fic: This aging public institution

[subterrain]

I wrote this two weeks ago when I was trying desperately to avoid both my feminist organizing in libraries paper as well as my bandom big bang. WHAT. WORST PROCRASTINATOR EVER. I've only just had time to get back to it, now that my big bang is submitted in atrocious draft form. Thanks go to delighter for wiping this down and cleaning it up. :> :> :>

Comments

[subterrain]

It's kind of bad that I had to put in teenagers just to spice things up for myself, right? While simultaneously mocking my coworkers, who need to be mocked harder.

But it's just that I love teenagers.

Probably life is just going to get worse with every passing year as the students at the school stay the same age and I get older. And creepier.

Thanks for letting me tarnish your name with this splooge, my friend!

[redorchids]

LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL
Great stuff. Thanks for sharing. :-)

[subterrain]

Haha, thanks for commenting! :D

[fannyt]

Oh, I love Ryan's little lists of things-to-do. Which he reads from while wearing a cardigan and being suspicious of rock concerts. Ahaha, he is in fact eighty years old, isn't he? (I know how they all say he's 22 and whatever, but I suspect it's just a front.)

[subterrain]

It is such a front! Only old men and prepubescent boys can fit into jeans that little. :D :D

[chebonne]

It wasn't until the second time I read this that I realized Ryan was wearing a BOWTIE. How did I even miss that the first time around?

This fic just. It makes me happy on the inside. ♥

[subterrain]

Ha, thanks!

You know, I was just trying to figure out where I'd seen your username before, and then I realized: we picked the same big bang story to fanmix. WEIRD, RIGHT?

[strangerlovers]

I'm so glad you wrote more of this! Personally I've found there's a major shortage of Jon/Brendon in fandom and also that you can't go wrong with boys who work in libraries. Plus, how adorable are Ryan and Brendon?! I can just picture Ryan in a cardigan and bow tie and Brendon just generally being all adorable and shit (riding a bicycle!), and giving BJ's in repair nooks.

[subterrain]

My pleasure! Thanks for saying so!

Obvs, their old man geek chic needs to be expounded upon at length, because I keep coming back to it, too.

I like to think Brendon's bicycle looks like this:

[strangerlovers]

Oh man, I can actually picture him riding around on that thing in his super tight jeans and black & white checkerboard Vans or something. Also, HA! I've been looking at a bike like that in red and now I definitely have to buy it next payday.