the wrong end of the telescope

Dear livejournal, right now I have a torakowalski and the weather is lovely and we saw X-men: First Class yesterday (lovely tragic gay romance, entertainingly wrong about other things). Tonight I go on holiday from work. It's a good week.

Oh, and there was a story that went up yesterday. I was out between 9 and midnight, so I didn't get a chance to do my own post (meaning my wonderful cowriter posted the whole thing, and you should all gasp in awe, because damn, is she ever amazing), but here it is. Same verse as Why Wait Any Longer, which was posted almost exactly a year ago.

Title: Where We Land
Authors: fictionalaspect and harborshore
Band(s): The Like, Panic! At the Disco, The Young Veins
Pairing(s):: Brendon/Z, Ryan/Spencer/Tennessee, Annie/Laena
Word Count: 55,306
Rating/Warnings: NC-17. One scene contains violent imagery and references to the threat of attempted non-con. Some scenes also contain homophobic language and sexualized insults directed at women. There is no actual dub-con or non-con in this fic.

Summary:Ryan and Z are the resident outcasts of their small Midwestern town, best friends who are fiercely protective of themselves and each other. As junior year starts, Z's trying to get her (struggling) band off the ground, and Ryan mostly just wants to be left alone--but everything changes when Brendon Urie transfers to their school.

master post, full summary, author's notes and wonderful extras are over here

This story, you guys. We've been writing it for over a year, and it's been such a process of falling in love with the characters, over and over again, of falling into the friendship of Ryan and Z, their you-and-me-against-the-world, of writing about learning trust and love and figuring out how to make it alright without glossing over the hard things. What started as an accidental commentfic (fictionalaspect said "Spencer/Ryan/Tennessee" when I asked for a rare pairing, and then we came up with Brendon/Z as a counterpart, and two weeks later we had 17K) grew into something I--it's hard to explain. I loved working with fictionalaspect (so much, holy shit), I love what we made, I'm so glad it's done but I'm also bewildered that this enormous project (for me, anyway--longest fic I ever posted) isn't--we finished it. Here it is.

Title: Not That Hard To Find
Pairings: Gen, implied Tennessee/Z and unrequited Ryan/girl!Spencer.
Word Count; 2712
Warnings: None
Summary: A day in the life, post-split. Wherein Ryan gets to dispense Very Important Advice, cuddle, and then has to go look for his best friend.

A/N: This one is for blindmouse, because she says things that make me think about characterization (which in its turn makes me write Ryan!fic, apparently) and, well. Merry Christmas, two weeks early. ♥, darling, I really hope you like it.

This was looked over by softlyforgotten, torakowalski, and colouredmango, because it's possible I was a little nervous about writing a new band. If there are any remaining problems, it is most certainly not their fault. The title belongs to Bob Dylan and comes from the song "If You See Her, Say Hello."


( Most people don't know this, but Ryan likes to fix things. )