#fic: wwyd.

[3ncr1pted]

what would you do. (charles leclerc/george russell pre-charles leclerc/george russell/max verstappen, complete?, 970 words)

“What,” He says, “like a threesome?” He continues because his brain to mouth filter apparently died the second the door shut behind the mousy brown haired man and trapped him in here with him. Charles giggles, at him, his hand coming up to cover his mouth to mute the bubbly sound of it. “Yes, are you in, mate?” He wiggles his eyebrows for extra effect, or innuendo, or just because he can or something–George's brain is sort of fried as the thoughts of him and Charles in bed come to his mind, or him and Max, and then all three of them together. He can feel the way his cheeks go warm.

AO3 Link

[groovebunker]

i’m gonna be obnoxious about this and people are just going to have to be cool about that. yes? good.

happy birthday to what would you do (if they ever found us out) (affectionately known as wwyd)!!! a year ago today, i posted chapter one and (i’m not being dramatic here) i think it changed my life?

little backstory: i’m a dyke with eyes and a type, so when i watched fran drescher making impassioned speeches about labour rights, i was both smitten and reminded that i’d been meaning to watch the nanny. i was also (mostly unbeknownst to me) about as mentally ill as i’ve ever been in my life. i was halfway through a phd which i loved but it was making me so, so unwell. anyway, i started watching the nanny as some kind of escapism and one night, i was like…has anyone thought of fran and cc kissing on the mouth? and they had (obviously) and so i started thinking about that and how whine cellar is a deeply disappointing episode in so many ways and then i was like ‘i can fix that! with a one shot!’.

fast fwd to april 2024. i’m in my favourite city in the world. i’m posting the 11th chapter of that one shot far too late at night (sorry sara). it’s ended up about 85k words long. i’m no longer a phd candidate. i’m significantly less mentally ill. and i’ve spent the last 8 or so months being held by a group of people i would never have met if i had never started writing again.

i didn't quit my phd to write fan fiction, obviously. but writing fic helped me realise how unhappy i was because it was something that gave me joy in a time that was so fucking bleak. i don't really like thinking about it too much but it wasn't great. and then i had this lifeline. these two idiots (affectionate) falling in love with one another, not only in wwyd but all the other fics i was writing. and talking about with people who were commenting and finding me on tumblr. and then, eventually, we weren't just talking about fran and cc, we were talking about our lives! because we were friends!

people will tell you before you start a phd that it's a lonely experience. i was the only history student in my cohort. i only met one of my supervisors in person at his leaving drinks. i have two friends i met at my uni, one of whom was the first person i told that i had to quit. i had other friends and an incredible, loving, patient partner, and they were amazing. but still, it was lonely.

and then i just fucking wasn't.

january ‘24, the squad evolved from being my stupid tumblr tag to being the most chaotic group chat i have ever been part of (until nic got us nicely organised). a week or so later, i quit the phd. and i told a bunch of people i’d never met that i was dropping out of grad school and they were so fucking kind. i will never forget that. the squad, in all its iterations, will have my heart for my whole life. i will not rest until i have annoyed you all in person. my dream is winning the lottery and flying you all to a villa in spain for a week so i can cook you dinner (and cass can make bread) every night and drink wine and splash about in the sun (or in sara’s case, hide in the shade and probably yell at us to put sun screen on). when i say i love you, i mean it so wholly and truly.

anyway, back to wwyd. it’s not my first fic. i’ve been writing on and off for 15 long, long years. but i hadn't written a ton for a while (other than my aloto fic bc gretson my beloved) and i really kind of expected to get a couple of comments and a few kudos. i just had a story that wanted to get out so i published the first few chapters in really rather quick succession (i’m sorry to anyone who reads my stuff, my adhd is too bad for a posting schedule) and people…loved it? like, really loved it. which was so nice because i’m gonna be honest, there was not an adoring audience for my academic work (perils of being a genocide scholar). and i know it's become quite a few people’s comfort fic. i know people have reread it, more than once in some cases, which feels wild. people have left the most wonderful comments, said the kindest things, drawn gorgeous art, made a fanmix (which is fucking amazing), followed along on this journey which i did not expect them to do.

