Random Fandom Week 9 [Entourage]

To be honest, I kind of promised myself that I would not read any fics from Entourage fandom when I started watching the show. The point is that I liked everything in this show, everything. I like how they are foul-mouthed, they curse, they are real and everyone is so different compared to others.

But then I had this dream last night (or the night before? this week anyway) where the guys from Entourage were hanging out there somewhere. I don't really remember what they were doing or if I only had a feeling that the dream had something to do with them when I woke up. But the more important part of that dream is that there was some kind of love triangle going on. I don't know between who, but they were all dudes and these two were together and the third one was about to get to that mix. The only thing I do remember is the crazy one laying on a table and trying to kiss one of the other dudes.

So when I woke up I had this inspiration to read some kind of drama about the Entourage gang.

Yea so. This whole little trip to this weird fandom has been kind of awesome. Okay. The whole reading all the fics kind of destroyed my plan to watch all the eight season of Entourage in a week. But besides that, I regret nothing. Seriously. There aren't that many fics but most of them are just pure gold and awesomeness. So yea, I am addicted. The problem just comes with how there are not that many fics. The sad news is that this one post is probably going to be the last I ever write about Entourage fics. Sad but true.

But here we are and I found five Vince/Eric fics with super happy endings for them and that + 1 part is still awesome fic but without the kind of ending you would have hoped maybe. Something like that. So enjoy!

Top Billing by astolat

Eric looked at the bill and the neat little line of coke lying on the polished desk. This was clearly the beginning of the end, doing coke with Ari Gold on a Friday night, just so he could get i's dotted and t's crossed. (Written for Scribewraith in the Yuletide 2007 Challenge.)

So I think this was the first fic I red. I had all these insecurities about how the writers can keep the characters true to themselves and how Ari is going to be there. Also all that banter going on around the place, if the fics will have that or will it be lost there somewhere. And this. This fic delivered everything. This was perfect and I don't think I would have kept reading these fics if this one had disappointed me. But thank god it didn't.

Boys Will Always Break Your Heart by fourteencandles (thingsbaker)

The boys are coming to town and staying for a while, a month, maybe, because Vincent has a new part in a big movie — “Scorcese, Ma! Pretty cool, huh?” — and he wants to just soak things in. Lois holds her tongue about that, too — as far as she can tell, Vincent Chase has spent the better part of the last few years just soaking things in, letting things happen to him, letting Eric make things happen. She holds her tongue because it wasn’t always that way, because both of the Chase boys probably deserve some easy goodness in their lives.

Then in the other direction, this is the last fic I have read so far and one of my all time favorites. In the whole series there isn't that much of talk about their childhood in New York or about their parents or anything really. Only those couple episodes where they visit New York and that one where Vince and Turtle's moms come over to L.A. I kind of missed more of the backstory and this just fit the bill perfectly. Just loved Eric's mom and how everything was so simple but at the same time it was complicated. This was just about normal life and people getting to places but at the same time they left pieces of themselves back and this is also about meeting those pieces again.


Zen and the Art of Scheming by Sylvia

Vince loses his Zen, it's all E's fault, and Vince is simply not going to put up with it.

 I had this plan to have all these fics from different perspectives. But I couldn't really find that many perspectives so.. I literally just lost the idea. But this fic stayed because I liked Vince in this. I liked how he felt himself and how he kind of didn't really care about anything but at the same time he cared way too much about everything. Yea.


The Heartbreak Kid by astolat

Vince wasn't planning on it, that was for sure; it just sort of happened. There was a party, somebody started truth-or-dare, he picked truth, somebody asked, "Have you ever kissed a guy?" and he said no. So far so good, except the cute-but-toasted girl curled up against him started laughing and said, "Come on, not even Eric?"

If you wanna cry, this is the perfect fic for that. Mostly because they are so codependent on each other and because they suck at communication. But mostly I liked how Eric made his own life in this, how he got success and made something out of himself.


Love Like Semtex by exeterlinden

Usually Eric hates the "it just happened" shtick, but this, this just happens.

Well I had two options for this last of these five fics and I am not even sure why I picked this one in the end. Maybe because this made complicated feel like uncomplicated and I liked that. And maybe because they are both so insecure and kind of out of it? Or maybe there is some other reason that I just don't know yet. But this is good and weird.


And here we go with the +1 part of this trip.

There's No Replacing You by fourteencandles (thingsbaker)

“You really don’t get it?” Turtle asks.

“Get what?”

“The resemblance.”

Eric frowns. “To what?” He’s thinking of Vince’s last few girls, but there’s no resemblance there.

“To you,” Turtle says, and now Eric’s really confused.

So I am not saying that there isn't a happy ending, because there is. But it is different kind of happy. And the most important part of this fic is the character growth. Especially Vince's. Yea.