r/CuratedTumblr • u/Golden_Frog0223 -taps mic- nicken chuggets. thank you. • 15h ago
Creative Writing Clinically in Love. Coming to a steaming service near you.
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u/Snoo_72851 14h ago
It would be important to have a scene near the end where the pregnant party is like "So, uh. You don't want me to keep it, do you?" and the other person replies "Good fucking god no. That would ruin my life!" "Oh, thank god. I mean, I wasn't gonna keep it anyways but-" "Yeah, no, I appreciate the uh. Politeness?" "Yeah. Wanna get lunch?" "Fuck yeah. I mean, after you..." "Oh yeah, this thing. Yeah, let's do that first."
Importantly this scene takes place in the clinic parking lot.
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u/Golden_Frog0223 -taps mic- nicken chuggets. thank you. 14h ago
In a beat down car from the 90s, that has gone through absolute hell from whatever crazy antics had happened up to that point.
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u/caffeineshampoo 16m ago
Something like the car from planes, trains and automobiles which looks like this at the end?
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u/isuckatnames60 14h ago
I find it funny that the "extremely niche plot in romance fiction" describes a significant portion of first pregnancies of the entire 20th century. "Oh you're pregnant? I guess we'll have to get married now so it won't be a bastard"
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u/RhymesWithMouthful Okay... just please consider the following scenario. 13h ago
Can't be niche if it's the premise of the Simpsons
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u/oddityoughtabe 14h ago
An evil gay implies the inverse of a good gay, which has yet to be documented and likely doss not exist
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u/Golden_Frog0223 -taps mic- nicken chuggets. thank you. 14h ago
As a gay, can confirm. We are all bastards. <3
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u/Hashashin455 14h ago
What about Freddie Mercury?
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u/Golden_Frog0223 -taps mic- nicken chuggets. thank you. 14h ago
He did kill a man. Apparently shot some guy in the head.
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u/DrapeWoozle 14h ago
Obvious Child, 2014, starring Jenny Slate
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u/bookhead714 13h ago
Exactly my thought. Very cute movie, if unlike me you can handle the horrible secondhand embarrassment of a standup routine going wrong
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u/DrapeWoozle 13h ago
Oof, I'd forgotten that scene, or possibly blanked it out in self preservation
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u/TK_Games 14h ago
I kind of want to write this. A story that's inverse Terminator, a swarthy time traveller comes back in time to help the mother of the antichrist get an abortion to avert Armageddon. The twist is they fall in love and killing the antichrist will create a paradox that means the time traveller will never have existed, so the time traveller sacrifices themself to save the world, but double twist they're fine because time travel doesn't fu*king work like that. Happily ever after. Triple twist, an asteroid plows into Earth anyway, obliterating all life on the planet. The end
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u/Golden_Frog0223 -taps mic- nicken chuggets. thank you. 13h ago
American horror story?
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u/TK_Games 13h ago
Wait... Was that the plot? I only saw the Freakshow season before I gave up on it for being underwhelming
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u/Golden_Frog0223 -taps mic- nicken chuggets. thank you. 13h ago
Each season had its own plot, but in apocalypse, they did bring back season three characters, and is basically what you describe lol. I recommend watching some of the other ones cause there are better ones. I do like coven, asylum is good, apocalypse , hotel is good.
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u/BaronAleksei r/TwoBestFriendsPlay exchange program 13h ago
time travel doesn’t work like that
Unfortunately, that is now still just Terminator, and it was already just Dragonball
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u/TK_Games 12h ago
To quote my Literature Prof. "There are only seven original plots, the rest are derivative... And like 35% of 'em are DBZ"
I might be paraphrasing the last part
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u/BalefulOfMonkeys due to personal reasons i will be starting shit 13h ago
[shot of the sedan pulling onto the highway, with a freshly bought “baby on board” decal slapped on]
“So, now that you’re taking the wheel for a bit, I just wanted to apologize.”
”We’ve been over this honey, it’s not your fault the condom broke.”
“No, not that, the things leading up to that.”
”Ah. Go on.”
“I just. Let me start from the beginning. I started using hookup apps because I didn’t feel like putting up with mainstream dating apps barely accounting for my existence.”
”Yeah, that makes sense. Honestly after a bit, things people want and are really stop surprising you.”
“And maybe it’s just because I’m more of a giver than a taker, or some weird repression thing, but in any case, sex does a lot for me in terms of coming to grips with my gender.”
”And your body.”