i don't have favourite children (b&w fans, i promise you, the next chapter is in the works) but if i did, wwyd might be one. sure, she's my difficult eldest child. but she got me into a fandom for the first time in years, she’s given me friends i know I will hold onto for the rest of my life, she reminded me how much fun writing can be. and she’s spawned so much more because she made me so much more confident as a writer.

so i don't think i’m being overdramatic when i say it changed my life. if you’d told me all of this when i hit publish on chapter one last year, i would have told you to fuck off. relatively vehemently. but i’m better now. and i’m so fucking grateful for this fic for being part of what gave me that.

anyway, thanks for letting me be a bit self indulgent - promise you don't have to sit through this ever again (maybe for won't you when i finally get it done. i’m sorry. i’m verbose). and once again, to everyone who has read wwyd, given it kudos, commented, reblogged a chapter on tumblr, all of it, my eternal thanks. i couldn't have done it without you.

finally, because i cannot say it enough, to the squad, you have my whole heart. it’s actually mad to me that this time last year, i had no idea who any of you were. your stamp on the last few chapters of wwyd is indelible. your stamp on my life is somehow more permanent than that. thank you. ilsym 🫶🏻

[flutter2deceive]

what would you do (if they never found us out) | the fanmix

happy 1 yr anniversary to one of the greatest fics i've ever read by @groovebunker !! here is a fanmix to celebrate! 💖💖

[tadpolesonalgae]

your interactive fic is SO COOL ❤️❤️❤️

Soo…if I were to write another one that’s perhaps a little more developed…? 👀

Would you guys be interested in that?

[lomakes]

If I said I was writing a 10k word fic about Celyn dying wwyd

[divinenanny]

Feedback Fest 2024: The Nanny recs!

It's International Fanworks Day today, and @transformativeworks is asking for fic recs! (for more information check out their post!)

The Nanny is a very small fandom, I have 1872 fics (from all sites, including RUNHP via the Internet Archive) in total, and just 407 of those are on AO3 (including crossovers in which The Nanny is not the main fandom).

But despite being a small fandom we are and have been blessed with amazing writers. I have had trouble limiting my recs to just 10. My recs cover both CC/Niles and CC/Fran as ships, most are rated E/M so check the rating if you care about those things. In no particular order:

what would you do (if they never found us out) (affectionately known as wwyd) by @groovebunker - CC/Fran - In Progress - CC and Fran cannot keep their hands off each other, starting with being locked in the wine cellar. They're together and figuring this relationship out. The writing is amazing, the characterization spot on and @groovebunker introduced and convinced me of CC/Fran as a valid ship and I am forever grateful to them.

i like you (a latke) also by @groovebunker (I recommend everything by them but want to highlight these two) - CC/Fran - Fake dating and a hanukah party at Sylvia's. So sweet. So comforting. So lovely.

Christmas Special by @7billionneedles - CC/Niles - An amazing advent project, publishing a chapter a day in December 2023. They are at least 60% responsible for getting me through that month. Also fake dating, a little mystery, a little adventure and so much fluffy loveliness. And long, I love long. It was great reading this a chapter a day, and rereading it was even better.

The Hell Of It by @7billionneedles - CC/Niles (ish) - Major Character Death - MCD is not my jam. But this one. This one. It is so beautifully heartbreaking. Making me cry ugly tears in just 1259 words. If you can handle MCD, read this one. Now.

With Luck Like That by @tayryn/Tayryns_tower (restricted) - CC/Niles - Niles accompanies CC to a weekend away to woo some backers, and instead they woo each other. All kinds of shenanigans, lots of spice, but also romance and fluff. A great comfort read.

In Vino Veritas by @seariderfalcon - CC/Niles - The summary covers it: Blame it on the alcohol. Six times Niles and C.C. let liquor loosen their inhibitions and one time they didn't need it. Many lovely kisses, eventually matching up with canon (yay, Dummy Twins).

