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Tell me about the coffee mugs story...😉😂 Oh and what inspired the 4th of July truple story? Aside from it pretty much being canon...😉

Hi, thank you for the ask! :)

For “The Greatest Fun” (the coffee mug story)...this isn’t exactly a secret, but it’s probably one of the stories I’ve written that is most motivated by something personally important to me. My wife and I have sentimental name mugs, each acquired in a sort of unusual way at separate times, and in general mugs are just so cozy and comforting...so it was really nice to just write as much about mugs as I wanted, which was a LOT.

My first idea was that Grace bought the mugs as a way of making up with Frankie after a fight, and I still like the idea of Grace buying something a bit ouf-of-character as a way to attempt to connect to Frankie. But for this story, I really liked the symmetry of having an outsider gift the mugs; because I knew I wanted to tell the story from both G & F’s points of view, it felt right to have the story kick off with a gift from a third party.

For "If You Say Run,” AKA the 4th of July throuple, which, by the way, I LOVE as your association/descriptor for that story, my inspiration was definitely about trying to write the story that feels like the most true-to-canon continuation of canon I could have possibly written. The story was a birthday gift for @telanu. I would not normally gift one of my dearest friends quite so much NICK SKOLKA, but she loves Nick Skolka! So it was okay!

That story was an attempt to reconcile these beliefs:

Grace Hanson is a lesbian

Grace Hanson loves Nick Skolka

Grace Hanson loves Frankie Bergstein

Grace Hanson is in love with Frankie Bergstein

I ended up feeling All The Feelings while writing that story. And even if some people probably would have preferred a story that kicks Nick to the curb or otherwise wraps things up more cleanly, I actually really, really loved giving Grace a life in which she gets to know herself better and chooses Frankie but in a way that doesn’t turn Nick into a total mistake. 

Edited to add: And it was also really new and fun for me to write a story in which a character (in this case Grace) enters this period of greater self-exploration first by explicitly, consciously deciding to explore an attraction to multiple people. With the awareness and consent of all involved. It makes the stakes feel really high, but honestly, hardly any higher than the actual stakes in canon. I wrote the story after S5, and in S6 the canonical Grace has to make all the same kinds of choices, really.

From the “tell me the fic you associate with my story and I’ll tell you a secret about it” meme. Feel free to play if you’d like!

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That scene.... The Rose Room

Thank you for the ask!

TBH, it was definitely the sex scene on New Year’s Eve. I got hung up on the idea of Frankie asking Grace to name all the random sensory input running through her head as a way to ground her before they have sex for the first time, and built the entire story around that. I worked on the New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day scenes in the B & B the whole time I was writing the story, and they were the last parts I finished. The time threshold of moving into a new year feels like such a significant moment so I kept revisiting those paragraphs, but they were absolutely the reason I wrote the story in the first place. :D

(For the “send an ask with a story title and I’ll tell you which scene was *the scene* that made me want to write the story” meme)

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And I'm back with the have you seen this movie ask.. 🤔😁 because I'm currently watching the movie Professor Mastron and the Wonder Women which is the "slightly" true story about the private lives of the Wonnder Woman comic book character. Seriously...if Marta Kaufman didn't see this movie someone in the writing room did 😏😁 especially with regard to Nick, Grace and Frankie's relationship in seasons 5-6

I have seen Professor Marston and the Wonder Women and I really enjoyed it. I thought the dynamic between all three main characters was fascinating, and I especially appreciated that Olive was drawn to Elizabeth first, and that the two women enjoyed such a long partnership after William’s death. It was a gorgeous movie that approached the idea of navigating a polyamorous relationship in a really interesting way, IMO.

I will admit that apart from Grace’s commitment to Frankie and Nick’s willingness to (mostly) roll with it, I don’t see an unmistakable connection or anything like that, but hey, part of the fun of fandom is finding unexpected connections and that is different for everyone.

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Out of curiosity.... Have you seen the movie The Children's Hour with Shirley MacClain and Audrey Hepburn? The tragic "because it's the expected ending for lesbians" ending aside... The main plot and the relationship between the two women was seriously on point for Grace and Frankie's relationship. Thoughts?

I have not! It's been on my to-watch list for a long time, but I have not yet watched it in part because I know it will involve Subjecting Myself to Difficult Emotions and there's a lot of that going around anyway. I'm actually a little embarrassed I haven't seen it because it seems like such an important part of lesbian (cinematic) history.

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This is a bit of both an ask and a question. What if Grace and Robert living together during quarantine forces them to really take a look at their marriage... And their early journey mimics the classic movie The Days of Wine and Roses?

If this is a prompt I'm not sure I could do it justice because I've never seen the movie. I just read a synopsis, though, and it sounds very intense! Thank you for the ask and I'm sorry it's not one I can respond to with a story or meta.

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