So Many Questions - I Need Your Answers

[raeschae]

So I had this idea - to write a fic that examines a question - and I went poking around online for some questions. Below are the four that I found most interesting or thought provoking. I'm going to write about one of them, I'm just not sure which one yet.


* Would you rather have a great friend you could share everything with or a great lover you can’t really talk to?

* Would you ever start a relationship with someone who was still living with an ex for financial reasons?

* Do you consider yourself sexually open minded?

* Have you ever had a true one-night stand?


Why even bring it up, if I don't know where I'm going with it? Because I'm curious to see what you guys think. Which question appeals to you? Which, if any, of them do you have a strong reaction or opinion about? Talk to me, help me choose. Or just scrap them all in favor of something you'd rather see. :)


(Oh, and PS, this one will contain supporting characters and side pairings so who, besides the Js, do you wanna see hooked up?)

Comments

[expectative.livejournal.com]

I really like the two first ones!

Side pairing hmmm... I don't care, but I'm in the mood for some Chad love! (I'm sure I'm not the only one!)

[dugindeep.livejournal.com]

IDK why but the second is setting off alarms, like, no way would I. LOL then again, I'm very skeptical of guys and exes and all that jazz after unknowingly being the other woman in one relationship and being cheated on in two others :(

[nightporters.livejournal.com]

I thought I was sexually open-minded until I joined LJ. Then I realised how tame I really am. I am vanilla woman. So that's the one leaps out.

[expectative.livejournal.com]

See, that's interesting because I'm the kind of guy who just doesn't care. I'm not jealous at all, and if I'm being told that it's an ex, that's it, I'll believe it. Maybe I'm just really naive, or it's just that I never had someone that I really liked that much, if that even makes sense!

[04dreamer04.livejournal.com]

I really like the first two questions, for some reason those two really jump out at me. As for the third one? I'm with nightporters on that one. I was totally 100% vanilla before I found LJ. And then... well, I'm still fairly vanilla but I've been turned to the dark side ;)

[dugindeep.livejournal.com]

Hah! I'd go with the last part, not in a mean way. Just that I can see if you're not feeling terribly strongly about someone, you won't think twice about anything. I'm certainly in the once bitten twice shy category.

[expectative.livejournal.com]

You're probably right! I've never had someone really serious so most of the time I just don't care. Now I can be a jealous bitch if someone hogs my friends' attention and makes me feel left out so... I may be the jealous type after all!

[dugindeep.livejournal.com]

Well considering you said you're a jealous bitch, you're definitely jealous!

[iniq.livejournal.com]

I find the first two very interesting, but think the second one is too odd to be real. (I doubt it would work. I mean, the awkwardness alone... and yet, secretly I want J2 to break up, keep living together, and get back together again. XP Just to prove that it can't work.)

Can't wait to see what you're going to do with this fic - and very curious which of the questions you're going to play with! :D

[expectative.livejournal.com]

... damn, I didn't want to be the jealous type xD

[live-laugh-love.livejournal.com]

dude. any one of them would be great. I'd be interested in the true one night stand thing because I don't know if people actually have those any more. I have had two, and if you offered me a million dollars RIGHT NOW to tell you I cannot for the life of me remember their names. I can tell you what they looked like, and how the sex was, though. That's what's important in a one night stand, right?

I'd like to see Mike/Chris or Tom/Chris. Although Tom/Chris would probably look weird in my head.

[raeschae.livejournal.com]

You are not the only one - a couple of people have been asking me to show Chad love lately. Maybe I'll watch that ABC Family movie he's in tonight and get inspired. ;)

[raeschae.livejournal.com]

We all like to claim we're not the jealous type - I say it all the time. Truth is, when you care about someone, I think everyone has a little jealousy in them. You guys have me thinking about a B-plot that just might work, though.

It's all about trust, right? Can you trust someone you just met enough to believe that they're building something with you and not continuing something with someone they used to love and still co-habitate with? I'm not sure but that's part of the fun of writing it - I'm kind of curious to explore it now.

[expectative.livejournal.com]

ABC Family Movie? That sounds terrible :D

[taintedlove.livejournal.com]

I like the first and third one. WRITE BITCH WRITE.

