#Re neighb*rhood: I kinda want to write a like rear window type thing based on hearing fragments of a ~crime

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I was tagged by @bourbon-ontherocks & @m00dyfern for neighb*rhood, @mego42 for to everything there is a season, @foxmagpie for waiting for someone who needs me & @nakedmonkey for even the best laid plans (thank youuu <3 <3 <3 this looks super fun & i found a couple of citations haha)

recently I have become really fascinated with fanfic authors and what exactly was rumbling around in their brain that inspired a fic?

Was it a line of dialogue you couldn’t get out of your head?

A scene you wrote WAY in advance and then crafted the whole story around?

An image in your mind?

Inspiration from another form of media?

Maybe someone suggested something to you and it just TOOK off from there?

What is the cornerstone of this fic -what is it all built around? The idea that started it all?

Tag an author & their fic. Let’s hear about what sparked your story. What exactly got your booty movin’ shakin’ motivated and writin’ ?

Bringing down the neighbourhood

i think the cornerstone for this was the criss-crossing of a few different fragments:

205 fucked me UP in ways i will never recover from (it’s the exhibitionism & the obsession & the control & the eye contact and so forth pour moi)

the intimacy of neighbourhood - i’d been kind of thinking about writing a cutesy neighbours au with like divorced beth & rich bitch rio (i live above water so sound can reallllllllly carry....let me tell you!! some ppl!!! deal their drugs!!! way too loudly!!!!!! haha)

wanting to write kind of harsh, traumatised post s2 beth pov & (still, ha) wanting to write some kind of post s2 resolution (i guess kinda motivated by the thought: ok assume the show HAS written itself into a corner and s3 sorta handwaves why they’re working together, what payoff would make me forgive it.....?)

and once those wires touched, it kind of...existed!

to everything there is a season

well this is a three-part series (and i admire the dedication to cheating at a meme any way you can), so there were kinda 2 (maybe 3?) different starting points for me.

A time to refrain (from embracing) I wrote after 301, thinking it COULD be the beginning of a series (hence naming it for a line from to everything there is a season), maybe like a collection of episode codas almost? I think I kind of had it vaguely in my head already, and the characterisation really seemed to mesh with the first ep of s3 & it just sort of fell out fully formed. 

I think it was mostly the idea of the physicality of emotional trauma + manny wandering around interviews being all ‘i DoNt ThInK rIo WiLl EvEr ToUcH hEr AgAiN’ & me being like uh huh sure

a time to every purpose (under heaven) & (a) time to kill were conceived as one piece really. i was like ok what i want is: 

bottle episode!!! beth & rio stuck together; bedsharing but bad; EWB vibez

beth and rio gossiping about mick!!!!!

beth like trying to seduce rio and getting shot down & then later when she’s like gross and vulnerable, him being super into her

so then i was like, ok. how do i go about getting that........! (& then i think i came out of the bath and like passed out horizontally across the foot of my bed with soaking wet legs and was like ha those two would HATE me, oh you know what oh HA)

but like when i started to plan it out, i only really had the details up to the misunderstanding/mishearing, & what happened next was a lil more fuzzy. so i was like ok maybe i’ll just write up to there then...? 

& for sure chapter 4 of even the best laid plans was def an inspo. once you start writing cranky masturbating rio pov it’s difficult to want to write anything else. also it sort of absolves the need for a plot, ha! (plus i kind of liked the idea of it being a bit of a plot trojan horse, not that there’s very much plot in part 3 but yknow)

but then when i started planning out (a) time to kill i was like well this series feels kind of unbalanced pov-wise, oh and also like i know what beth’s been thinking this whole time and hmm ok... & it was going to be more comedic originally, like maybe she just wounded someone and wasnt freaking out that much & they’re holed up for ages stuck together but once i deepened the impact & tightened the timeline, i was like oh well ok yeah having both their povs definitely makes sense and the story kind of had flip points which felt fairly natural

waiting for someone who needs me

lol, my own prompt! so the man pops up like a genie line + the kind of well no one ever asks the genie what THEY want vibe of october by neil gaiman (which i think is def a Thing in the djinn story in american gods too) coupled w/ rio being all like blah blah blah what do you want elizabeth blah blah all the time + beth’s fairytale rant in s1 were def Factors

but it’s basically all @septiembur‘s fault

Even the best laid plans

so i was really baked lol and was probs thinking about the best scene in the show (stan and ruby get stoned) and was like ok, ok though, ok. what if the show went the comedic route with beth finding out rio’s alive. like ok... what if she’s too stoned to understand what’s going on affgfgfr and rio’s head like explodes affgfgf and also like ok. ok though, ok. s2 from his pov has to be like legitimately hilarious though afgffgfgh oh ok hmmmmmm

I tag: @septiembur for get to be mine, @briology for love despite, @ohmisterjapan for maybe you're my fantasy & @fairhairedkings for that’s what you get for waking up in vegas

and if you’ve done it already for those, like tag me in the post so i can seeeeee plllllllllls (and just pick another story?! i greedy)