Gift for fools_game

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Author: applepiecrust
Recipient: fools_game
Title: Of Planning, Fabulousness and African Rivers
Pairing(s): Chad/Ryan
Summary: Ryan plans. Chad is oblivious. Africa has long rivers.
Rating: PG (for some boy on boy kissing)
Warning(s): Bad puns. Oblivious boys. Cannibalistic mummies. .
Word Count: 1808
Disclaimer: All High School Musical characters herein are the

Comments

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[few]

Cute! I like how the narrative voice is all...oral-tradition-y, you know? Like a sort of modern folk tale. It seems a little strange on the screen, but if you imagine it being told around a fire or whatever, it totally works.

Now, since Ryan was so fabulous, he was also in possession of the best gay-dar in the entire state of New Mexico.

This is the kind of thing I mean (as are all the entertaining asides, like the Nile references): ordinarily it's kind of annoying when Ryan's being gay means he's automatically the poster child for gayness, but hyperbole of this nature fits in perfectly with the folk tale tone of the piece.

Finally tiring of his little school-boy crush (because unrequited love, dramatic is it was, just did not befit an Evans)

*snicker* So true. (Someone should probably point that out to Sharpay!)

Now Ryan Evans was a man without A Plan

Heh

Chad Danforth had to be convinced of his gayness before he graduated high school, and he had to be convinced to go out with Ryan before they left for college. This was

[jalabert]

Ryan plans. Chad is oblivious. Africa has long rivers.

Love that summary. But it seemed to me as though Chad wasn't the only one in denial. Ryan was having a bit of a problem grasping the truth, too!

[jerico_cacaw]

As for your warning: the puns are not bad, the boys really are oblivious (although not the one the story seemed to point to -- and I kinda believe Troy and the gang knew what was going on and did their best to leave both boys alone =P). Now, I've read it twice and still fail to find any cannibalistic mummy ...

But Ryan's fabulousness, my! You got me laughing from the beginning, every single line had a hidden treasure =D, rivers included. And Ryan needs help not only making plans, but also naming them and their different stages *nod nod*.

This was amazing, I wonder what you'd have written if this weren't your first fic story in I Don't Know How Long -- a novel? a classic, maybe? ;P. Good work! Keep writing; the fandom is always in need of good writers, no matter how fabulous the current ones are.

[applepiecrust]

There definitely ARE cannibalistic mummies in the story, they just don't show themselves unless they want to scare you :p

[fools_game]

Oh, wonderful! All my favorites - misunderstandings! Obliviousness on both parts! Ryan being enormously fabulous! Beautiful beautiful irony! it's lovely, thank you very much!

[applepiecrust]

Gosh, I'm so glad you liked it even somewhat. This was my first attempt, ever, at writing any sort of fanfiction, so I was really worried about how it would turn out.

(That, and I haven't even seen the HSM movies -- I'm just crazily addicted to the concept of this pairing though).

[xaayp]

Haha, FINALLY! I love Ryan, I really do, but he's so beautifully stupid, and this, I think, is one of the first fics I've read where he's... not so bright. In the Ryan way. Yay.
I laughed my ass off.