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louis was buzzin’ for lando 😏 (x)

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this is the most important photo ever taken in the history of ever - HASHTAG MYGREMLINS

[kritischetheologie]

hmm 50 + 75 and *spins wheel* Fernando?

50 Arranged Marriage + 75 Bed Sharing

oh nikki. you know me too well.

This set of tropes might be the Estenando of all Estenando. We're going Regency, baby. Fernando is Several Times Widowed, so many that it's starting to get a little suspicious, bluebeard-style. Esteban is young and broke and Without Prospects, so Fernando's 25,000 acres sound like a great prospect.

Doubly so if he kills Fernando and inherits it all himself.

It's regency with a twist! The twist is that they're both trying to murder each other!

Why does Fernando keep murdering his wives? Do we care? Is it not enough for them to both quietly poison each other's sherry and then fuck on every surface of their manor estate? Is it not enough for them to start holding kitchen knives to each other's throats? Let me have this.

[kritischetheologie]

esteban + fernando + cat ?

For all Fernando reminds Esteban of his cat-- it's the smugness of his smile, maybe, or the way he sprawls himself on every surface of Esteban's motorhome, or the flecks of grey just starting to appear in his black hair-- Fernando actually isn't very good with her, once they finally meet. She scurries away to hide under the sofa from the first moment he holds out a hand to pet her, all of Esteban's attempts to coax her out ending in failure.

"I wouldn't take it personally," Esteban finally says, abandoning the effort and feeling peeved, because he'd started letting himself imagine her curled up in Fernando's arms, purring, and it had made him feel warm to think about.

"Oh, but I will," Fernando says, stretching his arms over his head, arcing his spine, and sending Esteban's eyes straight to the trail of hair leading down into his jeans. "You should be proud that she’s such a good judge of character."

[kritischetheologie]

estenando + promise, please?

When Seb dumps Mick-- it's not like that, Este, it wasn't a relationship, you can't dump somebody you were just fucking, it's my fucking mistake for getting attached anyway, he was fucking married, god I'm so fucking stupid how could I be so fucking stupid-- Esteban panics, and calls Gina, who talks him through the basics of how to throw a Schumacher Sibling Gender Neutral Girls' Night. Apparently the answer is rosé, a horrifying amount of it, and Oreos and peanut butter, and a terrible romantic comedy, and then a lot of Taylor Swift.

Esteban is a really good friend, so he lets Mick put on the 10 minute version of All Too Well, and doesn't say anything about Mick's terrible, tone-deaf, tear-stained singscreaming.

Four and a half minutes in Mick just starts fucking shrieking-- AND YOU CALL ME UP AGAIN JUST TO BREAK ME LIKE A PROMISE, SO CASUALLY CRUEL IN THE NAME OF BEING HONEST-- and Esteban wonders if he should turn the song off, or something, but there's five more minutes left, so he lets it play out, and keeps listening.

(Fernando hasn't ever even pretended to be honest, not even once, but yeah-- when he said they could have really been something, if they'd met at the same stage in their careers, if Fernando could start over and be a rookie again, it did make Esteban want to die.)

[kritischetheologie]

you tagged this post with fernando alonso (i feel like a journalist coming at you with incriminating documents) and obviously i thought about the numbering at bethlehem, do you want to think about what would be his role in it ? could he be a professor ??

Ok so I actually had a whole side plot in the maxiel spinoff that never got written, described here. TL;DR Fernando is Daniel's housemate, a PhD student in English who did, like, a PhD in Spanish first and is now Back In Academia To Try Again, and also is dating Max's roommate Carlos Sainz.

Oops I wrote a whole fic concept below the cut

Fernando served two functions in the story. Plot-wise, I needed a way to get Max and Daniel interacting after daylight hours, on purpose. Otherwise they would have just kept getting coffee on Mondays and it never would have gone anywhere. Having Fernando bring Daniel over to Carlos's room, to meet him, and then oh shit out walks MAX, is the event that kicks the whole thing into gear.

But of course, he's also a foil for Daniel. In so many ways, he's what Daniel wishes he could be (he gets an interview, at the beginning of the fic, and a job by the end of it. He's dating Carlos, without a qualm about it.) But in other ways, he's who Daniel is terrified of becoming: still lurking around a college campus past the age where it's cute, taking endless cracks at the market, fucking this undergrad which, it's sleazy, right? Daniel judges him for it almost as much as he judges himself for wanting it.

In the first scene I wrote, Daniel is hungover because Fernando dragged him out to celebrate getting a flyout, and his throat is sore because he bummed too many of Fernando's cigarettes. That's Fernando, to him: his best and worse self all rolled into one, getting everything Daniel wants in the sleaziest way possible.

I alluded to the fact that Fernando and Carlos break up, around spring break, and to possible carlando after that (since in true shakespearean fashion, everyone ends up paired off). Since the only thing I can think about anymore is estenando, I'm very tempted to throw Esteban in here as well. I like the idea of an Esteban who's younger than Fernando, but still actually kind of a peer. Like maybe he's a PhD student in *spins wheel* Spanish literature, teaching first year Spanish, and maybe the department periodically organizes lunch tables, where students can speak with native speakers, and Fernando goes for the free food and meets Esteban, and makes fun of his accent, and why a Frenchman is studying Cervantes (why anyone under the age of 80 is studying Cervantes, actually), and Esteban gives back as good as he gets and Fernando starts falling.

Maybe even while he's still dating Carlos. Maybe it's why he and Carlos break up. Life is messy.

Anyway by the time they get together Fernando is already on his way out, has his job offer in hand, and so it's fun and easy and time-bounded and if they're hopelessly, head over heels in love, maybe neither of them notices. Or feels the need to say it out loud. Maybe it's just good, while it lasts. Or maybe they find a way to live happily ever after. I'll let you know, if I ever write it.

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i AM a gay alien