#1993-verse

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writing chet and mary fic is simultaneously researching zen terminology and advancements in genetic science in the 90s and i would have it no other way

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fic: 1993 | august

fandom: taken (2002)

pairing: chet wakeman/mary crawford

rating: E

be aware there's: explicit sexual content, age gap, older man/younger woman, language

summary:

Turns out expensive lingerie is worth the money. As are last-minute flights with no return trip. Or: Mary goes to Bangor and has an unwelcome, but not exactly unexpected, revelation.

ao3 link

bonus vibecheck song 🎶

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my sister took this picture and sent it to me with no context and ❤️‍🔥

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this heat wave means i'm back in the august (1993) headspace and cowboys are you ready for what is looking like a 3500 word smut scene because

yeehaw

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fic remix: june 1993 (slide away)

So: Chet and Mary sit together, at a table in a busy small-town bar. The drinks are strong, but not half as good as Chet can make at home; Mary has no real basis for comparison. The third round is on the table – two brown drinks, neat, his with a cherry, hers without. 

An outside observer would see a friendly conversation taking place between a young, pretty woman in a cabled maroon sweater, and a tall, striking older man with his suit jacket hanging on the back of his chair. Smiles. Animated gestures, laughs. All above-board. 

And they’ve talked to whatever extent they’re going to about the specifics of her new job; they’ve cheersed to the future; he’s told her jokingly that he’s not her uncle and she flushed red but has been calling him “Chet”; they’ve hit the next moment in the night. If it was as simple as a family friend chatting with his newly-official protégé, the conversation would gently falter, and they would cheerfully go their separate ways.

But since what’s actually happening is a slightly different story, they stay.

she got a facelift & she's up on AO3

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i always kind of delight in writing and having a song on repeat that has lyrically NOTHING to do with the subject matter, but the vibe ---

anyway i'm doing a complete overhaul of June, and i'm so excited, and ariana's helping me out

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HI IM BACK i fell off tumblr because you know the world anyway i'm going back through 1993 to make little edits to keep it consistent because I FINALLY FIGURED OUT AUGUST AND IM SO CLOSE TO BEING DONE (also i started this series a decade ago don't come for me, a lot has changed)

and i was thinking i should completely rewrite April, but i reread it and i actually think it might hold up best of the first 4 months???? i changed a couple things for continuity/so some of August hits harder .... but i'm like giddy-delighted about it, one of my favourite tropes is pining followed by resolution, i love it

(also August is absolutely filthy 😇)

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