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Anyone Else But You, by Zarah (NC17)
Fandom: BANDOM
Pairing: Ryan/Brendon
Length: ~65k
Author on LJ:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
zarah5v2
Author Website: Zarah's Bandom Fic Index,
Why this must be read: High school and college AUs are a huge trend in bandom, and this college AU is a good example of why. It's fun to play with guys who self-admittedly were complete dweebs in high school and never actually made it to college--Ryan Ross's single semester does not count. Zarah does as excellent job of imagining what each of the guys would be like if they were just everyday people trying to work their way through four years of undergrad. Zarah's major strengths are her ability to write friendships--and wow, the relationships between Ryan and Spencer, Jon and Brendon, will stay with you for a long time, and her gorgeous use of sensory detail to ground a fic in place and time. This is the perfect fic about boys being boys being boys with some homework and a couple of crappy jobs on the side.
Brendon groans and rolls over onto his back, but keeps a hand over his eyes. “Remember Ryan?” he asks.
“Spencer’s Ryan?” Jon’s hand settles on his arm, just resting there. “The one you hooked up with at the party?”
“We didn’t—” Brendon starts, but Jon cuts him off.
“Hell yes, you did. No one needs half an hour to put a few bottles away. The two of you weren’t exactly subtle, you know?”
Brendon ignores the odd clenching of his stomach. He exhales and peers through a gap between two fingers, watching Jon patiently watching him, Jon’s hand still warm on his skin. “Well,” Brendon says, voice small and miserable, “yeah. About Ryan. Guess who teaches the discussion section to my poetry course?”
It takes roughly six seconds. Then Jon starts chuckling, his eyes crinkling with it, the mattress rolling when he shifts his weight.
“It’s not funny,” Brendon hisses.
“Oh,” Jon says, “but it is! It’s so soap opera.”
Anyone Else But You
Pairing: Ryan/Brendon
Length: ~65k
Author on LJ:
zarah5v2Author Website: Zarah's Bandom Fic Index,
Why this must be read: High school and college AUs are a huge trend in bandom, and this college AU is a good example of why. It's fun to play with guys who self-admittedly were complete dweebs in high school and never actually made it to college--Ryan Ross's single semester does not count. Zarah does as excellent job of imagining what each of the guys would be like if they were just everyday people trying to work their way through four years of undergrad. Zarah's major strengths are her ability to write friendships--and wow, the relationships between Ryan and Spencer, Jon and Brendon, will stay with you for a long time, and her gorgeous use of sensory detail to ground a fic in place and time. This is the perfect fic about boys being boys being boys with some homework and a couple of crappy jobs on the side.
Brendon groans and rolls over onto his back, but keeps a hand over his eyes. “Remember Ryan?” he asks.
“Spencer’s Ryan?” Jon’s hand settles on his arm, just resting there. “The one you hooked up with at the party?”
“We didn’t—” Brendon starts, but Jon cuts him off.
“Hell yes, you did. No one needs half an hour to put a few bottles away. The two of you weren’t exactly subtle, you know?”
Brendon ignores the odd clenching of his stomach. He exhales and peers through a gap between two fingers, watching Jon patiently watching him, Jon’s hand still warm on his skin. “Well,” Brendon says, voice small and miserable, “yeah. About Ryan. Guess who teaches the discussion section to my poetry course?”
It takes roughly six seconds. Then Jon starts chuckling, his eyes crinkling with it, the mattress rolling when he shifts his weight.
“It’s not funny,” Brendon hisses.
“Oh,” Jon says, “but it is! It’s so soap opera.”
Anyone Else But You
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