{"id":59,"date":"2006-01-27T22:50:54","date_gmt":"2006-01-28T06:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregbueno.com\/wp\/meisakuki\/2006\/01\/27\/parallel_lines_on_a_slow_decline\/"},"modified":"2006-01-27T22:50:54","modified_gmt":"2006-01-28T06:50:54","slug":"parallel_lines_on_a_slow_decline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/meisakuki\/2006\/01\/27\/parallel_lines_on_a_slow_decline\/","title":{"rendered":"Parallel lines on a slow decline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a long time since I&#8217;ve drummed up anything resembling a plot for a story. And I&#8217;m usually spurred into action when I develop crushes on people from TV.<br \/>\nMy latest crushes are Jamie Bamber from <em>Battlestar Galactica<\/em> and Sean Maher from <em>Firefly<\/em>. They&#8217;re both very pretty &#8212; Maher more my type than Bamber, though Bamber has more <em>muskels<\/em> (ne, muscles) &#8212; but some slashy fantasies of the two of them together? Yum!<br \/>\nOf course, I&#8217;m not content with just the slash potential &#8212; I actually want to frame the hook-up in, you know, a story.<br \/>\nSo here goes.<br \/>\nAn American (Maher) heads to London for a student exchange where he meets an Englishman (Bamber), and they spend the short time they have together as an item. They promise to keep in touch, but a few technological glitches makes them both believe their romance was fleeting.<br \/>\nOf course, neither can forget the other.<br \/>\nTime passes, they both graduate from university, and they both head into their careers.<br \/>\nThe Englishman moves to Los Angeles, where the American lives, and we follow both their lives over a period of time. They get their hearts broken and drama and la di dah, la di dah. The twist, of course, is that they&#8217;re always on the verge of crossing paths, but something always interferes.<br \/>\nFinally the Englishman decides he&#8217;s had enough of America and wants to return to England. He goes back to England for a visit, then returns to America to start preparing the move. At the airport, the American is seeing off a friend, who&#8217;s heading to New York. (I want this friend to be Phyllis, the same Phyllis from Gary Huang&#8217;s world. And maybe Crash makes a cameo, taking his band on tour.)<br \/>\nThey bump into each other.<br \/>\nOnce reunited, they fall for each other all over again. Part of the difficulty in their respective love lives is the fact each is the litmus for the other, and no other man has met that standard. Now together, they live happily from the end of the story.<br \/>\nIt starts off as a rip-off of <em>As Time Goes By<\/em>, the British comedy, but then it turns rom-com. I like the idea, but I&#8217;m not sure I could pull it off myself &#8212; my writing style is too dark for a storyline this light-hearted.<br \/>\nBut it does give me a chance to throw Jamie Bamber and Sean Maher together in my mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But it does give me a chance to throw Jamie Bamber and Sean Maher together in my mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Bkir-X","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/meisakuki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/meisakuki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/meisakuki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/meisakuki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/meisakuki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/meisakuki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/meisakuki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/meisakuki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/meisakuki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}