#billy tepper x joey trotta

[irisbleufic]

I rewatched Toy Soldiers tonight for the first time in nearly a decade. Most people don’t realize that half a million of my overall approaching 4 million words of fic are devoted to this weird, underappreciated 1991 film.

With this story, time does not necessarily heal all wounds. My heart still shatters.

(Maybe I need to reread The Series/Book of Hours, in the hope that rereading will feel like the writing I did all those years ago to mend what’s broken—or what breaks without end.)

[80s4life]

Character/Movie List

Below is movies and TV shows I like personally and are lsited as a reference. If you don't see something you're interested in, it is not that I don't like it, it is because I most likely forgot it because I love so many movies/shows tbh. Just ask, and I'll answer! And, from the Rules and Regulations page, what I had meant by "mostly" is that I can dabble outside of the acting world and into actors/actresses themselves and/or singers, popstars, etc.

{Another side-note, I am not so much into shows, but mostly movies! Although, there are some exceptions that I love beyond belief!}

MOVIES

Back to the Future Series:

Biff Tannen

Griff Tannen (Maybe, he wasn't the best of the Tannen's imo)

Buford Tannen

Marty McFly

George McFly

Doc Brown

Lorraine Baines

Match

Titanic:

Rose DeWitt Bukater

Jack Dawson

Caledon Hockley

Brock Lovett

Rabrizio De Rossi

Thomas "Tommy" Ryan

Karate Kid Series {1/2/3}:

1-

John Kreese

Mr. Miyagi

Johnny Lawrence

Daniel LaRusso

Tommy

Dutch

Bobby Brown (not so much; don't know him too well)

Ali Mills

Lucille LaRusso

2-

Chozen

Kumiko

3-

Terry Silver (duh lmao)

Mike Barnes (also duh)

Jessica Andrews

Stand By Me:

Vern Tessio

Billy Tessio

Gordie LaChance

Chris Chambers

Eyeball Chambers

Ace Merrill

Teddy Duchamp

Goonies:

Brand

Mikey

Chunk

Mouth

Data

Andy

Stef

Jake Fratelli (he was kinda hot ngl)

Ferris Bueller's Day Off:

Ferris Bueller

Jeanie Bueller

Cameron Frye

Sloane Peterson

License to Drive:

Les Anderson

Dean

Mercedes Lane

Charles

Toy Soldiers:

Billy Tepper

Joey Trotta

Snuffy Bradberry

Ricardo Montoya

Hank Giles

Derek/Yogurt

Scream Movie Series {1/2}:

1-

Billy Loomis

Stu Macher

Dwight "Dewey" Riley

Ghostface

Randy Meeks

Tatum Riley

Sidney Prescott

Gale Weathers

2-

Cotton Weary

Derek Feldman

Mickey

Predator:

Dutch

Blain

Yautja

Escape Plan:

Emil Rottmayer/ "Victor Maheim"

Ray Breslin/ "Anthony Portos"

The Expendables:

Barney Ross

Lee Christmas

Toll Road

Tool

Gunnar Jensen

Bao Thao/ "Yin Yang"

Hale Caesar

Trench

Church

Divergent Movie Series {1/2/3}:

Divergent-

Beatrice "Tris" Prior

Caleb Prior

Peter

Tobias "Four" Eaton

Christina "Chris"

Eric Coulter

Will

Insurgent-

Marcus Eaton

Allegiant-

Matthew

Terminator Series:

T-100/"Uncle Bob"/Terminator

T-1000 "Austin"

John Connor

Sarah Connor

Grace

Dani Ramos

Dazed and Confused:

David Wooderson

Fred O'Bannion

Randall "Pink" Floyd

Ron Slater

Don Dawson

Mitch Kramer

Benny O'Donnell

Rocky Series:

Rocky Balboa

Apollo Creed

Captain Ivan Drago

Zombieland {1/2}:

Tallahassee

Columbus

Berkeley

Witchita

Little Rock

Madison

Lethal Weapon Movie Series {1/2/3/4}:

Martin Riggs

Roger Myrtaugh

Rianne Murtaugh

Leo Getz

Goodfellas:

Henry Hill

Jimmy Conway

Tommy DeVito

Karen Hill

Marvel:

