Paranoia's All I Got Left.
Rei suggested rewatching Friends and laughing about how bad our taste was in our teens. This plan has slightly fallen through, because it turns out Friends is a great show. And a surprisingly accurate representation of friendship as I've experienced it, actually. Ross is still extremely hard to like and the show is showing its age on social issues, but it's still funny and it has a lot of heart.
Rewatching it as an adult is a very weird experience! There's a lot I can relate to now that must have been alien to me when I first watched this show. I've now got a better grasp of some of the things that went over my head because I wasn't American, too.
It seems strange that I've only written one Friends fic. I 'shipped Joey and Chandler so much in my teens.
(I was fifteen. It was not a very good fic; it takes more skill than I possessed to write absolutely straight-faced romantic angst for Friends. I'm amused that, back when I first posted it, someone reviewed with 'omg chandler cant b gay! anywho it was intresting' and added it to their bookmarks. I hope I opened up a whole new world for that fan.)
...I say 'I've only written one Friends fic,' but I've just remembered that last year Rei challenged me to write a Friends/Dangan Ronpa crossover inspired by Linkin Park's 'Papercut'.
'We're not gonna kill each other,' Chandler says. He wants it to sound confident, reassuring; it comes out desperate. 'We're friends.'
'Yeah,' Monica says. 'And we all know who the murderer would be, anyway, so it's not like they'd get away with it.'
Chandler stares at her. 'Uh. We do?'
She gives him an incredulous look. 'Duh. What, are you saying you don't?'
He's been trying not to think about it. But she's got him thinking about it now, she's suddenly made one of them being a murderer into an actual possibility, and... honestly? Honestly, if you asked him which of them was most likely to kill someone in their own self-interest, he might say Monica.
Is she laying the groundwork for a murder already? Is she trying to plant the idea of another killer in their thoughts?
It's like a whirlwind inside his head.
The thought 'maybe I should expand this' just crossed my mind. NO. This is clearly a terrible idea. No sitcom/Dangan Ronpa crossovers!
Well, er, none apart from the Community/Dangan Ronpa crossover I already wrote, at any rate.
Rewatching it as an adult is a very weird experience! There's a lot I can relate to now that must have been alien to me when I first watched this show. I've now got a better grasp of some of the things that went over my head because I wasn't American, too.
It seems strange that I've only written one Friends fic. I 'shipped Joey and Chandler so much in my teens.
(I was fifteen. It was not a very good fic; it takes more skill than I possessed to write absolutely straight-faced romantic angst for Friends. I'm amused that, back when I first posted it, someone reviewed with 'omg chandler cant b gay! anywho it was intresting' and added it to their bookmarks. I hope I opened up a whole new world for that fan.)
...I say 'I've only written one Friends fic,' but I've just remembered that last year Rei challenged me to write a Friends/Dangan Ronpa crossover inspired by Linkin Park's 'Papercut'.
'We're not gonna kill each other,' Chandler says. He wants it to sound confident, reassuring; it comes out desperate. 'We're friends.'
'Yeah,' Monica says. 'And we all know who the murderer would be, anyway, so it's not like they'd get away with it.'
Chandler stares at her. 'Uh. We do?'
She gives him an incredulous look. 'Duh. What, are you saying you don't?'
He's been trying not to think about it. But she's got him thinking about it now, she's suddenly made one of them being a murderer into an actual possibility, and... honestly? Honestly, if you asked him which of them was most likely to kill someone in their own self-interest, he might say Monica.
Is she laying the groundwork for a murder already? Is she trying to plant the idea of another killer in their thoughts?
It's like a whirlwind inside his head.
The thought 'maybe I should expand this' just crossed my mind. NO. This is clearly a terrible idea. No sitcom/Dangan Ronpa crossovers!
Well, er, none apart from the Community/Dangan Ronpa crossover I already wrote, at any rate.