REC #1
Ok, so it's been a bajillion and a half years since I started this journal with the purpose of sneakily reading RPS, but of course this fandom is so bright and shiny and wonderful that it's making me want to like, contribute, and so. Um. Yeah. I've been bookmarking things to rec for what feels like ages so here I am manning up and starting with the first thing that made me want to force everyone else to read it.
Sometimes, Dating Isn't Easy by aohatsu / bluescribbles [PG] (2.3k)
Her summary: AU. They started dating two months ago, but David doesn't know if it counts as dating when it is basically the exact same thing they were doing two years ago.
Why I think you should read it immediately (or again, you know, since she's kind of ridiculously prolific and if you're in this fandom you probably have already): It's a high school AU. And I get that that might not be some people's thing? But she does it so well. I'm kind of embarrassingly way out of high school, but the teenage insecurity and that-- that uncertainty, when you're young and you like someone so much? She captures that perfectly. It was like living those feelings all over again for me, and that, I think-- her ability to make the reader feel-- is reason enough to read it, but there's the added bonus of her Archie!voice being AWESOME.
Excerpt: He didn't the next time either, after they did karaoke at the bowling alley with Johns and Carly, or the third time when they just had dinner and went to the park and ended up hanging out on the swings until like eleven, and David--David is wondering if they're actually dating, now.
Except they are. Cook told Johns they were, who told Carly, who told every girl ever in their entire high school, and now everyone giggles and smiles at him and so--yes, they're dating, and they're going on dates, but they're more like friend-outings and it doesn't feel like dating, because he's pretty sure Cook doesn't actually want to be kissing him. Like, he's perfectly happy without it.
Sometimes, Dating Isn't Easy by aohatsu / bluescribbles [PG] (2.3k)
Her summary: AU. They started dating two months ago, but David doesn't know if it counts as dating when it is basically the exact same thing they were doing two years ago.
Why I think you should read it immediately (or again, you know, since she's kind of ridiculously prolific and if you're in this fandom you probably have already): It's a high school AU. And I get that that might not be some people's thing? But she does it so well. I'm kind of embarrassingly way out of high school, but the teenage insecurity and that-- that uncertainty, when you're young and you like someone so much? She captures that perfectly. It was like living those feelings all over again for me, and that, I think-- her ability to make the reader feel-- is reason enough to read it, but there's the added bonus of her Archie!voice being AWESOME.
Excerpt: He didn't the next time either, after they did karaoke at the bowling alley with Johns and Carly, or the third time when they just had dinner and went to the park and ended up hanging out on the swings until like eleven, and David--David is wondering if they're actually dating, now.
Except they are. Cook told Johns they were, who told Carly, who told every girl ever in their entire high school, and now everyone giggles and smiles at him and so--yes, they're dating, and they're going on dates, but they're more like friend-outings and it doesn't feel like dating, because he's pretty sure Cook doesn't actually want to be kissing him. Like, he's perfectly happy without it.