#max x brad fanfic

[madammuffins]

Fifth Column

Fandom: An Extremely Goofy Movie

Ship; Single Dad!Max x Bradley Uppercrust III

Rating: Explicit (slowburn)

Posted: Wattpad, AO3

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[winkwonkwankwenk]

Okay hi, Wink here, I wrote Roommates and now I'm torn between ideas for my next Maxley fic (besides You and I, dw that one isn't being abandoned lol) (Also besides Dear Diary) (I have a lot of Maxley fics okay)

Anyways, I'm torn between a few ideas

Ice skater x hockey player would be enemies to lovers

Cowboys would be strangers to lovers

Mermaid would also be strangers to lovers

Help please because I have too many ideas and lots of time

[witchyangels]

Ta-daaah! Cover art for my fanfic on Ao3 under the name Angels767!

I started this October 15th and finished it last night (November 12th). Is it weird to be inspired by your own fanfic? I didn't do this because i felt pressured to do art, I just did it because I wanted to. Cover ideas don't come to me easy, but this idea popped into my head and I just had to draw it.

The fic is still a work in progress, but I have a timeline, future scenes written, and plans for it to have at least 3 parts. I posted chapter 14 just the other day :3

Here's the summary!

Bradley Uppercrust III, or 'Brad', as Maximilian Goof calls him, is back at school after being out for three weeks following the X-Games. Tank slingshotting Bradley into the blimp has forced new fears and new feelings into Bradley's life. All he wants now is to get through his last two years at State and graduate. He's on thin ice with the school and his father, so he needs to not make another mess or spill too much in therapy. However, Max seems to have other ideas.

Max had hoped to never see Bradley again, ever, after the X-Games. So why was Bradley walking up to him and his friends? Was he actually being serious, or was this another scheme? Wait, does Brad actually have a heart?

Or Bradley apologizes to everyone because he needs it for himself. He doesn't want forgiveness, just wants peace. Max forgives him, because he's Goofy's son (and because Brad gave him a pencil in class). Or Here we go, another Maxley story… How original *slow clap*

[lorax-devito]

is anyone else one of those ppl who has ships that consume them,ships that they see fanfics of and think ‘I kinda know:don’t know what this is but I like it and it needs to be canon’ and never really finds out the lore about it etc

basically I am in so many fandoms but not active enough for it to be an obsession but I get it recommended to me time to time and I think about rarely and yeah

it’s really hard to explain but yeah,I’ve just been recommended Luca x Alberto stuff from the movie Luca and tbh I never realised I shipped them so much until now but I’m not like,obsessed I’m just so happy that it’s (apparently I just kinda went with it when I saw it lol) canon and there’s other stuff aswell and just ughhhhh like wdym max and Brad are one of the cutest couples ever or at least from the fanart they are (I haven’t seen the goofy movie in YEARS lol) and now I have a Pinterest board filled with it but it’s not an obsession it’s just AHHH

ok and now I’m rambling but you know what I mean😭🙏

[pyladeshungover]

intro post

Tara // 29 // Australia

she / her / hers

oops i got into hockey sorry guys

my url is from approximately 2013 when I was a les mis blog, and my pfp is athelstan from vikings in a flower crown because that was cool in 2015. title is from the boat that rocked. I've been here forever.

i'm very not normal about sidney crosby, matthew tkachuk, and travis konecny

i'm slightly more normal but still unhinged about claude giroux and jamie drysdale

i do occassionally lb the hockey - pens lb, flyers lb, sometimes panthers lb

tag lists also i do tend to be pretty good about tagging everything so if you blacklist nothing should slip through

I did not realise you can only access that page on desktop but also the hyperlinks won't work in this post so here's the list:

FROM THE SELF

my face; sort of - my face and my thoughts

university life - university/college experiences

adulthood - attempts to function as a successful adult

millennials - the Adulthood Experience™ specific to millennials

life is hard - depression tag

so not straight - i am queer

mine - shit i’ve made or drawn

tumblr - i’ve been on this godforsaken website since i was 15 and i hate everything about that