How Will I know (If She Really Loves Me)? by @enchantedslothh - CC/Fran - In Progress - CC meets Fran in Flushing the day Fran is fired from the bridal shop. Fran goes to work for the Sheffields, and the story pretty much follows canon, but it is CC and Fran starting a relationship (and CC is a lot quicker than Maxwell). It is lovely to see canon through this lens.

vignettes from the kitchen (and the couch) by @itsfantasticallyhomoerotic/iffoundreturntomissbabcock - CC/Fran - CC and Fran decide to fake date to make Maxwell jealous. Well, that never back-fired in the history of (fan-) fiction ever :D

Life As We Knew It by Aninsomniac1999 - CC/Niles - Lots angst, dating other people, not admitting that they belong together.

normal days on upper east side by uppereastsidegirl - CC/Niles - In Progress - Lots of scenes between CC and Niles, during canon. Great to see them in the spotlight. This fic is translated, so does have some grammar/spelling issues, but it is worth it.

Special mentions I couldn't fit in anymore: it's all there in black and white by @groovebunker (CC/Fran journalist AU, in progress), Enemies With Privileges by @7billionneedles (CC/Niles, during canon)

Also, if you want, you can check out my own fics on AO3 (all CC/Niles).

[bl00dst41ned]

imagine you start dating one of the Bellingham brothers and because fans are crazy they somehow end up finding out you wrote/read fics about them both 😭 wwyd in that situation. ( ik this is very delulu but regardless)

the second we date: accounts deleted. fics erased. pics, deleted. my phone is cleansed from every trace of them in my phone. and if little fans go and tell him about it, I'm getting the world's most skilful hacker to get their address. the following day they are met by a team that I sent straight from Sevran Beaudottes (French people will understand) just for vengeance. then when it comes to my boy, I guess I'll have to stand on it since they already know. it'll be kinda awkward and scary though. i'll die from embarrassment, turning red even though I'm black asf

[thegeminisage]

publishing a fic soon that uses a skin for a text conversation and makes it look like these

(shoutout to the yelp fic) but i just found out some people disable skins. if you ran into a fic that had an author's note saying you needed a skin for this chapter and you needed to click "show creator's style" at the top to View it properly wwyd

im not gonna guilt trip you into reblogging or anything (altho i would be thrilled) but puh-LEASE i need opinions so bad so you can reply if you just want to expand your thots. thank you

[bunsofhoney]

Three chapters into a creepy torturey assassin fic and I have to ask myself: what next? Do they get feelings? Does this evolve into a character study or just devolve into (more) smut and violence? WWYD?

[ihugyoshi]

wwyd if i js publish this soobin fic 😂🫰

[3ncr1pted]

Here for the YAP on main What was your inspiration for 'What would you do?'

ALSO I love De tout Mon Etre a very normal amount Definitely haven't read Avec Toi like a thousand times shhhhhhh So if you wanna give director's cut on them? Maybe something that didn't make the final cut 👀

long yap below haha

HAHAHA for 'What would you do?' it was entirely a fever dream i made up based off everything that happened post quali in bahrain this year omg

i saw lestappen actually include george in the pres con and was reading gax fics and though: hey lets throw them together bc i quite like george/charles too,,, i was thinking abt these three together since ad23 and wrote wwyd on no sleep, posted it before the race too. i actually dont really remember writing this loll

there's a half written ch 2 where we get to the threesome in my docs i might write at some point...

for Avec Toi i like got the idea at work watching the post sprint pictures where charles gets pulled away yk and when i sat down to write i said i want going to make it over 2k words and finished it in like a few hrs and posted it before i went to sleep.

the title was actually the last thing i did before hitting post on ao3 bc i didn't have a title until then, it was just (miami sprint) in my docs.

i dont really leave out any scenes bc the way i write is like start to finish. i normally have an end scene or feeling and a start and fill in the rest....de tout mon être was like that haha.

i just wanted the collar trophy on while they fucked and got the brilliant idea of the omega collar thing which really spiraled i guess lol

i wrote it in like 26 hrs and started it at work on my phone before the race even happened haha. the rest was written after the race half at work and half at home in a heartbroken state bc max didn't put the actual trophy on irl

[groovebunker]

cc x fran fic masterpost

been meaning to do this for a little while - indulge me so i can pin it.

ongoing work

it's all there in black and white [teen - 4/?]

when newspaper editor maxwell sheffield wants to introduce an advice column, he pairs veteran political reporter cc babcock up with his newest hire, fashion columnist fran fine. the only problem? cc wouldn't take her own advice at gunpoint. oh, and she hates fran's perfect face and stupid laugh and general existence. there is that. aka the agony aunt au.

