Meme: DVD Commentary

[angelita26]

elrhiarhodan got this one started today, and I love to play this meme so much. Ask me about any fic in any fandom that I've written, and I will happily divulge details.

Here's how it works:

Pick a passage from my stories, up to 500 words, from anything I've written in my LJ masterlist and on AO3 (my AO3 masterlist has my Teen Wolf fic in addition to all

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[elrhiarhodan]

It took a minute for Tim to remember what he was looking for, and then he scanned the books around him to see what section he was in. Poetry, perfect. He followed the alphabet down to the Ns, but didn't see anything that he wanted

[angelita26]

Ode to Broken Things started as a response to a prompt that embroiderama left on her RPF AU meme. I don't remember the exact prompt anymore but I think it was simply about Matt working in a bookstore.

Since it was for the RPF AU meme, I never considered it being a WC AU story. The characters quickly took on lives of their own, and it was very clear to me that they were not Neal or Peter. I took inspiration from WC promo interviews and videos to create the characters of Matt and Tim and filled out the rest of their personalities based on the backstories I created and also how I needed them to be similar or different in various aspects.

It was only meant to be that first short story. However, I wrote this line "That's more of a third date kind of story. Don't want to send you running off too soon." and I got several requests for the third date. To write the third date, I had to write the others. And by then I was in love with the 'verse and had to write more

[nywcgirl]

“Peter?” Neal croaked, squinting through the long, greasy hair falling in his eyes.

Peter choked back his emotions and simply replied, “I'm here.” His hand was a millimeter from resting on Neal's shoulder when the younger man shifted, melting into Diana's side. She whispered something inaudible but comforting and slid her arm around to place her hand on the back of his neck.

Jones shared a distressed look over their heads with Peter while Neal slipped one arm around Diana's waist and used the other hand to pull the sides of the jacket closed over her chest. He murmured what sounded like “Warm?”, and she nodded.

The medics arrived less than two minutes later to find the two so tangled together that they wound up transporting them to the ambulance and the hospital on a single stretcher.

from 'Unbreakable' (http://archiveofourown.org/works/712413)

[angelita26]

I love Unbreakable in so many ways, including those heart-wrenching, angst-ridden moments like this. Neal understands that Peter is there and he consciously moves away from him. After reading and writing so many other WC stories where Neal and Peter are drawn together, this was a moment that I felt like I needed to show, but it hurt to write. (Not quite as much as it hurt to write Unbearable, which is one of the few times I've actually made myself cry while writing a scene

[pooh_collector]

YAY! No one beat me to Redraw the Lines!

Why did you chose to start the story right after the (slightly reworked) events at the Russian Embassy?

I love the extra level of tension created by including Rice in the story. How/why did you decide to include her?

Talk to me about how you developed the Hughes family and their history.

And, finally tell me a bit about how you developed Neal's reactions/feelings to finding out that his whole life was not what he thought, and his feelings about his new family.

[angelita26]

These are all excellent questions! Bear me with me as this is going to take three comments or something to post. :D

Why did you chose to start the story right after the (slightly reworked) events at the Russian Embassy?

I was looking for notes about this because I couldn't remember anything about why I did it except that I wanted to have a resolution to the Fowler situation that made sense to me, as opposed to the nonsensical craziness of canon. I found a part of chat that I'd saved where you and I had discussed this, and my reasoning was that I wanted Neal to be off-kilter already at the beginning of the story. Not only did he confront Fowler using violence, something he usually abhors, but he also got a resolution to what happened to Kate, which left him with a 'what now' sort of feeling. (Though, at the time, the idea was to have either Peter or Diana shoot Fowler in front of Neal - I'm not sure why I changed that, but I'm glad I did. I think it would have been too much.)

I love the extra level of tension created by

[angelita26]

Talk to me about how you developed the Hughes family and their history.So the initial idea I had for a story was for Neal to meet a woman and fall for her and then later find out that she was Hughes' daughter. Hughes would not like this, but they would already be in love, so he would have to accept Neal as, eventually, a son-in-law. I could never get that story off the ground, so I started to come up with other story ideas that involved Hughes because I really wanted to write something where Hughes and Neal had to forge a friendship

[angelita26]

And, finally tell me a bit about how you developed Neal's reactions/feelings to finding out that his whole life was not what he thought, and his feelings about his new family.This was the hardest part! It's one of the few times I've actually reined in my writer instincts and tried my damnedest to not fall into the woobie trap, because I kept wanting to make Neal a woobie who just kinda curled up and took comfort from Peter and never wanted to face the world. Neal is not that character. He's a fighter, and he desperately wants to love and be loved

[pipilj]

Adore the stand by me verse. How did the idea come about?

[angelita26]

It all started with this little meme I did asking for AU prompts. Elr prompted me with Neal, Peter and Mozzie go camping. I could not make it work with the adult versions of the characters, so I made them teenagers

[kanarek13]

"While Neal usually gravitated toward Elizabeth - he loved to help her cook - he often made a bee-line for Peter whenever he didn't feel well. It made for interesting days when Peter had to go to work, but Neal was too sick to go to his daycare. Elizabeth had watched him cry himself to sleep just the other day because Peter couldn't stay home with him. There was no consoling the child when he was in a 'Peter' mood."

from Santa Day ♥

And my question is: wee!Neal - we adore him. What do you enjoy most when writing wee!Neal stories?