RELIGION

blessed is he who comes in the name of the lord - christianity

jc and the boys - jesus and the apostles

jc and the girls - ladies of the disciples

upon this rock - history of, stories about, and images of the church

do not be afraid - angels 

your kingdom come - prophets, saints, and the apocalypse

the old gods are dead - graeco-roman mythology

folklore - local folk and fairy-tales 

WORLD AFFAIRS/CULTURE

straya - things about Australia

auspol - Australian politics

uspol - US politics

i’m a pathetic history major - general world and cultural history

who likes bad jokes - especially awful attempts at humour

words - poetry, quotes, literature

reclaiming the women - feminist re-tellings of fictional women

humanity - the good and incredible things about humans and community (also includes human and alien speculative fiction)

christmas - i love christmas

covid 19 - self explanatory

2020 - see above

2021 - mamma mia, here we go again

2022 - we’re three years into The Great Loneliness

FANDOM

fandom / fanfic

# - 911

A - abfab

B - brooklyn 99 / black books / beauty and the beast / birds of prey /buffy

C - criminal minds / code black

D - dirk gently / doctor who / disney / derry girls

E - elementary

F - firefly / fresh off the boat / friends / fleabag

G - great british bake off / grace and frankie / greys anatomy / galavant / game of thrones / gilmore girls / the great / the good place

H - holes / hunt for the wilderpeople / the hobbit / hannibal / hamilton / harry potter

I - inside llewyn davis

J - jurassic park / jesus christ superstar

K - kingsman / killing eve

L - lethal weapon / lucifer / lotr / les mis

M - moulin rouge / mamma mia / moana / mad max / the man from u.n.c.l.e. / mindhunter / miss fisher’s murder mysteries / the marvelous mrs maisel

N - narnia / nhl

O - the office / the old guard / oitnb

P - pushing daisies / parks and rec / the princess bride / psych / the prince of egypt / the parent trap / pirates of the caribbean / pride / prodigal son / phantom of the opera

Q - queer eye

S - spn / star wars / scrubs / the song of achilles / schitts creek / santa clarita diet / six the musical

T - teen wolf / twilight / to all the boys i’ve loved before /

U - umbrella academy

V - vikings / venom

W - what we do in the shadows / the witcher / wonder woman

X - xfiles

HOCKEY

nhl

hrpf

the rituals are intricate (n-h-is-for-for-homosexuality-l)

they’re so stupid 🥹 (memes)

hockey narratives

hockey art

hockey poetry

hockey vid edit

Players tagged initials jersey number (ie. sc87)

Other player tags - hughes bros / tkachuk fam / love thy goalie 

Ships - tknp / sidgeno / drygras / mattdrai / brioux / mike likes jeff but jeff loves mike / swaymark

Teams - bruins / ducks / flyers / gritty / leafs / oilers / pens / sens / stars / yotes

Liveblogging semiregularly - pens lb

Liveblogging very occassionally -  flyers lb / sens lb / panthers lb

[thearchercore]

red bull makes at least 3 rpf jokes on tiktok from the event

the fakest gasps in the audience when the red bull car looks exactly the same

someone mentions franco and the entire grid acts like he died (he just doesn't have a seat)

lecfosi and cult LH engage in a physical fight on the jubilee line that will be so extensive not even "see it say it sort it" will save them

lewis tries to speak italian and messes up causing an absolutely irrelavant cultural appropriation "my culture is not your costume" discourse on twitter

martin garrix has a performance and at the end announces lando and max are no longer friends

christian horner once again repeats carlos sainz is not getting the second red bull seat

damiano david will sing as the drivers present their new race suits victoria's secret fashion show style

ollie makes a joke about kimi and the sun magazine starts a rumour they're dating

max only looks like he doesn't want to off himself when charles looks at him for 0.01s

very over the top in memoriam vcr for all the drivers that lost their seat, daniel is somehow included twice

the "previously on f1" 2024 rewind glorifies the nonexistent lando x max title fight, resulting in charles and lando fist fighting on stage

brad pitt tries to promote his movie, revealing it's a brocedes fanfic all along

predictions for the f1 2025 car launch in london:

someone forgets to send out the dress code. george russell turns up in an immaculately pressed suit, lando norris turns up in black sweatpants.

