#2017 BMC fandom I miss you every day

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Curious about the WIP "BOYF RIENDS" and I love your WIP titles aldkhas

HFJASKDAS THANK YOU most of them are very spur of the moment LOL basically just going off of the Vibe™

Started this when I got back into my BMC phase. Honestly I should finish this one it's very cute 🤧

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10, 11, 28, 29 for the ao3 asks!

(Original list here)

Thank you for the ask!! As some of you may know, I’ve had quite the unproductive year for writing this year, so to give myself a bit more to work with, I’m gonna include the back half of 2023 as well, otherwise I’ll have 5 fics to work with, 4 of them being very short haha!

Also, worth noting, for whatever reason tumblr is not letting me link to ao3? Everything I discuss should be on my ao3 masterlist (aside from like- one fic because it’s in its own separate fandom and I haven’t made a post for it yet) and the links on there are working just fine, so if you’re interested, consider going there to check out any fics I mention! (Or any others I didn’t mention, there’s a lot there hehe!)

With all that out of the way, time for the ask!

10: What work was the quickest to write?

Probably one of the four short fics I did for Pins and Patches week back in April of this year! I’d say the first one (New Feelings) was when I had the most steam, so that was probably the quickest. However, they all took me around a day or less to write, so it’s hard to say for sure.

I like to think of Michael and Jake as the fell first/fell harder type, although I’m more of a Jake fell first guy now, it’s just significantly easier for me to write from Michael’s POV lmao.

11: What work took you the longest to write?

The one that took the longest this year was my most recent fic, which is called Dirty Little Secret. This one is the only one I don’t have a link to on my blog, but if you look in the Good Game (TV 2017) Fandom tag it’s currently at the top, so you can’t miss it. If we’re including all previous drafts for this idea it took me at least six months to write, which is actually longer than I thought. I was originally going to include a fic from 2023 as well, but this would still be the longest, so I’ll just leave it at that.

28: Favorite work you wrote this year?

For this one, I’m going to do a fic from 2023 actually, because this fic is still one of my favorites in general to date. This fic being Someone Said You Had Your Tattoo Removed, which I wrote two days before 2024!

From start to finish, every step of this fic was a joy. I loved coming up with the idea, I loved kind of teasing it, I loved exploring the SQUIP and how it treated Jeremy, as well as Michael and Jeremy’s relationship. I loved poking at their friendship and how although they’re okay now it still hurts to look back on the past. And I love rereading it. I think I found their voices really well in this one and I like how I captured their dynamic, and although it’s not silly like some of my other BMC fics, it holds a special place in my heart.

29: Favorite line/passage you wrote this year?

Using the same fic as the last question for this one. Despite the bummer themes in the last fic, this part is written to be a bit comedic before it gets into the nitty gritty, and I think out of the entire fic, this captures their friendship the best. I had fun writing it out, so here it is for you!

“Hey, man! Glad you could make it.” Michael had a smile on his face, but it fell once he got a good look at Jeremy’s, “Whoa… are you good? You’re like- super tense.”

Shit.

“I’m not tense!” Jeremy’s voice raised an octave and a half, and he quickly overcorrected, clearing his throat and starting again, “I’m- I mean, I’m good. I’m good. Can we go inside?”

Judging by the look on Michael’s face, his performance wasn’t very convincing. He wasn’t off to a very good start, considering he’d hoped to bring this up after they’d gotten settled. Now Michael was looking at him like he was a scared animal, and he was trying to keep him from running off.

However, he got a hesitant nod anyway, and the door opened further so he could walk inside.

As he kicked off his shoes, Michael spoke up, voice a bit quieter and hesitant now, “Jeremy, you’re kinda scaring me. What’s wrong?”

Fuck, this was a bad place for this conversation. He could see Michael’s mom out of the corner of his eye on the phone with someone, and he wanted some distance in case this conversation went really badly.

“Can we talk downstairs?” Jeremy asked, which definitely didn’t help in the scaring Michael category. He got a nod though, and they silently walked down the stairs to the basement while Jeremy thought about exactly how he was going to word this.

He probably looked like he was about to throw up.

As soon as they got situated downstairs, Michael was looking at him very seriously, “Okay, seriously. What’s going on?”