What If I Told You A Story

Hey traveller, welcome. FicList

[shawnmend-yes]

Would u consider doing a part 4 for when souls collide? I NEED A HAPPY ENDING DAMMIT ITS SO ANGSTYYYY

hey dude,

Thank you so much for reading! Really appreciate it!! I think there is a few more parts? I think there’s like 7? I’m not too sure but if you check my list thing in the bio I think you should be able to find the rest

If there’s not then let me know but I actually don’t write for this blog anymore so I don’t think I’d write a fresh one.

I was super proud of this series tho so thank you so much for engaging with it X

[shawnmend-yes]

A big fat thank you

Hey guys,

I guess in a way this is a retirement notice, from writing for Shawnblr at least.

As you may have noticed I'm no where near as active as I used to be, and part of it's down to simply being busier and part of it is down to just being less into shawn than I used to be. As much as I still respect him and adore his music the things I write about are no longer central to him or to him as a character.

I want to say a massive thank you to the friends that I've made here, the people I see popping up in my notifications and the community in general for being as supportive as you have been and for being with me through that part of my life. I appreciate it and all of you.

I may still be hanging around to generally talk about his music and eventually may redevelop this account to incorporate art work and moodboards related to the music. But the writing chapter of this blog is closed.

It's been a ride 💛

[shawnmend-yes]

Hey! Will there be a pt.2 of April Fools? It was so good!

Hey! There is actually already a part 2 to April fools, and a part 3 I think? (Idk) however I didn't really think the part two or three lived up to the first part so I'm currently trying to rework them. Up to you if you want to wait for the reworked version or read the old ones. (Under discontinued on my list of shit) BUT THANK YOU FOR TAKING THE TIME OUT OF YOUR DAY TO MESSAGE ME. have an awesome day X

[shawnmend-yes]

i uhh don’t like the new song but the video is kinda funny and shawn looks hot ASF ,,,,, the part with his hands on her skirt ??? NUT. did you like it ? what do you think about him and camila working together ? 🍓

Okay here are my ~thoughts

1. I like their voices together in this song, I think they compliment each other really well

2. I like both of their styles individually anyway so for working together it's an obvious yes from me

3. I've only listened to it once but I don't think it's an instant fall in love type song, you know the ones where it's an immediate bop and you just listen over and over again

4. I feel like it's one of those songs you have on in the background to chill for a couple days and then when you know all the words you blast it and you know all the little pitch changes and intricate little patterns

5. It's a growerrrr

6. But at the same time

Oo la la laa

[shawnmend-yes]

ok so i keep casually inviting NB out to things and he keeps saying no and idk what to do i wanna Get To Know Him but i don’t want to be annoying yanno ? he’s v cute and v funny and I Want To Be Friends but like :///// pls send advice 🍓

Ah so, I saw this yesterday and dk if there's more updates but I was in no frame of mind to give any form of advice good or bad SO here we go,Maybe, it doesn't seem like you've known each other that long and one to one meetings can be stressful and intense especially the first time. He may just be cautious that you don't know each other that well as you've said, I'd say keep having a laugh at work and just enjoy spending that time together and let things develop from there organically, in a little while you can always drop another hint or two and maybe once you know each other better it will all work out. Don't stress, don't rush. Just leave the roots to grow X

[shawnmend-yes]

today was Nice Boy’s day off and be came in to get food and i got to see his hair again and uhhh ,,,, i just ,,, he’s gorgeous. it’s been a rough couple days cos we have been SLAMMED and have some snarky customers coming in but like What A Treat-🍓

Snark them right back, ugh th general public are so annoying But yes to floppy curls girl! X

[fifimo]

I want to be in love.

I believe that it’s out there for everyone, and I believe that it comes to everyone in its own time. But I’d be lying if I said that there’s a part of me that aches with a need for love. For it to be here now.

I want to stay up late talking to someone about absolutely nothing even though I’m shattered, to wake up the next morning with a sleepy smile because it doesn’t matter that I only got a couple hours of sleep. Because it was and will never be a waste of time if I spend all my nights talking through the sunrises with them.

I want to walk down the street casually bumping hands with someone before finally, finally curling my fingers around theirs, it doesn’t need to be a cold winters day so we can make pretty excuses about the cold, it can be sweaty and horrible but it’s worth it to be tethered to them. To be together in a moment for no particular reason.

I want to listen to them talk about the most mundane things, the most boring things, hell even physics and smile because this is them and I love them and they love this.

I want to be come across a particularly pretty pine cone and bring it to them or listen to music softly in the car together, but even more i want to scream the lyrics at the top of my lungs because we love this song and laugh until the oxygen feels like it’s burning my lungs to ash because I’m so happy that it hurts. And if I open my mouth any further I’d create a black hole and if they sang any higher they’d cause an avalanche down the mountains.

I want to start on opposite sides of the sofa and gradually sneak closer together because even the sofa feels alittle too far away right now.

Or to build a pathway of pillows across the floor, and try our best to push the other one off first, to be so determined and confident that I’m going to win that I don’t even notice I’m already touching the floor.

I want to hide behind the doorway and pop party poppers to scare them, only to be squirted with a water gun almost immediately.

