the present and the distance [master post.]

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Title: The Present and the Distance
Author: lolab
Rating: NC-17
Pairings: Panic: Ryden-heavy, hints of everyone, eventual GSF, a bit of Brendon/Shane
Word Count: ~153,000
Warnings: Minor character death, violence, angst. Also, angst. Did I mention ANGST.
Disclaimer: They belong to Pete  each other  the island  themselves, not me. Fiction, I hope to god.  Any similarities to Lost are incidental, as I have never seen the show.
Summary: There is no way to summarize this that doesn't sound ridiculous, so I leave you with my original cheesy!blurb(tm): There are 17,508 islands in Indonesia, about 6,000 of which are inhabited. On August 31, 2008, returning from an Australian tour in the middle of the year's most violent storm to date, a plane carrying Panic at the Disco loses power, veers off course, and crashes into one of the remaining 11,508 islands. This is their story.
Notes (July '08): PLANEWRECKFIC HAS ARRIVED (some may also recognize this from the coconut milk/lube jokes). Initial thanks to falling_words, iamiamamachine, and Keri, without whom this would not be happening, as well as everyone else who demanded/begged for this. Title from Hawthorne Heights. Please refer to the soundtrack listing as indicated throughout.

 

Soundtrack:
 
1. May It Be - Enya
2. Lead Sails (And a Paper Anchor) - Atreyu
3. Holiday - Boys Like Girls
4. The Sound of Silence - Simon & Garfunkel
5. When September Ends - Green Day

6. The Minstrel's Prayer - Cartel

7. The Kids Are All Fucked Up - Cobra Starship

8. Tongue Tied - October Fall
9. Rescue Me - Hawthorne Heights
10. Stolen - Dashboard Confessional

11. A Lonely September - Plain White T's
12. Somewhere Only We Know - Keane
13. Existentialism on Prom Night - Straylight Run

14. This is Our Town - We the Kings
15. Coda: Lead Sails (And a Paper Anchor) - Atreyu

16. Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) - Green Day
17. What a Catch, Donnie (acoustic) - Fall Out Boy

18. So, In This Hour - The Rocket Summer
19: Moonlight Sonata - Beethoven

20. Konstantine - Something Corporate

 21. Wake the Sun - The Matches

 

 

Other:

- The PWF Broken Hearts Club, a support/discussion group created after chapter 9 at the suggestion of  ginsatonic.
- A Brendon/Shane mini-picspam to accompany Chapter 1.
- A collection of photos I found during my research; thought I'd share to help everyone visualize the setting.
- Stuff I was listening to when I wrote.
- Something  ginsatonic made me at the beach.
- The map from chapter 7, by request, and courtesy of yours truly.  Heh.
- Chapter 1 ~artwork.
- Artwork by aspiring2be.
- My PWF Photobucket album, including all the awesome icons  ryden_fan made.
- The PWF Comic Strip, courtesy of livinglifeloud.

 

Chapters:

Prologue   |   Chapter 1   |   Chapter 2   |   Chapter 3   |   Chapter 4

Chapter 5   |   Chapter 6   |   Chapter 7   |   Chapter 8   |   Chapter 9

Chapter 10   |   Chapter 11   |   Chapter 12   |   Chapter 13   |   Chapter 14

Chapter 15   |   Chapter 16   |   Chapter 17   |   Chapter 18   |   Chapter 19

Epilogue   |   Acknowledgments & Notes

Comments

[lolab.livejournal.com]

hahahaah that's awesome! fic has made me late for class before too. XD we're special. i'm so glad you're enjoying it! keep reading, it gets better. :)

[wckdsstrs-87.livejournal.com]

Well of course we're special!! XD

I was sitting there not wanting to look at the time because I didn't want to have to leave XD and of course everyone saw me in my car and kept interrupting asking if I was leaving so they could take my spot. Of course not!! I'm just indulging in some magnificent fic while avoiding a boring class on some-or-the-other Law. If you want my spot, then wake up early and come here sooner! And please don't interrupt. XD
I hate it when people interrupt me in the middle of a chapter. Somehow, it loses a bit of its magic and I have to start it again to get myself back into it. I hate it. Reading should be sacred. Specially when it's a fic.

I can't wait for it to get 'better', seriously. I mean...can it really get better? XD It's pretty much reached the top level of awesomeness by now!

[lolab.livejournal.com]

ahaahahaha.

i meant better in the sense that it gets less angsty... for awhile, at least. ;) working on chapter 8 as we speak.

[wckdsstrs-87.livejournal.com]

Oooh good then! Angst is okay for a while, and then I get a little depressed by it and just want there to be rainbows and fluffy clouds and happiness all around.
You go work on chapter 8. I'm going to bed, since I have class at 9 am and it's currently 11.39 pm and I've been all around all day. I need sleep XD