Okay, this is not a scene per se, but here goes: Isak and Eva's friendship in If I should fall behind. I love how you write them together, how well they know each other. ❤️
From season 1 of SKAM, Eva's and Isak's friendship has always fascinated me. It's obvious that she knows more about his backstory than any of their friends (except for Jonas, of course)—and I'd like to think, that after he's apologized for the shitty things he did to her at the end of s3, they'd find their way back to one another.
For If I Should Fall Behind, I imagined them as older, in their late twenties, and back to being best friends. Found family, even. Both of them with a complicated relationship to sometimes absent parents, both compassionate and intelligent persons who can read the other with one look only. And both of them knowing what it costs to lose the other, knowing that they won't lose them another time. Knowing that the other will always have their back.
...and now I kind of want to write them together again. I just löv them both so much.
Thank you for the ask, babe! I'm glad you reminded me of this fic and of them! ❤️
SKAM season 3 talkback series: episode 1, “Lykke til Isak”
The SKAM season 3 talkback series was done in conjunction with a first-time 2019 watch for a small group of newbies. I spoke with a cross-section of fans about each episode so our new-to-SKAM folks could get a varied taste of what the fandom was about. Some of these interviews have visits from other fans and folks from the watch.
Talk back with the lovely @modestytreehouse (aka treehouse on AO3)
SKAM 3.1: Lykke til Isak talkback conducted on 13, October 2019
@ghostcat3000: Hello! Hello!
@modestytreehouse: Hello!
@itsallnoncents: Hiya!
Ghostcat: Thank you so much for being the first ever talk back guest!
@irazor: Hi! (I know I'm not the special guest but I'm lurking in here anyway)
treehouse: I am honoured to be here! (and i feel like i'm on some kind of talk show or gala or smt??) I love that you're lurking, irazor!
@etal-later: Hey hey
Ghostcat: This is a talk show of sorts...a hood talk show.
treehouse: Haha, great!
Ghostcat: Imagine you're in my living room and that a marching band is playing outside. BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW IN MY NYC NEIGHBORHOOD.
treehouse: Also, I'm wearing a grey hoodie. To honour the main of s3 of course.
etal: I bought some unpleasant English crisps
Ghostcat: Perfect.
treehouse: Lovely!
Ghostcat: So, let me get the ball rolling to ask you how did you start watching SKAM (which is always all-caps for me, because that's how I picture it in my head, in big bright yellow letters)
treehouse: So, I read about it on some news-site and it seemed interesting. Also, I had never watched anything Norwegian. I'm Swedish - if I take my car I can be in Norway in about three hours, but sometimes it's like our countries are on different continents. Like when it comes to TV productions.
Ghostcat: I must confess, I know very little about Scandinavian television.
treehouse: So, I was curious. A Norwegian show that news-sites wrote about -
Ghostcat: There was coverage about the show?
treehouse: I had it in an open tab for several months though, before I watched it. Yes, there was!
Ghostcat: Did the coverage focus on the format mostly? Or the content? Like, here we watch the show in episode format. I forget to remind our watchers that the show worked as live clips.
treehouse: (I should say though, that Norwegians seem to know a lot about Swedish stuff, but Swedes don't know (DIDN'T) anything about Norwegian stuff..)
Ghostcat: ...well, "live" clips.
treehouse: Uh, I don't remember reading anything about the format. But, like, this was several years ago, so...I suppose they wrote about that too, haha.
Ghostcat: So what was the first episode you saw?
treehouse: I am very orderly, so naturally I started from the beginning.
Ghostcat: So, Eva! Wonderful.
treehouse: Then I binged s1, s2 and most of s3 in one weekend.
Ghostcat: Wow!
treehouse: Yes!
etal: Know that feeling.
Ghostcat: It's really easy to do. You get sucked right in.
treehouse: When I started watching though, I didn't know/care about the blog. I just watched it as a regular tv show. A good tv-show. Right?
Ghostcat: Right. And your experience with fandom at that time was limited, right? Any fandom?
treehouse: I've never been in a fandom before, this is my very first haha
Ghostcat: One of the things I notice rewatching is how much character information is packed into the episodes in unforced ways, it makes going back a lot of fun. It rewards, in that way
treehouse: It really does!
Ghostcat: So while Eva is our lead in season one, we were already getting fed information for our future mains
etal: One thing I noticed on this rewatch that I'd missed before was Mahdi says he doesn’t know Isak.
Ghostcat: Yes, Madhi is new to the squad. He knows Isak but doesn't know him. The implication is that he's friends with Jonas? He knows Isak enough to call him ugly ha ha ha. Which I love.
etal: Yes and Jonas trying to spread the social glue and arguing back that he does - I think you're right when you say it's uncomfortable @treehouse
treehouse: Hmm.
