#bbm au

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fanart for @rachel-berry ‘s fic memories feel like weapons — aka the brokeback mountain au

coloured version :3

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i think one of my favorite parts of the bbm au is that now i can make johnny say y'all and ain't as much as i want... i can use as many double negatives as i want.... i can make johnny call everyone but kerry sweetheart and sugar and darlin and have kerry get insanely jealous and frustrated over that fact... sigh. life is so beautiful sometimes

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Happy Malevoversary week!! For the day one prompts Beginnings and Kellin, here’s a preview of the fic I’ve been working on since late last year! This is my Boat Boys Malevolent AU, with Etho as Arthur, Joel as John, and guest starring Pearl as Kellin! Hope y’all like it

Summary:

Immediately as Etho opens the car door, he can smell the cigarette smoke that has seeped into the seats. Most of it isn't from Pearl herself, but she hasn't been able to smell smoke since she was a kid, so she doesn't know how bad it's gotten. She's thinking about how the road is still busy at this time of night, but nowhere near as bad as the day. It'll be empty, where they're going.

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Etho has a voice in his head. Pearl just wants a friend.

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Hi so I have a question about the big brother mikey au. Does Mikey ever worry that he will have his brothers taken away from him by foster care? I don’t really know how the foster system works but if I had to take care of my siblings than I would be paranoid all the time about that,, does a social worker monitor them? Like one that comes over regularly to check if everything is going alright? I honestly don’t even know what I’m talking about I’ll stop bothering you now bye

I’m pretty sure I’ve mentioned it a few times in past anons but yes! This is a BIG worry of Mikey’s, because Raph was 4 and the twins were 9 when their dad passed away, and Mikey had to do everything in his power and then some at the young age of barely 16 in order to keep custody of his brothers so that they wouldn’t be separated. (Which IRL is super hard, but not impossible if you take the right parameters for proving that you’re able to provide and home children that young) Mikey took parenting classes and got his GED that summer and did backflips in order to prove himself to the courts that he could be a capable caretaker. And even though the court and judge took pity on Mikey, he was still 16, and thus had to agree to meet up with a child service agent every couple of months and check-in with how things were going, and if Mikey could really keep up with all the responsibilities of taking care of and raising 3 children under the age of 10, when he was practically a child himself. But Mikey did it proudly and with his head held high, and never considered the responsibility of taking care of his only family as a burden, even when it seemed impossibly hard sometimes. And it was hard. There were times when the child service agent they sent had it out for Mikey and would try to use everything they could to fail Mikey’s evaluation, or send an agent at the worst possible time, sometimes without advance warning. There was the time that Leo got a black eye from a fight he got into at school and was suspended for a week, and April had to take the boys out that day so the agent wouldn’t view and write it off as negligence on Mikey’s part. There were times when the heater in their stupid old apartment would break or they had to get all of their supplies from dollar stores or goodwills and Mikey constantly had to laugh it off and use some excuse to divert the attention.  But Mikey did it, and 3 years after his dads death, he’s still doing it. And it’s still hard, but he’s managing it better than how he was those first couple of awkward months, when he was ignoring the grief of losing his father in exchange for focusing all his attention on the wellbeing and happiness of his baby brothers. He still has nightmares about his brothers being taken from him in the dead of night. And he still worries about whether he’s doing the right thing, and maybe it was a mistake to be as selfish as he was and keep his brothers, as opposed to letting them go and live with people that could probably provide bigger and better lives than stupid useless big brother Mikey ever could. But Donnie is coming home with A+ science projects, and Leo’s absolutely shinning on the baseball team, and Raph’s smile is like the sun on the surface of water, bright and brilliant and blinding, and Mikey definitely thinks he’s being selfish by keeping these boys all to himself. 

And he thinks that he wouldn’t have it any other way.

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in another universe, perhaps.

— bbm au fanart

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bbm au wip

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ouggffff thinking of silverdyne brokeback mountain au.. his father showing robbie what happens to men who ain't what they supposed to be... Robert going out on that job to brokeback the first time around to get away from his father, get money and save up to move and find himself a respectable girl and decent job at any other ranch to make themselves a home, make himself a life outside his father's farm.... Robert who introduces himself to Kerry as Johnny, cuz ain't he needing to be knowing all that, ain't needing to bring that kid he was all the way out here with them, out in brokeback, it'll be different, he could be anyone and ain't no one'd be the wiser

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"Kerry Eurodyne," kid offers, hand out and expectant, mouth slanted in something too awfully friendly, clear he thinks he's charming. Robert grunts, considers it for a moment, smoke puffing out from around his cigar, no move to be made.

"John."

The Kerry fella chuckles, like there's something funny about that. He shakes his head like he expected as much.

"What," brown eyes glint on up over at him, all too bright and near orange. "Your folks just stopped at John?"

Robert's lip pulls, plucking the cigar from his mouth with his bad hand. Joints ache rolling the butt between his fingers, near crushing as annoyance flairs. At the poor fucker for asking too much.

"Linder," he grits. Don't know why he does. Not like he owes the kid nothing. It's beyond him, really, as he looks out into the expanse surrounding them.

The chuckle from behind reaches around him softly, though, softer than the harsh light of the day and the sun beating down on them. Then it's the sound of the ground kicking up, shifting, rubber against loose soil and gravel.

"Nice to know you, John Linder."

The cigar is placed back, teeth biting down harsh. One puff, then two, sound popping sharp from his lips.

"Johnny." He's quick to correct.

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bbm au fanart :3