Early Morning Distractions
The first thing Sammy realizes upon waking up is that Yaz isn’t in the bed next to her. The second thing she notices is the sound of shuffling in the kitchen and the smell of something cooking. It’s enough to give Sammy the energy to get herself out of the bed.
The wood floors are cold under her feet so she walks to the dresser and slips on a pair of fuzzy cow-print socks Yaz got her last winter. The blinds are open, allowing sunlight to pour in. She wipes her eyes, trying to wake herself up more and smoothes down her hair as much as possible before leaving the bedroom.
“Yaz?” Sammy calls, entering the kitchen.
Her girlfriend looks up from the stove. She holds a spatula in one hand, wearing an oversized shirt—Sammy’s shirt—and a pair of shorts that peeks from under the fabric. Her hair hasn’t been put up yet and it swings a little when she turns to face Sammy.
“Morning, Sunshine,” Yasmina says as Sammy walks towards her. “Sleep well?”
“Mm, good morning. I did until I realized you weren’t there,” Sammy tells her, leaning on the island opposite of Yaz.
Yasmina chuckles and sets down the spatula. “Well I figured I’d make breakfast, so…”
“I guess pancakes are enough of a consolation. And…eggs maybe?”
Yaz smiles. “Sure, anything for you.” She leans towards Sammy, going in for a kiss until Sammy ducks out of the way at the last minute.
“Yaz!” Sammy says, giggling. “I haven’t brushed my teeth yet.”
“Such a stickler.” Yasmina rolls her eyes but she’s giggling too.
“Well we’ve got all day. All week, actually, since you don’t leave until Sunday,” Sammy says, heart sinking at the thought of Yaz leaving. “But shit, I have to make Carl a pie today. He’s upset again about the fence.”
This time Yasmina actually rolls her eyes. “Carl can go fuck himself.”
“Yaz!”
“What? We both know he’s an asshole.”
“Yea, but he’s my neighbor,” Sammy tells her. “So I have to put up with him.”
“If you say so,” Yasmina says, crossing her arms. “Oh shit!”
“What?”
“The pancake!” Yaz turns around back to the oven and flips the pancake over. Sure enough, the surface of it is dark as night.
Sammy laughs. “I can’t believe you burnt the pancake!”
“You distracted me!”
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Got any campfam aus or ideas in the works?
hey anon! I wouldn’t say I have any ideas in the works, because I have what I like to call commitment issues when it comes to writing fic.
This means that while I have an abundance of ideas, outlines, and wips in my Google docs for the fandoms I’ve been in. I’ve never actually finished a fic and posted it.
In fact, the only single time I have, (diff fandom!) I am not counting properly, because it was a collab with a close mutual, and a lot of the legwork was them. I had the initial plot bunny and was going to leave it as a one off tumblr post, but my mutual rlly liked the idea and we bounced drabbles and such back and forth. We wrote a bunch of snippets and put them together in a doc, until we had cohesive chapters, as we filled the empty spaces with more and more work, ending up to a total of 18 chapters. It took us a year and a half to post it, and that was mostly my fault, as where my mutual had finished most of their allotted sections, different hyperfixations kept pulling me to other unfinished works. This is why I won’t promise anything—I don’t want to disappoint anyone.
But, that being said. I do have ideas, hcs, and aus! One that is currently consuming me, was actually inspired by this one other post I saw recently. (When I find the post ima link it dw!) OP of the post was saying that there should be a Carmen Sandiego au for CC and I jumped on that SO fucking fast anon. I LOVE Carmen Sandiego, and have since it first aired when I was in HS.
So. Here’s some of the Carmen Sandiego au thoughts copy/pasted from my Google docs. (Yes I do always write out my outlines as if I’m taking to someone but that’s bc i sometimes end up sharing the doc link with some friends)
JWCC Carmen Sandiego AU:
Y’all know Kenlynn is my JAM and so is RedCrackle. So obvi I thought of mixing the two right? But here’s the thing. While I love Carmen/Gray, I am also in love with Carmen/Ivy and Carmen/Julia.
So with that in mind. Kenlynn is going to take a backseat for a second (meaning tho they'll become a thing and obvi they will bc they are a constant to me, theyre not the center of this), and my fave girls YASAMMY will be at the forefront of this au.
