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    the first time andrew saw neil, he was playing in the middle of a concert hall, bleeding red.

    (all neil has is his mother's old violin, all andrew has is the cello that he doesn't care about. but maybe now they'll have each other).

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  13. 09 Nov 2022

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    19/?
    I barely finished this, it was a fucking struggle. Not because it's bad, but because IT'S SO SAD IN A SOFT WAY I CRIED CONSTANTLY, I'VE NEVER CRIED THIS MUCH BC OF A FANFIC!! It's completely Andrew's POV, he's healing and reading about it is so fuckinh painful! It's sad, but good sad if you know what I mean?? It's a thorough study of Andrew's character and it breaks my heart, even though its hopeful and filled with love!! THE WRITING STYLE AND COMPARISONS AND METAPHORS IN THIS FIC ARE UNMATCHED!!
    NOW! Neil is much softer and so adorable, they're in love but romance is not the main topic, Aaron loved Andrew and their relationship is beautiful, BEE IS HERE AND WHENEVER SHE'S EVEN MENTIONED I BAWL!!! Kevin is still annoying, Jean and Neil are bffs, no mafia and Riko, Cass shows up fuck her, I love reading about classical music!! Andrew's plays cello and Neil a violin!! Everything is precious!!

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    The old routine went like this: Andrew was a failed architect. He built walls of iron and paper around his damaged home. He stained the windows a little gold and mostly black, and sometimes, when the light hit just right, a peaceful glow would encase the rooms inside. He tried tending to a spring garden, though sometimes it felt as if the soil was more ash, and the sun barely came out at all, swallowed up by winter's greedy mouth.

    Fingerprints stained his furniture, markings that wouldn't come off completely, even when Andrew had tried time and time again to scrub them clean - sometimes by resorting to worse measures. Scars ran across his hearth, the lights flickered and occasionally blinked out entirely, and there were still corners here and there that he knew were haunted.

    He'd take down his walls for people he thought would take care of his home, for people he'd thought would help him right the crooked paintings and missing family photos rather than break apart the frames in their bare hands.

    When the storms with human names and hands left, he was left with a place that was even messier than before

    Cannot convey enough how much this part of the fic destroyed me like holy shit. What the actual fuck. I love this fic so much! As someone with a background in the performing arts, including classical music, it's usually difficult for me to read performing arts fics cuz they tend to fall into inaccurate Hollywood cliches but this fic!!! It's so good. I especially love the way that the writer writes the characters’ playing their instruments, like how??? Tf???? That's usually my biggest qualm when it comes to music fics (the writing equivalent of being annoyed by obviously faked instrument playing in movies/TV shows…fellow musicians get what I mean) but this writer has managed to do it in a way that's just completely beautiful and suits the pieces that are played so well and I'm in complete awe. So much of what the characters go through with their relationships with music reflect the experience of either myself or other classical musicians that I know and it's just so nice and very specifically relatable to me. I love the inclusions of the classical music recordings. I appreciate them so goddamn much. I know that it's incomplete and will never be completed, given that it's an orphaned fic and all, but I feel as though Andrew's character arc is pretty resolved, so while I'm sad there isn't more, I think what we have is enough

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