the british drivers are raised onto the stage like they’re in the eras tour

the non-british drivers have to come in through the crowd entrance and buy their own tickets

christian horner still hasn’t decided who’s filling that second red bull seat. as a result max is accompanied on stage by what seems to be three untrained rookies in a trenchcoat

speaking of max, he doesn’t speak a word the entire night preferring instead to communicate short answers in sign language.

the hosts keep trying to awkwardly fill time à la eurovision song contest

there are at least two fistfights

and one dogfight (leo and roscoe)

pierre and esteban stand next to each other at first before they have to awkwardly be reminded that they’re not teammates anymore

someone makes a thinly veiled reference to the mclaren 2024 rear wing

kimi antonelli gets booed (british crowd) and about half the grid has to be physically restrained from jumping on the audience

toto wolff tries to seduce max yet again.

max audibly laughs at him. this is the only time we hear his voice all night.

oscar piastri gets visibly teary at the sight of drs since it’s the last time it’ll be used in f1

fred vasseur makes an insane prediction on how many races ferrari will win. everyone laughs at him.

he ends up being absolutely right

fernando turns up in another team’s colours

it’s later revealed that one team paid the sound engineers to play thunderous applause when their car was revealed

one livery will merit audible laughter

it will be alpine’s.

[okay-victoria]

Writing Dialogue

While some choices in dialogue will come down to style preference, most fanfic dialogue suffers from a much earlier problem of being done incorrectly, no matter what the stylistic preference. Once basic spelling & grammar is mastered, and assuming the fic contains more than a handful of dialogue, I think bad dialogue is the thing that kills my enjoyment the fastest. I can handwave plotholes and understand emotions that weren’t conveyed right, but I can’t read people having a conversation that doesn’t look anything like an actual human conversation.

Problem 1: Too Much Drama

We want our scenes to pulse with energy! Of course we want the dialogue to be dramatic! The problem here is, what makes for good dramatic dialogue is not people yelling powerful words at each other very passionately. What makes for dramatic dialogue is mostly the importance of that scene to the plot & the characters, so to achieve dramatic dialogue, the best thing you can do is not overly rely on the dialogue itself to be dramatic. Set up a dramatic situation, and then people don’t have to yell. They can say a few basic sentences and the audience already knows why it is important and why the characters care so much.

Have you ever seen the scene in The Room where Tommy Wiseau yells “You’re tearing me apart, Lisa!” Did you actually find that dramatic or did it just make you laugh because it was overdramatized? That’s what dramatic dialogue does to a story. Unless your characters are middle schoolers exclaiming it out in the hall between classes, chances are, older and more mature characters aren’t going to do a lot of yelling or make weirdly dramatic statements like the world is ending.

One of the biggest offenses on this count is overusing exclamation points and overusing emphasis. Exclamation points should be used very, very rarely, as should telling your reader what words are meant to be emphasized. Your character’s mood should primarily come through action - are they slamming doors, pacing back and forth, collapsing into a chair? Dialogue tags like “shouted” or “replied angrily” can be used to help, but should not stand on their own as the only thing portraying mood.

Instead of looking like this: “OMG! Can you believe it! Drama! Let me scream all the drama out in a monologue!” Lisa screamed, it should look like *Lisa kicks off her shoes, one leaves a mark on the wall* *Lisa slams bag down on counter, opens fridge for beer* *Lisa’s boyfriend stands frozen, as this is not normally how Lisa comes home from work. “This thing happened.” *Lisa collapses into kitchen chair and sticks head in her hands.* *Lisa’s boyfriend comes to put a hand on her back*. “One sentence reminding reader why Lisa is upset about this”.

Problem 2: Too Little Drama

Alternatively, you get scenes that sometimes look like two college roommates got high and are trying to acquire a pizza with as little effort as possible. Let’s say, for example, you have one character that has a crush on another character, and they are trying to find out information about them. While maybe the character learning this information is going to do something with it, so it’s important to the plot in another way, so the conversation itself does not need to be dramatic, it might end up looking like this:

I met Crush after class and we walked together. “What’s your favorite color?” - “Red” - “Do you like dogs?” - “Yes. Did you do the homework?” - “Yes. Math is my favorite class. How about you?” - “P.E.”

