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I still need to do the Brazil write up, but life is... a bit Interesting right now. -_-; So instead, here's a snap shot of why my brain is still a scary place to be.
I browse several tumbler feeds because of the lovely lovely art (that last should be a link, but I want to warn of Legend of Korra kind of spoilers in a major way – with that in mind, unf, I want to read fanfic based around this AU!!). And I stumbled over what is apparently a fanfic trend: coffeeshop AUs.
My first response was to look at this strangely, and go "wait, whut?" I'd read and adored Froth ages ago, and it's still one of the loveliest bit of Miroku/Sango centric Inuyasha stories I've read.
I just hadn't realized this was a THING. So since I found the tumbler post, I'e been poking around the recced stories. The Harry Potter was totally NSFW, but had some interesting Harry/Draco. The Avengers one was also sweet and totally NSFW, but I dug that one too. The Avengers one linked in the comments, I've Suffered Shipwrecks, was indeed making me laugh out loud as one of the most wonderfully cracktastic bits I've read in ages – it's unfinished, NSFW, and I adored it. I'll be checking back and looking into this.
But this got me wondering. As if I don't have enough things I want to work on (even original stuff! Argh!), if I wanted to play with this trope, what would I do? I mean, the most I've done lately is with Mel and Christy's – No. Absolutely not. The G-boys teleported into... a... different coffeshop across town? Cracky, but not very entertaining. Besides –
Bahzell. And Brandark. As partners in some kind of pro-wrestling or boxing thing, never mind the G boys, play with Weber's – NONONO.
I know I have problems writing anything interesting without an antagonist, and this is just taking a sharp turn away from reasonable. I went on to do other things with my day, thankful that I had dodged a bullet of more distractions. Why, if I was going to write anything fictional, I could at least write WoW guild fi -
The Vagabonds and Valiants Coffeeshop. Run by Sozur, competent kickass barista and former soldier, who tolerates good times in the shop but no fuss, thankyouverymuch. Possibly local college girl Amelorune needs a job, and why not her favorite local coffee haunt (goooooods, she's a phys ed major, and more interested in getting to know folks than graduating), and this means there's got to be that slightly sketchy guy Valentinian in the kitchen, DON'T ask about the flambe scones, just enjoy them –
And that was where I sat down and wrote this instead, because I should NOT go there.
Even if they maybe work for the Alliance Coffee shop chain, and there's a Red Coffee shop they sometimes have barista competitions with across town, and at the local Ysera University Professors Garrosh Hellscream and Varian Wrynn are vying with each other, just WAITING for the current headmaster Thrall to die – I MEAN RETIRE – and I'm going to stop now really I am before I get too amused and write snippets anyways I mean NO! Stopping!
I browse several tumbler feeds because of the lovely lovely art (that last should be a link, but I want to warn of Legend of Korra kind of spoilers in a major way – with that in mind, unf, I want to read fanfic based around this AU!!). And I stumbled over what is apparently a fanfic trend: coffeeshop AUs.
My first response was to look at this strangely, and go "wait, whut?" I'd read and adored Froth ages ago, and it's still one of the loveliest bit of Miroku/Sango centric Inuyasha stories I've read.
I just hadn't realized this was a THING. So since I found the tumbler post, I'e been poking around the recced stories. The Harry Potter was totally NSFW, but had some interesting Harry/Draco. The Avengers one was also sweet and totally NSFW, but I dug that one too. The Avengers one linked in the comments, I've Suffered Shipwrecks, was indeed making me laugh out loud as one of the most wonderfully cracktastic bits I've read in ages – it's unfinished, NSFW, and I adored it. I'll be checking back and looking into this.
But this got me wondering. As if I don't have enough things I want to work on (even original stuff! Argh!), if I wanted to play with this trope, what would I do? I mean, the most I've done lately is with Mel and Christy's – No. Absolutely not. The G-boys teleported into... a... different coffeshop across town? Cracky, but not very entertaining. Besides –
Bahzell. And Brandark. As partners in some kind of pro-wrestling or boxing thing, never mind the G boys, play with Weber's – NONONO.
I know I have problems writing anything interesting without an antagonist, and this is just taking a sharp turn away from reasonable. I went on to do other things with my day, thankful that I had dodged a bullet of more distractions. Why, if I was going to write anything fictional, I could at least write WoW guild fi -
The Vagabonds and Valiants Coffeeshop. Run by Sozur, competent kickass barista and former soldier, who tolerates good times in the shop but no fuss, thankyouverymuch. Possibly local college girl Amelorune needs a job, and why not her favorite local coffee haunt (goooooods, she's a phys ed major, and more interested in getting to know folks than graduating), and this means there's got to be that slightly sketchy guy Valentinian in the kitchen, DON'T ask about the flambe scones, just enjoy them –
And that was where I sat down and wrote this instead, because I should NOT go there.
Even if they maybe work for the Alliance Coffee shop chain, and there's a Red Coffee shop they sometimes have barista competitions with across town, and at the local Ysera University Professors Garrosh Hellscream and Varian Wrynn are vying with each other, just WAITING for the current headmaster Thrall to die – I MEAN RETIRE – and I'm going to stop now really I am before I get too amused and write snippets anyways I mean NO! Stopping!