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Title: Verse, Chorus, and Such
Author: Silvia Kundera
Fandom: The Social Network
Pairing: Eduardo/Mark
Disclaimer: This fanwork is based on fictional representations of the characters in The Social Network; I make no claims of ownership of the characters or concepts.
Word Count: 7,000
Summary: For the social network springfest challenge. Prompt: "Mark doesn't realize Eduardo loved him - or even had feelings for him - until Eduardo releases his debut album, Spring. Which seems to be about Eduardo's emotional journey from 'winter' (Eduardo being in love and having his heart broken) to moving on from Mark. This is a problem."
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Title: High Summer Shift
Author: Silvia Kundera
Fandom: The Social Network
Disclaimer: Just harmless fantasy based off the characters from The Social Network. Not intending to damage copyright or represent any real persons, living or dead.
Pairing: Eduardo/Sean
Words: 1,500
Summary: "So Parker's a werewolf."
Note: I blame the Teen Wolf fandom entirely. Damn you all.
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Title: Let's Get Dangerous
Author: Silvia Kundera
Fandom: The Social Network
Disclaimer: Just harmless fantasy based off the characters from The Social Network. Not intending to damage copyright or represent any real persons, living or dead.
Pairing: Mark/Eduardo
Words: 9,130
Summary: When Eduardo's firing is interrupted by a sudden emergency situation at the Facebook offices, it's up to the guy everyone had counted out to save the day. With a less than ideal partner. Mark/Eduardo; BAMF!Eduardo; Eduardo & Sean action movie style bromance.
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Title: Bait and Switch
Author: Silvia Kundera
Fandom: The Social Network
Disclaimer: Just harmless fantasy based off the characters from The Social Network. Not intending to damage copyright or represent any real persons, living or dead.
Pairing: Eduardo/Sean; Eduardo/Mark/Sean; Mark&Eduardo friendship
Rating: Explicit
Words: 10,400
Summary: In which Mark has good plans, Eduardo has bad plans, and Sean goes with the flow. Alternatively-- help! Eduardo is trapped in a threesome and he can’t get out.
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I liked this little psychology article in terms of The Social Network meta - what kind of response Eduardo is expecting from Mark and what response could successfully facilitate a reconciliation.

"Variations on “I’m sorry” are playing an increasingly prominent part in our public and private discourse...One type of pseudo-apology downplays the transgressor’s degree of responsibility. Kampf identifies five variations on this theme, noting that a wrongdoer can: 1) apologize while undermining the claim that he offended someone; 2) apologize for the outcome but not for the act; 3) apologize for the style but not for the essence; 4) apologize for a specific component of the offense but not for the entire occurrence; and 5) apologize while using syntactic and lexical means to downgrade his responsibility.” The latter category includes referring to an offensive action as a “mistake,” which effectively minimizes guilt.

...While that evasiveness may be understandable, given the possible legal ramifications of candor, a recent study from Germany suggests that, in business transactions, straightforward apologies are surprisingly cost-effective.... Writing in the journal Economics Letters, the researchers report nearly 45 percent of [experiment participants] given the apology withdrew their [negative] evaluation, compared to only 21 percent of those offered cash. A direct apology: priceless....

...Those who see themselves as fundamentally connected to others prefer “apologies that include expressions of empathy,” while those whose strongest self-identity is as a member of a group “react most positively to apologies that include acknowledgment of violated rules/norms..."

I find that last bit there interesting, because as I reader of TSN fic I tend to be unable to accept the idea of Eduardo accepting a pseudo-apology. It distracts me during the story and reduces emotional catharsis and satisfaction for me if Mark undermines any apology as detailed above and is not called out on it, acknowledging the violated norms with accountability and displaying a bit of empathy. I've never really thought about why it's such a big thing for me, but yes, though I'm not myself someone who considers themselves fundamentally connected to others or as part of a group... It's true that I intrinsically consider the Eduardo character to be this way. I think this may be such a sticking point for me in fic because that quality is something I tend to really pin my Eduardo characterization on.

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I can’t tell you how relieved I am to be finally finished with this after so long. Damn, it takes me forever to write things. Everyone who has taken the time to read this (or who will in the future), I love you SO MUCH. <3

Title: With Friends Like These
Author: Silvia Kundera
Fandom: The Social Network
Disclaimer: Just harmless fantasy based off the characters from The Social Network. Not intending to damage copyright or represent any real persons, living or dead.
Pairing: Eduardo/Sean, Mark&Eduardo friendship
Words: 16,500
Summary: In which Mark and Dustin have bad plans, Eduardo is terribly mistreated, and the way to Sean Parker's heart is (obviously) to convince him that you liked him first.

Notes: So after finishing “Buyer’s Remorse” I thought it would be interesting to write a different redemption story, this time for Eduardo. Then I thought, huh, if Eduardo is really going to fall in love with Sean Parker, it’s going to take a village. And a wacky misunderstanding. Thus, what follows is the incredibly un-true story of how Eduardo and Sean’s secret passion saved Mark & Eduardo’s friendship and a whole lot of legal fees.

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Title: Desperate Times, Desperate Measures
Fandom: The Social Network
Pairing: Eduardo/Sean
Words: 800
Summary: Some things are inevitable. And then there's Sean and Eduardo in a Canadian shack.
Note: This ridiculous encounter was written for the Canadian Shack Challenge's 10th anniversary. [Your characters just have to end up in one. It's a thing.]
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Title: All In The Game
Author: Silvia Kundera
Fandom: The Social Network
Pairing: Sean/Eduardo
Words: 933
Summary: AU drabble. What if TSN was a con job?
Notes: This isn't my usual TSN fic. I just felt like playing around with an AU idea...
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Title: Opportunity for Advancement
Author: Silvia Kundera
Disclaimer: Just harmless fantasy based off the characters from The Social Network. Not intending to damage copyright or represent any real persons, living or dead.
Fandom: The Social Network
Pairing: Eduardo/Sean
Word Count: 1,570
Summary: In which there are some grievous errors that Sean Parker feels he must repair. But they may not be the ones you're thinking of.
Note: This one goes out to all of my partners in S/E crime. ♥

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Sign #379 that RL people =/= anyone in The Social Network

"There’s a culture out here where people don’t commit to doing things. I feel like a lot of companies built outside of Silicon Valley seem to be focused on a longer-term. You don’t have to move out here to do this."
— Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, in an interview this weekend at Y Combinator’s Startup School event, noting that he would have stayed in Boston if he were founding the social networking site all over again.[source]

Somewhere, somewhen fictional!Eduardo Saverin is beating his head into a wall. aaaaaaaaaahahahahahaha.


p.s. it was really fucking weird yesterday to read headlines about Eduardo, Dustin, and Peter Theil's separate new ventures from tech blogs in the same day's updates of my RSS feeds. And then random MZ quotes. DON'T YOU PEOPLE KNOW THAT I CONCEPTUALIZE YOU AS FICTIONAL CHARACTERS? STOP DOING REAL THINGS. IT HURTS MY BRAIN. I DON'T WANT TO KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT YOU. UGH.

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