Like with the above, setup and action are everything. If you set up the scene where we know in advance how long it has taken Karen to get up the courage to talk to Chad and things like that, and then include actions in between the dialogue to show that she is nervous and therefore not very talkative, like her glancing up at him briefly but looking away as soon as he makes eye contact, or have her analyze Chad’s mood and wonder if he’s annoyed, etc, the scene can be made much more meaningful without needing to be a “dramatic” scene.

Problem 3: Dialogue is written like exposition

This tends to go unnoticed by some authors who are otherwise decent, and for me really ruins an otherwise decent story. The writing within the dialogue tags is written well, it just isn’t written like dialogue. It is written like exposition/narration.

In exposition: This project was doomed from the beginning. The improvements might look nice on paper, but the law of diminishing returns was going to stop it before it really started. Sounds...not excellent, I just pulled an example out of my ass, but fine.

In dialogue: “I think this project is doomed already,” Bob said, looking around the meeting room. “The improvements might look nice on paper, but the law of diminishing returns is going to stop it before it really starts.”

...sounds like Bob is kind of a psycho, or possibly your most pompous and hated coworker. Who the hell says “Law of Diminishing Returns” out loud if they aren’t a professor? The longer the dialogue and more flowery/technical/big vocab it becomes, which often *adds* to exposition, the worse and more unnatural the dialogue becomes.

Dialogue should not feel the same as the “speech” when a character is thinking. We tend to be fairly limited in how we express ourselves, use shorter and more simple sentence structures, more basic vocabulary, and haven’t memorized what we are going to say, so it doesn’t come out eloquently.

The one real exception to this that isn’t really dialogue, but is speech, is if you have a character making a speech or presentation, which they have prepared for in advance, and it is reasonable for them to give it uninterrupted.

If you want to make a point of one of your characters sounding like a total tool when they speak, you can also do this to achieve that and make it immediately clear to the audience why everyone hates them, but unless that’s what you’re going for, avoid this at all costs.

Problem 4: Dialogue is otherwise unnatural

Always, always, until you’re pretty damn sure you’re pretty damn good at it, say your dialogue out loud.

Would that personally really say “What is that?” or is it “What’s that?” Along the lines of not needing to use emphasis as much as you might think, if you were, say, in Scotland and just saw the Loch Ness monster pop out and want to ask your companion what it is, “What is that?” is fairly unnecessary. “What is that?” suffices. The simple fact that you didn’t use the standard contraction means the character emphasized the “is”. If you just see a piece of mail on someone’s desk that you are curious about, you’re going to say “What’s that?” and it won’t sound like you are dramatically asking about a generic piece of mail.

There are lots of very minor and small things that can easily go wrong in dialogue of this nature. It’s really important to say to yourself: if I was in this situation, how would I say it? Read it like you are acting it out in a movie and see. Also, question if a person would even say a sentence like that to begin with, or if they would be more or less direct in their approach. More direct is appropriate in many cases because people are usually trying to communicate clearly. Even if they are lying, they usually just say a direct statement that is a lie, they don’t dance around it indirectly and give hints to the other character. More indirect is appropriate when a character is trying to have a difficult conversation - we don’t tend to give tough advice or be directly rude, we try to work around it to make it sound better.

Because people want to have “exciting” or “cool” dialogue, they will often also give characters great rebuttals all the time, where they have these snappy conversations. This *can* work, but it’s really hard to pull off well, so in general I’d limit it to having a character having the occasional good rebuttal than a conversation of back-and-forth snark. Honestly, most of us just can’t think on our feet that well, and unless you’ve built the case that these characters can [ie, they’ve been married 20 years and are having the same arguments over and over so have it all thought out] it just seems very unrealistic.

Problem 5: Underutilizing dialogue tags

If you have two characters speaking, theoretically, if we know who the first speaker is and they switch off, a reader can follow the conversation indefinitely and know who is speaking.

