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The JJ fancast actually IS a twin, lol.

I kind of always saw Joaquin as Kevin Alejandro from Ugly Betty and Lucifer.

Hmm, maybe he can be a character model for that future character you were telling us about...*Method teases, making Mark's readers perk up in anticipation but realize we ain't talking about the character until he shows up*

Nicholas Alexander Chavez (when he's being thoughtfully broody and not when he's being upbeat) would make a pretty good Tony fancast, I think. He's really hot but not in a cookie cutter pretty boy way, which is how Mark described Tony. I can also see him doing Tony's pretentious bullshit.

I wonder how that crazy little Latino twink Alejandro is doing. He was a fun character. Manu Rios from Elite is my fancast. Dude is just pretty as fuck: For those who don't remember, Alejandro is a flamboyant Latino twink we met when he was about 15 in If It Fits, which is set in 1995. Alejandro is the son of Mexican cartel boss* Joaquin, who Stefan and Brad met as a 12/13-year old street kid in The Land Whore. (Damn, that means that Alejandro must have been born before Joaquin's 20th birthday since we're assuming he was born in 1979-80.) Joaquin sent Alejandro to live in America because he knew that his flamboyant little cupcake was not really going to cut it with the machismo of the Mexican environment they lived in. *I don't know if it was actually stated explicitly that Joaquin was a Mexican cartel boss, but I thought it was heavily implied. He had a lot of power and I don't think it came through selling vacation homes in Punta Cana.

There's this 1970's now senior citizen former tv star named Judy Norton who runs a YouTube channel. She basically talks about her time being on a long running TV show called The Waltons, which ran on CBS from 1972 to 1981. (It was kind of like Little House on the Prairie but for the Great Depression.) The whole vibe is sitting down with Grandma and eating cookies while she tells you her life stories. I found something really sweet about the fact that she can connect with hardcore fans who still care about a show that ran 50 years ago.

Holy crap, it's getting real now. So yeah, I just finished the 3rd module of my paralegal training with a 93 class average. (Open notebook testing but that doesn't make it as easy as you might think it would be.) I'm throwing myself full force into this, and seeing where things go. I'll be at graduation before I know it! And then...the job search. I don't know if I'm really ready for that again, but I'm excited to find out where this all could take me. I've been pretty lucky that I have a pretty cool group of classmates to work with. We have a whole text chain going on where we bitch and vent about assignments or helpful hints to get us going. I'm just glad it's not grad school. Now THAT was intense. I thought about going back to grad school (maybe a library of science) but I just couldn't make myself go through it again. Also, in February 2025 news...Eagles win their second Super Bowl. Woo-hoo!

I mean, Richard Madden and Pedro Pascal have also played it mum as well. On the other hand, there's Kit Connor who felt compelled to out himself as bisexual despite not really wanting to because a Heartstopper "fan" wouldn't stop attacking him for being a straight man playing a queer role. Really, really pissed me off.

I get the vibe he is but not really emphasizing it. I could have sworn at some point early when his career started taking off with him playing the world's oldest teenager on The Kissing Booth 2 there were photos of a really handsome man with him on his Instagram that everyone assumed was his boyfriend/husband but that got replaced with photos of him and his bestie gal pal Joey King.

I don't know, though. Sometimes really traumatic shit changes how you are at a fundamental level. I went through an absolutely hellish period in my life at the end of age 27 and through the beginning of 29. I got through it, but I don't think I'm the same guy I was before then. It is sad though that Tiffany blew up her relationship with Jeremy at the '03 Nationals, and Matt just seems like he's fed up with Jeremy's shitty behavior but doesn't want to come right out and say it so he's just avoiding him.

It kind of has to, though. Matthew Bomer would have been a much bigger star if he hadn't been outed. Dude is a literal Ken doll come to life and talented as hell, and he's depending on Ryan Murphy and t.v. mini-series about the AIDS epidemic to keep him employed. Hell, it's 2025 and Richard Madden and Pedro Pascal are still playing coy. That's why I don't subscribe to the notion that gay roles in movies have to be played by openly gay men because we're not really in their head, therefore we don't know whether they really are or aren't. And even now, it seems like a detriment to someone's career to come out, particular if they're gunning for a leading man career. I think that's why they were particularly worried about Jeremy's relationship with Zanie, because they figured her for a golddigger who'd bleed him dry, but I don't think they actually had to worry. "Old money" people have it bred into them how to not blow their trust funds. That's why they stay "old money." LOL It's funny to think of Jeremy's lifestyle as being "modest", but in relative terms, it's not extravagant. You give him the New York City backdrop, his condo, his limo, some theater shows and art galleries to go to, and some gala functions, and he's a happy (so to speak) duck. Now we just need to find him an experimental off-off-off Broadway blackbox theater that he wants to write tax write-offs for and grateful theater kids who will kiss his ass for it.

