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What We Do Instead

Jun 06, 2011 03:59

Title: What We Do Instead
Pairing: Jon Stewart/Stephen Colbert
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 3000
Warnings: unbetaed; please tell me if I have inadvertently done something terrible and/or grammatically incorrect
Summary: As of his junior year, Jon spends most of his weekends hanging around abandoned classrooms with nothing stronger than the occasional ( Read more... )

series: the daily show, rating: pg-13, author: thegeekgene, series: the colbert report, series: the rachel maddow show, pairing: jon/stephen, genre: alternate reality, pairing: jason/sam

Comments 14

gryffens June 6 2011, 08:31:22 UTC

I want to know every single detail about the backstory of all of the characters in this fic. Every. Single. Detail. And I want to see Jon and Stephen flirt more while pretending it's a joke, but secretly meaning it. This story has more hooks than a Beatles song, and I love it.

thegeekgene June 6 2011, 22:35:16 UTC

Thank you. I am enormously flattered and kind of intimidated and really hope you aren't disappointed.

count_nickula June 6 2011, 09:38:38 UTC

I utterly, utterly loved the by-play and dialogue between Jon and Stephen! Tip of my hat to you. <3

thegeekgene June 6 2011, 22:41:47 UTC

Aw, thank you!

blamography June 6 2011, 11:34:10 UTC

Why is everything you right perfect? Seriously, the pacing of this is gorgeous, every single line is intriguing, the characterization is spot on. I adore this, guh.

thegeekgene June 6 2011, 22:44:35 UTC

That goes kind of beyond hyperbolic. (About it being perfect, I mean.) But thank you. <3

celli_puzzle June 6 2011, 13:06:37 UTC

this is so, so good. Your writing style is lively, engaging, yet descriptive. It makes for excellent image-making. 'tis a word, that.

A line I particularly liked was that about Stephen's "sharp smile" having grown up on the same street as "mean". That line was affable, adorable and witty - like this fic rolled up in a sentence. :)

thegeekgene June 6 2011, 22:52:40 UTC

Thank you so much! That line was put in at the last minute then almost cut, again. Thought it was self-indulgent. I'm so glad you like it.

xmstellou June 6 2011, 18:34:06 UTC

I just feel like nodding at all the previous comments but I'll try to make an eloquent comment.

Reading this story is like jumping into the middle of a story that still feels familiar thanks to spot-on characterizations. Almost every line, there seems to be a back-story that I want to learn... And all this is wrapped in gorgeous writing and witty dialog.
I'm definitely looking forward to future installments...as a sucker for angst, I don't really mind that you could not prove your mother wrong. :-)

thegeekgene June 6 2011, 23:03:11 UTC

At some point I heard the 'start as close to the end as possible' rule and internalized it as 'start at the end' so all the story turns into back story. If that makes sense. What I'm trying to say is, I'm a pretentious douche.

More importantly, thank you! At least something not-completely-terrible seems to have come from the effort.