In practice, that doesn’t happen. We like to be occasionally reminded. Personally, I try to max out at four consecutive lines of untagged speech, so no more than:

“Hey” said Kyle when he saw Brad.

“Hey.”

“What are you doing tonight?”

“Partying, bro, what did you think?”

“Haha, true. Do you think Lindsey will be there?”

“Man, you have such a crush on her,” Brad laughed.

Problem 6: Overusing dialogue tags

Conversely, in a conversation that is easy to follow, every single line does not need to be followed by a variation of “X person said”. If you are going for a tight back and forth conversation where neither character is thinking in between, you want to gum it up as little as possible with extraneous non-conversation. Hit us with occasional dialogue tags, and that’s it.

Problem 7: Not breaking dialogue up

This is somewhat of a style question, but in general, conversations should only be quick back and forth when that’s the point, but otherwise should generally pause briefly to “show” people doing actions, give some character thoughts, or otherwise break it up so the entire scene isn’t just a conversation.

Also, you can use these pauses as a way of showing hesitation/actual pauses that happen in the conversation.

Problem 8: Huge breaks between dialogue

This is something I am probably the *most* guilty of myself, because I’m writing a story where characters analyze the other characters a lot, so sometimes they’ll pause and think for a while in between. I haven’t quite arrived at the level where I’ve figured out how to get that all to flow in a way that breaks the dialogue up nicely, but not so much it is jarring and you’ve forgotten what the last thing a character said was.

But, anyway, definitely something to keep in mind. While a scene shouldn’t usually be all conversation, breaking the conversation up too much makes it feel like it isn’t a conversation at all.

[madammuffins]

When you start introducing the yearning and sexual tension part of a slow burn.

I'm having so much fun torturing idiots. I've added a couple chapters, so what was previously chapter 17 is now chapter 19... oops.

[madammuffins]

Fifth Column - Published

AO3

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[madammuffins]

Fifth Column

Fandom: An Extremely Goofy Movie

Ship: Single Dad!Max x Bradley Uppercrust III

Rating: Explicit

Posted: Wattpad, AO3

Playlist

☆ Chapter 25 Snippet ☆

Max stopped at the third office, right across from the cooler. My name.

M. Goof. The letters were removable. Velcro. Max tested it. But God, it didn't stop his heart from racing, his fingers from trembling as he stepped into the office.

It smelled new. A desk, a chair. Computer. Filing cabinet tucked neatly underneath. Bookshelf pushed against the wall.

[madammuffins]

Fifth Column

Fandom: An Extremely Goofy Movie

Ship: Single Dad!Max x Bradley Uppercrust III

Rating: Explicit

Posted: Wattpad, AO3

Playlist

☆ Chapter 24 Snippet ☆

“Well.” Kicking him underneath the table. “Aren't you going to say anything to our potential hire?”

“You're enjoying this.” Bradley grumbled through clenched teeth. Bright red, hiding the best he could behind his papers.

“I am.” Skye smiled brightly, turning back to Max. “I love your haircut, by the way.”

Immediately Max's hand moved to rake through the cut top, shaved sides, tangling in the longer ends. “Thanks.” Sheepish, eyes darting to a now tomato red Bradley. “It was a dare.”

[madammuffins]

Fifth Column

Fandom: An Extremely Goofy Movie

Ship: Single Dad!Max x Bradley Uppercrust III

Rating: Explicit

Posted: Wattpad, AO3

Playlist

☆ Chapter 15 Snippet ☆

Brad winced in sympathy. “I see.” Pulling Max to his feet. “Let’s get you some ice and see if they have pain killers.”

“Brad.” Max protested, but let Bradley drag him to their table willingly, arm around his shoulder. “I'll be fine-”

Brad sat him down, looked at him flatly. “It's a fucking hole in your face that just received minor blunt trauma. Shut up.” Bradley looked over his shoulder. “I was winning anyway. Take the sympathy forfeit, loser.”

Max chuckled as Brad pat his shoulder. “Fuck off, Mr. Perfect."

