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Here Goes Nothing.
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TITLE: Multiple Choice
AUTHOR: Dani O.
RATING: R. Just to be safe.
PAIRING: DomLijah, with a few others on the side.
WARNINGS: Apart from the usual manslash? If that's a problem, what in the hell are you doing here?
DISCLAIMER: My pants are fully incinerated, yo.
FEEDBACK: Cthulhu demands it in exchange for my life. Or something like that.
SUMMARY: A sampler platter of DomLijah variations, condensed and satirized. What fangirl can resist? (In a way I'm paying homage to the process of writing fanfiction, because all people usually see is the product.)
SOUNDTRACK (Approximately 97% of my stories have them)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mM2-cRCssBY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84f0i-VhlJY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIBzbdo2LjU
Dominic and Elijah meet.
Imagine the possibilities.
~
A. After falling in love, Dominic and Elijah get married in Massachusetts, where men and women are allowed to marry their own kind. They prosper in their acting careers, which they find both stimulating and challenging. They buy a sprawling manor in the English countryside and a charming Brooklyn Heights brownstone. Property values go throught he roof. Sooner or later, when their work schedules settle down, they adopt a boy from Liberia and a girl from India, in that order, to whom they are devoted. Dom and Elijah enjoy an adventurous sex life and a number of worthwhile friends. Their family goes on fun, exotic vacations together. The children grow up and turn into a publishing CEO and a scientist, respectively. Eventually, they all die. The end.
~
B. Or try this: Elijah falls in love with Dominic, but Dom doesn't love him back. Instead he uses Elijah's body for orgasms and his heart as a weapon of a passive-aggressive sort, to strike back at his past. Twice a week, when he's in town, he shows up at Elijah's apartment and Elijah cooks them dinner--please notice that Dom doesn't even consider him worth the price of a night out--then, after they've finished the food, Dom takes Elijah to bed and fucks him and before long he's asleep. Meanwhile, Elijah gets up and puts the leftovers in the fridge and washes the dishes, because he can't sleep and he doesn't want Dom to start thinking he's incompetent or something, all that crap strewn around the kitchen, then he takes a shower so he'll smell nice when Dom wakes up. Not that Dom even comments on any of these things when he wakes up, or much of anything else, all he does is gather his clothes and put them back on, shorts, socks, jeans, T-shirt, jacket, scarf, shoes, reversing the order in which he removed them, but just as businesslike about it, just as efficient. He doesn't undress Elijah, Elijah takes care of that himself, and afterward something always has to be mended because he acts as if he's starving for it, dying of sheer horniness, which isn't always the truth but he thinks that someday, when Dom watches what he does to Elijah and finally takes it to heart, he'll get addicted and then, finally, they can be together. But Dom leaves Elijah at the door with a halfhearted kiss; three days later he'll show up and they'll do the whole thing over again.
Elijah begins to deteriorate. He wills himself not to cry in public, but his co-workers, co-stars, notice anyway. For his own good they compare Dominic to a cast of quadrupeds and reptiles, dog, snake, rat, he isn't worth Elijah's spit in his face, but Lij can't bring himself to agree. Inside Dominic, he thinks, is another Dominic, who is much better. This other one will hatch eventually, if the original Dom is only provided the right nest.
One evening Dom complains that he's sick of shrimp rockefeller, Elijah's specialty. He's never complained about the food before and in the process, Elijah's feelings get hurt.
A tabloid website posts pictures of Dominic in a restaurant with a woman, whose name is Evangeline. It's not Evangeline, or the fact that she's a woman, that hits Elijah the hardest: it's the restaurant. Dom has never taken Lij to a restaurant. Elijah buys a middle schooler's dissection kit for the scalpel, goes home and draws a hot bath, then takes off his clothes and climbs into the water with his blade and a bottle of vodka. Even now he's careful to fold his clothes before setting them aside, even under these circumstances he wants to look like he has his shit together. He leaves a note for Dominic. Secretly he hopes that Dom will discover him and get him to the hospital in time and beg for forgiveness, after which they can finally be together, but no such luck--the bathwater clouds with blood and Elijah's suicide is a resounding success.
Dominic, after the approved mourning period, marries Evangeline and life goes on until they die, too.
