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The Amazing Adventures Of Us by Kate Monster (PG)
Fandom: THE O.C.
Pairing: none, a Ryan and Seth friendship story
Author on LJ: ???
Author Website: Her Fanfiction.Net index
Why this must be read:
This story, set during season one between "The Heartbreak" and "The Telenovela", provides a believable idea of how Seth and Ryan got over the issue of disbelief on Seth's part. How they were able to recement their friendship and move on. The voices are dead on, Ryan's thoughts about friends he had prior to Seth and how they were different, and not as fun, struck me. I love the idea that Seth isn't the only one in their friendship who really never had a friend prior to meeting Ryan.
Plus, how can one resist any story that makes mention of both Red Dwarf and The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay?
Romance, fortunately, wasn't an issue with Seth. Plus, Theresa aside, all the guys Ryan had hung around with before Newport had been older. They were too cool, too suave to have Dynasty Warriors 4 championship tournaments, or spend hours engaged in comic book reading marathons, or popcorn fights, or races on the boardwalk. They were too cool to ever be caught dead scaring seagulls on the pier, or snorkeling in the hot tub with their eyelids burning, or trying to teach Ryan how to use chopsticks. They would never think of getting buzzed on just Mountain Dew and playing Dance Dance Revolution, or scouring every record store in Orange County looking for Earlimart on vinyl, or staying up all night watching every Star Trek movie, back to back, having circular arguments about Picard and Kirk.
So go read: The Amazing Adventures of Us
Pairing: none, a Ryan and Seth friendship story
Author on LJ: ???
Author Website: Her Fanfiction.Net index
Why this must be read:
This story, set during season one between "The Heartbreak" and "The Telenovela", provides a believable idea of how Seth and Ryan got over the issue of disbelief on Seth's part. How they were able to recement their friendship and move on. The voices are dead on, Ryan's thoughts about friends he had prior to Seth and how they were different, and not as fun, struck me. I love the idea that Seth isn't the only one in their friendship who really never had a friend prior to meeting Ryan.
Plus, how can one resist any story that makes mention of both Red Dwarf and The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay?
Romance, fortunately, wasn't an issue with Seth. Plus, Theresa aside, all the guys Ryan had hung around with before Newport had been older. They were too cool, too suave to have Dynasty Warriors 4 championship tournaments, or spend hours engaged in comic book reading marathons, or popcorn fights, or races on the boardwalk. They were too cool to ever be caught dead scaring seagulls on the pier, or snorkeling in the hot tub with their eyelids burning, or trying to teach Ryan how to use chopsticks. They would never think of getting buzzed on just Mountain Dew and playing Dance Dance Revolution, or scouring every record store in Orange County looking for Earlimart on vinyl, or staying up all night watching every Star Trek movie, back to back, having circular arguments about Picard and Kirk.
So go read: The Amazing Adventures of Us