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Some time ago, I came up with this ridiculous Sam and Max strip club AU, where Max is the said strip club's owner, and Sam is one of his dancers. It was unfinished, in russian, and existed solely as a poor excuse to write more NSFW material of the two. Recently, however, I've been haunted by the idea of adding a few English chapters to this AU or, perhaps, translating the ones that're already written into English – well, some of them, at the very least.
So far, I only have this draft, and I'm not entirely sure I should post it on AO3. Yet.
Content warning: substance abuse. Max works as the owner of an establishment that functions at night. It takes a special sort of "medicine" for him to stay awake and keep up the pace.
I let Brave AI beta-read my draft. ❤️🩹
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Some time ago, I came up with this ridiculous Sam and Max strip club AU, where Max is the said strip club's owner, and Sam is one of his dancers. It was unfinished, in russian, and existed solely as a poor excuse to write more NSFW material of the two. Recently, however, I've been haunted by the idea of adding a few English chapters to this AU or, perhaps, translating the ones that're already written into English – well, some of them, at the very least.
So far, I only have this draft, and I'm not entirely sure I should post it on AO3. Yet.
Content warning: substance abuse. Max works as the owner of an establishment that functions at night. It takes a special sort of "medicine" for him to stay awake and keep up the pace.
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Chapters: 8/8 Fandom: Sam & Max (Video Games), Sam & Max (Comics), The Adventures of Sam & Max: Freelance Police (Cartoon) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Max/Sam (Sam & Max), Max & Sam (Sam & Max) Characters: Sam, Max Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Fluff, Sam is a professional boxer, Max is his manager, Awkward Crush, Requited Unrequited Love, It's like The Raging Bull but sappier and wussier, Divorce, Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism, Original Character(s), Slurs, Nationalistic slurs, No Plot/Plotless, No structure, Unresolved Sexual Tension, Implied/Referenced Sexual Harassment, It's not confirmed, just implied, Alternate Universe - Boxing, Size Difference as drama, Implied Masturbation, No Explicit Sexual Content, Mutual Pining, Personality Swap, Sam & Max AU Series: Part 1 of The Raging Wolfhound AU Summary:
Exhibit one: a 6-foot-tall professional boxer who also happens to be an anthropomorphic wolfhound. Exhibit two: a 3-foot-tall rabbity thing with a fiery temper and a bossy attitude who is the wolfhound's long-suffering manager (and friend). Exhibit one falls head over heels for Exhibit two and desperately tries to conceal this fact from him, not knowing that Exhibit two has been struggling with his own conflicted emotions towards Exhibit one the whole time.
By the end, nothing gets resolved, but... они сделали пельмешки. 😃
My compulsive drive to write fanfiction started when I moved to Germany. Before that, in russia, I published, maybe, 3 fics all in all. I guess there wasn't much creative atmosphere there. Figures - when you have to think about what money you're gonna buy grub with tomorrow and whether or not the police are gonna show up on your doorstep before that (for something you or one of your relatives wrote online, no doubt), it doesn't exactly make you all inspired.
I didn't write anything while I lived in Kyrgyzstan either. Possibly, because the same characteristics applied - the country is friendly to russia, plenty of people speak russian there, and the danger of being extradited was always vaguely present (not as much as now, though; we were very lucky to leave before that).
When I came to Germany, I was hit with a tidal wave of culture shock that left an unexpected sense of Deja vu as the tide rolled back: I guess living in a place that used to belong to Germany 80 years ago for 90% of my life had softened the blow, even if a little. Still, I have no idea, why it's fanfiction specifically; why this form of creative time-wasting has become my go-to stress-relief method in the last 2 years. There must be a way to explain it, but I don't see it.
I think making fanfics about russian prison actually makes me calmer. My husband says it might be my way of processing traumatic memories from my days of living in russia. I don't rightly know, he could be right. There's something so depressing in reading and writing about russian jails that it lulls me into this serene sense of morbid comfort.
Sometimes I ask myself, is the desire to put characters in nasty, bleak, depressing AUs coming from my internal disgust with the world around me or is it just an unfortunate side-effect of living in russia? Am I just trauma-dumping?
(spoiler: yes, I am.)
They always say "write what you know" but they never tell you if you actually should.
Sam & Max russian Prison AU
(because we'll never have nice things ever again)
Sam = Samuil Ignatyevitch Danilenko
A former criminal investigator who’s in for killing his department chief: allegedly, while drunk out of his ass, Samuil took his service gun, went to his precinct and murdered his boss while the latter was still in his office, unloading the entire clip into his body save for one bullet. He was apprehended immediately and placed into the pre-trial detention facility while reportedly still inebriated. He was sentenced to 15 years in a correctional camp of the strict regime.
Max = Maxim Maximovitch Vainrikh
A serial apartment looter who mostly specialized in ермолага - getting the victim drunk before cleaning out their place. Had an accomplice who did most of the looting and disappeared soon after Maxim had the misfortune to be caught. The police decided to pin a few more unsolved robbery cases on the bunny since it was the end of the year and all, which means promotions, bigger cash bonuses, official congratulations for the outstanding work this year, etc. - the soviet planned system at its best. He was sentenced to 20 years in a correctional camp of the strict regime. By the time Samuil arrives to serve his term, Maxim has already served 5 years.
THE HORRIBLE CANONS FOR THIS AU
- The time period in this fic is the weirdest thing: it’s set in contemporary russia but in a timeline in which RSFSR kept existing and the soviet regime was attempted to be upheld. It’s a Sam & Max fanfic. Don't expect from me a truthful account of what it would feel like if they ended up in the real russia of today; that’d be just too depressing.
I've changed Max's last name because it was a little tough on the ear I think.
So, when it comes to their families, we have
I avoid posting new fanfics because I think my ideas have devolved into the worst possible scenarios and I'm hesitant to let people see them.
For instance, apart from the S&M russian prison AU, there's the S&M Frankenstein AU, and it goes like this, in a nutshell:
♤ Sam is a slightly unhinged scientist who creates a new life form out of different parts of different corpses, calling it a Manually-Assembled Xenobioform. Max for short.
♤ Sam begins to feel infatuated with Max after a while. He realizes the complications that might arise. He possibly does something awful to conceal the fact.
♤ Max acts differently when his brain is removed. He gets overcome by his most basic, primitive instincts. Yes, it includes the most predictable and unimaginative stereotype about rabbits. In fact, it includes nothing but.
♤ During one of his tests, Sam discovers the difference in Max’s behavior between the times when his brain is intact and when it’s not. He gets an idea. A very dubious idea. He wants to implement it. He feels hesitant at first, but, eventually, he succumbs to temptation.
♤ Sam is voluntarily celibate after the passing of his fiancé. He swore not to touch another woman until he was reunited with his beloved in death. After creating and... uhhh... misusing Max, he decides he’s no longer worthy of her love in the afterlife. And that he was probably too sick to be with any self-respecting woman to begin with.
♤ Everyone dies at the end, idk.