i want it with whipped cream on it

[asimplechord]

a) I... am not a nice person. I have just spent 30 minutes amusing myself with the artist summaries for Bandom Big Bang, LOLing at how there's going to be some amazingly good fic and some amazingly bad bad!fic. When did I become such a snob?

b) I am not a fan of the weird epaulette things with a tie, but I will probably obtain a copy of the GQ in which photos from this shoot are published. Unf.

c) LUDO! I am ridic excited that Stamps & Tommy and the High Pilots (and Without a Face, for the TX shows) are on that tour!

d) D: Empires did not make the final round of the Rolling Stone cover contest. Neither did Fictionist, the other band I liked. Oh well, it still got them tons of exposure, right?

e) Killjoys on Friday. :D :D :D




In the meantime... prompt me? I need to kickstart creativity, else I'll wallow in work misery even when I'm not at work. So, yeah. Fandom, pairing, phrase or photo, and I'll write a sentence, a drabble, or something. American Idiot, GK, bandom, SPN, HP, CM or House. (Or Andrew/Jesse.)

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college AU snippet from my WIP files, Brad/Nate

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Did I ever explain that Brad's a student at JHU, and Nate's taking a summer class there? Just, you know, for context.

During office hours at the help desk, Brad mostly wears jeans and ratty t-shirts advertising everything from cheap beer and 90s hair-bands to the Komen Breast Cancer 5K run, although on one memorable occasion he appeared wearing a pale blue button-down with narrow navy stripes and a pair of Dockers.

(That ensemble, paired with a set of horn-rimmed glasses, made Nate re-evaluate his bi-curious status to most definitely. He'd had more than one teacher/school boy fantasy relating to Brad in his "grown-up" clothes. It might be a cliche, but it's a cliche for a *reason*.)

Still. When he brings his second exam to the help desk to go over the mistakes that'd earned him an 84 instead of 100, he's not expecting to find Brad in a black v-neck t-shirt, with glittering letters announcing PFLAG: like the PTA, but sparklier.

"Um... really?"

"It was a gift from my roommate. And I didn't have time to do laundry last night, so."

"So. Your roommate's gay?"

Brad watches Nate steadily for a moment, then, "No, he's not. He's being supportive."

"--oh."

There's an awkward moment where Nate doesn't know what to say. He'd *like* to celebrate with a fist-pump, because this means he can stop feeling guilty about perving on the supposedly-straight dude who's helping him with Organic, but that's really not appropriate. He's still trying to figure out how to work asking Brad to meet him for pizza and beer later when he realizes his silence has gone on too long.

"Is this going to be a problem?" Brad looks impassive, but Nate can practically feel chill building.

"What? No! I just..." Okay, honesty's the best policy, right? "It doesn't matter when it comes to tutoring. But it makes it way easier if you want to go out tonight after you get done here."

Re: college AU snippet from my WIP files, Brad/Nate

[pjvilar.livejournal.com]

I continue to love this so so much and SOMEBODY PLEASE make art of Brad in that t-shirt FOR I WILL DIE. <333333


and also the ensemble with the horn-rimmed glasses kthanxbye

Re: college AU snippet from my WIP files, Brad/Nate

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Mostly Brad wears contacts, but some days he just can't be bothered with them. He has considered LASIK surgery; as a bio-mech engineering student with intentions of going to med school, he's researched all his options. His parents insurance would cover it, but they've been telling him since he was sixteen to wait until he's a bit older, done growing and maturing - like his eyeballs are still growing at this point - so at this point it's really just a waiting game.

Re: college AU snippet from my WIP files, Brad/Nate

[pjvilar.livejournal.com]

:D God, I love a good backstory.

Re: college AU snippet from my WIP files, Brad/Nate

[jmc-bks.livejournal.com]

♥

How did I not know that you have a Brad/Nate college AU? Set at JHU no less :)

Re: college AU snippet from my WIP files, Brad/Nate

[asimplechord.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Brad plays LaX at JHU. Nate's mom works in the admissions office, and he's taking Organic over the summer. He really really hates chemistry, and he has no idea how he can continue as a pre-med student and then a med school if it makes him this miserable. 90% of it is still in my head, or was in random email and text bits to Tabby, which are lost since I got a new phone. My problem is two-fold: 1. I'm not motivated to write lately. 2. Once I have an outline (and I do) and I know how it ends, I'm not in as much of a rush to get words out of my head. If it ever DOES, I'll have to talk to you about JHU and Balmer and Roland Park (seriously, I even spent time wondering about minutiae, like which private school Nate would've graduated from) to get details right.

But there's a snippet where they meet here (http://asimplechord.livejournal.com/499514.html). And after Nate goes back to Dartmouth for sophomore year here (http://pjvilar.livejournal.com/60696.html?thread=1275160#t1275160).

And I have this with a note that it was for lickingbeads' prompt jealousy, but I'm pretty sure her post is locked.

*

Brad is sure that it's nothing. Nate sent him a cell-phone photo of the mess of work on his desk when he explained why he wouldn't be able to make it back to Baltimore for autumn break. But he would really like to know why there was a mug with lipstick on its rim holding a pile of messily-stacked papers in place on the teetering, uneven stack of notebooks in front of Nate's monitor.

In his defense, he knows his knee-jerk response is wrong, and he didn't even expect it, so instead of immediately assuming the worse and arguing/accusing Nate of anything he'd regret later, he tugs on a pair of running shoes and goes out for a run. A really long run.

Nate, who had expected a text or a call or *something* in response, sits at his desk, gmail and skype open, for an hour, before he re-reads his email and checks that he sent the picture, and, okay, he's aware of Brad's history (although really accidentally; getting him to talk about some things is like pulling teeth - impacted wisdom teeth, even) so that was an unfortunate item to have in framed in the photo. But he's not a cheater, dammit, and that lipgloss is Patrick's, whose major in English literature and drama requires participation in theater department activities, up to and including costume and makeup.

When Brad gets back, there's a text waiting on his phone.

ur an ass if u think what i think ur thinking

I know. Sorry. Went for a run to clear my head.

He gulps an entire liter of water, deliberately not looking at his phone while he waits.

clear now?

Y. Can we talk about this?

He's not counting time while he waits. Except that he knows it takes 74 seconds for Nate's reply to arrive.

gimme 1 min to reboot my mac

Brad doesn't care that he's sweaty and gross, that his hamstrings will tighten if he doesn't stretch them after running for so long in cold weather. He settles in front of his laptop, opens gchat, and waits for Nate to ping him.