Avengers Heroes-

Iron Man/Tony Stark

Thor

Ant-Man/Scott Lang

Hulk/Bruce Banner

Captain America/Steve Rogers

Hawkeye/ Clint Barton

Quicksilver/Pietro Maximoff

Scarlet Witch/Wanda Maximoff

Black Panther/T'Challa

Vision/Victor Shade

Black Widow/Natasha Romanoff

Mantis

Spider-Man/Peter Parker

Doctor Strange/Stephen Strange

Avengers Anti-Heroes/Antagonists:

Yondu Udonta

Loki Laufeyson

Winter Soldier/Bucky Barnes

Whiplash

Thanos

Mysterio

Kaecilius

Ronan

Hela

Ultron

Wolverine/Deadpool:

Wolverine/Logan Howlett

Sabretooth/Victor Creed

Bolt/Chris Bradley

Gambit/Remy LeBeau

Cyclops/Scott Summers

(Younger!)Professor X

Deadpool/Wade Wilson

Cable/Nathan Summers

Colossus/Piotr "Peter" Nikolayevich Rasputin

Dopinger

Weasel

Negasonic Teenage Warhead/Ellie Phimister

DC Universe:

Superman/Clark Kent (Henry Cavill)

Batman/Bruce Wayne (Affleck, Bale versions)

Aquaman/Arthur Curry

Wonder Woman/Diana Prince

Harley Quinn

Joker (Leto, Ledger, Phoenix versions)

Deadshot

Captain Boomerang

Enchantress

Rick Flagg

Bane (Tom Hardy)

TV Shows

Stranger Things:

Mike Wheeler

Nancy Wheeler

Will Byers

Joyce Byers

Johnathan Byers

Maxine "Max" Hargrove

Billy Hargrove

Dustin Henderson

Lucas Sinclair

Robin Buckley

Jim Hopper

Steve Harrington

Sex Education:

Erric Effiong

Aimee Gibbs

Adam Groff

Ola Nyman

Rahim

Otis Milburn

Maeve Wiley

Hannibal (Show):

Hannibal Lector

Will Graham

Dr. Alana Bloom

Jack Crawford

Abigail Hobbs

Orange Is the New Black (OITNB):

Piper Chapman

Nicky Nichols

Suzanne "Crazy Eyes" Warren

Galina "Red" Reznikov

Tasha "Taystee" Jefferson

Dayanara "Daya" Diaz

Gloria Mendoza

Lorna Morello

Tiffany "Pennsatucky" Doggett

Alex Vause

Joel Luschek

Big Boo

Maritza Ramos

Poussey Washington

Yoga Jones

Gina Murphy

Brook Soso

Sophia Burst

George "Pornstache" Mendez

Larry Bloom

Polly Harper

Stella Carlin

The Boys:

Billy Butcher

Starlight/Annie January

Hughie Campbell

Homelander

Kimiko Miyashiro

Queen Maeve/Maggie Shaw

Mother's Milk "M.M."

The Deep/Kevin Moskowitz

Frenchie

Stormfront

Becca Butcher

The Walking Dead (TWD):

Daryl Dixon

Merle Dixon

Rick Grimes

Carl Grimes

Lori Grimes

Maggie Greene

Beth Greene

Glenn Rhee

Negan Smith

Michonne Hawthorne

Carol Peletier

Shane Walsh

Paul "Jesus" Monroe

Eugene Porter

Sgt. Abraham Ford

Outer Banks (OBX):

Sarah Cameron

Rafe Cameron

Ward Cameron

JJ

John B

Topper

Pope

Kiara

Shameless:

Frank Gallagher

Fiona Gallagher

Lip Gallagher

Ian Gallagher

Debbie Gallagher

Carl Gallagher

Kevin Ball

Veronica Fisher

Mickey Milkovich

Mandy Milkovich

Svetlana

Jimmy "Steve" Lishman

Karen Jackson

Cobra Kai

Miguel Diaz

Eli "Hawk" Moskowitz

Robby Keene

Demetri

Carmen Diaz

John Kreese (baby version & old version)

Terry Silver (baby version & old version)

Tory Nichols

Samantha "Sam" LaRusso

...AND MANY MORE!

If there is something or someone you like not on this list, feel free to ask or direct message me! For movies like the DC Universe and Marvel, if there is multiple actors of that character and you want a certain one, please make sure that you add that detail!

