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Aug. 4th, 2011
(Sorry for letting posts go uncommented or comments unanswered over the last few days, this is the reason why. Was determined to get it off my back by the first of the month, which I didn't quite manage, but close enough!)
So this is a) how I Stockholm Syndrome'd myself into shipping this pairing (PLEASE JOIN ME) and b) the most explicit thing I have written in, like, five years, and it's not even that explicit. Or as I call it, "look, I wrote something that isn't about David Silva!"
........though he's in it. like you were expecting anything else.
Acknowledgements (lol): This fic owes its entire existence to the encouragement and enthusiastic co-shipping of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
nahco3, who then also edited like a champion. The check-ins for distira's WIP amnesty challenge helped it along past several hurdles, even though -- obviously -- I didn't exactly finish it within the parameters of the challenge. Subtitle after, yes, the Moldy Peaches song. It fit.
The Nature of Humanity and Badass Spaceships (Anyone Else But You)
Pairing: Raúl Albiol/Álvaro Arbeloa (past Raúl Albiol/David Silva)
Word Count: 11,300
Rating: somewhere between R and NC-17
Notes: Set during the 2010-2011 season. Any mistakes are my own.
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( The thing was, Álvaro had kind of made a point of never sleeping with teammates, just to be on the safe side — he'd seen that go wrong and it wasn't pretty. But Raúl was different: he was Álvaro's friend first. )
So this is a) how I Stockholm Syndrome'd myself into shipping this pairing (PLEASE JOIN ME) and b) the most explicit thing I have written in, like, five years, and it's not even that explicit. Or as I call it, "look, I wrote something that isn't about David Silva!"
........though he's in it. like you were expecting anything else.
Acknowledgements (lol): This fic owes its entire existence to the encouragement and enthusiastic co-shipping of
nahco3, who then also edited like a champion. The check-ins for distira's WIP amnesty challenge helped it along past several hurdles, even though -- obviously -- I didn't exactly finish it within the parameters of the challenge. Subtitle after, yes, the Moldy Peaches song. It fit. The Nature of Humanity and Badass Spaceships (Anyone Else But You)
Pairing: Raúl Albiol/Álvaro Arbeloa (past Raúl Albiol/David Silva)
Word Count: 11,300
Rating: somewhere between R and NC-17
Notes: Set during the 2010-2011 season. Any mistakes are my own.
—
( The thing was, Álvaro had kind of made a point of never sleeping with teammates, just to be on the safe side — he'd seen that go wrong and it wasn't pretty. But Raúl was different: he was Álvaro's friend first. )