Cinna Turns All Of Chatvert's Serious Fic Into Crackfic: The Continuing Saga
chatvert: [writes Tony/Gene shipfic where Howard finds out about them and is Extremely Displeased]
chatvert & cinnamon: [begin discussing what would happen if Tony and Gene eloped]
cinnamon-anemone: unbeknownst to Tony, Gene sends Howard a totally unnecessarily ornate, outrageously passive-aggressive wedding announcement
cinnamon-anemone: this sparks off a decades-long cold war of increasingly over-the-top, fawning, saccharine, elaborate, ostentatious, profoundly sarcastic holiday snail-mail communication
cinnamon-anemone: Tony is absolutely baffled
cinnamon-anemone: Tony finally puts his foot down when it escalates into Gene sending Howard a gold-leafed Arbor Day card with a six-paragraph treatise on how Howard is the Best Father-In-Law Ever, delivered by an entire chorus of singing telegrams, who perform the whole thing in 8-part harmony before handing the card over