~
C. Ouch. Scratch that. Maybe...maybe Billy, who is an older man, falls in love with Dominic, and Dom, who is still in his twenties, feels sorry for him because he's embarrassed about losing his hair. They sleep together once or twice a week even though Dom is not in love with Billy. They're old friends who met on a film set. Dom is in love with someone else from the same set, Elijah, who is in his twenties as well and has an enviable record collection, along with no particular interest in settling down.
Billy, on the other hand, settled down almost by accident: he's involved with a woman named Ali; they have a son together and a lovely cottage on the outskirts of Glasgow that they bought just before the property values went up, and flourishing careers which they are trying to keep in bloom. Billy tells Dominic how much he means to him, but of course he can't leave Ali because circumstances are circumstances, and the son has to come first. He gives this spiel more often than is necessary and Dom is bored by it, but Billy knows how to crack him up and get him off, so all in all he has a good time.
One day Elijah returns from shooting his latest picture and holds up an ounce of top-grade White Widow for Dominic's inspection and he and Dom get more stoned than you'd believe humanly possible and they tumble into bed. Everything becomes a kind of haze, but then along comes Billy, who has a key to Dominic's place. He finds them higher than the Himalayas, naked, entwined; he's hardly in any position to be jealous, considering Ali, but despair overwhelms him regardless. Before long he'll be officially middle-aged, not to mention bald as a cueball and it drives him out of his mind. Somehow he gets ahold of a handgun--here's the sketchy part of the plot, but it can be reinforced later--and shoots Dominic and Elijah, then himself.
Ali, after the approved mourning period, marries a man who was once a lad she knew at Uni, and life goes on until they die, too.
~
D. How depressing. How fucking depressing. How completely, thoroughly, fucking depressing. Shame on me; I ought to know better. Let's say Dominic and Elijah have no problems. They get along expectionally well and are quick to work through whatever difficulties arise. But their sprawling English manor house is by the sea and one day a freak storm approaches, bringing in rogue tidal waves, which could, in theory, be a side effect of global warming. The rest of the story revolves around this theory and how their collective ingenuity helps them escape from it. Which they do, though hundreds of others don't. But this isn't about them, so they're only mentioned to illustrate how lucky the protagonists are. On high ground, Dom and Lij cling to each other, soaked and bleeding but grateful for their lives, and determine to restart them from scratch until they're over.
~
E. Unless...all those cigarettes have given Elijah lung cancer. And so the story turns to how generous and understanding they are until Elijah dies. Then Dominic devotes himself to Elijah's memory until it's his turn to do the same. Don't forget, there is a record label minus its founder, or else you could try charity work on for size, if you prefer.
~
F. Just one cliche after another, I know. If you want, you can pretend Dominic is a secret agent and Elijah is the son of a crime boss, and see how far that goes. Remember, we're still the ordinary world. You can mix sexual tension into street fights; in the end you might have a lusty, gritty saga of moral ambiguity and forbidden love, a chronicle of modern times. Kind of.
~
G. But take aim at the brain or the heart when the groin is so much more accessible? Send them back to the 1980s. Put them in a roller rink, give Dominic wraparound shades and blue hair, gel Elijah's into quills, dust off a few songs that were popular before the Berlin Wall was torn down. Then give it a kinky edge by having them be first-names-only strangers who fuck in the bathroom, with their skates still on; why not? Casual doesn't automatically deplete quality, plus there's a lot to be said for escapism; has anyone read the news lately?
* * * * *
How long does it take to decide? It's up to you, really, but you have to face facts, those throwbacks from elementary school--who, where, what, when, why, how. Our job is to erase the question marks attached to them. It's not about the beginning or the ending; any true connoisseur knows it's the stuff in the middle that keeps you in place, then lures you back for more.
The only authentic beginning is the one provided here: Dominic and Elijah meet.
The only authentic ending is as follows: Dominic and Elijah are human and therefore can't live forever.
Make it worth their while, and yours. Use both hands, twist the plot. If there is one.
Godspeed.
TITLE: Multiple Choice
AUTHOR: Dani O.
RATING: R. Just to be safe.
PAIRING: DomLijah, with a few others on the side.