I’m thinking. Carmen Sammy. But I’m not entirely sure about whether or not that’s what I want? It could be argued that Sammy’s love for her family is a core driving force in her character, and Carmen doesn’t KNOW her family. But also—a huge plot point is that she’s looking for her mom. So. Tentative Carmen Sammy.
MANTAH CORP AS VILE MANTAH CORP AS V.I.L.E MANTAH CORP AS V.I.L.E
So I figure not everything is going to be one-to-one. This means I am placing Kenji in the role of Gray/Crackle. His story is going to be different tho, bc whereas Gray was a recruit, with MANTAH CORP AS V.I.L.E that means Daniel is already on the board. So kenji trying to make his dad proud? More likely than you think.
(I just wanted my Sammy&Kenji besties. Bestie betrayal can be just as good as romantic betrayal)
I’m sure you know where I’m going with this if we’re not going the redcrackle route. Thats right. YASMINA JULIA.
I considered at first, YASMINA CARMEN and SAMMY IVY, but in the end the need for Sammy Carmen was too great.
So I also considered Dave and Roxxie as Chase and Julia but, I decided to scrap that idea for now. You know me, at some point I might revamp most of the au anyways lol, now is not a time for fine tuning it’s just a tentative starting point.
Torn between DARIUS as Player or Brooklynn as Player. I considered Ben of course, but I think we need to put him on an island at some point—he needs a Bumpy, no matter the universe.
WAIT. REVISITING BEN AS PLAYER. BECAUSE DARIUS AND BRAND AS ZACK AND IVY. This means no Carmen/Ivy vibes but since we ditched the Gray/Carmen as well in this au I think it’s fine.
Ben still has to end up with Bumpy somehow tho? Original Ben plan, when Darius was a Player candidate, was Ben is also a V.I.L.E recruit.
V.I.L.E having a faction that deals with genetics and cloning (in addition to like. Kash and his robots) and ending up with a dinosaur—Bumpy! And that being Ben’s flip to the other side/Team Sammy. He defects and steals Bumpy on his way out.
Okay I’m a little too attached to that, so yeah. V.I.L.E recruit Ben, so Brooklynn as player??
Oh! She doesn’t have!!! IRL friends!! Brooklynn being an Internet famous vlogger as in canon. So we get that running gag of Sammy and Brooklynn always being in contact and Brooklynn being a big part of the heists through investigative work and such, yet she’s constantly on the other side of the globe? Sammy needs to be in Sydney but Brooklynn is in New Orleans. That kinda stuff.
Works with Brooklynn having traveled all over the world, she can also do those factoids player does—she’s got the deets.
Oh!???? THATS HOW WE GET MY FAVE DUO OF DINOSTAR BESTIES!!! They both love their facts. They’re nerds.
Mae as shadowsan? Tentatively?
Okay. Player Brooklynn. Except instead of being home most of the time, she’s usually on the go. She’s talked to kenji a few times during Sammy and Kenji’s V.I.L.E recruit era.
Kenji as the Gray of this au. he’s a V.I.L.E legacy. he became friends with sammy his recruitment year, and he'd talked to brooklynn a few times, due to sammy introducing them because kenji was curious about whether or not sammy has friends in the outside world, and sammy noticing brooklynn feeling a little left out/jealous that sammy had friends she was hanging with in person rather than over a phone call.
kenlynn kenlynn kenlynn
does he recognize her voice from her vlogs? does he even watch them? i dont think hed be a brooklander, guys got a lot on his plate and thats impressing his dad
ben is a V.I.L.E. recruit. maybe a bit of mime bomb, in that he was. not as close? with the other recruits. i do think having ben come in as a recruit the year sammy defects would be cool tho. so he doesn't know her as "black sheep" or whatever code name V.I.L.E refers to her as. he'll first meet her as Sammy.
yaz as JULIA!!!!! a junior agent? a former athlete. trying to make it make sense, but i think it fits.
omg. yaz. is alex rider basically holy shit
was thinking of dave as chase, and decided that i was going to keep it.
roxxie as the Chief.
mae as shadowsan.
yes. it IS because i want a roxxie/mae/dave love triangle and that need's final form was ot3
DARIUS AND BRAND AS ZACK AND IVY. i dont want their mom to be dead. but i dont know WHAT happened to her and why theyre involved in this life of crime? i love the og carmen&ivy&zack meeting. and i love that they were involved with racing. trying to find a way to incorporate it and make it make sense
important question.....is darius and his dad's great shared love still dinosaurs?
