favorite stand-by wishes:
1.Alex’s Wizard of Oz dream where he builds the best life he can with Izzie after Something To Talk About (the barstool kiss) and they do everything right from the start and build their careers and have a family (four boys!) and it’s hard, but it’s *real* and he wouldn’t change it for anything...and then he wakes up.
2.Genderswap their lives- Alex grew up in a trailer park, had to give up a baby for adoption as a teenager, gets cancer as a resident, leaves without saying a word. Izzie grew up with abusive parents, in and out of foster care, and pulled herself up from her bootstraps. (And fix it all, of course).
Gosh, after all this time, more than anything, I want an extended universe of them sneaking around junior year, each insisting to themselves that it’s not a thing, while still keeping up with their quid-pro-quo, favor-for-favor bit. When Logan comes into the picture, Weevil is far more hurt than he thought he would be, and somewhere in between everything that happens in Leave It To Beaver...things just kind of work out. Or seem like they’re on the way to that anyway. He’s the one she says I was hoping it’d be you to. A healthy dose of both of their POV’s.
My FOREVER Girl and her New Lady. I’m not as up to date with the show as I could be, but that’s never stopped me when it comes to my Krissy. I basically came up with months worth of a storyline off their first scene. (And I mean their FIRST scene, where Parker doesn’t even say one word.)
Convenient storytelling, Parker gets some sort of grant or whatever to teach at PCU for one year (I don’t know if this kind of thing is really possible, but this is GH, where Bolivia has a coastline). Kristina ALSO transfers (back?) to PCU for her sixth year in college, and like, her fifth transfer (seriously…) They pick up where they left off at Wesleyan basically. Which means kind of sneaking around and hinting around to each other, but basically strutting around, daring each other to make any kind of move (and it comes out that they already did have their One Big Night).
I want to make Parker a real person in this, and thus, I’d want to explore her relationship with her wife. (Does she have a name? I want to call her Kate...And now I’m picturing Kate Walsh. Great.) Maybe *they* were college sweethearts and just kind of went on their idyllic paths together, but at some point, lost their connection and their za-za-zu. And Parker thought that ‘harmlessly’ flirting with students was no big deal, and if she takes a special interest in a student with a great interest and aptitude for the material (she taught Shakespearean literature, right? Yeah, because that shit was basically Kristina’s childhood) and goes out of her way to foster her studies and has her over to their house while Kate’s at a conference and it gets late, and she pours a whiskey or two...oh wait. Yeah. Maybe not so harmless.
And as for Kristina, who has never held back when it came to loving someone throws herself into it, full force, as usual, but being around her father, it makes her second guess things, and let’s face it, Sonny is going to be disgusting to her, re: being attracted to women, and at the very least, he’s going to belittle her about it, so in Port Charles, as opposed to at school where she didn’t have to deal with her family’s bullshit 24/7, she’s going to feel more conflicted, so she’s sort of running hot and cold with Parker, throwing herself at her one second and then running away the next. And I’m liking the idea of Johnny being her confidante in this (though I don’t know what he’s up to these days). As hard as I ship them, I BrOTP them just as hard.
I don’t know what a clear-cut ending for this would be. I definitely wouldn’t see Kristina/Parker as a forever relationship (and because I’m a weirdo I already care way too much about Parker’s wife ‘Kate’), but maybe as very important to one another in that they help each other to see what *is* important. Parker needs to figure out her marriage, and Kristina feels comfortable as a bisexual woman.
JAPRIL. Holy heck, are they such a hardcore OTP right now.
Well right now if anyone wanted to jump the gun to this baby being born (HEALTHY) and them getting back together, being happy, that would be great.
We just got a lovely episode of backstory for them, but backstory is my favorite thing in the world, and I would especially like any expansion of their time at Mercy West. Any of that giddy loveliness from the early days of their marriage.
