auralcosm
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ageless children, animal sweat by eyeball2eyeball (auralcosm)
Fandoms: The Beatles (Band)
24 Oct 2023
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Paul is sitting close enough to see properly, one elbow on the bartop, hand tucked beneath his chin. His eyes are beetle black and his long spidery eyelashes are twitching under the harsh club lights. It makes John sort of sick to look at him. Pale face in stark chiaroscuro, gleaming with animal sweat, Paul looks otherworldly, like something neither man nor woman.
Hamburg, 1960. John and Paul go to a gay bar after a late show.
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Nothing’s really happening at all and his life feels unbearable. A half-hearted panic seeps into Patrick’s chest and stays there.
Joe asks, “Why don’t you wanna go home, dude?”
Patrick stares at the ceiling and thinks that there’s no way the heavy, dull cement shouldn’t be buckling under its own weight and crushing them any second now. “I don’t know,” he mumbles. Then he sits up. “Just… stuff, I guess. School stuff.” He climbs up and goes to tug on his sneakers.
or: Patrick feels years behind everybody else.
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- Part 4 of hook line & sinker
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As Pete’s eyes go round and unseeing at the unremarkable expanse of grainy hotel ceiling, he pictures instead, for that split wide open second, some of the moments that got him here. Just snapshots. Freezeframe fragments.
Figure 1: A shared hotel bed, the morning of the 1997 Northbrook Soccer Sectionals. Pete and a teammate. Pete tucked into the curl of his teammate’s body, a thicker, paler arm thrown over the dip between his hips and his ribs. Thin white bed sheets tangled between their legs. So limp in sleep their muscles haven’t remembered to be sore yet. Pete’s dumb sink-bleached hair irredeemably kinked. A half-chub digging into Pete’s spine. Alarm set to blare at 6:30 am. (“Sorry, dude,” his teammate says, after Pete’s elbowed him off and they’ve both cursed each other out and put shirts on. “I rolled over in my sleep and you’re like, the exact same size as my girlfriend.”)
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Patrick tolerates Pete circling him for a while, then when the prickling at the back of his neck gets to be too much, he pauses between sentences and says, “Stop pacing, man, it’s getting on my nerves. Don’t make me chain you to the radiator or something.”
“Wrong kind of monster movie, dude,” Pete dismisses immediately, voice echoing in the wide open space. He starts dragging his nails along the counter top. “And it wouldn’t work, anyway.”
“I’ve got a couple things I could try,” Patrick contends, thumbing the corner of his journal.
“Kinky. You got some mad scientist shit you wanna try on me? Don’t tell me you found a priest to bless some rope or something.” Pete’s teeth glint from the shadows under his hood. “Ooh, are we finally gonna get to the point where you dissect me? Lay me out on a table and cut me open so you can find everything that’s wrong inside me?”
“I’m not gonna dissect you.”
“Watch out, Rick, it’s ugly in there.”
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Gigs are an oasis. High school is taking too long, and parties are a way of killing time: lose a couple hours, lose a couple nights, and pretty soon it all starts to add up and weeks go by with Patrick barely in them.
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- Part 3 of hook line & sinker
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I have seen deer split open on the road and thought that’s exactly what those soft and gentle fuckers deserve. Some things happened to me in my formative years that I don’t want to tell you about but some things happened to you too.
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Liam wrecks a hotel room for Noel.
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09 May 2024
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Insomnia as a terribly romantic character trait.
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07 Dec 2023
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AU where John Lennon is invited to Pattie and Eric's wedding and decides to go along. Beatles reunions and general high-jinx ensue, while John tries to decide the direction he wants to take next.
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14 Oct 2023
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Astrid takes a photo she shouldn't have. | Set during the filming of A Hard Day's Night, March 1964.
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19 Sep 2023
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Girlfriend by alpheratz for inlovewithnight, annemari
Fandoms: Bandom, Fall Out Boy, Gym Class Heroes
17 Mar 2013
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Pete really wants the girlfriend experience, but he didn't expect this.
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08 Aug 2023