About a week ago I decided to watch Alison Brie’s new movie, Somebody I Used to Know, because I figured it was the closest thing I could get to seeing Abed and Annie together before the Community movie comes out. So I put it on and my first thought was “Why is Annie doing Abed’s job?” My second thought, immediately following the first one, before I had seen more than a few minutes, was “Trobed AU? Trobed AU?? Trobed AU???”
So I spent about the first half of the movie imagining what if it was Abed whose TV career went south and he came back to Greendale just in time to try and stop Troy from getting married to someone else. Except obviously I couldn’t make it work because if anything it should be the other way around – Troy is the one who left, so it should be him trying to stop Abed’s wedding. And Abed would love that because it’s so tropey. In fact, he’d probably have been hoping it would happen...
AND THEN I remembered that back in the early days of the Community Fandom Renaissance of 2020 there was a fantastic rollercoaster of a fic that was exactly like that, Troy coming back from his trip to stop Abed’s wedding, except Abed never actually planned on getting married and it was a ploy to get Troy to come back. It took me a while but I found it again and I just reread and it’s even more chaotic (in a good, Greendale way) and hilarious than I remembered. I haven’t laughed so much in weeks.
So this is just an extremely long-winded way to say please do yourself a favour and read (or reread) Annie, Abed, and the Long Con by callmealvinandthechipmunks, it’s so much fun.