OR IS IT CARS? RACING?????? BRAND BEING INVOLVED IN THE RACES BC IT WAS IMPORTANT TO DARIUS AND THEIR DAD AND DARIUS CANT DRIVE YET
AND. SAMMY. AS CARMEN!!!!!!
okay so carmen's dad was a former V.I.L.E. agent who left it all behind for the woman he fell in love with right? well. obvi this au isnt a one to one. like there clearly have been changes in characters and dynamics. but i think involving elements from this could work. lemme map it out to make sense
okay so in cc sammy spies for mantah corp despite her parents not wanting her to. meanwhie carmen's dad defects from V.I.L.E., i think shadowsan was there and so was the chief and he dies.
okay so--sammy's dad was a V.I.L.E. agent, fell in love, defected. V.I.L.E. catches up with him, and does A.C.M.E. and in the fallout, the house collapses. A fire? an explosion? they think sammy died. (im not killing off sammy's dad bc damnit she needs a happy ending)
yaz losing faith in the system and having her hot girl summer being romanced by the pretty thief she's supposed to be catching
ben ditches VILE/Mantah Corp with Bumpy and meets Darius at some point--oh!!!
mae/shadowsan joins Team Sammy at the end of s1 i think? okay, so, when she joins, she brings ben, a fresh defector with her.
obvi ben left after he stole bumpy from them
at some point during their occasional talks, kenlynn became friendly with each other. then The Train scene happens. and kenji is promptly deemed a disappointment and dealt with the way gray is.
brooklynn ends up coming across a memory-wiped kenji during one of her vlogs. he doesnt know he knows her, just that something about her voice seems familiar.
brooklynn brings it up and the other are Concerned but also have a lot on their plate rn/dont truly trust him again or are unclear on whether or not they should. darius/brand bc their experiences havent been good so far, and sammy doesnt want to risk them. but he was still one of her first friends. shes torn
brooklynn making contact with him. smth smth she ends up needing a camera man for one of her vlogs and kenji volunteers. they grow closer during her sporadic visits. he asks her out.
DANIEL KON HAS ENTERED THE CHAT. SAMMY NEEDS BROOKLYNN TO DO HER THING. SHE MISSES THE DATE.
Meanwhile, that entire interactive ep??? of carmen sandiego with the julia/carmen??? THAT. THAT HAPPENS. YASAMMY DANCE AND WE GET THAT SCENE YOU KNOW THE ONE
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Just a little opinion about fictional romantic relationships
So, this feels like a random topic to just hop into, but I've seen it come up enough that I feel like I should add my two cents.
What I am referring to is the topic of people hating on certain romantic ships for two separate reasons: because they're queer or because their straight and in between a possible queer relationship.
I honestly could care less if the relationship was between the same or opposite sex. Just so long as it's healthy, within the bound of logic and has good chemistry.
Just some examples I'mma throw out
Clementine and Louis from The Telltale's The Walking Dead.
They had really good chemistry for me and they complimented each other in good ways.
Then there's the ships that lead me to finally confront this topic.
The ships of Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous.
When the series initially started with season 1, I started shipping Kenji x Ben, mainly because they had some pretty cute scenes and they seemed to have a good relationship. And I also shipped Darius x Brooklynn a little, because they too had some good scenes and I thought they were setting them up to start liking each other anyway.
Then season 2's finale came around, along with some choice scenes from season's 3, 4 and 5, and I became a die-hard Benrius fan. They just had so many beautiful scenes, they have a lot of common interests they (mainly dinos and they're desire to protect them), they have great chemistry and they made each other better in a lot of ways, I feel, anyway.
And though Kenji x Brooklynn took some warming up to, I came to like it too, especially after rewatching JWCC for JWCT where they share some good scenes even before season 4 and 5 (the kayak scene being a good example)
What I'm trying to get at here, is if it has potential, is healthy and has good chemistry, then I will ride this ship into the ship-crushing tidal wave that is called 'Canon'.
When I'm not shipping a straight relationship in favour of a gay relationship, it's not because I hate a character (unless they are the literal embodiment of hell and eats baby heads or whatever) it is because I feel it has better chemistry then the prior relationship.
Sorry if this is a weird topic to just address out of the blue, but I see it so much with so many ships and fandoms, I just wanted to voice my own opinions on the matter.
Take care, peoples.
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