fic: This Endless Summer Racket

[thesamefire]

THIS ENDLESS SUMMER RACKET
Mikey/Andy, Mikey/Pete; R
3823 words.
Summary: "What do you really need, Mikey Way?"
Notes: This story was originally written for xmas_rocks, for the request Andy/Mikey. I couldn't have written this without air_crash, who is/was my sounding board, cheering squad, and askee of ridiculous questions. Thanks as always to my lovely and

Comments

[ubixtiz]

I swear it was cold in here when I started reading this. Now I think I need a drink of water. I like the way you use the heat, the way the whole series events has a sort of heat mirage quality to it. I like the paragraph with the first kiss. This is very nice.

[thesamefire]

the way the whole series events has a sort of heat mirage quality to it

YES! YES THAT WAS EXACTLY THE POINT! YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW GLAD I AM THAT IT WORKED! THANK YOU!

[ubixtiz]

(Oh, crap, series of events. *facepalm*)

XD It really did.

That first kiss paragraph is tricksy because it gets you all amped up for sexy happenings with phrases like "half-erected merch tent" and "cocks his head in question." It is slyly dirty. I am onto you!

[thesamefire]

it is totally foreshadowing for the second time they kiss, which IS when there are sexyfuntimes! three whole sentences' worth!

[blushandrecover]

I definitely agree with the comment about a heat mirage. It's all blurred, one day into another, into another, into another. You leave the reader just as lost in summer as Andy is, as Mikey is (I think), and that's an amazing ability as a writer.

Thank you so much for this.

[thesamefire]

thanks so much! i really like your icon, by the way.

[blushandrecover]

Ha, thanks. I made it last year when I made this journal for bandom/writing (and bandom writing). I keep thinking I should change it (it's always been my default), but I'm a like it too much.

this message brought to you by andy hurley's tongue ring

[air_crash]

aaaaaah so good.

Re: this message brought to you by andy hurley's tongue ring

[thesamefire]

I'm sooooo glad to finally post this for realz

[thesamefire]

air_crash specifically requested a cameo from the tongue piercing, and I was MORE THAN HAPPY to oblige. I have been seriously disheartened by the recent trend of bandom boys taking their piercings out (HOLD FAST BOB BRYAR HOLD FAST) so I'm not sure if it's even still extant or not these days, but it sure existed in the summer of like! goddamn.

When this story was in beta, ignazwisdom also mentioned that they were very much *boys* in this, and I'm really not sure how I managed to work that voodoo magic--because I REALLY just do not understand the convergence of factors giving rise to the (North) American construction of Boy--but I'm really glad it worked.

[thesamefire]

thank you! i really loved writing this.