Team Spencer: A Calm Sea Does Not Make a Skilled Sailor

[danimpa]

Title: Of shaking hands and dusty throats
Team: SPENCER!
Prompt: A Calm Sea Does Not Make A Skilled Sailor
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Ryan/Brendon
Summary: Brendon's dream wasn't to be a rockstar, and things seem to come so naturally to him, but the trying is more than he can take.
Warnings: angst? is anyone offended by smoking?.
Word count: A little

Comments

[gingerrstar]

i'm still not sure what it is about this particular story, but it struck some type of chord, deep down. i felt for them, for brendon and the band, for keltie. even in the little pieces that you gave us, the characters seemed so real and tangible.

and it was interesting, too, because i never really ever paused to think about brendon being the one who just, didn't want it, couldn't take it, out of the four of them. in canon, he is so very much the music he plays, that life, but your brendon was beautiful, like he just-- it never was what he really wanted. sometimes we sacrifice our own wants for the wants of others, you get that across very clearly.

i really enjoyed the way that this seemed very easy, a bit lilting at times. a lot of authors can't convey the meaning in just broken up pieces, like snapshots over a span of time, but you did, you did.

this was ever so lovely, heartbreaking, but lovely nonetheless.

[fullcollapse]

This was gorgeous.

My heart kind of snapped when they linked their pinkies together. I'm not sure why, but it did.

[notyourshot]

Heeeeeeeeeeeey.
So! i didn't get to read this when you first sent it to the whole team D: but, okay, here i go.
i think you did incredibly well with the whole sticking to the prompt and making it clear to the reader. and that's very important because, sometimes, no matter how clear the writer think she was, it's not as much, really, because she did this whole brainstorming and theorizing and the writer only has a certain time to try and understand, so that when she/he leaves a comment and votes, gets to be fair and all that.
...i don't know if that was clear?
anyway. i like simple. the writing was simple. and that's simply awesome (there were a few typos that whoever beta'd you probably didn't notice, but it's nothing too serious, really). there are some sentences that just made me want to hug brendon and others tempted me to scream at ryan for being such a douchebag. the thing is, i actually understood what he felt

[ivesia19]

Oh wow, that was really powerful.
The thought of Brendon not loving the stage, not loving what he does is completely overwhelming in so many ways, yet it was so fascinating to read. To see the other side of everything.

I loved so much about this story, oh my soul. Brendon hooks his pinkie with Ryan's wordlessly, and Ryan considers pulling away, just to save face. But he doesn't. This, to me, just showed how much Ryan depends on Brendon. Of course, Brendon's voice is important, but this line shows that Brendon as who he is is so important to Ryan that he would risk his normal behaviour just to make Brendon happy.

Lord, and the Keltie dynamic. I loved it. How she was understanding in that maybe slightly bitter way, how she knew that eventually it would end up with Brendon.

And how Ryan would follow Brendon. Will follow Brendon because for all these years Brendon has been following him.

Lord, there is so much that I loved about this, especially the flowing way that it was written, the feel of it all.

Simply beautiful.

[melish]

that was heart-poundingly gorgeous. the evident sacrifice that brendon makes all for ryan but the solid confirmation that they're going to be together no matter what. this fic will be with me for a while.