[madammuffins]

Fifth Column

Fandom: An Extremely Goofy Movie

Ship: Single Dad!Max x Bradley Uppercrust III

Rating: Explicit

Unpublished: Wattpad, Archive of Our Own

Playlist

☆Chapter 1 Snippet☆

A doctoral in business as father had wanted. Excellent grades to be allowed the privilege of participating in sports. Stripped away in the blink of an eye thanks to one backwoods, poor ass, piece of shit freshman from some hick town.

The very same hick town he now owned a business in. The same fucking hick town he now had a map of sprawled across his desk over various blueprints and schematics and inventories and graphs and projections and statistics and fucking hell the numbers.

Hand ran over his face as Brad tried to take a cleansing breath. Tried to practice the calming mechanisms his therapist had taught him.

Count to ten.

Bubble breathing.

Spiral breathing.

Soup breathing.

So much damn breathing.

[madammuffins]

I know I've been awol for a while.

I'm moving. More specifically I'm in the habitat for humanity program to finance/build a new house. So on top of work I've been, in my free time, building houses.

Since October of last year I've helped build 5 homes in my community, not including the 7 (mine included) I'm currently working on. Which has severely whittled away any creative free time I have. Hah, lets be real. It's taken away any free time I've had period.

On the plus side, we're expected to be done with a move in date of September. I'm hoping sooner cuz, y'all. I'm beat.

In other news, I've discovered the maxley ship of a goofy movie and I'm brainstorming.

I don't know how I'll feel once we move, but here's what I've got so far -

Max is a single dad. College drop out. Lost scholarships due to kid. Living in his hometown, raising the kid by himself (generational curses, here we fuckin GO!).

Goofy lives with him? Nearby? Retired. Watches grandchild while Max works at (toy factory?).

Mom had kid and left (Roxanne?). Tried to make things work but they were young, ppd, wanted to finish school, a kid wasn't in her plans - not this early. Max understood and doesn't resent her. She signed her rights over to grandpa. She still sends gifts and financial support occasionally. Max and Goofy send pictures and updates when they remember (Goofy is better about this).

ENTER BRAD. He buys out the toy factory just as Max finally gets his long-awaited promotion to a desk job (hello pay raise, good-bye back pain) in inventory. Unfortunately, tensions from college flare up between the two (fuelled by Max's own feelings of shame, inadequacy, and his competitiveness).

As the two settle into a routine (thanks to Goofy's oblivious interference and kindheartedness) and begin to open up to one another - Brad settling into small town life and Max realizing maybe the resentment he was feeling wasn't exactly resentment - mom comes back to town.

Playlist (in progress)

[madammuffins]

Fifth Column

Fandom: An Extremely Goofy Movie

Ship: Single Dad!Max x Bradley Uppercrust III

Rating: Explicit

Unpublished: Wattpad, Archive of Our Own

Playlist

☆Chapter 2 Snippet☆

“Uh-” Skye sputtered. “Uh-wait. I-” Her satchel on her lap. Papers fluttering, face reddening.

The security guard looked up then. Bradley pinned her name tag.

“Look, Ann.” He plastered a winning smile on his face, tried his most charming tone of voice. “We wouldn't have badges. I'm the new-”

“Hey Annie!”

Bradley felt his blood boiling as his jaw flexed, fist bunched. In the side mirror he saw the interloper slow on his skateboard, offensive orange jumpsuit baggy around his waist. White tank loose around a built frame.

Bradley couldn't help the disgust building within him as the Freshman popped his skateboard up neatly, practiced smooth muscle memory guiding the board fluidly over his shoulder as he strolled over, not even glancing Brad's way.

[madammuffins]

Fifth Column

Fandom: An Extremely Goofy Movie

Ship: Single Dad!Max Goof x Bradley Uppercrust III

Rating: Explicit

Unpublished - Wattpad, Archive of Our Own

Playlist

~Prologue Snippet~

Blurred vision skimmed through the various missed notifications till he landed on Roxanne's.

‘I'm keeping it, Max. We need to talk.’

Tears finally falling as he hit the call button. As he put the phone to his ear. Shuddering sobs as the line clicked and connected. As the voice on the other line turned from care to worry.

“Dad.” Max sobbed. “Dad, I messed up.” He wiped fruitlessly at his face. “I messed up real bad.”