ryan / brendon fanfic recommendations
this my big ryden fic rec list but it's a work in progress shhhhh ;)
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Canon setting (or in a similar to canon scenario so it could be real we'll just never know)
Off the Cliff Just for the Spark
Brendon and Ryan go skinny dipping. Beautifully written *u* I want to go there.
You Gotta Dance With the One You Came With
Brendon forgot about the prom but decides that it’s a rite of passage he cannot miss, and Ryan acts like the bitch that he is, only not really. Another favourite of mine. I love prom!fic
What He Had
Ryan thought his on stage boners would go away after he left Panic. He was wrong.
Retail Jobs and Cracks in the Ceiling
Such a muddy line between the things you want and the things you have to do
Rose is a Four Letter Word
Ryan's allergic to roses. Well, maybe "allergic" is the wrong word for it.
The Winner Takes it All
It's Decaydance Stage-Gay Chicken. Let's play.
Don't Mention Love or, I Constantly Thank God for Nymphomania
Brendon has a theory. He’s no psychologist, of course, but he’s thought about it a lot-too much, really-and his guess is as good as anyone’s. Ryan is a complete nymphomaniac, Brendon thinks, because Ryan does not relate to people on a normal level. Ryan does not relate to life on a normal level. He bottles up all his emotions and pours it all into lyrics and sex. He tries to express an entire spectrum of feeling that way.
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High School AU
It's All Okay When I Say You and I
Brendon wants to be one of Ryan’s Secret Santa’s, but he’s afraid Ryan won’t care because he’s the coolest kid in school.
Eurora
Brendon relocates to America from Germany in the middle of war. Adorable miscommunication, but angst :(((
Pete Wentz: The Drum Major From Hel
Brendon comes into English class every day sweaty and gross from band practice.
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College AU
The Homesick
British-University!AU. They had it figured out, the three of them. At least for another year. But when William moves out, the guys have to find a new flatmate. Brendon is trying to save the world, Ryan is trying to get his academic career rolling, Jon is trying not to crush on a straight guy, and Spencer is trying get back home.
Anyone Else But You
College AU. Panic never formed at high school. Instead, they meet at college, and in between striking up a friendship with his working colleague Spencer and trying to ensure that his roommate Jon doesn’t get sick of him, in between forming a band and writing songs, Brendon would really appreciate it if his bandmate (and Spencer’s best friend) Ryan Ross didn’t turn out to be Brendon’s TA. Especially considering their fling just before the start of the term. Another favourite and early read *u
Find My Niche
When Jon and Spencer fight, it’s quiet. (Sequel to Anyone Else But You)
Hold the Pose
In which Brendon cleans the apartment of published author Ryan Ross to finance his college studies, and Spencer opens up an Indian style café and hires Jon to brew his fair trade coffee.
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Bookstore/Library AU
How Far Down?
Ryan likes his job, and it gets more interesting when a new customer starts coming regularly.
Love in a Letterbo
The library is Ryan's sanctuary.
A Tale of Two Bookstores
the Barnes & Noble AU! Patrick manages one of the many Barnes & Nobles in town, and everything is fine, aside from his grumpy cashiers, his caffeine-addicted baristas, and the two hidden in the back closet. Everything is fine, that is, until Borders decides to move in down the street and, yeah, Patrick is in trouble.
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Mall/Store AU
Falling Like This
Ryan has a crush on a boy from the sweet shop
The World on a String
Pete smiles. "Ryan thinks anyone who doesn’t know the difference between Led Zepplin, Black Sabbath, and Deep Purple deserves to die a horrible death. I wouldn’t be surprised that he thinks Brendon’s unworthy to press buttons on a register." Recordstore AU.
The Laundromat
Ryan doesn't want to know the names of the people who come into the Laundromat. He doesn't want to know what makes Tattoo Guy talk to Guy Who Never Showers. He doesn't, but a new customer might just undermine all the work he's done to distance himself from the world. (20,427 words)
Other AU
Oh Doctor, Doctor
It was just that on his first day in the oncology department of the hospital six years ago, he'd been introduced to Dr Ryan Ross, Head Surgeon, and fallen stupidly and irrevocably in love with him, and that, apparently, was that. My favourite Ryden fic of all time!!!! Also, the first one I read *u*
The Heart Rate of a Mouse
Ryan, one of the most distinguished musicians of his generation, falls for a roadie on tour. One of the greatest things I've ever read, fanfic or otherwise. 70's AU.
