Posted: “Objectively Good at Sodomy”

Ernest has to convince his lawyer that he is objectively good at sodomy.

I had the idea for this short scene when I was falling asleep a few months ago. I wrote down some basic details on a notepad the following day, and then it just sat there… for months.

Then I was cleaning my desk last week and found the notepad! Honestly, it was what I needed: something short and finite and fun.

The premise of the fic never changed from my original idea: one man would say “I’m good at sucking dick.” And the other would say “Prove it.” The rest was just details!

I wrote a super vague outline, but this was one of those fics I just started typing because I knew what I wanted to do. I got down maybe 1800 words before putting it away for a couple days, as I’ve been forcing myself to do with writing.

And I’m glad I did, because it needed to be cleaned up pretty significantly, I realized, after coming back to it with fresh eyes. I also added the last few paragraphs at this point, because it originally ended when Wiley got out of the carriage. I thought that these two needed a promise of coming back together.

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I purposefully set this story in the 1880s because it felt fun to explore what ‘road head’ would be like in such a different age. And I felt comfortable writing in that time period from all the books and TV shows I’ve consumed set there. (Though, of course, I guess I should say I’m comfortable with how the media portrays the 1880s, I haven’t done real research.) I had an idea of what carriages looked like on the inside, I knew about men’s clubs, I knew blackmail was a common occurance in queer circles.

It felt fun to be able to use those details to make this little smutty story feel a little more realistic, even if the smut wasn’t. Historical fiction is just my favorite and I love writing it!

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By the way, that notepad with my idea for this scene included other ideas, too:

• Levi, Mason, and Grant go on a road trip and have a friendly competition.
• Sam (of New Instruction) Instructs the lacrosse team to pick someone to lock up in a cage. (This inspired Team Spirit, by the way.)
• A murder mystery set in Italy, in which an American tourist sets out to solve the murder.

Hope you enjoy Objectively Good at Sodomy!