anything's righter than books could plan (2/2)

[dearygirl]

Apologies to my best friend V. Several of the scenes here were inspired by the night she gave birth to her little girl.

Much thanks as always to the lovely 0penhearts  for the beta and for epic ideas for Troy/Abed shenanigans.

Titles comes from e.e. cummings.

Comments

[caveat_lect0r]

I'll be the first to admit that babyfic is Not My Thing, since, like Britta, childbirth horrifies me. But this was very nicely done, and this:

There’s something softer there that she’s never heard before, softer even than the way she’s heard him talk with Annie and shit, he’s a dad now. This smarmy asshole who conjured up a fake study group just to get in her pants is a dad now and holding this baby in his arms and looks absolutely disgustingly schmoopy.

and this:

They proceeded to sing her an off-key version of Happy Birthday that somehow lasted about five minutes long and meandered into a beat box rap about babies and cake and turtles that made Britta laugh so hard tears started running down her cheeks.

made me grin like a loon (sub-textual Abed/Britta/Troy ftw). Thanks for sharing!

[dearygirl]

I'm so glad you liked it!

I have to admit Abed/Britta/Troy has become like my new favorite crack ship this summer. One of my biggest wishes for season two would be a storyline for the three of them to just be awesome together.

Thank you for reading and commenting!

[gubeldood208]

I don't think there are words for how much I love this. So please bear with me as I try to fumble my way through ALL THESE EMOTIONS OMG IDEK. (Or as an added bonus of my-god-this-is-the-most-rambly-long-ridiculous-thing-ever proportions, feel free to skip to the very bottom for the cliff notes version. I realize this review might be inviting emotions of the TL;DR variety. Sorry bout that.)

First of all: Britta. This whole thing made me want to take her and hug her and have her be my best friend, whereas previously I'd only want to, i dunno- hang with her in social situations but never a one on one kinda thing. But if this were canon? (AND IN MY MIND IT IS) I'd totes be all "Britta! My place! You bring the wonton soup, I'll supply the Thom Yorke cds!", that is how much I love her now. And this is all attributed to YOU. You write her so well it's unfathomable; I cannot help but be swayed to ridiculous levels of Britta admiration

[dearygirl]

Oh my goodness. Thank you for such a lovely amazing comment. I think this has made my day and left me a little speechless.

I'd totes be all "Britta! My place! You bring the wonton soup, I'll supply the Thom Yorke cds!", that is how much I love her now.

Right? I feel like Britta would be such a fun friend. Maybe one of those people that drives you crazy when you first meet them but then you get to know her and you're just blown away buy how COOL and unique she is.

And I'm so glad you thought she was hilarious. I pulled a lot of that stuff out of my experience during my friend's delivery of her daughter and just how crazy caught of guard I was by how calm everyone was. I figured that would freak Britta out. Oh, but I have to give credit to 0penhearts for helping me come up with crazy Troy/Abed behavior. She absolutely came up with the tongue depressor/lollypop thing.

Also Troy/Britta/Abed for the ultimate OT3Heehee. They are totally my crack ship

[lapacifidora]

OK. It's 2:40 a.m. Standard Me Time, and I'm mid-chapter, so I'll leave a more coherent response in the morning, but I just wanted to say that this actually made me tear up at one point, esp as my sister gave birth three weeks early at the beginning of July.

[lapacifidora]

-I’d still be following Thom Yorke around the country and Shirley would still be married to her lame-o ex-husband and Jeff would still be a sleazy lawyer with some rotating flavor of the month on his arm and you’d be off Grey’s Anatomying yourself all over some Dr. McBoring. And if you think about it? Those things all kind of suck.”
HAH. Can we make 'Grey's Anatomying' happen? Pls?
-“Well… what if I told you that neither of you was wrong?”
Oooh. Britta's been naughty. ;D
- Maybe there’s time for a snack break or… but they’re already moving out into the hallway.
I missed this the first time, but it's brilliant and hilarious.
-At one point Britta pulls the tie out of her own hair and scoops Annie’s up off her neck into knot at the back of her head.
OK. You made me love Britta here, and now I want to start a 'People for the Ethical Treatment of Britta.'
-“Hey, you got to hold her for the last nine months. My turn.”
Shyeah, Jeff. I'm sure it was *so* much fun when Annie had to pee every 20 minutes and got bruised ribs. *Men.*
-This

[dearygirl]

Aww. Congratulations to your sister. I based this off the night that my best friend gave birth to her little girl so I admit that it got me a little emotional at times just to write it.

HAH. Can we make 'Grey's Anatomying' happen? Pls?

Yes. I feel like it could be a good substitute for "whoring."

OK. You made me love Britta here, and now I want to start a 'People for the Ethical Treatment of Britta.

Please do. I'll co-chair this committee with you. Because Britta is basically awesome and I love her and I love that I love her despite my feelings for Jeff/Annie. So thank you Dan Harmon for that.

I'm SO glad you enjoyed it! Thank you for the lovely detailed comments. Those are always the best ones.

[lapacifidora]

I feel like it could be a good substitute for "whoring."

BAHAHAHAHA. OK, awesome. I want to go put an entry up on Urban Dictionary.

I love that I love her despite my feelings for Jeff/Annie.

Precisely. It's like the discussion of how Slater wasn't completely horrible, and then at the end, she was just awful for no apparent reason. It's like, I don't want Britta to be hurt if/when she finds out about Jeff/Annie, and I don't want Shirley to pick sides because I like the Britta/Shirley/Annie dynamic.

(OK. I was worried I went a wee bit overboard with the quoting of awesome parts. :)

[ravenecho]

Awesome doesn't even begin to describe this fic. You got the characterizations of all the characters exactly right, especially for Britta. Lol I can just imagine her being that neurotic in her mid-thirties.

I particularly loved this bit:

“You hated it.”

“I did not.”

“You did. You made mean faces at us for the first six months.”

“Well, it caught me off guard. What was I supposed to think?”

Annie falls quiet. She’s lying on her side, gripping the rails of the bed as Britta, sitting cross-legged behind her, softly massages her low back, trying to offer some relief from the cramping.

“I didn’t want you to hate me.”

Britta laughs. “I didn’t.” Her fingers find a knot and press hard enough to make Annie groan and turn her face into the pillow..

For me it just perfectly showed how Britta would have reacted to finding out about Jeff and Annie and how she might not have been okay with it at first, but she was eventually.

Great work!

[dearygirl]

Oh thank you so much. I'm so glad you liked that part - it was the first thing I wrote actually and it kind of directed where I was going with the rest of the story.

Thank you again for reading and commenting!

[0penhearts]

So, everything you do is awesome. You know that right?

In celebration of lovely things, read this.

Um, is it inappropriate to rec other fic for other fandoms in a comment like this? Both of these things made me smile a lot, so I'm gonna call it good.

[dearygirl]

Pshyeah, I know this. You don't need to tell me twice that I'm awesome... No wait seriously, tell me again.

I kid. I kid. Thank YOU again for ideas for Troy/Abed. I REALLY wanted to use the one about Britta finding them with a baby but in the end I couldn't get it to work without trying to offer some kind of explanation.

Also, I have now concluded that comments containing recs to ridiculously in-character and lovely fic are THE BEST.

AND? #16Days