He Acts Like We Never Have Met (I Don't Believe You)
This is what we faggots do: sit in the cars of strangers after sunset, watching them pay for a motel room at the reception. (THROAM AU)
Iron, Lights and Weed
Brendon wants to get a record deal at all cost. He joins the Las Vegas underground music scene, but ends up distracted when he falls for Ryan, a scene king with little interest in attachments.
Kites, Bass Lines and Heat
After two years of silence, Jon Walker makes a comeback to the Las Vegas underground music scene. In the process he mixes up the life of Spencer, his former lover, who has spent years learning how to hate. (Spin off of Iron, Lights and Weed)
Inhuman
Ryan Ross is a vampire who has betrayed his own kind. He has settled down and lives with a human servant, who satisfies all of his needs. Ryan’s choice of life infuriates his former clan, who are about to take revenge on him for his questionable attachment to a mere mortal.
The Visito
Brendon escaped the dying town he grew up in, and he made it: sold out venues, magazine covers, sex, drugs and rock ‘n roll. Struggling with depression and alcoholism, he begins to visit the place he tried so hard to get away from, seeing the life he could have had, visiting the one person he never could have.
The Years Won't See It (The Way I Want Them To)
The stranger, who looks exactly like Brendon except older, moves restlessly, knees bouncing. “I’m you, get it? I am you. Five years from now.”
Relearning How to Breathe
When Spencer realises that his morally questionable supply closet incident has left him pregnant with his boss’s child, he tries to stay positive. Jon’s entire future gets rearranged upon receiving the news, but they decide to raise the child together even if they are strangers. Friends, vegans, clashing social classes and opinions make the following months a chaotic swirl during which the two men realise that maybe neither one of them wants what they thought they did.
Obstreperousness or Three Ways Not to Leave Your Lover
Ryan and Brendon aren’t dating because they hate each other. Really. (Sequel to Relearning How to Breathe)
Just Keep Me Hanging On
Brendon is convinced that he has to emotionally blackmail his husband into starting a family with him, but turns out that for once Ryan agrees with him on something. Ryan is all for knocking Brendon up - it’s a nice excuse to have ridiculous amounts of sex, for one thing. But the pregnancy tests are negative. Negative. Negative. Brendon doesn’t want to talk about it as he pushes Ryan away, and Ryan feels more and more detached from the man that he married in the heat of the moment. (Sequel to Relearning How to Breathe and Obstreperousness or Three Ways Not to Leave Your Lover)
Unaccountable Idiocy or Cranberries for Christmas, Nopales for New Years
Baby shit from infants, black thongs from sex shops, herbs from Brent Wilson, and a couple that bitches so much they probably never should have gotten married. Yes, it’s Christmas in the Ross household. (Sequel to Just Keep Me Hanging on - and the others, but they're really long titles come on)
How a Resurrection Really Feel
After narrowly escaping certain death, fierce, tough and masculine motorcycle gang members Ryan and Spencer head out to the wilderness to avoid mortal danger, accompanied by a heartless assassin who might turn on them any second. No, really. Like any econd. The trio crosses paths with Brendon, who won’t shut up about the grace of God and, more worryingly, likes to wear dresses. Or, well, just the bodices. It’s not like he likes the skirts.
No Use in Turnin' On Your Light
The neighbouring farm got sold to a Mr. Wentz from New York, but Brendon didn’t think twice about it, not even when his fiancée excitedly told him that Ryan Ross, the folksinger, was to stay there. The summer of 1963 was expected to be rainy and hot. They were right.
Miguel Sanchez's Grand Slam of Love
Ryan Ross, the world’s number one tennis player, 8-time Grand Slam winner whose only true love is tennis, loses to an upcoming talent. What’s worse is that the kid just keeps smiling at him, trying to be Ryan’s new best friend, when all Ryan wants to do is punch him in his rather beautifully shaped face.
