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semperama
replied to your post “I’ve had an idea forming in my head lately for a survival fic. I just…”

You could do a Pinto AU in which they weren’t city boys? Like a complete AU where they’d both grown up on farms or something? Or Spirk! Either way would be awesome! I love survival stories.

Man, right before my epic Trek conversion, I had started a Monaboyd that was basically a Town Mouse/Country Mouse sort of Brokeback situation (there were sheep). Then my harddrive crashed and I lost it (among like five other huge things—back your shit up people). I started rewriting it, but I had lost a lot and it was disheartening. So I still definitely have that idea backburnered, but to make it Pinto would take a lot of thought. I couldn’t really set it in the same time and place as I had the Monaboyd one, it just wouldn’t work.

Also my 1860s Western AU idea has a lot of these same elements. Zach is an eastern tenderfoot, after all, and Chris is a born and raised cattleman.

itreallyisthelittlethings
replied to your post “I’ve had an idea forming in my head lately for a survival fic. I just…”

would read either way, but i would worry so much more over pinto- they would not do well in a true survival situation…

They really wouldn’t lol. A pinto version of this would be a short fic of them stuck in a ski cabin for a weekend with seven granola bars or something (which I can’t do because it is a monaboyd fic classic already).

I think this is why my fledgling ideas of a San Andreas style disaster pinto all dried up.  Because I kept trying to get them through the ridiculous disasters, and then thought of their personalities and thought, “oh they’re dead…but what if I… no, dead again.”  I still have thoughts about that story…