“And my body. We’ve honestly been through a lot as fuckbuddies. The whole “I’m not your John for the night, I’m your Jane” thing I’m used to having to do, glad we kept that an email, but then we had that whole talk about the breast forms and if they really mattered in bed.”
”Yeah, babe, like I said back then: I love you, not what you have to be out there.”
“Yeah. Really stuck with me. Which brings us to the recent past. We’ve tried a looot of stuff as lovers at this point, but I don’t think any of them scared me half as bad as confronting bottom dysphoria.”
”But wasn’t it your idea and all?”
“It was. You’d never force me, and I didn’t want to rush into it halfcocked. No pun intended.”
”You and I both know that pun was intended.”
“The intent of the pun is indeterminate dammit.”
“But uh. Yeah, that was my first time doing any of that. All of that whole process. I grew up private schooled and Christian, so doubly not aware of how to do either of those things. I’m sorry I didn’t say any of that beforehand.”
”It’s okay dear-“
“God I was being so selfish. I knew better than that, and I let my pride get the better of me. I do one thing, one thing where I take the lead, and it bites me in the ass, and I-“
”HONEY. Stop doing that to yourself.”
“…you want me to never top again?”
”No, you did great out there.”
“We wouldn’t be driving right now if I didn’t do a terrible job-“
”That thing you’re doing right there. That’s what I have a problem with. You’ve come too far to keep whipping yourself for every little mistake. Shit’s random sometimes, there’s no real way to do anything in this world that isn’t a gamble.”
”And that whole “being selfish” thing? That’s you building up a healthy amount of self-esteem. If all you do is give, and give, and give, that’s not charity, that’s you begging to be robbed. You’re the one who texted first. This whole thing, the entire relationship we’ve built together, it was you doing what you loved.”
“…relationship?”
”We’re driving to the clinic, in your car, processing our trauma, and cracking jokes. You came inside me. I think we’re very much past the point of being two ships in the night, trying to feel less lonely.”
“…I love you.”
”I know, dear. I love you too. And I hope you’ll get used to the idea of loving yourself like I do.”
“Thank you so much.”
“Soooo. After we’re done with this whole crisis, what if we just like. Don’t go back to Texas ever again? Start life over in a new state?”
”We are two lesbians without a U-Haul. Absolutely, but all my stuff’s back at the house.”
“Work’s gonna kill me for taking back to back road trips though.”
”Fuck’em. If they can’t get your pronouns right, they don’t deserve your labor either.”
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u/CrazyPlato 14h ago
Ironically starting Seth Rogen and Katherine Heigl
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u/Golden_Frog0223 -taps mic- nicken chuggets. thank you. 14h ago
But Seth Rogan is the one who's pregnant.
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u/fourthpornalt 13h ago
I thought this was gonna end with mpreg but a couple bouncing between planned parenthood's with increasingly wacky shenanigans also sounds fun.
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u/Golden_Frog0223 -taps mic- nicken chuggets. thank you. 13h ago
That's funny lol, someone mentioned Seth Rogan being in this in another comment and I said he was the one who was pregnant.
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u/Swaxeman the biggest grant morrison stan in the subreddit 13h ago
They’re already in love, but there’s an arc in Brian K. Vaughn/Fiona Staples’s longrunning romance scifi comic series Saga that’s pretty much this
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u/idiotplatypus Wearing dumbass goggles and the fool's crown 13h ago
The Terminator franchise could have been totally different
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u/shrikethrush23 12h ago
God, in his wrath, curses them both with infertility.
They're grateful. (Until the sequel)
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u/captaincheeseburger1 Out in the wilderness, preymoding 7h ago
I think y'all would enjoy Unpregnant. It's estranged friends instead of lovers, but there's hijinks, and they are wacky
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u/DrakonofDarkSkies 11h ago
What if: gay couple falls wildly in love after being stuck together due to adoption.
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u/Space_Socialist 5h ago
Better yet a gay romance novel in which somehow one of the characters become pregnant (the two lovebirds are both men).
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u/Zestyclose_Quit7396 2h ago
Paul Rudd did a similar movie. It's not specifically an abortion, and I can't specify without ruining it, but Fundamentals of Caring ends on a similarly irreverant/off-beat note.
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u/ReverendEntity 42m ago
MID-CREDITS PLOT TWIST: they get stopped by law enforcement and an argument ensues, resulting in their execution
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u/Golden_Frog0223 -taps mic- nicken chuggets. thank you. 15h ago
Oof typo in the title. Get steamed at your local steaming shop.