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 romantic arc -- that they change or save each other in some way that only they could do.
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 romantic arc -- that they change or save each other in some way that only they could do.
yay happy birthday, also!!
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