Rules & Regulations

Masterlist

[classic80sand90smovieloves2]

So as I’m working on revising and posting my old content I figured I would give you guys a list of what I’ve previously written (and have yet to revise) so that you could request what you would like to see first.

Meeting and Dating~

The Outsiders

Steve Randle, Darry Curtis, Johnny Cade, and Ponyboy Curtis

Heathers

Veronica Sawyer, Heather Chandler Meeting, and Heather McNamara

Stand By Me

Chris Chambers, Teddy Duchamp Meeting, and Eyeball Chambers

License to drive

Les Anderson

The Burbs

Ricky Butler

Little Shop Of Horrors

Audrey Fulquard

Karate Kid

Ali Mills

Crybaby

Crybaby Walker Dating

Ferris Buellers Day Off

Ferris Bueller

Weird Science

Lisa, and Ian

Better Off Dead

Monique Junot

Summer School

Francis Gremp, and Larry Kazamias

The Sandlot

Benny Rodriguez

10 Things I Hate About You

Patrick Verona, Joey Donner, Kat Stratford, Bianca Stratford Meeting, and Cameron James

The Breakfast club

Allison Reynolds and Claire Standish

Toy Soldiers

Joey Trotta, and Billy Tepper

Dead Poets Society

Richard Cameron

Interview With The Vampire

Lestat, and Armand

The Goonies

Brand Walsh

Adventures in Babysitting

Brad Anderson, and Daryl Coopersmith

Dirty Dancing

Johnny Castle Meeting

Rivers Edge

Matt

My Bodyguard

Moody

Some Kind Of Wonderful

Ray

The Lost Boys

Sam Emerson, David, Star, Marko, and Alan Frog

Cant Buy Me Love

Ronald Miller

Lucas

Cappie Roew

Back To The Future

George Mcfly

The Princess Bride

Westley

Footloose

Ren McCormack, and Willard Hewitt

IT

Bill Denbrough

Like Father Like Son

Chris Hammond

Loverboy

Randy Bodek

Cobra

Cobra

White Water Summer

Vic

Dont Tell Mom The Babysitters Dead

Kenny Crandell

Screwballs

Rick McKay

School Ties

Charlie Dillon

Clueless

Elton Tiscia, Travis Birkenstock, and Cher Horowitz

Requested/Imagines or Nonromantic

Sick Cameron Frye Hc

Cameron Frye Crushing on the new girl

Raising Claudia

Heather Duke

Angsty Ace Merrill

Cameron Frye x Chubby reader

Westley x Reader x Buttercup

Jealous Lestat

Teddy Duchamp

Angsty Lestat

Lestat with a vampire

Modern Louis

Modern Lestat

Fluffy Johnny (Dirty Dancing)

Ted Logan having a crush on a girl in a punk band

Going to prom with Cameron Frye

Ricky butler having an obvious crush on you

Paul and Marko fighting over you

Being michaels twin and David’s girlfriend

Being Neil Perry’s crush and playing his love interest in a play

Having a baby with Joey, Billy and Ricardo

Nsfw Headcanons~

George Mcfly

Lestat

Gary Wallace

Wyatt Donnelly

Joey Trotta

Les Anderson

Heather Chandler

Cindy Mancini

Billy Tepper

Chris Hammond

Ricky Butler

Alan Frog

Threesome with Billy and Joey (toy soldiers)

Vic (wws)

Kenny Crandell

Threesome with Gary Wallace and Wyatt Donnelly

Ace Merrill

Charlie Dillon

Richard Cameron

[irisbleufic]

So, I spent the last 5 days of sitting around with this serious arm injury rereading the very first epic fic series I ever wrote. Although the posting dates on the below chapters are all 18 November 2013, the reality is that these were originally posted as individual stories on LiveJournal throughout the entirety of 2004 and into the spring of 2005. Those were my junior and senior years of college. This series was the last thing I relocated from LJ to AO3, and I was too exhausted to do a proper comb-through for typos and minor formatting issues.

Well, that state of things is no more. I cleaned up all of the editorial issues during this week’s rewatch-the-film-and-reread-my-fic binge. I also changed the names of a few of the chapters (they’re really stories strung together), although not drastically. The chapter called “Clippings” used to be called “Business,” “Spiral” used to be called “You Must Listen to Me Now,” and “Closer to Fine” used to be called “The Middle of Things.”