WARNINGS: Apart from the usual manslash? If that's a problem, what in the hell are you doing here?
DISCLAIMER: My pants are fully incinerated, yo.
FEEDBACK: Cthulhu demands it in exchange for my life. Or something like that.
SUMMARY: A sampler platter of DomLijah variations, condensed and satirized. What fangirl can resist? (In a way I'm paying homage to the process of writing fanfiction, because all people usually see is the product.)
SOUNDTRACK (Approximately 97% of my stories have them)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mM2-cRCssBY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84f0i-VhlJY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIBzbdo2LjU
Dominic and Elijah meet.
Imagine the possibilities.
~
A. After falling in love, Dominic and Elijah get married in Massachusetts, where men and women are allowed to marry their own kind. They prosper in their acting careers, which they find both stimulating and challenging. They buy a sprawling manor in the English countryside and a charming Brooklyn Heights brownstone. Property values go throught he roof. Sooner or later, when their work schedules settle down, they adopt a boy from Liberia and a girl from India, in that order, to whom they are devoted. Dom and Elijah enjoy an adventurous sex life and a number of worthwhile friends. Their family goes on fun, exotic vacations together. The children grow up and turn into a publishing CEO and a scientist, respectively. Eventually, they all die. The end.
~
B. Or try this: Elijah falls in love with Dominic, but Dom doesn't love him back. Instead he uses Elijah's body for orgasms and his heart as a weapon of a passive-aggressive sort, to strike back at his past. Twice a week, when he's in town, he shows up at Elijah's apartment and Elijah cooks them dinner--please notice that Dom doesn't even consider him worth the price of a night out--then, after they've finished the food, Dom takes Elijah to bed and fucks him and before long he's asleep. Meanwhile, Elijah gets up and puts the leftovers in the fridge and washes the dishes, because he can't sleep and he doesn't want Dom to start thinking he's incompetent or something, all that crap strewn around the kitchen, then he takes a shower so he'll smell nice when Dom wakes up. Not that Dom even comments on any of these things when he wakes up, or much of anything else, all he does is gather his clothes and put them back on, shorts, socks, jeans, T-shirt, jacket, scarf, shoes, reversing the order in which he removed them, but just as businesslike about it, just as efficient. He doesn't undress Elijah, Elijah takes care of that himself, and afterward something always has to be mended because he acts as if he's starving for it, dying of sheer horniness, which isn't always the truth but he thinks that someday, when Dom watches what he does to Elijah and finally takes it to heart, he'll get addicted and then, finally, they can be together. But Dom leaves Elijah at the door with a halfhearted kiss; three days later he'll show up and they'll do the whole thing over again.
Elijah begins to deteriorate. He wills himself not to cry in public, but his co-workers, co-stars, notice anyway. For his own good they compare Dominic to a cast of quadrupeds and reptiles, dog, snake, rat, he isn't worth Elijah's spit in his face, but Lij can't bring himself to agree. Inside Dominic, he thinks, is another Dominic, who is much better. This other one will hatch eventually, if the original Dom is only provided the right nest.
One evening Dom complains that he's sick of shrimp rockefeller, Elijah's specialty. He's never complained about the food before and in the process, Elijah's feelings get hurt.
A tabloid website posts pictures of Dominic in a restaurant with a woman, whose name is Evangeline. It's not Evangeline, or the fact that she's a woman, that hits Elijah the hardest: it's the restaurant. Dom has never taken Lij to a restaurant. Elijah buys a middle schooler's dissection kit for the scalpel, goes home and draws a hot bath, then takes off his clothes and climbs into the water with his blade and a bottle of vodka. Even now he's careful to fold his clothes before setting them aside, even under these circumstances he wants to look like he has his shit together. He leaves a note for Dominic. Secretly he hopes that Dom will discover him and get him to the hospital in time and beg for forgiveness, after which they can finally be together, but no such luck--the bathwater clouds with blood and Elijah's suicide is a resounding success.
Dominic, after the approved mourning period, marries Evangeline and life goes on until they die, too.
~
C. Ouch. Scratch that. Maybe...maybe Billy, who is an older man, falls in love with Dominic, and Dom, who is still in his twenties, feels sorry for him because he's embarrassed about losing his hair. They sleep together once or twice a week even though Dom is not in love with Billy. They're old friends who met on a film set. Dom is in love with someone else from the same set, Elijah, who is in his twenties as well and has an enviable record collection, along with no particular interest in settling down.
