I only take advice from 80s songs.

Title: like a carrot on a strong
Fandom: Glee
Pairing/Characters: Finn Hudson/Will Schuester, Kurt Hummel
Rating: NC17
Summary: Turns out there's a big difference between "I want you" and "I love you". ~5560 words.
Series: Down Is Where We Came From
A/N: I couldn't decide whether to post this right when I got home from my sister's house or not, but here I am, so I guess the answer is 'yes'. What was the question again?

( In which Finn really needs to stop telling his mom he's going to be home early. )

Title: The Sacrament Of Penance
Fandom: Glee
Pairing/Characters: Finn/Will, Kurt, Carole
Rating: PG13
Summary: It's inevitable that they'd forget to pick up something for Christmas dinner. ~4800 words.
Series: Down Is Where We Came From
A/N: Here is another little DIWWCF-flavored Christmas gift for you, dear friends list. Well, the ones who enjoy the Glee fic, anyway. Sorry, everybody else! Mostly I just finished this so Finn would shut the hell up. Now I am going to go finish Zachary's knight boots and then get going on the princess dress. No, really, I'm going. Here I go.

( Finn’s considering ditching him and just going out for the stupid chicken stock himself. )

Title: Life Lines
Fandom: Glee
Pairing(s): Finn/Will, Kurt/Puck
Rating: PG13
Summary: Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. ~2600 words.
Series: Down Is Where We Came From
A/N: The trouble with changing POVs so often in this thing is that I can't just write all the holiday shenanigans in one go. Which isn't so much a problem, except that every time I have to post I have to come up with a title. Titles are hard, you guys.

(A little while ago Bess walked into my office and said, "I read that Will/Finn story you posted. Afterward I needed a beer and some M&Ms." I think that's possibly the best feedback I've ever gotten on a fic. And from a coworker, no less! It's not hard to make her blush or anything, but sometimes it's kind of fun.)

For a little while now I have been working on a Puck/Kurt-centric fanmix -- working title: Wedding Mix (spoiler alert: THEY GET MARRIED AT THE END) -- and there was this one song that I loved, but it just wasn't working for them. Then it dawned on me that it was actually a Will/Finn song, which launched a new Will-centric fanmix. I haven't given Will much of a voice in this series to date, mainly because while Will's a part of the relationship, certainly, up to now it's mostly been about Finn's journey of growth and discovering what he wants. (Puck calls it 'becoming a real boy'.)

So now Finn's figuring it out, and he knows what he wants, which is Will. The trouble, of course, is getting Will to believe that. So I suppose going forward that Will will have more of a voice in the series, and as a way of easing into that I started thinking about kind of a soundtrack for the two of them. The first fanmix* I made for the 99 Problems series was completely Finn-centric, and while this one isn't All About Will, it definitely focuses on him more.

Uh, vague spoilers for the future of the 99 Problems series, I guess? I mean, it's not like you can't guess where we're going with this thing, but if you really don't want to be spoiled, you should skip the notes after each track** and just download the zip file.

( Back to the Start: A Will/Finn Mix. )
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* None of those links are good anymore, so if you need the zip file let me know and I'll upload it again.
** Whatever, everybody knows fanmixes are just an excuse for posting cheesy covers anyway. I mean, come on, look at his Drama Face. How am I supposed to resist that? Though this is actually what I was listening to while I wrote that story that made Bess blush, so it must be doing the trick.

Title: At Regular Intervals
Fandom: Glee
Pairing(s)/Characters: Kurt/Puck, Carole
Rating: PG
Summary: Puck knows this much about Christmas: If you're still awake when Santa shows up, you can kiss your presents goodbye. ~2700 words.
Series: Down Is Where We Came From
A/N: This installment is mostly avoidance behavior, but you should have learned by now that that's just how I roll. cinderlily assures me that it works as a stand-alone, so here we are. Thanks for the read-through, Liz. ♥

Title: Open Doors
Fandom: Glee
Pairing(s): Kurt/Puck
Rating: PG
Summary: Puck has a promise to keep to his sister, and a Facebook status to update. ~3300 words.
Series: Down Is Where We Came From
A/N: The next several parts of this series are mostly little scenes that are kind of meandering and quiet, but I think necessary. I hope so, anyway. I'm just trying not to delve into silliness. And I'd like to get to the end of the world's longest two week vacation at some point as well.

A very Happy Thanksgiving to all of you in the U.S. I wish you all a low-key, drama-free day spent with good food and people who don't drive you crazy, and plenty of time to reflect on the things you cherish most about your life. Or plenty of time to read porn and eat pie. Whichever!

I will be spending most of my day hanging around at home, maybe running the vacuum and cleaning up a little, then I will go to my sister's house for cooking and eating and all-important brat face time and then probably a movie and some wine. That's about as low-key as it gets.

For those of you who aren't spending the day celebrating gluttony and organized violence in the form of professional sports, and are therefore mostly slogging through a Thursday and wishing the internet weren't so damn quiet, I can offer you only this: roughly 6500 words of sort of awkward, disappointingly PG-rated Finn/Will fic. I've hit that part of the series that's kind of tricky and weird, and I hope I manage to pull it off okay.

Anyway, posting fic on Thanksgiving, that's kind of weak, but I actually posted this last night and this is just the announcement, so it doesn't count:

Title: Professional Jealousy
Pairing: Finn/Will
Rating: PG13
Summary: It’s weird, and there’s not really any way around that. It’s the waiting out the weird that’s tough. ~6500 words.
Series: Down Is Where We Came From

There's work drama to talk about, but I think I'll skip it for the time being. Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. Know that I am thankful to know you. ♥

Title: Like a Sunday Bell
Fandom: Glee
Pairing: Will/Finn
Rating: NC17
Summary: Somewhere along the way Will became Finn's best friend, and if Finn can't tell him the dumb stuff that goes through his head, he can't say it to anybody. In which Finn talks and Will listens. 5180 words.
Series: Down Is Where We Came From
A/N: I fail at Nano on pretty much every level. OH WELL. It's been a week; I don't feel that bad about it. I don't usually post fic on Sundays, but with this pairing it doesn't even matter. I don't care, I kind of love them anyway.

Finn forgets to check for a Fiddler On the Roof DVD until it's too late.

Title: Fuel For Fire
Fandom: Glee
Pairing: Will/Finn
Rating: NC17
Summary: Finn's not sure about much in his life so far, but he's sure about this. 7126 words.
Series: Down Is Where We Came From
A/N: Today at work I: a) fed my coworkers cake, and b) wrote 7,000 words of porn. Both were equally satisfying.

( Finn wakes up with a sharp pain in his neck and a vivid memory of calling Will in the middle of the night to give him a status update on Kurt's relationship. )

I wasn't going to post these until I finished the next installment, but they're up on AO3 already, so I may as well link them here. One is Finn-centric and the other is a self-indulgent, fluffy little sort-of-gen Hummel-Hudson family thing. (The next part will be Puck's POV and is shaping up to be very, very long, so it may be awhile yet.)

Title: Catch As Catch Can
Fandom: Glee
Pairing: Kurt/Puck, Will/Finn
Rating: PG13
Summary: They all just figured he was waiting. 3800 words.
Series: Down Is Where We Came From

Title: Morning Song
Fandom: Glee
Characters: Kurt, Burt, Carole, Finn
Rating: PG
Summary: Breakfast at the Hudson-Hummel compound. 1503 words.
Series: Down Is Where We Came From