Title: Oh Be Joyful
Author: blackwayfarers
Pairing: Jesse/Andrew, Andrew/Emma
Fandom: The Social Network RPF
Rating: R
Word Count: 19,447
Warnings: small town teenagers AU, drug and alcohol use.
Summary: Jesse has always felt older than he should. Like he tripped over some important years, slept through them one night and woke up rusty and cold and out of place. But now, with Andrew's hair all fluffy and wind-blown, with Emma singing a tired pop song at the top of her lungs, with the air smelling like cut grass and hot tar and kicked up dirt, it's kind of the other way around and Jesse can't believe he's ever been anything but seventeen.
Author's Notes: thanks to the unimaginably supportive th_esaurus, who is basically a living saint. Also thanks to liketheroad for her beta and sarcasm. Title from a Matthew Good song.

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Title: With a Rebel Yell
Pairing: Charles/Erik
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 20,928
Warnings: excessive alcohol/tobacco use, themes of racism/classism, dickishness abounds, perpetual nudity, AU.
Summary: Brideshead Revisited AU, no powers. "I know," Charles murmurs, now putting a hand over Erik's books, closing them gently, easing the pen out of his hands. Charles tilts his head just so, looking up at Erik through his eyelashes. "I know you want nothing more than a glass of expensive champagne and to sit by the river and to smoke a hundred cigarettes and burn the day to its foundations. I know you do. Every boy does."
Author's Notes: I would be dead without th_esaurus and her beta. I would be dead in the ground goodbye.


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Title: all my friends are bad kids
Author: blackwayfarers
Pairing: Jesse Eisenberg/Andrew Garfield
Fandom: The Social Network RPF
Rating: R
Word Count: 20,045
Warnings: mild angst, road trip shenanings, the Beat Generation, tennis.
Summary: Cruising at eighty miles down an empty highway, Jesse sees signs for cities he didn't even know existed. It even smells like it should, like somehow Andrew promised a road trip and the world decided to deliver; the slight burn of rubber, hot-baked road tar, the dust of wheat and sweet grass. It's like living someone else's cinematic life. It's like Dorothy landing in Oz and the whole world suddenly going color.
Author's Notes: I cannot participate in a fandom without writing at least one road trip fic. Thanks to the amazing th_esaurus, who saved this story a thousand times and helped with every word of every line. Also thanks to liketheroad and littledivinity for their superhero betas. Title from Black Lips' "Bad Kids".

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Title: Not a Through Street
Author: blackwayfarers
Artist: th_esaurus
Pairing: Jesse Eisenberg/Andrew Garfield
Fandom: The Social Network RPF
Rating: R
Word Count: 25,639 words
Warnings: so many cats, domesticity, musical theatre.
Summary: The air is thick with that familiar city stench; sharp diesel fumes, street vendor meat, smoke, and something metallic like the sea. Andrew breathes it in as he props a cigarette between his lips before cupping his hands around a match. It's not hard to immediately love it here, feel like he's been sucked into a cocoon of light and noise and the strange privacy of this boy. Even Jesse's angular awkwardness is somehow just like Andrew pictured it, wanted it, Jesse tip-toeing around his own apartment like he's afraid of waking someone up.
Author's Notes: sometimes you just need to write a story about best friends living together in an apartment with cats and never ever wanting to leave or deal with the real world and also sometimes kissing, you know? Cannot exaggerate how much I owe th_esaurus, for her amazing art and her betaing skills and her awesome face. Also thanks to littledivinity and liketheroad for their betas.

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Title: bright but haunted age
Pairing: Jesse Eisenberg/Andrew Garfield
Fandom: The Social Network RPF
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 9375
Warnings: strip clubs, sadness, Armie Hammer.
Summary: It's a thing that normal people do, Jesse tells himself. When you lose, you go with your friends and laugh about it over beer. Then you vomit in the streets and call your exgirlfriend at three in the morning and drop your wallet in the toilet, just like normal people do. He knows he can fake it, at least for a couple hours. He can if Andrew gives him the lead, that little trailing edge, those golden hints about how to be happy in public. Andrew has always been pretty good at that.
Author's Notes: a life-time supply of thank yous and pad thai for th_esaurus for helping me through this, and liketheroad for her super-hero beta. Consider this my first attempt at creating an Armie Hammer Appreciation Club. Title comes from British Sea Power's "Atom"

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