Yuletide Fandom

[thefourthvine]

So, this was in actual fact supposed to be a private post for future (Yuletide!) reference - yes, I really am the person who makes private posts with Yuletide fandom suggestions throughout the year, and it has always served me in good stead - but since I made it public I think I should leave it public. Bottom line:

Watch this commercial, which features basketball players growing up and then fucking each other. You think I'm kidding? You tell me what comes after the last shot. I seriously can't think of anything that doesn't involve cock no matter how hard I try.

(And then prepare to write it for Yuuuuuuuletide!)

Comments

[vass]

That commercial is adorable. Except that they're going to end up with a son who'll break their hearts by choosing ice hockey instead of basketball. You know this to be true.

I already made my reminder to self post about Yuletide. It was public, because who knows, I might inspire someone to offer one of those fandoms. And because maybe people will reply and I'll see what they're asking for and get interested in their fandoms.

Signed, very possibly asking for Peter Sagal/Carl Kasell for Yuletide. Or at least wacky public radio hijinks. (Wait, Wait with questions about fanfic?)

[thefourthvine]

THEY'LL LOVE HIM ANYWAY. They'll be retired by then, so after he gets drafted by the Blackhawks they can live in Chicago during the winter. Meng Ling learns to skate. Watkins can't, not after he fucked up his knee so bad - his surgeon would kill him - but he watches every game, grinning, because the point isn't the sport, the point is how much you love to play it, and he can see love in every deke, every slapshot.

...This commercial is DOING THINGS TO ME. Bad things.

Hell, I might as well post about my other potential Yuletide fandoms. At least the ones you can watch in under ten minutes.

[silvainshadows]

...I do believe that first paragraph needs a few thousand more words. And this commercial is clearly doing very GOOD things, even if I am baffled by having headcanon for a commercial. (Of course Watkins fucks up his knee. After Meng got traded to the Bobcats, the pair of them ended up in this vicious rivalry with some idiot on... IDK, some other team, I can't pick one offhand, and in the finals one year, pretty late in their careers, the bastard fouls him- pretty viciously, the guy's a dick- as he's going for a jump shot, and he comes down hard on his right leg. It's bad enough that he's out of the game, and it's not even halftime yet. Meng Ling plays like a freaking demon for the rest of the game, Bobcats win but Meng is too busy making sure Watkins is going to be okay to bother celebrating right away.)


...oh god, now I see why you say the commercial is doing bad things. I think all of that sprang from my brain, as is, with bonus imagery as if I'm watching it on television (and shouting at the screen, because how else would I interact with basketball?). Someone stop me from writing a novel-length fic about these guys? I don't have the skill to plot that! (I do have the basketball knowledge, mind, I was born a basketball fan, I think, but I can't write novel-length fic at all.)

[lemon_badgeress]

I agree. You seem to have left several thousand words out of that first paragraph. Your beta was FAR TOO HARSH.