chapter one -- chapter two -- chapter three -- chapter four

i only liked a lot of things before i knew (the way i love it when you touch me now) [explicit - 1/2]

cc admits she's never been with a man who got her off. fran's nothing if not persistently helpful.

chapter one

can't reach the moon up above, don't dare touch the fire [explicit - 1/?]

cc's never been sure how to want things. fran's determined to show her how.

chapter one

what would you do?

what would you do (if they never found us out?) [explicit - 11/11]

after what was supposed to be a one time thing in the wine cellar, cc and fran find they can't keep their hands off of one another. but it's only because neither of them can get maxwell. right?

i. how it started -- ii. furious -- iii. do you trust me? -- iv. beautiful -- v. missed you -- vi. promises -- vii. i'm glad you're here -- viii. i've got you -- ix[a]. only bought (you) this dress so i could take it off. -- ix[b]. needing -- x. what would you do if they ever found us out

what would you do (the vignettes) [explicit]

i. the smoke gets in your eyes -- ii. while you were sleeping

the latke-verse

i like you (a latke) [teen - completed - 1/1]

fran doesn't want to show up to her ma's chanukah party alone. cc's fed up of seeing her sad since she got back from paris. no ulterior motives here, none at all. aka the fake dating chanukah fic.

seventh time is (hopefully) the charm [teen - completed - 1/1]

cc gets some help with valentine's breakfast.

won't you?

won't you just let me pretend that this is the love that i want? [teen]

there's a lot of things cc and fran never talk about. until they do.

won't you just show me the love that i need? [teen]

cc's never been good at being needed. unless, obviously, fran needs her.

won't you just give me the love that i long for? [mature - 2/2]

neither of them are sure how it's so confusing to be able to have what you want. until it's not.

chapter 1 -- chapter 2

won't you just show me the love i've been missing? [teen - 1/?]

sometimes, you have to go back to where you started for anything to change.

chapter 1

should be over all the butterflies [mixed ratings]

a series of vignettes set in the won't you universe.

august two thousand and nine: the fence -- two thousand and six: crossword -- two thousand: the beginning -- two thousand and three: the first time -- two thousand and seven: look after her -- two thousand and eleven: no such thing as bad thoughts -- two thousand and fourteen: how did you know? -- two thousand and seventeen: i wish you hadn't

one-shots (for now)

trick or treat (or: how cc babcock learnt to enjoy halloween) [mature]

c.c. does not like halloween. fran's absolutely not going to stand for that.

fran fine, sweater thief [teen]

five times fran wears c.c.'s sweater and one time c.c. turns the tables.

wise men followed the star (the way i followed my heart) [explicit]

when the phone rings at 11 on christmas eve, fran doesn't expect cc on the other end.

i want your midnights [teen]

c.c. does leave maxwell but that's not the only reason she runs away from the sheffield house. when she and fran end up at the same new year's eve party, can she convince herself to stand still?

i still see it all in my head (burnin' red) [teen]

soulmate au: the world is black and white until you see your soulmate for the first time. or: how red becomes c.c. babcock's favourite colour.

three minutes [teen]

fran finds someone unexpected on the other side of the table when val accidentally takes her to lesbian speed dating. unexpected but not necessarily unwanted.

black coffee morning on the east side [general]

fran's not sure what cc stands for. but she's absolutely going to find out. or: the one where fran's a barista and cc's a very beautiful stranger who drinks freshly brewed black coffee and blushes a lot.

[demxters]

wwyd if I told you that maybeeeeeee I had opened my laptop and started writing a sirius fic

i maybeeeee will react like a dog having zoomies and bouncing off the walls… y’know like a normal person

[tadpolesonalgae]

I’m so tired and I think I’ve linked everything but I’ll double check in the morning when I’m more awake!

I’m in bed and asleep by eight so my eyes are heavy

Hope you guys have fun with What Would You Do?