Ghostcat: ...and Magnus, who without having too much exposition, we find out didn't put any money towards the weed but is smoking it. This says so much about who he is. What were your feelings on the Boy Squad, treehouse?
treehouse: That they are typical boys, haha. The talking about girls, the teasing...
Ghostcat: One of our watchers felt they were more accurate than the Penetrators as far as teenage boys go and that is legit.
treehouse: But then we get to know them even better in the clip "gå ner på chicks"
Ghostcat: Omg, yessss. To all of you who don't know the clip names, this is when they're in the cafeteria talking about the lady with a cat tongue...
treehouse: Like Magnus being a little lost, the person that makes them laugh at his own expense, even if he doesn't exactly mean to
Ghostcat: ...and the one Jonas claims has no clit
irazor: My thought were that they were such TYPICAL teenage boys.
treehouse: Yes, they are, haha!
Ghostcat: Ordinary.
treehouse: I just rewatched the ep before the talk back, and speaking of Isak not talking or writing - he doesn't talk in that clip.
Ghostcat: He's just stuffing his face.
treehouse: He's watching the others.
Ghostcat: ...and others.
treehouse: Who seem to think that the revue is kind of lame. ...and others.
Ghostcat: Ha ha ha. You can give us your first impression, that is safe territory.
treehouse: First impression of cafeteria boy/boy who uses all the paper towels?
Ghostcat: Yes, that boy.
treehouse: The boy that Isak doesn't even dare to look at for more than a millisecond because he's a boy?
Ghostcat: Can't even look at him.
treehouse: He can't!
Ghostcat: Only does when the boy jokes about having to suck dicks in the dark.
treehouse: But it's clear that Even recognizes him when he enters the kosegruppa-meeting.
Ghostcat: And that's only because Isak's startled into it.
treehouse: Haha, true!
Ghostcat: It's some great weed-smoking acting from Tarjei Sandvik Moe, all that coughing and his voice.
treehouse: Haha, it is! And the smooth move from Even, when he introduces himself to Emma.
Ghostcat: Yes, and a good way to get the audience on his side...
treehouse: When Isak clearly doesn't know who he agreed to pair up with.
Ghostcat: ...because who doesn't love a person who gets you out of a jam without prompting?
treehouse: Exactly!
Ghostcat: That's basically all I want from my friends
treehouse: Same.
Ghostcat: Please when you see that panicked look in my eyes...IMPROVISE.
treehouse: Also, I love how the ambience just dies when Emma comes. And then she sits down. Sigh.
Ghostcat: Isak isn't trying very hard with her with no one to perform for. Though it's interesting that he doesn't perform for Even.
treehouse: No, he certainly isn't. Yes! That is interesting!
Ghostcat: Did you have an idea of where you thought the season might be headed based on this first episode? We get a lot thrown at us... The hiding. Isak's mom's texts. We didn't even get into Eskild. Or Sana, unwilling science partner. Kosegruppa... yay? and the boy.
treehouse: Well, yes and no. I was probably expecting a lot of homophobia. Because, you know, TV, and how homosexual characters are treated.
Ghostcat: Oh yeah. There's always that fear.
treehouse: But the clip with Eskild and Linn, when they cuddle with Isak (almost against his will) in his bed - I love that!
Ghostcat: "I will pay" ha ha ha.
treehouse: Haha, yes.
Ghostcat: Eskild does treat Isak like the fluffy stray kitten he found on a rooftop.
treehouse: ...and how they do more than just live together - they share things too, and they miss their old flatmate. Haha he does, even though Isak apparently smells like fart.
Ghostcat: Ha ha ha, boy farts. He's poorly behaved, unused to people, not housebroken.
treehouse: Hahahha.
Ghostcat: Another project for Eskild.
treehouse: When Eskild is done with him, he'll smell of lavender!
Ghostcat: Ha ha ha, I'm picturing a deep Isak scowl. Did you have any predictions at this point before you let the next episode play? Or where you just like NEXT NEXT NEXT?
treehouse: Haha, oh god, I was just playing the next episode. Didn't have time to think, had to watch MORE.
Ghostcat: Of course. So now that we kept you much longer than I planned to―do you have any thoughts about this episode that we didn't get a chance to talk about before we sign off? (I could grill you about the whole season but we are on our best behavior here)
treehouse: No, not that I can think of. I'm just so excited for you to watch the next episode. And the next and the next etc. Haha, we are!!
Ghostcat: YES. I told all the watchers that the next episode is a special one for each of them especially and it's the truth―it contains something that will appeal to each one of them in specific ways. It's a LOT.
treehouse: It is!!
Ghostcat: Thank you so much, treehouse, for kicking off our special guest talk backs!
treehouse: Thank you so much for having me!
itsallnoncents: Thank you, treehouse!!
treehouse: Thank you!!
irazor: I look forward to being your guest host next week!
