fic: Missed Your Skin When You Were East (3/3)

[unphoenix]

Title: Missed Your Skin When You Were East 
          (Oh, and it's the sequel to Made of Silver, Not of Clay)
Word Count: 19,453
Rating: PG-13
Pairings: Brendon/Ryan, various permutations of boys and their real girlfriends, Pete/Mikey, a moment of Brendon/Sisky
Disclaimer: The concept is mine, the boys are not.  More's the pity.
Summary: Brendon is back

Comments

[nova33]

Okay. Deep breath. Expect a lot of that rambling I'm so amazingly good at.

I loved this. I loved this so much, I can't even properly express it in words. Your pacing was just wonderful, which seems like more of a technical writing thing, but I really think the flow of this was perfect. I'm so glad you wrote more in this 'verse, because the last one was just so bittersweet and hopeful, and this was just achingly beautiful. Really and truly.

I love the way you incorporated their songs into their relationship, because I think that's such a big part of them that it would reflect their personal lives. And, like I commented on the second part, they just fit.> On that note, I love this line: She Had the World wasn’t about you. It was about everyone who isn’t you. Because I can just see him saying it, how hard it is, and it's just kind of that perfect moment where everything falls into place

[unphoenix]

Thank you so much for taking the time to comment so fully on it. Honestly, that means so much. The songs...honestly, one of my FAVOURITE things to do with bandom fic, hands down, is incorporate the meanings (well, the ones that I decide on) of the songs into fic. I love that, so I'm glad you do as well. Same thing goes for not-quite-AUs, and opening up just that possibility.

(Mikey/Pete is awesome and shiny.)

Anyway, once again, thank you, and glad you liked/approved of all the things mentioned.

[mwestbelle]

Booooooooys T__T

[mwestbelle]

Okay, got that out of my system. (and wanted to use my other appropriate icon, shutup)

I think it's a very nice conclusion to the story...I really like how all the threads wove together at the end, especially concerning Pete and Mikey. I thought it flowed along with canonical timelines nicely (even though I'm not an expert, so don't quote me on that), really anchoring the story where it could have been really dreamlike and less viscerally powerful. Still adore the idea of the alternate verse, and Gerard's relatively small role in the piece was still instrumental and very well utilized.

Nice job!

[unphoenix]

Extra comments for extra icon usage is completely understandable.^^ (Especially when you have like ten million now!)

And, thanks muches. I was being pretty much a stickler for timelines, to the extent that I could, so, glad that was appreciated.

[darktowns]

i wish i could say something intelligent but this left me speechless. it was perfect.

[unphoenix]

Saying my work is perfect is totally intelligent.

Just kidding. But seriously, thank you.

[lexicon]

I am SO HAPPY that this fic exists, because Made of Silver, Not of Clay is one of my favorite fics in the fandom, it's just wonderful and perfect, and this was the perfect way to end it.

(There was just one eensy weensy timeline hiccup that threw me out of the story a bit, and that's the part where you were talking about Reading and Leeds, which was actually not the first time that Middle of Summer was played. It was at Virgin Festival, about three weeks prior to Carling Weekend, so. Just thought I'd point that out.)

[unphoenix]

Thank you so much.

(And! Thank you for telling me that. I will actually be going and fixing that now. I'm kind of a stickler about canon like that, and that one I somehow managed to be completely unaware of. So, *offers you shiny things in thanks*)

[sweetrevenge418]

Despite the fact that it is 3:17 a.m., I have to leave you a novel as a comment rightnow, because this story is hands down, the most amazing thing that I have ever read

[unphoenix]

Oh man. Oh wow. Thank you so much for everything you said, it means so incredibly much. I'm glad it caught you and pulled you in this much.

I...honestly hadn't even though about writing any kind of follow-up story. I suppose it's not COMPLETELY out of the question, because I'm rather in love with this verse, myself, and writing in it has been some of my favourite writing ever. However, I really have no idea where I'd go with it, after this. I'll be thinking about it now, though.

Thanks again.<3

[sweetrevenge418]

If I might put in my two cents, might I make a suggestion that if you did indeed decide to write in this verse again, I would be very interested to know Ryan's side of the story

[unphoenix]

Hmmm. Yeah, telling the other side of the story hadn't even occurred to me, but that's actually...a really fascinating idea. Particularly because I both really like reading stories like that, and also because, in this particular case...well, I very much like writing from Ryan's point of view in general.

Damn. I was supposed to be done with this. I am SO BAD at just putting my foot down and saying, "No, I'm not writing that." I suppose that for now I'll just say...I guess the door isn't as closed on this verse as I'd thought it was, and I'll definitely be considering it. If it does end up being written, though, it may not be for awhile (though I'm also bad at not ending up writing epics, so who really knows?). Thanks for the suggestions, though. I really do have a lot to think on, now.