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asimplechord

i-con see you!

Dec 13, 2009 12:28

I am supposed to be doing something chore-related, but the washer and dryer are both full, and the kitchen is still occupied by a crazy man with hops and boiling malt, so I'm doing the icon meme-thing.

harriet_vane picked six icons, and if you comment, I'll pick six of yours to explain. ( :D )

science!, tds, tcr, tabby, meme, bden is my favorite

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harriet_vane December 13 2009, 18:33:30 UTC

THAT IS WHY I PICKED THAT BRENDON-N-PATRICK ICON. BECAUSE THERE SHOULD BE BILLIONS OF WORDS OF THEIR BFF-NESS

I started a story like that one time, but I only wrote 10 or 15k of college!AU before I gave up. I forgot about that.

asimplechord December 13 2009, 18:41:35 UTC

It's like people don't understand the awesome power that Brendon and Patrick combined could be. Clearly, we need to convince someone to write about them for us. Patrick is too often a supporting character in Brendon-related fics. (I'm deliberately not acknowledging his starring role some of the really bad Pete/Patrick fic that probably exists, but which I ignore.)

harriet_vane December 13 2009, 18:43:26 UTC

Yeah, I don't really do Pete/Patrick, but I want Brendon and Patrick to be the best of best friends.And there to be EPIC fic about it. They would dork out together! I think I was writing about Spencer as Brendon's college roommate and Patrick as his music TA, and eventually -- 100k later, probably -- they would all have been bffs. I can't remember how it was going to end.

asimplechord December 13 2009, 18:49:18 UTC

*squeaks*

Like, Brendon would be SO BORED in whatever intro to composition class he was required to take? And Patrick doesn't mind teaching, but he does not like the fact that 19 of his 20 students are clearly there for an easy passing grade for the music/arts part of the general ed requirements, but he's excited when this term he has this dude who's actually talented, and into it, so discussion/studio sessions go much better than he ever remembers them being before?

harriet_vane December 13 2009, 18:54:31 UTC

YES. Like that. And he and Spencer don't hit it off immediately because Spencer's always hanging out with Ryan, but then Ryan meets Jon and kind of vanishes off to the cool kid parties and Brendon and Spencer realize that actually they are totally video-game playing soul mates.

And meanwhile Patrick's all "OH THANK GOD THIS ONE CAN ACTUALLY PLAY THINGS." ♥

I need to find someone who will finish this fic for me. I have a lot of set up! Someone just needs to write all the stuff.

asimplechord December 13 2009, 19:23:39 UTC

:D Brendon wipes the floor with Spencer the first time they play [insert video game here], which is an unpleasant shock b/c Spencer ALWAYS beat Ryan and Brent with no problem; he was the undisputed champion. But that just means he sets a new goal: school Brendon at said game, and Spencer is a very goal-oriented dude, so they spend a lot of time practicing.

And when the term ends and Patrick no longer has to not hang out with Brendon b/c he's responsible for grading him, Patrick totally takes up Brendon's hanging-out-with-Spencer time, and he complains to Haley, who laughs and says he sounds lovesick. Which he's NOT, because he's not gay (although he admits that if he were, he'd be into Brendon - what, he likes brunettes, okay?), he just, you know, misses his friend. Who has abandoned him just like Ryan did. >:/

harriet_vane December 13 2009, 19:38:57 UTC

Maybe I will pretend it is WIP amnesty week and post the first 8,000 words. Because that is exactly what should happen and then maybe someone will write the rest of it for me.

And then they fall in LOVE. Also there is a super awkward conversation where Brendon's not sure what they're doing about housing next year and he's afraid to ask Spencer in case Spencer's going to move in with Ryan, so he's been putting it off, but then obviously they are going to come back and be boyfriends in the fall. I don't know. It would have been the World's Longest Story.

asimplechord December 13 2009, 19:51:05 UTC

Can there be pining? Like, Brendon realizes early on that he was crushing on his roommate. Could he be any more of a cliche? But Spencer always talks about his girlfriend back home, Haley, so Brendon puts it out of his mind and focuses on having this really cool friend, a better friend than he's really ever had before. So he dates other people (Audrey was a mistake; Pete was entertaining, but clearly in love with Patrick, which made him safe, if frustrated by Patrick's oblivious straightness; Sarah might've worked out if only he had put a little more effort into it) and hangs out with Spencer and he doesn't even realize how fast time flies by until it's finals. And then he goes home for two weeks. Well, he was GOING to be home for two weeks, but he ends up leaving early because he feels like his skin just doesn't fit anymore when he's in his old bedroom at home ( ... )

harriet_vane December 13 2009, 19:59:05 UTC

The entire thing is pining! Brendon starts pining for Spencer early, and proceeds to pine all freshman year, whether he thinks Spencer is unattainable because he's straight, bro, or because he's off with Ryan all the time. And by the time Spencer realizes his flexible view of "straight" seems to include "I have a thing for my dorky roommate" said dorky roommate is spending all his time with this weird music TA who wears hats.

I think in my original plan Brendon went off over spring break to build houses for Habitat for Humanity and while he was gone Spencer realized how much he liked him, and when Brendon got back he was all tan, and this girl he'd met on the trip was hanging on him, and Spencer got insanely grumpy and Ryan laughed at him a lot.

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