One of my very favorite, very *best* half-written fics that I can’t find right now worked so well halfway through s7 (just as Jackson and Lexie were dancing around each other), and it’s totally jossed now, and I can’t even find it (and there’s only so many places it could be!) but I really wish I had finished it. It was April finding Jackson and Lexie sneaking around and she gets jealous and childish about it (this is very much an April 1.0 fic) and Alex sort of watches it all, and after she and Jackson have a big blowout at Sunday dinner (when they all lived with Derek and Meredith), Alex finds her and is like, “You’re a pretty girl and stuff...you’ve just got to be a little bit less of a freak.” And then he takes her to Joe’s for a drink, and then…
I’d never really figured it out. If I wanted Alex and April to hook up, and for Jackson to get jealous (this was before much was made of April’s virginity, when it was just kind of played that she’d always been awkward around guys), or for Jackson to just THINK they hooked up and get jealous. Somehow, someway there would be some sort of Moment in the end where April and Jackson Realize things and have some sort of big, run at each other, can’t fight this for one more second kiss in the middle of the hospital and my big song for it was Live’s ‘Hold Me Up’.
Gosh, it’s been SO long, and what HAVEN’T they done? I will say, that after 10 years, it was a slap in the face, the way they faded out with a whimper. I would say at the end of the show, they were probably the biggest couple and they deserved a real soap-style, fairy-tale ending.
Gosh, but they were frustrating with all of the push-and-pull, and lying to each other, and him acting like he didn’t give a damn for years.
I don’t know what I’d like to see in terms of fic, but I always wanted to see a video to Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Hungry Heart’, it just seemed like so much THEIR song. (Also Jersey Girl, which might not make the best video.
[+] I started a Downton Abbey series marathon last night, but only got partway through 1.02. But OH! The house was so huge then (staffwise, the actual house is still the same size, I would presume). And Matthew! And SYBIL! (Haven’t seen Tom yet, but when I do…) And Michelle Docker’s hair down to her waist (she is much sassier with her bob). This feels really lovely and nostalgic. Join me, if you can?
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So, first, in answer to the meme I posted yesterday (probably my favorite meme of all time):
Comment here if you want to play, and I will give you three-six couples that I associate with you, and you make an entry in your journal talking about those couples and fics that you wish the universe would write for you.
(answering for earnmysong, waltzmatildah, helsinkibabyi and mammothluv)
Yes, you read that correctly! It’s never quite sat well with me, fandom’s overwhelming opinion that Jo and Laurie just pined for each other for all time, unhappy in their marriages, when to me, that NEVER seemed the case. Particularly that she never pined for him, other than missing him in her life as her friend and brother, and maybe until things were settled with Frederich, she felt a little lonely in her life, but I never got that she felt that way specifically towards him. And as for Laurie, I think he wanted to romp and play with his best friend forever, and with Amy, he made himself grow up and be a man. And they were so much better suited for it.
Ahem. Anyway. Things I’d love to read about Amy and Laurie are mainly of the missing scenes, fill-in POV variety. It truly is one of my all time favorite tropes that a Little Sister-type has a crush on a Sibling’s Best Friend forever and one day, they see that she is all grown up. I would love for Bess to eventually grow healthy and strong, and maybe they oversee some sort of ‘prom’ equivalent for her (church dance, maybe?) and reflect on the life they’ve had together, from children playing theatre in the attic to parents.
Yes. Still. Forever. Judge me all you want. I will go down with this ship.
The one that’s really played over and over in my head since 1989 came out (and I never did a post about it, but yeah...this whole album is about him...and you know I don’t argue about it, so don’t even try)- is some sort of Snowed In/Trapped Together fic. (Another favorite trope of all time.) Something like...after the end of her 1989 tour, she is trying to get home to Nashville to spend Christmas with her family, and they are both stuck at the airport (or a more glamorous location…), basically just stuck somewhere because of lots of snow and they can’t run away from each other or hide behind anything. And feelings come out. And Stuff Happens (i.e. sex). And it’s her birthday at some point. And he reflects on, like, how she’s grown up. She’s not the awestruck girl she once was, and he’s grown up too.
