pants to match

I love when I'm trying to decide what to write next and you guys give me this and then this and my brain explodes of awesome.

I also kind of want to write a fic where Brendon is Patrick's invisible muse. Whatever, shut up.

And then I started surfing around my unfinished fic word docs and I found this, and I remembered that once upon a time I'd started a sequel to Everything Else is Secondary with special guest stars, and I have no idea where I was going with this, but now I kinda want to write Rodney texting Patrick all the time and John getting jealous.

( There are three beats in Marshall Tucker's Rearview Mirror that John always fucks up. )

I'm pretty sure this is the most self-indulgent thing I've ever written, though. Seriously, the more I write in this 'verse, the more the characters become their own separate-from-sga entities, and it should be bad, but it's too much fun!

I've got Cadman and Rodney squabbling with affection like siblings and Bates looking after them with gruff, protective urges and Parrish is the laid-back herbally enhanced lead singer. John is sort of... finding his place. I think that's mostly what it's about. He just wants to drum. So it's weird because I don't have the team dynamic how it is in the show, with Ronon and Teyla, but they show up in weird little extra roles that I think leave a huge impression on John anyhow.

I've also chosen to write this in present tense, as you can tell from the snippets, which I've only ever attempted one other time (I think). I don't think I have the words to say why, it just fit with John this time around.

And all this makes it sound serious, and it kind of is, but mostly it's just about friendship. At this point, it's all pre-slash or gen or implied. It's only about 4500 words right now, though, and there's still more to write!

Bates owns a van, people. With, like, a huge panther airbrushed on the side. Bates is my new best friend.

And this post is brought to you by being bored at lunch: Hello pointlessness!

This is something I'm calling my Able-bodied Men 'verse. A band!AU, which will hopefully be nothing like trinityofone's band!AU (which I totally loved, yet I really didn't get any joy out of that, plus that John completely baffled me). Also, I'm attempting scene-like things, which I probably won't acheive, being that I am patently uncool, but *shrugs* Here's a short, short snippet:

( John first meets McKay at a party. John’s pretty trashed. McKay insults his pants and tugs on his belt loop, and John’s kinda certain he flirts shamelessly, even though he doesn’t remember exactly what happens. )