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I meant Carullo. Whoops. I can't imagine that JJ would ever actually hook up with Tony, because he knows how much drama Will had with Tony. Zach would probably also be off-limits to JJ. I could see Alisdair being a mutual hook-up, though. I'm keeping up hope Alisdair shows up. I think Will and JJ are eskimo brothers with John Hobart and Carullo, right? JJ tried to flirt with Patrick Christian but that didn't happen. Wait, didn't Will also hook up with Alex? I definitely remember him flirting with Alex. Alex might have wanted Will as the whore to JJ's Madonna.

It was somewhere in Black Widow before Carullo moves to Connecticut. JJ and this guy who is Tony's fun buddy kind of vent about Tony (I think in the Italian restaurant they frequented a lot in that book) and then start flirting with each other before deciding to not go there.

Yeah, and she had Jake in 1969-ish, and probably had GI generation parents who insisted she had to get married.

I am a few weeks away from celebrating my 38th birthday. Meanwhile JJ is 18. We have the same birthdate and I'm pushing 40 while he can't legally drink yet. Lol

Is that the one that Carullo was hooking up with and hit on JJ? That would make a good recurring character.

Hmm. Nicholas Galitzine fits that, but according to Mark he looks too Slavic. Lol I did really like Wade for Nicholas Galitzine because he's actually descended from nobility. Maybe he can be a hot dude Will meets in college.

Mark didn't seem to like Tom Blyth for Young Mark Arbour, but maybe he could work as Wade Danfield? He does have that well-bred look to him.

...Rickey Nelson is the model for JP Crampton's face and he was like six feet tall.

Have we given Jake a birthday yet, Mark? I'd go with June 15, 1969. There aren't too many CAP characters with June birthdays aside from JP. It'd be funny if Jake actually doesn't celebrate his birthday because he was raised Jehovah's Witness. (Obviously he would have had to leave, but that would have imprintedo n him.) I added birthdays for Travis Buck and Bobbie Carrswold.

Chapter 95 -When Jake recounts how he was pursued by Miranda Buck in the summer of 1985. "Obsession" by Animotion

Chapter 95 -When Jake recounts how he was pursued by Miranda Buck in the summer of 1985. "Obsession" by Animotion

Travis can have his big breakdown ala Neely O'Hara from Valley of the Dolls. Although in all honestly I've always seen JJ as being way more likely to have his own Neely O'Hara moment assuming Mark eventually gives him either a drug or alcohol addiction. LOL

But with Riley and Maddie played by my Teen Riley and Teen Maddie fancast of Jack Champion and Angourie Rice. No explanation given as to why they are suddenly young adults, they just are.

Troye Sivan for Mouse? He has that kind cheerful oddball energy that I could see with Mouse, and someone I can see cycling through a lot of different trendy looks.

I remember when Mark first wrote Travis as looking like Skip from Pleasantville (which I absolutely loved as a kid), and then going, "Wait a minute, wasn't Jake described as looking like an older version of Paul Walker from the Fast and the Furious movies?" LOL But I mean, yeah- you can kinda see the difference. Travis is supposed to be the perfect, 18-year old pretty boy jock, while thirtysomething Jake has some miles on him. (And probably a pretty decent amount of facial scruff, at least how I'd like to picture him, LOL.) It makes sense that no one really picked up on the resemblance until you actually saw them together. I do picture them both having Paul's lovely laid back SoCal accent, though.

Yeah, I was 22 when I first started working with Mark. I'm almost 38 now. I've also been involved with beta reading JWolf's stories for over 10 years at this point. Wild how the years tick off.

I remember once talking to someone from Ohio who told me they've never seen the ocean. You could have knocked me over with a feather.

What about Carnegie Mellon? Pittsburgh isn't too far away from Claremont, Ohio.

God, it still bothers me that Matthew Bomer isn't a big A-list star. He really should have been. Like an actor CAN come out in 2023 but if they do, they hit a ceiling and mostly get offers to play gay men in Ryan Murphy productions or a dour HBO mini-series about the AIDS epidemic. There's a reason why Jeremy Renner and Richard Madden still play the "special roommate" game while Pedro Pascal doesn't comment on his personal life. In Travis's case, he would absolutely be encouraged to not come out because his look reads leading man handsome. There was more latitude with character actor types but even Kevin Spacey wasn't openly gay at this time. (Speaking of, I'm assuming Stefan would have had Travis steer clear of Spacey because I doubt the rep came out of nowhere, as well as Bryan Singer. Although I think Travis is already aging out of Bryan's preferences. Eww.🤮)

I work at a movie theater, so everything is all Taylor Swift, so therefore her songs are stuck in my head, therefore I did a playlist themed to CAP. LOL CAP Character Relationship Playlist, the Swift Edition 1.) Will/Tony "We Are Never Getting Back Together" 2.) Brad/Robbie "Happiness" 3.) JP and Stefan "Timeless" 4.) Will/Zach "I Know Places" "Red" "A Better Man" 5.) Wade and Matt "Lover" This one is seriously assuming that Mark doesn't undo the happy ending that he gave Matt and Wade. LOL When they were conflicting... "Out of the Woods" 6.) Will/Travis I can't decide between "Lavender Haze" and "Delicate", so I'll go with both. LOL 7.) JJ and Alex "August" and JJ's recovery from his doomed relationship with Alex: "Clean" by Taylor Swift 8.) Brad and Jake "The Archer" 9.) JJ and Tony "New Romantics" and "Willow" 10.) Marie and Ryan "Cardigan" Anyway, this was fun.

You do have that mindset reflected with JJ. I don't think he's even gotten drunk. Of course, with lithium you're really not supposed to drink because mood stabilizers could endanger that. I think with JJ though, Mark has written him as a tightly wound person afraid of losing control over himself, so we don't see him over-indulge. It's also possible that JJ is very aware of Bitty's struggles with addiction and might be worried that it's genetic. I think JJ also still has that desire to be the "good boy" as opposed to his rebellious brothers. Of course, this can change as he gets older and further away from his Skate Prince self-image.

Kind of fun to remember that JJ is still a kid, and he's not going to immediately knock everything out of the park when it comes to being a stylist.

CAP Character Relationship Playlist, the Swift Edition 1.) Will/Tony "We Are Never Getting Back Together" 2.) Brad/Robbie "Happiness" 3.) JP and Stefan "Timeless" 4.) Will/Zach "I Know Places" "Red" "A Better Man" 5.) Wade and Matt "Lover" This one is seriously assuming that Mark doesn't undo the happy ending that he gave Matt and Wade. LOL When they were conflicting... "Out of the Woods" 6.) Will/Travis I can't decide between "Lavender Haze" and "Delicate", so I'll go with both. LOL 7.) JJ and Alex "August" and JJ's recovery from his doomed relationship with Alex: "Clean" by Taylor Swift 8.) Brad and Jake "The Archer" 9.) JJ and Tony "New Romantics" and "Willow" 10.) Marie and Ryan "Cardigan" Anyway, this was fun.

Okay, Zach's "Could.Not.Afford.It." line was hilarious to me. I'm glad we're seeing a more normal Zach. Hopefully he's got a handle on his roidouts or whatever you want to call his mood swings.