[groovebunker]

famously, i don't care (cc babcock, known women's college graduate, apparently went to columbia now???) BUT i am reblogging this to make the point that having a beta reader (or several) for fic is indispensable.

a beta is not just an editor, although they are very good and helpful for that. a beta can keep you as canon compliant as you want to be (or as possible, in my case, thank you @divinenanny, @hangsamen and @cassiopeiasara you really do try your hardest and your best). they can check for characterisation, if that's what you're worried about. they know the source material so you don't have to worry so much about a story getting away from you (in that regard, in my experience, they're less than helpful at stopping it from getting away from you otherwise).

i am so lucky to have phenomenal beta readers, i know i am, and if you've read my nanny fic from the start, you can tell when I met them (about 2/3 of the way through wwyd, otherwise @divinenanny would have absolutely been on at me about bryn mawr). i also know it's hard, especially in smaller fandoms, to find them. you want someone you can trust, maybe ideally someone else who writes fic, someone you can get along with. but i promise you it's worth it because you will get a better end product and a fic you can be proud of.

my biggest tips for finding these people is to not be shy! talk to people who are in your fandom, comment on their fics, jump into their inboxes! that's how i met those three and now we are Friends™. i think it's important to know exactly what you're looking for as well - some people are going to be more critical than others and if you're a bit fragile about a draft, you have to be able to articulate what you need during that process. you might also want different betas for different things within the same fandom, which you might have to build up to but still, worth a thought.

this was a lot of talking to say that if you're worried about canon compliance, look for beta readers, try to find community in fandom (lots of draft swapping is good for the creative process, i think) and just...don't be shy. fans don't really want to exist alone. we just have to find each other.

my biggest fear when writing fanfiction is getting canon details wrong.

[dreamingofmilk]

Hey everyone! So we came up with the idea of making a story where you all get to decide what happens. Depending on how well this goes we may do more stories this way. Click the link below for the rules.

Rules

We hope you like it!

What Would You Do?

You knew when you fell in love you’d fall hard. You have always been that person, with a heart too soft, and skin too thin. You were the type of hopeless romantic that books loved to showcase. You wanted perfection in a relationship and a partner and honestly for a while you didn’t believe that you would find it. 

But somehow you did.

You found it in him. Erik Stevens. This was the man that stole your heart and he was very selfish with it. He was very sweet to you, even when he was kind of an asshole to everyone else, but you’d be lying if you said you didn’t love it.

Erik was good to you. He was a loyal man that loved to take care of you and he made it very obvious that he wanted to be with you for the rest of his life. The amount of times he talked about your future together made that very obvious. 

He was undeniably intelligent, he had a plan for his life and he was out to get it and he wanted you to be down for the ride. 

“My rider baby. Together forever.” He’d always sing to you on those late night car rides. You’d smile, heat creeping into your cheeks as he pressed his lips into the back of your hand. 

Erik took care of you mentally and physically. There were days when all he wanted was to eat you out until you melted in his grip. He struggled to keep his hands off of you. PDA was something you had to adjust to being with him. And he made sure that adjustment period was all practice. 

So it boggled your mind when he disappeared for three months effectively breaking your heart. You cried for days, weeks. You loved him and he left you with a fucking fairy tale of a note. “Explaining” where he was supposedly going. Wakanda. Talking about being a long lost prince that was going to demand his rightful place next to his royal cousins. 

He mentioned that he wanted to kill them at first, but when he fell in love with you, he knew that he had to find another way to help his people. You call bullshit. Nevermind the fact that he’s been lying to you the entire time. He really thought he’d be able to explain away his sudden absence and everything would be perfectly fine between you two! As if you didn’t deserve to know any of this before he left you. 

You didn’t believe a thing the note said until you awoke one night. Fear crept up your spine the second you realized you were not alone in your bed. You noticed Erik sitting in bed next to you, a smile on his face as he watched you awake slowly. The same smile that used to make your heart skip a beat.

You go to rub your face when a glint catches your eyes and you see the engagement ring of your dreams placed delicately on your ring finger. 

A big smile spread across his face. He stared at you with admiration and longing. As if he wasn’t the one who left you to pick up the pieces of your tattered heart.

“You like it?” He asked with hopeful eyes. 

You couldn’t figure out how to respond. 

Do you….

1. Choke the fuck out of your ex boyfriend, fiancé, dumbass?

2. Ask to see his “crown” 

3. Throw the ring in his face

4. Other...

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