no more dreaming like a girl so in love

Title: Holidays with the Grahams: Thanksgiving
Characters: Quentin, Tyler Jordan, Harold, Kendall, Theresa, Wendy, and Olivia Graham
Rating: PG
Word count: 5285
Notes: This is going to be a three part series, if I can actually make myself do it. The Graham family does holidays very well, and Quentin gets folded into the family traditions as the first person to marry into the clan.


Timeline: November 26, 2015

( intro to family traditions, part one )

Title: The Birds and the Bees (and the Other Bees)
Characters: Harold Graham, Paul Graham, Tyler Jordan Graham
Rating: PG
Word count: 1615
Notes: Back when Paul and Tyler Jordan had a mom (although not their mom) and Harold had slightly fewer children to care for and a lot more help in doing so.

Timeline: November 1997

( times tables and basic biology )

Title: Four Conversations on a Theme
Characters: Quentin Kinley, Tyler Jordan Graham, Orly Kinley, Paul Graham, and like half of their family members
Rating: PG-13
Word count: 3285
Notes: So this started with Donna asking Orly the questions, and then I realized that I wanted all of them to answer the questions, so I wrote three more conversations. To be fair to myself, I had an eight hour work day and no time to type when I got the idea, so by the time I got home I'd already put a LOT of thought into how half the conversations were going to go. They all went very, very differently, which makes a lot of sense given the families in question. (I just love contrasting Janet and Wendy. They're like polar opposites.) Timestamped for canon convenience, and I actually know what the fuck I'm doing with Tyler Jordan and Quentin now (cause I honestly didn't know where I was going with them a few days ago, I just wanted to pick them back up).



Timeline: November 2013 / a couple days before the first fight

( Quentin is absolutely terrible at not giving himself away, and Janet is absolutely terrible, full stop. )

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Timeline: February 2014 / three months after the first fight

( Wendy asks the questions Tyler Jordan wasn't self-aware enough to ask himself. )

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Timeline: Early April 2015 / six weeks before Turning the Page

( Orly lets his mother in on his big plans. )

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Timeline: Mid-May 2015 / just after Turning the Page

( Paul's dad and sisters want in on these plans too. )

Backstory for Elliott and Orion and Abigail.

( a chance encounter: or, plans get complex )

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( two to tango, or maybe waltz )

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( turnabout is fair play )

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( hereditary traits: or, things the Bradfords can't help doing )

Title: The Actual Best Present, the Actual Worst Present, and the Unexpected Present
Characters: Elliott Reed, Orion Bradford, and Abigail Bradford
Rating: NC-17
Word count: 14050
Notes: I aimed to write a whole rush of Christmas stories and then I spent like half of December writing this one. Go figure. 100% blaming this on watching two hours of Stephen Colbert breaking character and dissolving into laughter. Oh my god he’s too cute. I don’t even know if these guys ever got played or if they were just ideas and a couple ficlets (no existing logs, but that doesn’t mean it didn’t happen), but… I could not resist the big-hearted shrink, his adopted niece, and his legit crazy boyfriend at the holidays. (also, this is a thing that happened and it fills me with joy)


!!!!! my beloved platonic boyfriend Chris recorded a podfic version of this story that is quite excellent and you should listen to it! Part 1 and Part 2 ♥ ♥ ♥


( Christmastime is here, and it is definitely not someone's favorite time of year )

Continued in Part 2

Title: Things Worth Waking Up For
Character: Dewey Ceinion and Ambrose Parker
Rating: PG
Word count: 608
Notes: Like 12 hours after True Love's Kiss. Gwen was not kidding when she said Nerys was about to pop.

( the wonders of modern technology as applied to baby pictures )

Title: Bound to Happen Sooner or Later
Character: Dewey Ceinion
Rating: PG-13
Word count: 1780
Prompt: itsproductivity 4/3: Write about a party.


Predictability was boring. Unfortunately, Will's bachelor party was entirely predictable. At least the strip club wasn't too skeezy; it was moderately classy and the dancers were very pretty. Ieuen established himself by the stage early on with a stack of dollar bills, taking advantage of the one reason his girlfriend would allow him to see strippers. Arthur was less impressed, but then he went to strip clubs fairly regularly. Dewey also saw the inside of strip clubs often, but always in the course of duty, not for fun.

( strippers and booze! )

Title: 72 Inches and 5129 Miles
Character: Dewey Ceinion
Rating: PG-13 for language
Word Count: 1305
Notes: itsproductivity 4/7: Write about a town you passed through; 4/8: Write about your father's legacy.

The last time I was in Wales, I stood 117 centimetres and weighed eight and a half stone. My mother's mother stood me up against a doorway and marked my height the day before we left for the United States, did the same for my brothers and sister. Now I'm standing in the doorway, here for my aunt's funeral, and it's twenty years since I stood here last; I'm 72 inches tall and 193 pounds (shut up, it's muscle, I'm fit, thank you), couldn't switch it to metric if you asked me to, not mentally.

( some things are international. )

Title: Definition
Character: Orpheus Whalen, Gabriel Naylor
Rating: PG-13
Word count: ~2000
Notes: itsproductivity January 25, shadows. "Orphic: mystic, fascinating, entrancing, oracular"
I wrote this from 3:30 to 7:30 a.m. and that should explain why this is so disjointed. I want to do it properly some other time. I like the thought of student!Orpheus a lot.


The first stories Alice Whalen read to her children had nothing to do with fairies or friendly animals, no morals and no lessons to learn. The tales she loved to tell were of a crueler sort, not because she was cruel, but because Alice had no use for the cleaned-up fables Disney produced, no love for the silly moralizing of her mother's fairy tales. The stories that wove themselves into Alice were of gods and mortals, tricks and betrayals and the sudden strange transformations wrought by the momentary favor or fear of a deity: Artemis hunting the men who dared look upon her, Zeus as a swan, a bull, a shower of gold falling upon a cloistered princess; Aphrodite emerging from the waves and Hephaestus at the forge.

( hey, we've seen these parents before. )

Title: Tripping
Character: Doug Walker
Rating: PG-13 for drug use and a little bit of language.
Word count: 2039
Notes: For itsproductivity, doubling up on prompts because I'm a cheater. January 7 and January 10. I did a little research for this one, and this is definitely an explanation of why Doug made some of the life choices he did. xD


Once, when no one was looking, Doug walked away from a family reunion, hearing something just on the edge of audible. He was eleven years old, and his cousins were either very much older-- fifteen and far too mature to want to talk to a kid like Doug-- or very much younger-- three and four year olds chasing each other around under the watchful eyes of aunts and mothers; with nothing else to do, and the echo of what might have been fairy music teasing his ears, he wandered away from his grandfather's farmhouse and followed the drums and the high, piercing voices through fields of corn higher than his head.

( making an escape from the mundane )