Stories Lost in the Void

elisa-pie:

tell me about your 3 favorite fic ideas that you’ve wanted to write but somehow didn’t do (or didn’t finish/ didn’t upload) 

I was tagged by @rabidchild67​ @rich-penis​ – thank you! The first two are going to be stories I might actually finish some day, so they’re not totally lost, and the last one is a much older, lost fic idea I wanted to mention because I never get to talk about it and this made me think about it.

Pinto rock star AU. This is something that I fully intend to finish some day. Zach is a semi-famous rock star with a cocky stage persona but he’s also kind and generous with his fans and adored by apparently every young woman in town. Chris is a grad student who accidentally stumbles into Zach’s gig with his friends and can’t take his eyes off this gorgeous dude on stage in black leather pants and nothing else. They meet shortly after the gig, and after that there are stolen moments backstage and in hotel rooms. I haven’t figured out the whole story line yet, but this has been one of those ideas I can’t get out of my head.

Slow burn Academy era AOS Spirk fic. Basically what it says right there. Cadet Kirk has a crush on Professor Spock. The whole thing started with a few lines of dialogue between Jim and Bones that suddenly came out of nowhere and I started to figure out what kind of story would be going on around that conversation.

A History Boys fic inspired by Rufus Wainwright’s album Release the Stars. This is an old, old favourite I’m never going to write, but it would have been so great if I had written it. So, quite a few years ago I really loved Rufus Wainwright (and still do, he’s amazing) and the play The History Boys (which I have kind of forgotten about since, really). Back then I had this really great idea of writing a History Boys fic set around/loosely inspired by Rufus Wainwright’s album Release the Stars.

It would have tracked the university years of my favourite characters, Posner and Scripps (my first OTP, sweet little bbs), and the development of their relationship via chapters with alternating POVs. Each chapter would have been named after a song from the album Release the Stars, in order. It would have been called Speaking in Metaphors for Something More in Your Heart. I had some specific plot points already worked out for specific songs. Loneliness, settling in their new university lives, discovered and reclaimed sexualities, angst and fluff, first kisses, separation and eventually getting together, moving in together, having jobs they enjoyed, being grown-up and being happy. It would have been a love letter to the play and Rufus Wainwright’s music, but also to literature and poetry (I would have had so much fun doing research for this one) and 80s British indie music and Oxford (or was it Cambridge? I don’t even remember which one they went to anymore).

But I haven’t been in that fandom for so many years now and don’t even have any idea if the fandom is still out there. I have been enjoying everything the individual actors have done since then, they have been so busy and successful, and they still are some of my favourite actors ever. But getting into that world and those characters again now that I have so many other things and worlds I want to write about? Not going to happen. 😦 

Tagging @ato-the-bean, @entrenous88 and @thatmysticbafflingwonder (some of you might have done this already, I’m not sure)