Billy, on the other hand, settled down almost by accident: he's involved with a woman named Ali; they have a son together and a lovely cottage on the outskirts of Glasgow that they bought just before the property values went up, and flourishing careers which they are trying to keep in bloom. Billy tells Dominic how much he means to him, but of course he can't leave Ali because circumstances are circumstances, and the son has to come first. He gives this spiel more often than is necessary and Dom is bored by it, but Billy knows how to crack him up and get him off, so all in all he has a good time.
One day Elijah returns from shooting his latest picture and holds up an ounce of top-grade White Widow for Dominic's inspection and he and Dom get more stoned than you'd believe humanly possible and they tumble into bed. Everything becomes a kind of haze, but then along comes Billy, who has a key to Dominic's place. He finds them higher than the Himalayas, naked, entwined; he's hardly in any position to be jealous, considering Ali, but despair overwhelms him regardless. Before long he'll be officially middle-aged, not to mention bald as a cueball and it drives him out of his mind. Somehow he gets ahold of a handgun--here's the sketchy part of the plot, but it can be reinforced later--and shoots Dominic and Elijah, then himself.
Ali, after the approved mourning period, marries a man who was once a lad she knew at Uni, and life goes on until they die, too.
~
D. How depressing. How fucking depressing. How completely, thoroughly, fucking depressing. Shame on me; I ought to know better. Let's say Dominic and Elijah have no problems. They get along expectionally well and are quick to work through whatever difficulties arise. But their sprawling English manor house is by the sea and one day a freak storm approaches, bringing in rogue tidal waves, which could, in theory, be a side effect of global warming. The rest of the story revolves around this theory and how their collective ingenuity helps them escape from it. Which they do, though hundreds of others don't. But this isn't about them, so they're only mentioned to illustrate how lucky the protagonists are. On high ground, Dom and Lij cling to each other, soaked and bleeding but grateful for their lives, and determine to restart them from scratch until they're over.
~
E. Unless...all those cigarettes have given Elijah lung cancer. And so the story turns to how generous and understanding they are until Elijah dies. Then Dominic devotes himself to Elijah's memory until it's his turn to do the same. Don't forget, there is a record label minus its founder, or else you could try charity work on for size, if you prefer.
~
F. Just one cliche after another, I know. If you want, you can pretend Dominic is a secret agent and Elijah is the son of a crime boss, and see how far that goes. Remember, we're still the ordinary world. You can mix sexual tension into street fights; in the end you might have a lusty, gritty saga of moral ambiguity and forbidden love, a chronicle of modern times. Kind of.
~
G. But take aim at the brain or the heart when the groin is so much more accessible? Send them back to the 1980s. Put them in a roller rink, give Dominic wraparound shades and blue hair, gel Elijah's into quills, dust off a few songs that were popular before the Berlin Wall was torn down. Then give it a kinky edge by having them be first-names-only strangers who fuck in the bathroom, with their skates still on; why not? Casual doesn't automatically deplete quality, plus there's a lot to be said for escapism; has anyone read the news lately?
* * * * *
How long does it take to decide? It's up to you, really, but you have to face facts, those throwbacks from elementary school--who, where, what, when, why, how. Our job is to erase the question marks attached to them. It's not about the beginning or the ending; any true connoisseur knows it's the stuff in the middle that keeps you in place, then lures you back for more.
The only authentic beginning is the one provided here: Dominic and Elijah meet.
The only authentic ending is as follows: Dominic and Elijah are human and therefore can't live forever.
Make it worth their while, and yours. Use both hands, twist the plot. If there is one.
Godspeed.
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Thanks for reading.
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Oh, man. Can I, like, lick your icon?
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you like my icon? ;) lol elijah sure does tease us, showing off like that all the time. ^^
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This was amazing, really.
Welcome to the fandom and PLEASE! Do write more!!!! (and if you want, you can also post at
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Jeez, please, get writing/keep writing. You've got the juice. And I know you going to prove me right when I get to your posts from the end of this month. I'll see you there.