#polyamory is not a spectator sport

[an-sceal]

Somehow I accidentally deleted my polycule's shared google calendar (I have literally NO IDEA how that could have happened) and thus someone from the Board will be coming by to revoke my membership card.

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.

[mainfaggot]

just watched challengers at the cinema w my little sister. it was so intense wtf

[izzyspussy]

so bev and ben are sailing off the west coast when her divorce finalizes and they come in to celebrate with richie and bill. bill parties hard with them until 10 pm when he goes home to audra because he’s an old old man.

richie and bev keep partying and ben decides to start sobering up to be their designated driver when they’re ready. and richie and bev are drinking and dancing and being wild and crazy and on one hand they are calling a lot of attention to themselves because they naturally egg each other on and on the other hand they are pretty famous, so they are getting pictures taken of them, and they notice but they decide they don’t care. they know that A Boy and A Girl spotted together automatically get assigned to each other even without the way they are acting more intimate with each other than most would expect from “just” friends. but whatever. they’re having a good time.

anyway, then a song about stealing your man or about a threesome or polyamory or something similar comes on and bev and richie are dancing, and over richie’s shoulder bev catches ben’s eye. ben comes up behind richie at bev’s telepathic cue and bev backs richie into him.

richie jumps and looks behind him at ben, then back at bev, then back at ben, and then he gulps and decides to take the step, and the three of them dance together with richie in the middle slowly enjoying being there more and more as the song goes on.

then bev turns richie around to face ben and goes to have a seat, take a breather, and richie’s nervous again, all too conscious of the pictures being taken of them, of him in the arms of another man - now without the supposed excuse of bev there with him. but ben gives him an encouraging nod, and richie wants to be out, really he does, he’s just scared, so he holds onto ben a little bit too tightly and dances with him.

and from her seat, sipping on some water, bev calls out, “now kiss!”

richie laughs, and he’s blushing - with drink, and nerves, and attraction - and he already knows that if ben’s cool with it he’s gonna do it, and he mutters, a little bitterly, “they’re gonna call me a two-beer queer”

and ben says, “yeah. but at least you won’t be going through it alone.”

and richie puts the rest of the situation out of his mind, for just a moment, to look at ben, and look at bev, and look back at ben, really look, to see the understanding, patient, loving looks they’re both giving him, to see that maybe they planned this a little, for him, to make this easier for him, to back him up and be there for him through it as fully and completely as it is possible to be there, if he wants them to be.

the cameras can’t quite catch the way richie softens, the way he chokes up a little, which is lucky because then they’d all be writing about how he’s secretly in love with beverly marsh’s new man.

“oh,” he says, soft and touched and still a little bit in awe that all the losers are still in his corner no matter what. “thanks, ben.”

and ben grins and flirts, “it’s not exactly a harship,” and kisses richie gentle and sweet.

bev wolf whistles from their table, grinning as she chews on ice. “yeah!” she cheers, like she’s spectating a contact sport. “slip him some tongue, baby!”

richie pulls back from ben to laugh, to flip bev off, thinking she’s joking, teasing them, lightening the mood back up, but then ben pulls him back in and licks - still gentle, but persistent - into his mouth

and richie’s eyes go wide in surprise at first, but ben is a fucking good kisser, and richie melts like milk chocolate in his big warm hands, eyes falling closed, arms coming up around ben’s shoulders and clinging to keep him close.

when ben finally lets him go, richie is utterly dazed and has to sit down immediately.

[anti-anti-a-la-bi-bi]

Just some random things I do not understand.

-pledging to the flag. Why. Try getting Dutch students to do that and they will call you a moron to your face and not show up/bother to participate.

-the grading system

-Dresscodes actually being enforced(here you can just wear whatever so long as it's more than underwear/swimwear, really. In most schools. Some conservative schools do force a dresscode, but only really religious ones. It is an exception, not a rule)

-Fairs. We just don't do that here.

-Cheerleaders and actual school sports teams, and cheerleaders apparently not being counted as athletes to avoid responsibility if they get hurt.

-School mascots????

-Spirit week. Wtf is that.

-again, sports being considered in any way important to the point of having spectator seats in the fucking gym rooms and school owned sportsfields.

-Why are there so many flags in American schools? Are they scared that you forget what country you're in?

-School lunches. Here the standard is bringing your own, though really nice meals can be bought from the cafeteria, including freshly made chicken and such. Like, legit, those American school lunches look disgusting.

-Really bad sex ed??? I got education on periods, kink, the wholeass reproductive system and the hormones involved, potential health issues, stds/stis, lgbtq+ stuff, polyamory, etc. No, girls and guys were not separated. Guys were also taught about periods and I have yet to hear any joke on it.

-School busses???? We cycle to school here for the most part, cuz it's rarely far away(though some people deadass cycle for 1.5 hours bc they didn't like the available schools in their area.)

-'school districts'

-standardized tests.

The more I learn about American schools the more confused I get

[an-sceal]

Johnny loves them, but it’s confusing like best friends, because there's so many loves.  They never tell you when you’re a kid, that you can love someone in so many different ways all at the same time.  They never tell you you can love more than one person.  Maybe normal people can’t-- how the fuck should he know?  Maybe every broken bit of him has its own tiny little love to give, and they’re all different.