And of course, all of the old stand-by’s. Any of the They Lived Happily Ever After variations. That whole idea based off Kenny Chesney’s ‘You & Tequila’ (which is basically the same idea as the Snowed In idea, but on a beach). I heard Michael Buble’s ‘A Song For You’ yesterday and it still bowls me over as probably my MOST J/T Song of All Time (that is not by either one of them).
waltzmatildah said she would TRY to fulfill one of these wishes (though I’m not holding you to anything), so in this section, I’m addressing her directly, but of course anyone is welcome to jump into the sandbox.
Having just gotten through a full series marathon, I feel like the three key points that she would have showed up for was of course the hospital shooting, the plane crash and Derek’s death. And in my own headcanon she at least had a MAJOR wrestle with her conscience and personal demons and drove to the airport and had to grip the steering wheel with white knuckles to not get out of the car and fly to Seattle, but further to the last point…
In She’s Leaving Home (the ep showing the year after Derek’s death), Alex desperately pleads that he’s called Thatcher, Cristina, ‘everyone he knows’ and I’ve been crowing HAVE YOU REALLY????? ever since. So one idea is that Meredith flees to the relative safety and comfort of wherever Izzie is (off a fic mammothluv wrote, head canon is Ft. Lauderdale, which puts her about as far away in the US as she could get from Seattle, geographically, climatewise and culturally), and hides out there for a year. And I don’t know, maybe her and Alex connect sooner than he does with Meredith in the show, but that’s the jumping off point anyway, when he goes to her after she gives birth.
The other big idea I have rolling around now is in that same Ft. Lauderdale setting, Izzie is now a pediatrician (though not a surgeon; internal medicine) and a patient of hers is Nicky, Alex’s half-brother from his dad. Something happens with Nicky where he needs some sort of transfusion or transplant (bone marrow? liver? something?) and Naomi (Nicky’s mom) says off-handedly that Nicky has an adult half-brother in Seattle whom he’s never met. And so THAT begins…
The other idea is sort of similar to that, but I don’t know how you would feel about it. Izzie was pregnant when she left in s6 and she was scared and alone and kept it all to herself, and the longer she kept her secret, the worse it got, so she was raising her child alone, and again, some sort of illness, needs some sort of transplant/transfusion, and she braces herself to go back to Seattle. But that doesn’t put her in the best light.
Somewhat similar to THAT, Izzie is now wanting to use the frozen, fertilized eggs that she made with Alex when she was sick. So. THAT.
*Fallout with Jo is optional with any of these.
And then of course, my two old favorite stand-by wishes:
1.Alex’s Wizard of Oz dream where he builds the best life he can with Izzie after Something To Talk About (the barstool kiss) and they do everything right from the start and build their careers and have a family (four boys!) and it’s hard, but it’s *real* and he wouldn’t change it for anything...and then he wakes up.
2.Genderswap their lives- Alex grew up in a trailer park, had to give up a baby for adoption as a teenager, gets cancer as a resident, leaves without saying a word. Izzie grew up with abusive parents, in and out of foster care, and pulled herself up from her bootstraps. (And fix it all, of course).
Gosh, after all this time, more than anything, I want an extended universe of them sneaking around junior year, each insisting to themselves that it’s not a thing, while still keeping up with their quid-pro-quo, favor-for-favor bit. When Logan comes into the picture, Weevil is far more hurt than he thought he would be, and somewhere in between everything that happens in Leave It To Beaver...things just kind of work out. Or seem like they’re on the way to that anyway. He’s the one she says I was hoping it’d be you to. A healthy dose of both of their POV’s.
My FOREVER Girl and her New Lady. I’m not as up to date with the show as I could be, but that’s never stopped me when it comes to my Krissy. I basically came up with months worth of a storyline off their first scene. (And I mean their FIRST scene, where Parker doesn’t even say one word.)
Convenient storytelling, Parker gets some sort of grant or whatever to teach at PCU for one year (I don’t know if this kind of thing is really possible, but this is GH, where Bolivia has a coastline). Kristina ALSO transfers (back?) to PCU for her sixth year in college, and like, her fifth transfer (seriously…) They pick up where they left off at Wesleyan basically. Which means kind of sneaking around and hinting around to each other, but basically strutting around, daring each other to make any kind of move (and it comes out that they already did have their One Big Night).
