#Because this sketch and that snippet are from an Elemental AU fic

[keef-a-corn]

Glad to know many people liked this.

Uhhhh… I was gonna be nice and give you a bit of context.

Instead I give you

I refuse to write Tech to be a nerd stereotype.

I believe he would 100% be grossly unprofessional in any situation.

[strideofpride]

ooh, what did you have in mind for the post-series turning 40 au?? there are so few gg future fanfics depicting the leads in actual middle age versus being late 20s/early 30s, so that alone makes it sound like an interesting concept!!

Yeah, that's exactly why I wanna write it eventually! There are so few fics that really explore the characters past their early 30s, which is a shame, cause such a big theme of the show (at least at first) was the fear of becoming your parents.

I shared this brief snippet from the opening I wrote months and months ago, but my focus has been on other stuff and finishing like a rolling stone, and I just haven't felt like I've had the time to really devote myself to it the way I want to. Also it will probably be loosely inspired by Fleishman is in Trouble, so I wanna try to do a rewatch as well.

But yeah, basically this is my "oh my god I think we became our parents" fic for Serena, Dan, & Blair, and it will be from all three of their POVs. Serena & Dan have moved out to the suburbs because of the pandemic but you can't put an apex predator in the middle of nowhere like that, so Serena keeps spending more and more time in the city, while Dan is unhappily back in the suburbs with their two kids, trying and failing to get back to his artistic pursuits. Blair, meanwhile, has recently become a single mom to sixteen-year-old Henry (Chuck fucked off to TBD - but unlike in Fleishman, he will NOT be making any appearances) and reconnects with Nate and Serena after having been estranged since Trump & MeToo. And then that brings Dan and Blair back into each other's orbit and...there will be a dairfair. Eventually.

So yeah, that's kind of a very rough sketch of it. If you're familiar with Fleishman is in Trouble, it's not going to be a retelling the way like a rolling stone has become, I'm more planning on just taking some elements from it - namely, three old friends reconnecting after one of them gets divorced, a bad reunion party, and a speech about "when did we wake up and become our parents".

Maybe it will be my big project of 2024 idk.