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[eliyes]

So, I've been looking through various fic prompt comms, looking for something short to do spin out for Leon and Daley who are partners, but not a pairing. Surprisingly difficult so far. Just out of bed and not in a particularly cyberpunk cop buddies type of mood, I click a link from a fic on my f-list and find wtf27.

Reading through the prompts list should not have me going "shit, I could do most of these and have it believably resemble continuity!" since that's counter the point. But if I didn't want to do crossovers, I have plenty of aliens, supernatural critters and powers, triggers for transformations, etc. right in the Marvel U, and I'm tempted to spin out some fics for Bobby and Jean-Paul.

The only ones I wouldn't want to do -- and by the rules of the comm, since they're not a rare pairing but one that had an unrequited something in Chuck Austen's run, I have to do all 27 (but hey, if I just use the prompts I want...) -- are "pornstar" and "hooker".

Well. I suppose I could make "pornstar" be fanfic related. I really dislike hooker-fic, though. Like, really really hate it with the power of a thousand green suns.

Hm.

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[hybridhelen.livejournal.com]

I was going to suggest that you could interpret 'hooker' as 'that guy in rugby who tries to get the ball with his feet in a scrum', instead of you know, boywhore, but then I *actually* read the rules of the comm, so.

Maybe it could be a bad dream? As in: [insert selling sex for cash story here], [Character wakes up and cries wtf?!] Or, pretending to be a hooker for Justice! Or kink within a relationship?

Ooh, the power of a thousand green suns? That is powerful. Almost powerful enough to stop me from admitting that I kinda sorta like hookerfic, when it's well written / canonically plausible / exceedingly cracky. Almost.

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

The sun in hell is green, in the game Exalted. :3

Anyway, considering how utterly disgusted by Stacey X they both were? Just no. And I realise that's Austen's run, but Jean-Paul even being on the team is Austen's run. I have to cope.

Which would be why I'm working on "Five Time Bobby and Jean-Paul Didn't Meet (but could have, and it probably would have been better than what happened)". The parenthetical bit will probably go away.

Part of the problem, you see, is that I know real life gay male hookers or ex-hookers, and I really don't want to inflict that in the characters.

I don't get why, in the hookerfic that exists for these two that I've run across, the summaries usually indicate Bobby as the hooker. You'd think that Jean-Paul, being the one who was an actual runaway street-kid, would be the obvious choice.

[hybridhelen.livejournal.com]

Ooh, five things fic! Yays! I await with breath that is bated.

It's been a while - save me from hunting out the right issues and remind me how Jean-Paul and Bobby reacted? (Heh, am incredibly tired and feeling very lazy, sorry!) I seem to recall Bobby being properly freaked out by whatever went down in the brothel while he was there...

You...don't... want to torture your characters? *gasp* What's wrong with you?! ;-)
Seriously though, I agree that it's not a life I'd wish on anyone.

I know! You'd think streetkid=>hooker would be simpler than middleclasskidatprivateschool=>hooker to write, really. But then, most hookerfic isn't really interested in that kind of realism, I think.

Gah, enough talk of hookerfic. Have you decided about wtf27?

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

I've never done a five things fic before, so it might be a while until I have it all arranged to my satisfaction. I actually have more than 5 ideas: we'll see which ones makes the cut. I came up with the nanny idea for this, but I might grow it out... or I might just do several snippets for it. I'm not sure.

Ahhh... I am unfamiliar with anything happening in a brothel and dearly wish to retain that ignorance. All I know is both Jean-Paul and Bobby were each individually very "Ew, no, do I have to work with her?" to Warren and/or Kurt. I can dig up the issue synopsis if you want?

I have decided... That I am going to use the prompts, but I haven't decided if I'm joining, or just saying I was inspired by them...

I mean, I already had 4 different ideas in jot notes about various ways to genderswap them, including "Jeanne-Pauline & Bobbi inadvertantly visit a more canon-like world". I really love Jeanne-Pauline and Bobbi. I do. They have taken over chats on AIM and been very very fun, and they actually tempt me to write f/f (sex scenes, even!) which I almost never do.

I have a private post on my lj just for me to keep track of things, and there are paragraphs written under some of these prompts. Ideas I'd had but discarded as never going to be useful are waking up and telling me they work. So. I will write at least some of them. :3