Spencer says. "I don't believe in accidents, and I didn't just end up here, and we're not just making some mistake over and over because it's somebody's birthday. I want to do this, and then I want to figure out -- I don't know. The next 30 years of my life, I guess."
So i may have choked up at this point. This was like a film and it made music swell up in my head for the happy ending.
I loved how raw and unapologetic this was. I particularly liked the construction of the scene where they're having sex but you keep cutting back to the other birthdays.
I would love to have backstory for both of them, to know/see what happened with Haley and Shane.
Ah, God, this is so good. I remember awhile back you saying that you always wanted to write the story Spencer deserved - THIS is that story. It's so fluid and real and heartbreaking and thrilling all at the same time, and every time I read your stories I think they can't get better but they DO. They do.
On the way out, Brendon snickers at the offer of a complimentary cocktail. He says, "Cocktail," with a snort, and Spencer claps the back of his head and tells him to stop acting like a 15-year-old. Later Brendon insists they make out for an hour, hands outside their clothes. He lies on his back on the couch and tells Spencer to please take it easy because it's his first time.
"It's not even your first time tonight," Spencer says, but he still fucks Brendon more carefully and slowly than he ever has anyone ever before, and he does feel 15, if only the 15-year-old he'd wanted to be in his mind.I love so many passages in this story, but this one stuck out to me because it says so much about Brendon and Spencer and their relationship
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this was such an amazing comment to get! i read it on my phone twice while wandering around yesterday and then forgot to actually come back and respond.
I remember awhile back you saying that you always wanted to write the story Spencer deserved - THIS is that story.
OMG thank you, bc that more than anything is what i wanted this to be. i've owed him a good one for a while and as hard as it is to write about brendon and not, you know, have it all be about brendon, i mostly wanted this to be about spencer and all the things he wanted and feared.
it says so much about Brendon and Spencer and their relationship in such an amazingly compact way - Brendon and the permanent adolescence he wears like a mask, Spencer and the world-weariness he puts on for the same reason, to hide how lonely he really is.and this was such a thoughtful thing to say, and made me think about how much it was true even if it wasn't something i'd commented on or articulated myself. them being able to change each other -- to me that's the basis of any good
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So. I'm floored by this and for about the whole of part two I've been trying to figure out how to even comment. There's no single thing I can latch onto that stands out because it's perfect, so I won't be quoting the whole thing back to you.
Just... sometimes you come across a story that reminds you why you ended up writing and reading bandom fiction and you wanna just shout at the people laughing at you for it because people make goddamn ART here? This is one of those stories.
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So i may have choked up at this point. This was like a film and it made music swell up in my head for the happy ending.
I loved how raw and unapologetic this was. I particularly liked the construction of the scene where they're having sex but you keep cutting back to the other birthdays.
I would love to have backstory for both of them, to know/see what happened with Haley and Shane.
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there's more on the backstory in this commentary version, if you didn't see it -- http://wearemany.livejournal.com/758065.html.
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On the way out, Brendon snickers at the offer of a complimentary cocktail. He says, "Cocktail," with a snort, and Spencer claps the back of his head and tells him to stop acting like a 15-year-old. Later Brendon insists they make out for an hour, hands outside their clothes. He lies on his back on the couch and tells Spencer to please take it easy because it's his first time.
"It's not even your first time tonight," Spencer says, but he still fucks Brendon more carefully and slowly than he ever has anyone ever before, and he does feel 15, if only the 15-year-old he'd wanted to be in his mind.I love so many passages in this story, but this one stuck out to me because it says so much about Brendon and Spencer and their relationship ( ... )
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I remember awhile back you saying that you always wanted to write the story Spencer deserved - THIS is that story.
OMG thank you, bc that more than anything is what i wanted this to be. i've owed him a good one for a while and as hard as it is to write about brendon and not, you know, have it all be about brendon, i mostly wanted this to be about spencer and all the things he wanted and feared.
it says so much about Brendon and Spencer and their relationship in such an amazingly compact way - Brendon and the permanent adolescence he wears like a mask, Spencer and the world-weariness he puts on for the same reason, to hide how lonely he really is.and this was such a thoughtful thing to say, and made me think about how much it was true even if it wasn't something i'd commented on or articulated myself. them being able to change each other -- to me that's the basis of any good ( ... )
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Just... sometimes you come across a story that reminds you why you ended up writing and reading bandom fiction and you wanna just shout at the people laughing at you for it because people make goddamn ART here? This is one of those stories.
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