So, as far as thoughts/reactions/whatever go, I'd be kind of interested to see someone try to have a one night stand and try to deal with the 'oh shit, this was amazing but I'm not supposed to ever see this guy again, wtf?'. And the great friend/lover is on my mind a lot lately. If you have a friend who is almost everything you could want, except that they're not a lover, is it worth it to just get really friendly with you right hand to have almost everything? Or should you just have a significant other that scratches that itch? Because it is really important. From someone who is snuggle deprived 85% of the time, physical attraction and interaction is really, really important. So, yeah. I'd like to see more on that.

And sexually open minded... That's kind of interesting. I found this incredible article about girls and how they're supposed to be sexy but not sexual, I wish I could go into more detail but I really just remember basic points. It talks about how girls are supposed to want to be desirable, but not ever really act on it. They're not 'supposed' to want sex, or know how to take care of themselves sexually, but they're supposed to be available for men to fantasize about. It went into detail about how women fake orgasms because they don't know what they like, so they'll just do whatever. (this is all relevant, I swear.) I think it would be interesting to get into someone's head who tries all the kinky stuff because it's what their partner wants, but isn't actually turned on by it. It's a hard balance between wanting to give someone what they want, and wanting to be taken care of yourself.

I don't know if any of that made any sense, but let's pretend like it did, yeah? :P

CHAD/SOPHIA. DUH. I don't know why I'm so obsessed with them lately, BUT I AM. I also have a sick obsession with Sandy/Chris. IT'S NOT MY FAULT.

[raeschae.livejournal.com]

You and me both, sister! That's part of the reason the question seems so intriguing to me, I think.

[raeschae.livejournal.com]

I haven't met anyone yet in this fandom who didn't discover kinks they didn't know they had through fic. At least, ones they like to read about.

OH, here's an interesting question: Just because you like to read/watch porny things, does it also mean that you'd like to try them? Most people will say no, but I wonder if there's not a certain level of curiosity, even if your desire and your brain tell you two totally different things. Hm ... *ponders*

[raeschae.livejournal.com]

I know there are people who do it but I can't imagine it's not without some awkwardness somewhere down the line. It's an interesting subject to consider.

[raeschae.livejournal.com]

NGL, Tom/Chris made me laugh out loud. Mike/Chris, in my head, involves a lot of Eliot Spencer-esque sidelong looks and Mike laughing his ass off most of the time. Could be fun, we'll see!

I think you're right - the one night stand thing is interesting to me, especially in fic since it always starts there and turns into more. Hm...

[expectative.livejournal.com]

One interesting question is "can you be jealous and trust this person you just me?"

I think it's possible. A lot of people are really jealous, but try to get over it because they are aware they may be overreacting and a bit irrational.

[raeschae.livejournal.com]

I'm seriously considering using Chad/Sophia in this one, for you and for a couple of other people, and I think I know the angle I'm going to use for them in the story. :D

You're right about the first topic, I think. It's funny, I just read this book that I think you should totally read because while I was reading it, I kept thinking 'Cass would love this.' It's called Will Grayson Will Grayson by John Green (who wrote my favorite YA book of all time, An Abundance of Katherines) and Dave Levithan. In it, one of the lead characters makes a pointedly awesome revelation about the love he feels for his best friend about how we always equate love with sex but sometimes you just love someone because you love who they are. It's okay to do that and love someone else, who you also have sex with. I don't know - it's fascinating to me and I really liked that point in the book. It might work it's way in here, too. Hm...

And I think you totally gave me another point for the story, as well, with the sexually open-mindedness. Seriously, all of this conversation is making me want to do, as transfixeddream suggested, a Love, Actually kind of story with multiple relationship-centered story lines that all tie together somehow.

[raeschae.livejournal.com]

Also a good question. A pivotal one, I think. Wow. I'm so glad I posted this - you guys are spinning my brain all over the place and that is exactly what I wanted!

[raeschae.livejournal.com]

Adding to the terrible? It's called Christmas Cupid or something. Oh, Chad.

[expectative.livejournal.com]

I'm glad I could help with my stupid, chatty comments :P
And I'd really like it if you wrote a Love, Actually kinda fic!

[raeschae.livejournal.com]

I'm sincerely thinking about it now. I have to figure out who all to have in it and how they're all going to revolve around each other but it's something intriguing to me and I like the ideas I'm having. It's been awhile since my brain really churned like this!