As Mark has continually insisted whenever I bring up possible income streams for Jeremy, he doesn't give a shit about making money as long as it's there. Stefan is there to make sure he doesn't spend money faster than his trusts/stocks generates interest/dividends, and we're good from that. Jeremy's whole deal is being a socialite, although I will say a lot of them tend to come up with vanity "businesses" bankrolled by their family's wealth. In any event I think Jeremy's mainly going to be a strong supporter and patron of the arts. That's a pretty strong mark of a gentlemen of leisure, right? He can write checks and take the tax write-offs and then a ballet can be put on and Jeremy can pat himself on the back for making it all possible. (I'm snarking but as someone who grew up in the performing arts world, we need people like Jeremy. Delaware has a Surprisingly good arts scene for a state this small and it's because we had the du Ponts.)

JJ and Will are basically Irish twins. I kind of wonder if the dynamic would be different if they weren't as close in age. I mean we opened up to JJ being pissed that more people attended Will's graduation over him. Lol

I loved Jeremy thinking about the poor artists but then mostly about his image. 😂 Mark's got a pretty decent amount of room to grow with the character of Jeremy, because it's always two steps forward then one step back. Lol

Wow, You're basically Private Tim's husband. Did you also adopt an adorable little gay Latino teenager as well? Edited: I could be wrong about their son being Latino but I've had him fancast in my mind for YEARS as the very, very adorable Xolo Mariduena from Cobra Kai. I was, apparently, wrong about Private Tim being a blue-eyed blond from possible Mormon ancestry, so anything's possible.

Let's go for broke and have Jeremy rip off Crystal on Dynasty: https://youtu.be/nWuDm6NnCzk?si=3s2-HzOWADy_u1mo Or Mark could Remake that "Bubbly's in the fridge" moment from Eastenders:

The Doorgate scandal is quite possibly one of funniest moments you've had in CAP. LOL

Anyway, E-A-G-L-E-S!!!

Honestly, it's been a blast these past 16 years. My god, it's been 16 years. LOL

Yeah, Mark liked him as Darius. One of my former Darius picks is Justin Baldoni. He is in the headlines these days for not exactly the best reasons. Honestly, the lawsuits going around the whole Blake Lively v. Justin Baldoni is pretty interesting. I did really like his look for Darius, though. Although looking at this now, I think I'm leaning more towards Ace or Andre.

True, but damn is he hot. I could also see him pulling off the Ace or Darius role.

I am just going to take a moment and thirst over my Ace fancast. https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1JhFqzXr4L/

I see Travis, as he grows and matures, being accepting of the friendship bond between Will and Zach.

I feel like what I miss the most are those random late night conversations you had either in a dorm or a diner/late night eatery after a night out. I think one of my favorite memories was right at the end of grad school, when I had gone with these friends to a midnight pancake dinner that the local church did for finals weekends. These were my final finals, and we all got kind of just silly and started running back to their dorm to watch some comedy show, and I kept thinking to myself that this was the last time I'd get to be a kid like this. (I was actually kind of wrong- the last time wound up being my Firefly Music Festival days. I attended three of them.) I had a mental breakdown when I was a junior for a variety of reasons which eventually led to me having to repeat my junior year. I was pretty much good with undergrad being over by the time I was done, especially because it was a pretty well-known story. I had a COMPLETELY different reaction to grad school ending, though. Mostly because I attended grad school at 24-26, and I just thought those were the best years of my life. I busted my ass and got far better grades in grad school than I ever did with undergrad, and I just felt like I earned it more instead of just coasting through being bright like I did in undergrad. I really felt like it brought out the best in me. The whole night before graduation I was with my friends at a bar singing karaoke. Notably I did "Here's to Night" and then finished with "Closing Time", and I bawled like an absolute baby when I finished. It was hard, really hard letting go of that time in my life. I have loved my 30's (which end this December 7th) but man, to be 25 in 2011 again for one weekend...what I wouldn't give.

Chapter 49 -When Travis comes to visit Will on the jet plane. "Take My Breath Away" by Jessica Simpson -When Travis and Will watch a football game and get an unpleasant reminder of Will's first major love. "All Kinds of Time" by Fountains of Wayne I've accepted that the Will/Zach ship is dead, but hopefully they'll be friends eventually. -When Travis is totally hammered as the rager rages, then gets busted. "Tipsy" by J-Kwon