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Since I mentioned it in a previous ask, lets talk about Climb Down
I wrote this for another PFF fest - the shuffle fest I believe - where I was given a song to write to. It was one called Rebel Prince by Rufus Wainwright which I hadn’t heard before and initially had no idea what to do with.
But I decided to do a sort of anti-fairytale type thing.
With this fic, maybe more than some of the other ones I’ve done, I really wanted to evoke a Mood or a Vibe and god help me I can’t help but write them as YouTubers that don’t know each other. It started with Ships That Pass in the Night, and I’ve started a handful of others that never made it on to ao3, but this one did.
I made Dan a musician in this, a sort of Troye Sivan/dodie hybrid I like to think. But with piano.
The games room at the hotel is based on a very specific one from a hotel we used to stay in in Barbados when I was a kid (I have family out there so we used to go a lot) which was always deserted and kind of eerie.
The image of them on the beanbags with snacks was pulled directly from personal experience.
I kind like doing one-shots like this with the shorter scenes/moments all strung together, and I like making them kind of atmospheric and sort of pretentious - which means I forgo the Realistic speech and focus more in the Poignant.
Anyway, it’s one of my fics that I like, that people don’t mention often and it’s one of my lesser-viewed ones, but I kind of like it.