I'm really proud of that part. Also, here's a repost of the latest chapter when it's NOT 3am and I've tracked down some extra commas and missing formatting. Because it's NOT 3am anymore.

[an-sceal]

Brain: *works on final chapter of fic*

Brain: You know what this needs?

Me: NO.

Brain ...

Me: NO.

Brain: Right, so you're going to write this side story about Johnny and Amanda's relationship dynamics.

[an-sceal]

My housemate just went on a rant about people buying houses, and finished with this exchange:

"Not to go all Old Man here, but you young people don't know how things work, and if you offered me $50k below my asking price I'd add $50k on TOP of my asking price and send it back as my final offer."

*me, hugging myself with joy* "I don't even care how ridiculous and petty that sounds, I'm just excited to be included in "you young people."

He, of course, looked at me and said, "Oh, no, not you."

[an-sceal]

You know how many decent polyamory songs there are? NOT MANY.

[an-sceal]

If the franchise follows pattern, the next will be a true Harlequin title: The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard's Secret Baby

And don't even try to bullshit me that you wouldn't pay to watch that threesome.

[an-sceal]

Hi. I finally finished this chapter. Here you go. (Meta/content warning info under the cut.)

Johnny Lawrence, as it turns out, has a lot to say.

Rating:

Mature

Archive Warning:

No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories:

F/M

M/M

Multi

Fandom:

Cobra Kai (Web Series)

Relationships:

Amanda LaRusso/Daniel LaRusso/Johnny Lawrence

Daniel LaRusso/Johnny Lawrence

Johnny Lawrence/Self-Hatred OTP

Characters:

Johnny Lawrence

Daniel LaRusso

Amanda LaRusso

Samantha LaRusso

Additional Tags:

Sickfic

Sick Character

Sick Johnny Lawrence

Medical Inaccuracies

The nightmare that is navigating American healthcare with no insurance

Mentions of Cancer

Johnny doesn't have cancer

Unless you believe WebMD

Hurt/Comfort

minor self-harm

Self-Loathing

Self-Esteem Issues

Internalized Homophobia

Externalized Homophobia!

Medical Trauma

HIV/AIDS Crisis

Mentions of minor character death from HIV/AIDS

90's flashback

But at least I didn't mention the Zabka mullet

the late 80's/early 90's were a scary time to figure out who you were

especially if who you were wasn't straight

Threesome - F/M/M

Daniel LaRusso FUCKS

Polyamory Negotiations

polyamory is not a spectator sport

Past Child Abuse

Mentions of background character death from cancer

Unreliable Narrator

[an-sceal]

Chapter 10, in which Johnny Lawrence is an unreliable judge of tone, and also a sad, gross old man.

Meta under the cut.

Rating:

Mature

Archive Warning:

No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories:

F/M

M/M

Multi

Fandom:

Cobra Kai (Web Series)

Relationships:

Amanda LaRusso/Daniel LaRusso/Johnny Lawrence

Daniel LaRusso/Johnny Lawrence

Johnny Lawrence/Self-Hatred OTP

Characters:

Johnny Lawrence

Daniel LaRusso

Amanda LaRusso

Samantha LaRusso

Additional Tags:

Sickfic

Sick Character

Sick Johnny Lawrence

Medical Inaccuracies

The nightmare that is navigating American healthcare with no insurance

Mentions of Cancer

Johnny doesn't have cancer

Unless you believe WebMD

Hurt/Comfort

minor self-harm

Self-Loathing

Self-Esteem Issues

Internalized Homophobia

Externalized Homophobia!

Medical Trauma

HIV/AIDS Crisis

Mentions of minor character death from HIV/AIDS

90's flashback

But at least I didn't mention the Zabka mullet

the late 80's/early 90's were a scary time to figure out who you were

especially if who you were wasn't straight

Threesome - F/M/M

Daniel LaRusso FUCKS

Polyamory Negotiations

polyamory is not a spectator sport

Past Child Abuse

Mentions of background character death from cancer

Unreliable Narrator

Language:English

[an-sceal]

But hey, on another note, here's a new chapter, because Cobra Kai fanfic has actually made me remember that I love writing. Meta under the cut.

Rating:

Mature

Archive Warning:

No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories:

F/M

M/M

Multi

Fandom:

Cobra Kai (Web Series)

Relationships:

Amanda LaRusso/Daniel LaRusso/Johnny Lawrence

Daniel LaRusso/Johnny Lawrence

Johnny Lawrence/Self-Hatred OTP

Characters:

Johnny Lawrence

Daniel LaRusso

Amanda LaRusso

Samantha LaRusso

Additional Tags:

Sickfic

Sick Character

Sick Johnny Lawrence

Medical Inaccuracies

The nightmare that is navigating American healthcare with no insurance

Mentions of Cancer

Johnny doesn't have cancer

Unless you believe WebMD

Hurt/Comfort

minor self-harm

Self-Loathing

Self-Esteem Issues

Internalized Homophobia

Externalized Homophobia!

Medical Trauma

HIV/AIDS Crisis

Mentions of minor character death from HIV/AIDS

90's flashback

But at least I didn't mention the Zabka mullet

the late 80's/early 90's were a scary time to figure out who you were

especially if who you were wasn't straight

Threesome - F/M/M

Daniel LaRusso FUCKS

Polyamory Negotiations

polyamory is not a spectator sport

Language:English