Comments | chazper: Seth’s No-Good, Rotten, Unfreakingfair, Sucktastic, Miserable, Lousy Day

chazper

Seth’s No-Good, Rotten, Unfreakingfair, Sucktastic, Miserable, Lousy Day

Jul 09, 2009 18:05

Written for silverweave for the OC sentence challenge. The prompt was: If Seth had wanted his day to go like this, he would have shoved himself in his locker in first period and saved everyone else the trouble. I think you'll notice it right away.

Set season 1, sometime between "The Heights" and "The Perfect Couple."

Sorry it's late, silverweave and sorry I don't have ( Read more... )

Comments 23

anne35 July 11 2009, 15:13:01 UTC

This story was wonderful. Just the perfect thing for a rainy Saturday morning. It had me grinning from the first word to the last. You have everyone in Season One perfection.

I especially enjoyed Seth's speech at the end followed by the jocks' reactions.

chazper July 13 2009, 15:25:53 UTC

Aw, thanks. I'm glad I helped you pass the time on a rainy Saturday morning.

60schic July 13 2009, 15:42:18 UTC

Ok, this? Was priceless. You have Seth, whom you rarely write, down to a T. And that means annoying as all hell. Like I want to punch him myself. Like I did In Earth Girls are Easy when he muscled in on Ryan's plans.

Did nothing to make me like him any better, but you certainly answered the letter of the prompt.

chazper July 13 2009, 18:00:06 UTC

Eep--I hope I didn't offend silverweave, since I know she does like Seth, but when I decided to write him . . . well, this is what came out.

BTW, yes, he was insufferable in Earth Girls Are Easy, especially since Ryan had just begun to really emerge from his raw grief/guilt about Marissa. What were TPTB thinking, having Seth behave that way? Wasn't he supposed to have matured?

60schic July 13 2009, 20:04:10 UTC

*Mature* and *Seth*...2 words that never belong in the same sentence.

I do believe that you fullfilled the request as in Seth having more trouble than he bargained for. And it is SO Seth, how could she not like it?

mel39 September 23 2009, 08:45:29 UTC

Awww! As you can see I'm catching up on challenge fic and this was a great way to start my day off. Season 1, Sethishness, Ryan hurt. You have it all. Who knew a story not about Ryan Atwood could be such fun? Seriously, you've captured that season one essence perfectly (and why couldn't the writers ever do that?) and I loved it. Little touches like "Queer" thrown in all had me drifting off to my happy place. Sigh.

chazper September 23 2009, 19:20:29 UTC

I had a surprising amount of fun writing this, considering that I never make Seth my central character, so I'm glad you enjoyed. I'm also glad that I'm not the only one who hasn't read all the sentence challenge fics!

silverweave September 27 2009, 11:10:47 UTC

Hi honey, I'm so sorry I hadn't reviewed til now, I completely forgot about the OCSFC with the mad summer I had and the lovely Mel just pointed me in youor direction.

I'm so glad she did! Awesome, dude.

I loved this, I really did. You hit all my favourite buttons, Seth, canon, great characterisation and, oh, more Seth. I know you're a Ryan girl at heart, but you really do write brilliant Seth and I hope you write more! The different interactions between Seth and the various characters is spot on too, I love how his Dad sees straight through him when he drops him off early, how Marissa checks out of the conversation once she has what she wants from it and Summer and Seth's little evolving moments. Really lovely, especially the last one.

You know I always grunt on about how the writers never really fully explored the potential of Seth's lonely insecurities and pre-Ryan life? This fic has totally filled in a hole for me.

chazper September 27 2009, 16:44:53 UTC

I'm so glad you liked this, silver. I'll admit that Seth often irritated me later in the series when TPTB wrote him as shallow and self-absorbed, but I loved him when they remembered who he was when we met him--generous, fumbling, funny, and really quite brave in his own way. You're right that the writers should have explored his lonely insecurities more. (That's high on the list of 5,000 other things they should have done. Sigh.)

In any case, thanks for reading. Don't worry about being tardy; I haven't caught up either. I'm just flattered and relieved that this worked for you.

jassylou September 28 2009, 00:52:53 UTC

I think everyone's said what I wanted to say.

It's so funny with lots of 'laugh out loud'moments.

AWESOME! fic and totally made my day.

Thanks for writing Chaz :D

chazper September 28 2009, 16:46:27 UTC

You're welcome. Thanks for reading!