Daily Fic Highlight: The Doors of Perception
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The Doors of Perception is a Pitch/Sandy human AU which begins in San Francisco in the 1960s. Perhaps my summary from Ao3 helps introduce it best:
It is the spring of 1967. Sandy is twenty years old, and he would be a sophomore at Berkeley if he was still attending classes. Instead, he is living in an old house in the Haight-Ashbury. He likes it there. He’s found something he’s good at, that people love him for. Sandy is the best trip guide in San Francisco, and everyone who’s turned on knows it.
Kozzy (human Pitch) meets Sandy because he's looking for a trip guide, and thus begins a decades-long romance with more than its fair share of trouble on its way to the HEA. 43,892 words, M, M/M and F/M (Jack/Tooth).
This fic had a few surprising responses to me when it first came out; namely, that some people were wary of reading it because of the drug use. And privately I was like, ? It's psychedelics, that's just good fun and opening your mind, this isn't some sordid DARE scare-piece. But not everyone has 60s counterculture or psychedelics as research interests, right, right.
One of the other surprising responses, which I will be vague about for privacy reasons, was in reply to one certain incident in the story, where I wrote it thinking, "maybe this is unrealistic," and later a reader told me that something very similar had happened to them IRL.
So, I think I did the best I could writing about a lot of years, places, and experiences that aren't directly mine.
Sample:
A couple months ago, rumors had started going around about a new rich kid who had run away to the Haight-Ashbury. He was from old east coast money, they said. Said his last name was Black, but he slipped up once after a few bong hits and turned out it was really Pitchiner. Everyone knew what that meant. Politics. Media conglomerates. Real estate. The people that made The System. So wasn’t it sort of fair, you know, that he just didn’t seem to fit in? The guy didn’t even own a pair of jeans! Black wool pants, black turtleneck, did he think they were all still beatniks?
Still, it wasn’t as though no one would let him stay with them. They’d share their space, their food, their acid. Then again, the first time they had done that, it had turned out to be an utter disaster. Pitchiner had freaked out in a major way (“I’m not me anymore! Don’t let me let the black shadows out!”), which had caused everyone else to freak out, and the house he was staying at had used up all the thorazine they had thought they would need for the entire year in order to calm everyone down.
This doesn’t deter him, however, from trying again. And again. And again. Eventually someone tells him to go see Sandy if he’s going to be so pigheaded about becoming a psychonaut when it doesn’t even make him feel good, and eventually someone tells Sandy about a guy even he might not even be able to bring to enlightenment.
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Squeeeeeeeeeze!!! You've been given a hug! Send this to all the people who deserve a hug. See how many you get back :) Now let the hugging begin!
🥹🥹🥹 thank you for the hug, babe! (moon walks away for no reason 👀)
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Happy Anniversary and a happy Valentine’s Day!
Here’s to many more years of me loving this silly fortune teller ! My love, my life, my main squeeze!
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Kaa and Sundar, regular and TaleSpin versions!
It was a lot of fun coming up with Sundar’s outfit. Even though she’s her master’s bottom girl, she never looked good in proper prostitute clothing. So I instead gave her a cute 70s blouse, along with a gold bracelet to show that she’s tied to Kaa. Despite her adorable looks, she is an adult.
As for Kaa himself I tried very hard to make sure his pimp outfit wasn’t just something out of a costume store. I did give him a coat but it wasn’t looking right, so I just had Kaa pull a Sir Hiss and put him in a simple cloak and hat. Gave the hat a gold stripe and the cloak’s held together with a gold letter K brooch — think that’s enough to showcase his wealth 😂
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