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1. Idée Fixe by SerpentCountess

   Fandoms: Pretty In Pink (1986)  

   • Mature
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • F/M, M/M, Multi
   • Complete Work

   12 May 2026

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Blane McDonnagh/Steff McKee
   • Blane McDonnagh/Andie Walsh
   • Benny Hanson/Steff McKee
   • implied potential for Blane McDonnagh/Andie Walsh/Steff McKee
   • Steff McKee
   • Blane McDonnagh
   • Andie Walsh
   • Duckie Dale
   • Benny Hanson
   • Post-Canon
   • Post-Canon Fix-It
   • or at least
   • post-canon increased realism
   • Classical Music
   • Class Differences
   • kinda goes with the territory of this movie i know
   • me vs. andie's prom dress honestly
   • Self-Worth Issues
   • Self-Destruction
   • Self-Reflection
   • honestly lots of consideration of the self more generally idk
   • Emotional Hurt/Comfort
   • Emotional Infidelity
   • Friends to Lovers
   • I suppose?
   • Friends with Benefits
   • it's complicated - Freeform
   • Character Study
   • in many ways anyway
   • Period-Typical Homophobia
   • Internalized Homophobia
   • Love Confessions
   • ish
   • everything is very grey in this
   • nothing is black and white and no one bloody communicates
   • it's all very frustrating but what can you expect with these characters?
   • clear communication? in my pretty in pink story? i think not
   • mostly not overt but like. implied
   • also one (1) instance of the f slur

   Summary

   The fact of the matter --- beneath the farce and frippery decorating it with all the delicacy of the Prom Committee’s attempt at streamers --- is that Steff knew this was coming.

   (or what really should happen after the end of Pretty in Pink because Blane doesn't know how to be honest with himself, let alone anyone else; Steff is a self-destructive little shit; and Andie's canon fantasy isn't nearly as individual as she's supposed to be)

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