I want to make Parker a real person in this, and thus, I’d want to explore her relationship with her wife. (Does she have a name? I want to call her Kate...And now I’m picturing Kate Walsh. Great.) Maybe *they* were college sweethearts and just kind of went on their idyllic paths together, but at some point, lost their connection and their za-za-zu. And Parker thought that ‘harmlessly’ flirting with students was no big deal, and if she takes a special interest in a student with a great interest and aptitude for the material (she taught Shakespearean literature, right? Yeah, because that shit was basically Kristina’s childhood) and goes out of her way to foster her studies and has her over to their house while Kate’s at a conference and it gets late, and she pours a whiskey or two...oh wait. Yeah. Maybe not so harmless.
And as for Kristina, who has never held back when it came to loving someone throws herself into it, full force, as usual, but being around her father, it makes her second guess things, and let’s face it, Sonny is going to be disgusting to her, re: being attracted to women, and at the very least, he’s going to belittle her about it, so in Port Charles, as opposed to at school where she didn’t have to deal with her family’s bullshit 24/7, she’s going to feel more conflicted, so she’s sort of running hot and cold with Parker, throwing herself at her one second and then running away the next. And I’m liking the idea of Johnny being her confidante in this (though I don’t know what he’s up to these days). As hard as I ship them, I BrOTP them just as hard.
I don’t know what a clear-cut ending for this would be. I definitely wouldn’t see Kristina/Parker as a forever relationship (and because I’m a weirdo I already care way too much about Parker’s wife ‘Kate’), but maybe as very important to one another in that they help each other to see what *is* important. Parker needs to figure out her marriage, and Kristina feels comfortable as a bisexual woman.
JAPRIL. Holy heck, are they such a hardcore OTP right now.
Well right now if anyone wanted to jump the gun to this baby being born (HEALTHY) and them getting back together, being happy, that would be great.
We just got a lovely episode of backstory for them, but backstory is my favorite thing in the world, and I would especially like any expansion of their time at Mercy West. Any of that giddy loveliness from the early days of their marriage.
One of my very favorite, very *best* half-written fics that I can’t find right now worked so well halfway through s7 (just as Jackson and Lexie were dancing around each other), and it’s totally jossed now, and I can’t even find it (and there’s only so many places it could be!) but I really wish I had finished it. It was April finding Jackson and Lexie sneaking around and she gets jealous and childish about it (this is very much an April 1.0 fic) and Alex sort of watches it all, and after she and Jackson have a big blowout at Sunday dinner (when they all lived with Derek and Meredith), Alex finds her and is like, “You’re a pretty girl and stuff...you’ve just got to be a little bit less of a freak.” And then he takes her to Joe’s for a drink, and then…
I’d never really figured it out. If I wanted Alex and April to hook up, and for Jackson to get jealous (this was before much was made of April’s virginity, when it was just kind of played that she’d always been awkward around guys), or for Jackson to just THINK they hooked up and get jealous. Somehow, someway there would be some sort of Moment in the end where April and Jackson Realize things and have some sort of big, run at each other, can’t fight this for one more second kiss in the middle of the hospital and my big song for it was Live’s ‘Hold Me Up’.
Gosh, it’s been SO long, and what HAVEN’T they done? I will say, that after 10 years, it was a slap in the face, the way they faded out with a whimper. I would say at the end of the show, they were probably the biggest couple and they deserved a real soap-style, fairy-tale ending.
Gosh, but they were frustrating with all of the push-and-pull, and lying to each other, and him acting like he didn’t give a damn for years.
I don’t know what I’d like to see in terms of fic, but I always wanted to see a video to Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Hungry Heart’, it just seemed like so much THEIR song. (Also Jersey Girl, which might not make the best video.
[+] I started a Downton Abbey series marathon last night, but only got partway through 1.02. But OH! The house was so huge then (staffwise, the actual house is still the same size, I would presume). And Matthew! And SYBIL! (Haven’t seen Tom yet, but when I do…) And Michelle Docker’s hair down to her waist (she is much sassier with her bob). This feels really lovely and nostalgic. Join me, if you can?
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