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FIC: Desperate Times, Desperate Measures {TSN - Eduardo/Sean}

Jan 17, 2012 11:55

Title: Desperate Times, Desperate Measures
Fandom: The Social Network
Pairing: Eduardo/Sean
Words: 800
Summary: Some things are inevitable. And then there's Sean and Eduardo in a Canadian shack.
Note: This ridiculous encounter was written for the Canadian Shack Challenge's 10th anniversary. [Your characters just have to end up in one. It's a thing ( Read more... )

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popcorn_orgasms January 17 2012, 23:08:00 UTC

This is glorious! Totally not my pairing, but now I'm rethinking that. I am on board and loving it!

silviakundera January 18 2012, 00:20:53 UTC

Thanks for reading despite it not being one of your pairings of choice. :)

If you're interested, I have quite a bit more Eduardo/Sean on my social network tag or at AO3 here. I really love the idea of them together. I guess I feel like Sean needs a good influence to make him less of an asshole and Eduardo needs a bad influence to get him to cut loose and be assertive. ;)

popcorn_orgasms January 18 2012, 00:28:58 UTC

I've just spent all the time between that comment and this one reading your Sean/Eduardo fics and AO3 and loving them. The groundhog one is so damn exciting--I love reading a slow fall and your Sean is so hilarious and so lovably a dick that I'm smiling as I read. Plus Eduardo is so irresistible--watching Sean discover Eduardo is like watching him find the best treasure ever. And of course Wardo's so wonderful he deserves to be treasured. I can't wait to see what else the universe will demand of Sean, what he'll have to do to move onto Saturday.

Oh and the one where Mark is a bit of a user without feelings but not in an intentional way and Eduardo falling in love with him may have to do more with his own looooow self-esteem and Sean is kind of hilarious and seductive and such a guy but completely a better option than Mark = Awesome.

Of to read Coming of Age. Wohooo!

silviakundera January 18 2012, 01:19:14 UTC

I'm going to try and get the groundhog wip finished right after I complete "Friends Like These". I'm so glad you're enjoying it!

watching Sean discover Eduardo is like watching him find the best treasure ever
MTE. I really love fic where someone is realizing that Eduardo is great. *g*

wheee Coming of Age doesn't get read by many people SO THAT MAKES ME SO HAPPY. Because it's like my pairing manifesto. How I see Sean as kind of a more cynical & slick future version of Eduardo and why they're an interesting pairing... cleverly disguised by lots of porn. :D

FYI, here are some other Sean/Eduardo fics I'd rec:

When It Works, It Works; When It's Broke, It's Perfect by banananonana
Jumps back and forth through time between an established happy Sean/Eduardo who have been together for 4 years and the screwy Sean Parker of TSN who began to be drawn to Eduardo.

We Are The Living People by slippery-fish
"Eduardo has changed. Sean notices."

untitled kinkememe fill "Sean's new girl who's been hanging around the Palo Alto house wants Eduardo ( ... )

popcorn_orgasms January 19 2012, 23:11:02 UTC

How I see Sean as kind of a more cynical & slick future version of Eduardo and why they're an interesting pairing... cleverly disguised by lots of porn.

Umm...I'm embarrassed by how easily and clearly I can picture that and frankly how very on board I would be with young!sweetEduardo and older!burnedEduardo. Sean has an extra shark edge to him; as the reader you know he has knives in hand and he'll happily slice through anyone. But when he finds some person he wants to be loyal to, I think he'd fight to the bone for them. Everyone else though, fuck 'em.

Coming of Age doesn't get read by many people SO THAT MAKES ME SO HAPPY.
I wish I could pimp it to the world. That first story is essentially businessman/pretty naive rent-boy-esque guy perfection. PERFECTION. And I know I've rambled about this, but my virginity kink where Eduardo's sweet and flustered and feisty is utterly and completely satisfied.

