Your name is Dave Strider and you are 26 years old. You have just gotten engaged. The problem being that you have just gotten engaged to your best male friend in a furious fit of stupidity, champagne, one-upmanship and a weird warm-glowy feeling that occasionally (or more than occasionally) rolls around in the pit of your stomach and makes you act like a moron. You have, over the past 13 years and much careful experimentation, dubbed this “The Egbert Effect”. You would like to state, for the record, that you are definitely, completely and 100% NOT A HOMOSEXUAL. As Bro carefully describes to you what, as the DJ, he’s going to play at the reception (almost entirely a medley of Nicki Minaj and Ke$ha), you carefully nurse a Rock Star and vodka like a 16 year old girl who just popped her cherry at prom and try to figure out what the fuck happened over the past decade or so to land you in this mess.
So this is a homestuck fic. Some things about it:
- It's kind of a scenes of Dave and John's intersecting lives, and although it's not slice of life it has that softness of time and direction - Dave and Bro eventually have to learn to talk to each other - Dave eventually rethinks his policy on irony and The Gay - because it takes it easy AND character development occurs, it's really long
I think there really are some things to chew on here, especially with Bro and hiding what you like from everyone and maybe yourself. BUT it's just sort of there, not discussed. So if you're not into something heavy, I think you should still enjoy this
complete @ 81 000 words
dave/john
[long fic] [low to medium intensity] [get together] [humor] [dave needs to get his shit together] [longtime] [uncomfortable family relationship: dave and bro] [warnings for i guess internalized homophobia and familial... something.]