Ghostcat: To all you watchers who will read this later, treehouse happens to write wonderful fics for SKAM which you will want to read!
treehouse: I look forward to lurk next week, haha!
@newyearsirresolution aka pillowlava: I look forward to not fucking up with spoilers when it's my turn
Ghostcat: We did not fuck up with spoilers, we were so good. No spoilers. Just class! Thank you, all!
irazor: Well done, everyone!
treehouse: So classy!
Ghostcat: See you next week with @irazor when we all squee over episode 3.2: Du er over 18, sant?
etal: I still think Isak throws a last little look at Even in the last few moments of that scene. I haven't watched it 1000000 times, you understand. I just noticed it in passing.
pillowlava: I concur.
itsallnoncents: I think you’re right, etal. It’s super quick.
etal: So quick.
itsallnoncents: And he could be looking at Mahdi but it seems too self-aware of a glance
Ghostcat: I'll have another look
etal: Watch him all the way through without looking at anything else and he doesn't look in Even's direction again at all, not once. Exerts great self-control...and then the tiniest flicker. Very Isak.
itsallnoncents: He wants to know if Even is still looking or listening.
Ghostcat: The fact that Even's still in the frame behind Vilde is so great. I love this show's attention to detail. A fan's dream. Truly.
itsallnoncents: Our cup runneth over.
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Join us next Friday to read our talkback with @irazor about episode 3.2: “Du er over 18, sant?” aka Isak spends a quality afternoon not-buying beer
The prompts for this challenge were randomly chosen to be ‘domination’ and ‘camping/tent sex’, both prompts had to be included. The challenge fics can be found in the smut challenge collection on AO3, and here:
All of Me by MinilocIsland @irazor
Luckily, Isak knows just how to catch Even when he falls.
(Or, as in this case: when his attempt at taking Isak camping doesn't go as planned).
these are just a couple of my cravings by Treehouse @modestytreehouse
A festival a couple of hours drive from Oslo, just the two of them. There’s always people around them, in kollektivet, at Even’s place and Even has longed for this - to have Isak to himself. To spoil him a little. Isak got the tickets for his birthday, accompanied by a hand-drawn card. No need for parallel universes; it was just one, big square with the two of them, in front of a stage.
(I know, I know) I make it hard to let go by colazitron @fille-lioncelle
Isak and Even go camping. Isak wants to look at the stars. Even wants to look at Isak. One thing leads to another.
Take a deep breath, baby (let me in) by nofeartina @nofeartina
“Tonight is one of those nights,” Isak says, over his shoulder.
Even only pauses for a brief second before he continues zipping the tent closed and says, “You or me?”
Isak turns around all the way and he’s such a sight like this. On his knees, face tilted down, eyes half-lidded and seductive. He’s still wearing that snapback he wore the first time Even saw him, and Even’s resigned by now to how that still makes him hot all over.
“Me,” Isak breathes.
Honorable mention (we’re thrilled that you were inspired by our challenge! :D):
Come For Me by cami_soul
Isak and Even go camping, but I don't really talk about the camping. lol Very light Dom/Sub action. Even pushing Isak's boundaries, in a good way. Just some smutty fun (see tags)! Enjoy! C-
All of us participating want to thank you guys for reading, kudosing, and commenting. It’s been amazing to write for you and we can’t wait to do it again. 😁❤
I’m not hugely into comedy tbh. I watched Nanette recently and loved it, so Hannah Gadsby is the first one that comes to mind. I enjoy Jonas Gardell’s books and I think I’d enjoy his stand-up, too. Aaand… would you consider Victoria Pile a comedian? Or a comedy writer? She created Green Wing and Smack the Pony, both shows I used to like once upon a time. Some of the actors in those shows are pretty stellar. Oh, Matt Lucas and David Walliams. (Says the person who’s not into comedy).
48. turn offs
Sexually? Is it awful if I say men? Also, not listening to your partner. And I’m too old for things that always end up being way more impractical than fun (shower sex, pool sex, outdoors sex etc.)
Re: licking Isak's abs - I wasn't the first, and I'm not the last, I hope. But I just re-read this and came to think about that ask again 😀
"His eyes slide over Isak’s hair spread out on the blanket, his strong arms that show so much muscle even though he’s relaxing, his shoulders and chest that make it hard for Even to breathe. His abs, oh god his abs. Even desperately wants to lick them, wants to bury his head in them, wants to touch them gently, just enough that they tense and become even more obvious under Isak’s skin."
From nofeartina's Never be the same
@modestytreehouse
Why it has taken me so long to reply to this, is an answer that I do not have haha.
But heck, thanks for reminding me that this paragraph exists in Tina's work. And now I want to go back and read everything she has written despite having a gazillion things to catch up on.
Another fic to join the abs catalogue:
Never be the same by @nofeartina
P.S. I have now opened a list for abs fics which I feel has too little on there so please please send me more to add to it.
Abs List