So excited about Groundhog fic! And off to read these great recs. :)

silviakundera January 19 2012, 23:49:00 UTC

Thank you sooooo much for your comments. *squees*

I'm embarrassed by how easily and clearly I can picture that and frankly how very on board I would be with young!sweetEduardo and older!burnedEduardoIt's kind of glorious, isn't it ( ... )

popcorn_orgasms January 20 2012, 00:39:13 UTC

Long comment is long and glorious. Okay, going to actually read it and respond but before I get distracted by the glory that is Sean ( ... )

silviakundera January 20 2012, 01:15:17 UTC

Oh, that's wonderful! I think you bring up a really important characterization point about Sean.

I've discussed this with people before, how I find it much easier to buy into Sean/Eduardo set post-movie than Mark/Eduardo that's set post-movie, and that's not only because anything that Sean did against Eduardo was towards a relative stranger -- which is a HUGE difference than betraying your best friends' trust -- but also because I find Sean's actions comparatively more sympathetic to class issues...

I think it's hard to miss the large class discrepancy, because, fuck, Mark & Eduardo are attending HARVARD. The likelihood of anyone getting into that university... I've seen the stats before, and it's insane. And then not only do we have the indication that Eduardo came from money, but the ~casual high school sweatshirt that Mark is wearing? Actually an uber elite private high school. (And then of course there's the disdain of BU that he displays in from of Erica.) No matter what Mark spouts out about the Winklevii, he himself is ( ... )

Oh, I talk a lot. popcorn_orgasms January 20 2012, 18:14:09 UTC

Agh! I completely agree with your entitlement & privilege reading. The thing that connects Eduardo and Sean, and that puts them in competition with each other, is that they both have so much to prove. Eduardo has his daddy issues and a lot of privilege tied to a lot of pressure. He's been given money, and a good education, he's bilingual, his parents not only support him but they also push him, he's able to travel as he pleases and has to exist between two cultures (in affluent spaces in both). But all of that is tied to a need to suceed. It wasn't for nothing. Every additional thing he earns takes him to the next thing he should be attaining or reaching for ( ... )

Re: Oh, I talk a lot. popcorn_orgasms January 20 2012, 18:14:37 UTC

The difference between Sean and Eduardo, is that Sean is the consultant and Eduardo's the mother. Of course you're grateful to the guy who rushes in and fixes your problems. You know he's smart, because he's doing something you can't handle, and you're appreciative because you don't feel entitled to his help. He has a shit ton of things to do, you're just happy he's making time for you. Your mum though, you might think to thank her now and then, but over time the things that really stick are are the one's she couldn't fix. Because even though you know you should be grateful, she loves you and she's always taken care of you and she's made it her job--not something you have to earn or keep ( ... )

Re: Oh, I talk a lot. popcorn_orgasms January 20 2012, 18:15:37 UTC

Also, totally aside from Napster, the reason he can sleep on people's couches is because he's created this lifestyle and image people want to buy into. People want a piece of this transient, wildchild genius. If he were Mark, people would resent the shit out of him trying to crash at their place. But he's this charming Lothario, this easy-going, brilliant, madman. He creates this whole thing around him that people just want to slip into--where life is a vacation, a party, an experience. And people want part of that. The whole idea that you could be the next one to get a taste of the famous Napster guy, to have a 'Sean' story to tell--a little thrilling. I know a guy like that in my grad class, where everyone has a party story about his drunkenness. So things he does that might be offensive or out of this world actually get accepted a lot more easily, cause (a) everyone's heard a story and they can put it in context (b) it's a part of what joins us as a community--part of our communal narrative and (c) if you don't have a story maybe ( ... )

Re: Oh, I talk a lot. popcorn_orgasms January 20 2012, 18:15:50 UTC

Cause look at Saverin, if someone would fuck him over, someone like Mark who he did all that shit for and ran himself ragged for and Mark who can barely even look up from coding and doesn't seem to have real emotions long enough to hold a grudge, well what the fuck do you think they'd do to Sean if they could. But I think with Eduardo he finds a person who is, you know, all Bambi eyes (with everything right there so you can read it even when he wants to hide it), and who's kind of tough, and who's stupidly loyal and who since he doesn't need to watch his back, he can actually be a decent human being with. And shocker, Sean being a decent human being actually manages to be enough since well, people for whatever stupid reason have kind of overlooked Saverin because they're idiots ( ... )

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