I had an ask a few days ago along the lines of: What the hell is Toy Soldiers, anyway? On the surface, it’s a 1991 action movie/teen drama. It stars a young Sean Astin and Wil Wheaton as Billy Tepper and Joey Trotta, the central protagonists among the cast of younger characters. At the time I saw it in early 2004, I had only ever seen Sean Astin in The Lord of the Rings. And, incredibly, I didn’t even know who Wil Wheaton was.

That might be one reason I was able to take this film to heart so earnestly (i.e. I completely lacked knowledge of Wesley Crusher, Wheaton’s Star Trek character from around that time who it was traditional to mock, although I still don’t get why). However, the primary reason this film wrecked the back end of my 2004 spring break was that I had watched The Celluloid Closet for the first time only days before watching Toy Soldiers.

I challenge any queer person to watch this documentary (about the Hays Code and the horrible fate met by queer-coded and queer characters in cinema) and this under-appreciated action film back to back and come out of it without feeling devastated and furious about what happens to Billy and Joey. Especially to Joey. And now, in an era of rampant school shootings and hostage situations, Toy Soldiers hits with even more gravity than it did in the 1990s and early 2000s.

These boys are where it started for me. Every every horrific canon media ending that has ever made me furious, every hundreds-of-thousands-of-words long fix-it series I’ve written in the past 19 years, can be traced back to this moment. This string of stories was what I wrote before I ever wrote the likes of Crown of Thorns (Good Omens), Anthology (Pacific Rim), and Delicate, Dangerous, Obsessed (Gotham). Hell, one of my instrumental original characters in CoT appeared for the first time at the end of Book of Hours before I ever thought to use her in a Good Omens context.

This story has meant the world to me even though the fandom around it at the time of writing, and even now, was never more than about 20 people. Most of those people are still with me, the dearest friends I could ever hope to have 💙

*

Chapter Index for The Series / Book of Hours by irisbleufic

1. Stereotypical (2013-11-18)

2. Persuasion (2013-11-18)

3. Taste Testing (2013-11-18)

4. Leaving a Mark (2013-11-18)

5. Trick or Treat (2013-11-18)

6. Omerta (2013-11-18)

7. Translation (2013-11-18)

8. Sketches (2013-11-18)

9. Falling (2013-11-18)

10. Caught (2013-11-18)

11. What It Takes (2013-11-18)

12. Noteworthy (2013-11-18)

13. These Shadows Have Offended (2013-11-18)

14. Love Never Did Run Smooth (2013-11-18)

15. Within Reason (2013-11-18)

16. Composure (2013-11-18)

17. Clippings (2013-11-18)

18. Without End (2013-11-18)

19. Prologue: Every Hour (2013-11-18)

20. Book of Hours: Part 1 (2013-11-18)

21. Book of Hours: Part 2 (2013-11-18)

22. Flashback: Spiral (2013-11-18)

23. Flashback: Silver (2013-11-18)

24. The Orchids (2013-11-18)

25. Closer to Fine (2013-11-18)

[irisbleufic]

Here we go: my first brand new work in this fandom in like a decade, FML. This is a stand alone fic; first two chapters out of six are live.

TEASER:

“Listen, man, I’m really sorry,” Joey said. “It’s just…I don’t know where everybody went.”

Billy shoved his hands in his pockets, his old swagger returning. “Does it really matter?”

“I don’t know about you,” Joey said, jabbing his finger at Billy’s nose, “but I’d rather not get detention for a week because I ditched the group.”

“Please,” Billy said, rolling his eyes. He pulled something out of his back pocket and thwapped it against his palm. “Why go looking for them when you could join me on an adventure instead?” He thwapped his palm a few more times, and Joey realized it was a book.

“Gimme that,” Joey said, snatching it away from him. He realized he was holding the most tattered paperback copy of From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler that he’d seen since the one in his old elementary school library at Immaculate Conception.

“Ever read that?” Billy asked, grinning like he already knew he’d won. “It’s up your alley.”

[irisbleufic]

If I’m wading back into the fire tonight, I’m bringing y’all with me. Before I wrote CoT, I wrote this—and it means every bit as much to me, hard-won as it was.

[irisbleufic]

I thought this fic was finished at 6 chapters, but then anon requested a seventh chapter extending the "Same [X]" titling convention by one more element. I'm all too happy to oblige.

