Pretty Peeps: Years 2

Pretty Peeps!
I'm sure I don't need to do picspirations at this point but I wanted to make the ages and time periods they grew up in clear. These are the ages when the story starts in 1998.

Luce Grace (29; Born 1969) and Alex Haley (25; Born 1973)

I think in the comments of Nigh Out someone called Luce a Baby Boomer but they are both Gen X'ers! It's hard to find a specific Luce-spiration but I  love Richard Madden's little grey streak. I know Lucely haven't interacted "on page" much but you all know where this is going...

Jean Dory, 40 (1958)  Minnow Dory, 31 (1967) Kenneth Maxwell, 46 (1952) Sara Grace, 45 (1953)

I see a lot of Minnow in Tessa Thompson, particularly her performance in Thor Ragnorak. Something about her "I don't care but I do care" attitude.  IDK, she and Jean can be half-siblings ? I see some Jean in Jonathan Van Ness--more looks wise than personality. Also my old picspiraton for Jean, Jared Leto, is...starting a cult ?

I think Frances McDormand gets my Sara expression perfectly. Transporting her life to the1960s America is interesting in ways I don't do much with.

The closest Maxwell inspy I've had is the elusive clean shaven Joe Mangienello. Did I intentionally change Maxwell's age so he would have the Vietnam War as backstory ? Yes. After seeing Tiger King I can see Maxwell as kind of Jeff  Lowe-y. He's also a little Joe Exotic-y too because he's in a relationship with someone barely out of high school.

Zacharias Washington, 19 (Born: 1977) and Charlotte Dory 20 (Born:1978)

These are my Xillenials. I realize Rias hasn't been mentioned but he was mentioned in SWM so we know he exists in this world. This Rias inspy is a Kpop member who is not Japanese but reminds me of Rias.

Dear Lile

CP!Shawna: Wow, it's really embarrassing how Lile is going through your old comments and reading your old whining

SHV: Yeah, but I like the gesture. Maybe I'll post a comment of hers I can relate to. Like this one:

I think this is from GWOSM finale ? I have nothing else planned after Years at the moment and I'm trying to be okay with that but...it's hard. I don't even remember what having unwritten story ideas feels like anymore ?

The Most SFW Research on the Adult Entertainment Industry
AEX is based on the  Adult Video News (AVN) Expo.

My research was mostly adult actor AMAs on Reddit and a 1998 essay by David Foster Wallace  where he embedded at  the AVN Expo. IDK how true his essay is, it sort of reeks of misogyny (which I'm sure is plentiful in the industry) but between those two items and Wikipedia I kind of put something together. A LOT OF WHAT I'M WRITING IS 100% MADE UP THOUGH.

The adult industry is VERY different now than in the 90s-00s and I'll get into it a little bit as the serial moves forward. I will say it is very hard to find anything from the gay adult entertainment perspective. 1998 is the first year they awarded gay performers and I would have loved Wallace to get into that in the essay.

Also, all the men in adult entertainment are called performers and women are called starlets. I think that seeped into my writing but I tried to take it out. 

Years 2
Alex Haley has been in a 7 year relationship with  Kenneth Maxwell, a producer for Harmony Entertainment. They are attending the  Adult Entertainment Expo in Vegas together. On the expo floor Haley runs into Jean Dory, the older brother of his former roommate who tells him about his new company called Virtue. We're still in 1998...
Years 2
Playlist
- 1- Shiny Things by Fann
-2- Close To Me by Diplo
-3- Move by Jack Howden
-4 - Back To You by The Mayrie
-5- Slide by James Bay
-6- We Don't Have To Take Out Clothes Off by Elle Eyre (This was runner up for serial title)

Moving On: Years

Bonus points if you can tell which 2020 book I straight up stole this cover design from !

 

WAHHH!

I am licking my wounds because I'm still  sour over a big chunk of edits I deleted for Chapter 2...  Update: OMG, this section was me being really whiney ahout losing edits but I had apparently put the chapter in a word counter website and when I went back to the site it was still there  so it's been recovered! 

But First
Lol, I am so basic. I realized I left a very similar comment and gif  on the original School House Shuffle post  and on School House Shuffle TDOLL. I think I just want to inspire all the Lile things:

12/2017

4/2020

Years

I have no idea how we got here already but here we are. I began 2020 writing Nova, HH-Verse novellas and Years all at the same time so it's hard to believe I've come to the end of all that. I don't currently have anything else in the hopper but hopefully by the time I finish this I will.

I'd say forget what you think you know about Vice/Compulsion. There will be some familiar names but with some different backstories and a few ages have been changed. IDK what else to say so let's get into it.

I originally had this part and Chapter 2 together but then I separated them. So, you'll see some music from Chapter 2 on the  Spotify playlist. Just ignore it, it's likely going to change anyway.

Years

Playlist 
I may have oversold how much of the music will be time period appropriate. Most of it won't be.

-1-  Anamoly by Lights & Motion

-2-  Hand in My Pocket by Alanis Morisette

-3-  Glass House by Morgan Saint

-4-  We Move Lightly by Dustin O'Hallaran

-5-  Dance Monkey by Tones and I

The Night Out Continues (Night Out 2)

I've never really found a good picspiraton for the older versions of Haley (48) and Luce (52) but these are close-ish. Actor Jay Harrington has had kind of bearded salt and pepper glow up recently...I may have to start watching SWAT. John Cameron Mitchell (who is 51 in this photo!)  has the youthful vibe.


I will say, John Cameron Mitchell is a bit too wholesome looking for Haley but his height in this photos is sort of how I imagine him....now granted Elle Fanning is 5'9 but still.

Harrison High
In my last comment section Lile commented that Arrow was in a room by himself at the "foster home" and that it was sad but I was trying to make it sad. I wanted show he was a little older than the other kids  and got a certain amount of privacy. I may re-visit the HH-Verse at some point in flash fictions. I'm stewing on some of the ideas posited in the comment section. I'm envisioning  Three's Company Style shenanigan and I have to get all the moving parts figured out...three years ?

Years A Lucely Story
Unless I have a last minute stroke of inspiration the Lucely story will probably keep it's codename, Years, as it's real name. It has really turned into an unwieldy beast. It reads like some overly earnest fanfiction by a fan who needs to get a life. My original idea was for it to show a slice of life from different years but the idea...got away from me.

It’s a little lit-fic with some romcom silliness...and some melodrama. I know I must sound insane talking about it and I'll probably post a bit of it sooner than later just to get some feedback. The observations in the comment are always super enlightening.

Oddly enough.....Years has a lot of parallels to Netflix's The Tiger King ????? I promise I started writing it in January. I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THAT SAYS ABOUT ME!

Night Out !
Recap
It's homecoming in spring time ! The kids are off to the dance followed by a sleepover at the Fierro/Clara/Emile house and the Clarks are surprised by Haley (with help from Aubrey)  with dinner in NYC and spending the night in a luxury apartment...

Night Out 2
Playlist

- 1- Catch Me (I'm Falling) by Pretty Poison (This song...oddly inspired this story and  was the working title )
- 2- Sucker by Jonas Brothers
- 3 - Clair De Lune by Claude Debussy
- 4 - 2002 by Anne Marie
- 5 - Wasabi by Little Mix
- 6 -  Love on Top by Beyonce
- 7 - Come On Get Higher by Boyce Avenue (I love that they are still making covers!)