Xenodochy
Ryan meets a dog that looks hauntingly familiar and stares at him a lot. Despite his best efforts, the dog seems determined to be called Brendon, but it’s not weird or anything that his sort of pet is named after his former bandmate. Not weird at all.
Given Limits Exist
Ryan and Brendon work together, and they are perfect together. Circus AU.
Back to the Place
Once upon a time, Panic went to a cabin in the mountains to write an album they never made. One night there, something happened that Ryan tried to forget. Two years later, he still hasn't. Cabin AU.
Pink Glitter
Ryan fills in for his dad at bring your parents to kindergarten day.
The Florist
Ryan is deaf and works as a florist.
Zip It (Just Say Yes)
Gay Marriage is legalized in New York City.
Like Suicide, Only Softer
When eighteen-year-old Brendon Urie is admitted to a mental hospital, he's forced to deal with his many issues, along with his schizophrenic roommate, Ryan.
It's a Week Before Christmas and I Meet You
It's a week before Christmas and Ryan meets Brendon for the first time.
Paper Jam
The one where Ryan is an accountant and Brendon is a copy boy
The First Rule of Ballroom Dance Club Is...
Spencer drags Ryan to a ballroom dancing club.
A Little Piece With You
The boys form a jazz band at a Chicago speakeasy in the late 1920s. (Mostly, a fic inspired by "I Have Friends in Holy Spaces".)
If I Never Knew You
When Ryan Ross is sent to live with his aunt after his mom gets fed up with his behaviour, he was pissed. He never expected to meet a boy that was so different he would change his life forever.
1-800-CALL-ME-B
Brendon works in a call center, but not just any call center, and a certain client keeps calling back for more.
And Don't Twirl
Ryan’s a 22 year old model, with empty aspirations and disappointment with himself. He meets a hairdresser who needs to belong, and maybe he has to find out what he needs before he can be what others need.
Whatever Beauty
regency!AU. “I have no intention of succumbing to love this summer,” Brendon said confidently as he arrived to Stourhead, his wealthy uncle’s estate. He had not known that his cousin of royal blood would also be spending his summer there, and he did not expect to befriend the future duke either. But as the summer passes along, Brendon slowly realises that he and his cousin are not merely becoming friends - indeed, he soon finds himself losing his heart. Actually one of the greatest things I've ever read omg???????
By Small and Simple Things
And there’s no way that Skittle is currently hoisted above the head of a tiny little brown-haired man who is pressing the mouse away with his foot and shrieking in frantic whispers... No, it’s just not possible. Except it is.
Down on the Farm
Mrs. Ross, fed up with her son's destructive and illegal behavior, decides to send him to live with a friend of the family over the summer before his senior year. The worst part is, he's staying on a farm.
Every Speck of Dust Illuminated
Elizabeth Ann Berg is a witch. (and there is Charlotte the cat, Ryan the oblivious, and Brendon the hopelessly infatuated.)
A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square
CSI AU. Brendon Urie has had a hopeless crush on Ryan Ross since the mortifying moment when he introduced himself at a national forensic conference by tripping in the aisle next to where Ryan was sitting and getting coffee all over his shirt, so when Ryan offers him a job at the Las Vegas lab, Brendon jumps at the opportunity. When he arrives in Vegas, however, things are a bit more complicated than he'd hoped.
Ten Shades of Honey Eyes
"Shane, I don't know what to do anymore." "Brendon, dude, you need a fucking muse." The help is a fucking masterpiece for the eyes. I don't know what his name is, only that he looks like a Degas when he vaccuums my study carpet. And his honey eyes are enough to inspire me for the rest of my life
Kidnap the Heart
Ryan Ross lives alone, walks the school hallways alone, and does everything else alone. His parents abandoned him in a near-deserted small town where the population is minimal. He has no friends, no enemies, and barely has himself. But then a new family moves into town right next door, and Ryan finds himself being forced out of his shell.