subsilvernight:

I call upon the fan fic writing gods to bless you with the perseverance to finish one of your unfinished drafts. 

May your fingers dance along the letters upon your device with ease, may the devil of distraction stay far from you, and may your work not need much editing.

I pass this blessing upon every fan fic writer out there.

Would you ever write…a Pinto AU? Like where one or both of them aren’t actors.

Well, I’m not going to say “no”, but I’m having a hard time imagining what form that would take.  I rarely even read AUs.  If you have to say “Zach is a *** and Chris is a ***” I’m generally less interested.  The notable exception is just about anything by @suedescripture and a few older fics (e.g., “wand of light” tickles me for some reason). 

That said, I am writing a sort of AU for another fandom, in which the characters are basically as they appear/act/are employed in canon, but there’s something additional happening with one of them.  But I don’t really feel that sort of pull with Pinto.  I tend to meet them more or less where I think they are now and send them off in new directions.  So I could perhaps write something where one of them has some sort of crisis that stops them from acting and go from there… but I’m not sure that counts as an AU per se… more than anything else where we’re mashing their faces together, anyway.

I’m not sure if it’s lack of imagination on my part, or just still not being done telling these stories about two actors/friends.  On the other hand, I do follow my muse, so if there were a plot bunny that ambushed me in the middle of the night involving some AU, I’d definitely follow it down whatever rabbit hole it led through.  And now you’ve got me wondering what might spark that.  I’ve been thinking about it, and nothing really comes to mind, but I’m not against the idea…I just don’t think my muse works that way. 

So I won’t say never, but it doesn’t seem terribly likely based on the sorts of stories that get lodged in my brain and require exorcism via writing.  Feel free to make suggestions, though… maybe something will stick.