Chapter 7: Same Bed is live. It adds about 2,200 words to the fic.

[irisbleufic]

I'm curious what made you decide to write for the toy soldiers fandom again? Where did you get your inspiration for the new fic?

During Thanksgiving Week, I wanted to continue showing @one-eyed-bossman (i.e. my wife) movies I love that she has never seen. The first one that came to mind was Toy Soldiers. I hadn’t rewatched it in about 7 years.

I rewatch this film sparingly due to how much Billy’s grief wrecks me. In addition to Billy’s grief making me feel my own emotions all over again, it invariably makes me want to revisit my stories.

This time, I think I held it together better than I usually do, but I also got seized by the mad urge to reread all the TS fic I wrote between 2004-2010ish (I wrote a couple of my stand-alones after 2005-2006 due to participating jn the Yuletide Exchange where I knew a couple people had requested TS stories…my track record as one of the only writers for that film got me assigned those people’s requests every single time).

Anyway, I reread all my fic. I saved The Series/Book of Hours for last. No sooner had I finished all that than I got seriously hurt on Thanksgiving day as described in a couple other recent posts, so…I needed distraction from the pain and distress of those wounds. More importantly, I needed to see if they were still with me, if I could find them, if I could hear them.

Fortunately, it seems to have worked. And now I wonder if they’ll recede politely to the background of my headspace again, or…if they’ll want more stories

[irisbleufic]

Your new Toy Soldiers fic is SO GOOD. So happy to see those boys again I was crying ngl. I was wondering if you would take a prompt for a seventh bonus chapter? You left it at a place where they’ve both just arrived at Regis School for the first time and are about to go to the dorm room before their unknown third roommate is due to arrive the next day (or in a couple days? unclear). Anyway, if you are inclined to take my prompt, it is simply that Chapter 7 should follow the titling convention of the other chapters, “Same (X Thing),” and be called “Same Bed” since the two of them share a bunk bed canonically in the film. Smut or not up to you ;)

Oh, anon. How can I possibly say no to that? Give me a couple days 💙

[irisbleufic]

Old question but are you still in the Toy Soldiers fandom?

Absolutely! Once I’ve participated in a fandom, I consider myself always in it. I haven’t written any TS fic in a few years, though. That could change at any moment; I have some older fandoms I come back to every once in a while to add content. It’s unpredictable, is all.

[irisbleufic]

I owe you an apology for being such a lazy reader: I confess that this AO3 archiving is, to me, an embarrassment of riches, as now I'll be able to catch up on everything I was too lazy to dig up on LJ. I have a question for you, too, because you must be digging up so much you haven't thought about in so long - if there was one thing from across your works you would want people to read and remark upon, just one, what would that be?

With all my heart, it would be The Series / Book of Hours.

From 2003 through 2005, this film (Toy Soldiers, 1991), this series, and the novel-length work that ended it (I thought; as you can see, several smaller follow-ups emerged even after BoH itself was over) consumed every spare moment I had.  It’s no lie to say it took half my sanity with it in the process, but I would never trade the experience of wanting to fix so profound a loss and, to my own mind, succeeding, for anything.

So, dear readers, if I ask nothing else of you, I suppose I ask this: watch the film, read this 300,000-word walk into the dark and back out again, and then tell me if the time was wasted.  If the answer was yes, I think I’d really need to hear it.  I held off the archiving for so long, mostly because, even at the time I was actively writing it, TS fandom was tiny, non-existent (much like it is today), and yet I had a devoted audience of maybe six to ten people at any given time who supported me through what is, to this day, the toughest, most thrilling writing project I’ve ever completed (or, indeed, suspect I’ll ever complete).

I rarely wax this sentimental, but few things I’ve written are as deeply a part of my sorrow as they are of my joy in such starkly equal measure.

(Only Crown of Thorns has matched it, I can honestly tell you that.)

[irisbleufic]

More work from years past now on AO3:

All Toy Soldiers content, Series/Book of Hours included, is now up on AO3.

(This would be a neat time to point out that Uriel, an OC who often turns up in my Good Omens fic, was not originally built for use in GO.  Her first appearance ever, eight or nine months before I even started writing GO, was at the very end of Book of Hours.  I needed an Archangel with Dominion Over the Souls of Men, so she came.  And never left.)