To pick up a snack from the cupboard and automatically grab their without thinking about it because this is our routine and this is us. We have become so interlinked without realising that if we tried to part we’d become even more entangled. Like the skipping rope at breaktime that you spent the entire break trying to detangke until you’re positive that it’s glued together with the blood of gods.

I want to sit in the car in the rain because we tried to go exploring on the wrong day and it’s freezing but the thought of being stuck in your company for that little while longer makes this bearable, and the sound of the rain lulling us into silence is the best song I’ve heard in years.

I want to be curled up somewhere reading my book while you do your own thing for hours, barely saying anything except occasionally reading you my favourite sentences because your here, your always here and you listen.

I just want to be in love.

[shawnmend-yes]

also bb i LOVE the new chatty blurb we’re in our feels BIG time over it. missed u writing sm !! no pressure at all to keep writing but know that it talented and your work is amazing !!! -🍓

Thank you so much!! My brains a little fried from A levels, but I'm done in two weeks and I really wanna write again, maybe I'll just send them to you lol X

[shawnmend-yes]

CALL A MEDIC i saw Nice Boy at a work meeting like 20 minutes ago and he wasn’t in our uniform (neither was i lol) AND HE HAS A FULL HEAD OF THICK WAVES HIDDEN UNDER OUR WORK CAPS I HAD NO IDEA I MIGHT LITERALLY DIE ITS SO ATTRACTIVE. -🍓

CURLS CURLS CURLS AHHHH adorable I ship you guys so much

[shawnmend-yes]

Idk if you guys are gonna like this but I haven't written orposted in ages and I cba to write an actual story so Imma just do it as the conversation snippets I have in my head right now ok thanks cool bye

Day 1

*incoming call shawn*

"Hey,"

"Hey-"

"I got the bubbles"

"..."

"You know for the bubble bath paddling pool, I think if we add it in sections we should-"

"I need to tell you something."

"Sounds ominous, continue"

"She told me she doesn't want me to be friends with you anymore -"

"Ok. I understand"

*beep beep*

Day 4 [with alessia]

"More brownies?"

"Yes."

"How many are you going to make before you grow some balls and tell me what happened?"

"Enough to fill me like a bowling ball so I can roll myself off a cliff and pop"

"Do I get some first?"

"No"

Day 11[some group event is happening with him and a bunch of people]

*Incoming call alessia*

"Where are you"

"I'm sick"

"Sick?"

"Yes. I'm like, a broken fountain"

"Right."

"It's projectile."

"So should I come home?"

"No! ... it's like a... vomit slip and slide here"

"Now that's an image I didn't need."

"Mmm"

"This is the second time, im not covering for you forever"

"I know, I know I just, I can't do it. I'm not going to force him to be in my life, and I'd never try and get in the way of his happiness but it still fucking sucks, you know? It's not like he said I was good enough, but it feels like it. Or, well it feels like I just wasn't as good as her."

"I know,"

"Yeah"

"Want me to throat punch him?"

"As if you could"

"Hey I got skills you don't know about"

"Course you do Hun"

" (muffled) I gotta go... you gonna be ok?"

"Yeah"

*beep beep*

*incoming call alessia*

"Hello?"

"It's me"

"Don't hang up! Please"

"Are you still there?"

"Mm"

"I just, you haven't been answering my calls, or my texts, or DM's or snaps or literally anything and I don't, I can't,"

"You said we couldn't be friends"

"I didn't"

"You did. You said she asked you to-"

"But-"

"Stop being friends with me."

"Yeah, but you didn't let me finish so i"

"Why would I? It's bad enough hearing it once, you don't get to do it twice. Look I really don't wanna talk about this okay? I get it, I do, I know you were falling for her. And I'm happy for you, I just can't, I can't watch it right now. So I muted you, on everything. "

"Can you just-"

"I just. I gotta say. I know love is important to you. I get that but,-"

"Fucking hell, shut up. I said no."

"- I just don't think you deserve to be told what to do by someone."

"I. Said. No."

"No?"

"No."

"So, we're still... friends?"

"Depends, are you gonna unmute me or?"

"I mean, I can't say I miss the constant photos of the guitars"

"Hey"

"Or the weird ventilator machine."

"Oh because your paddling pool updates are just so incredible"

"Obviously"

"Did it work?"

"Nope... I think I'm gonna try it with more bottles"

"More?"

"14."

[shawnmend-yes]

idk it feels weird like,,, 2 soon but he’s cool and he seems like he’d be chill to be friends w !! he laughs at my jokes. 2day i asked someone if they ever got those urges to like, drive off a bridge or similar and she referred me to a psychiatrist but he just laughed n offered an ambulance when one passed the window. i was embarrassed because my coworkers were that one gif of the guy w the ??? bro what face and i was like ,,,, this is normal i swear !! but he laughed 🍓

I like him, keep him BEFRIEND, confidence is the key I say go for it He seems like fun and like he'd be a good person to have around X

[shawnmend-yes]

okay so i work in a restaurant and nice boy let’s me practice making food when he gets his employee meal and he doesn’t care if i miss it up BUT HER GETS THE MOST COMPLICATED THINGS ON PURPOSE and we didn’t talk today while i was making his food because i was concentrating so much but he showed me this trick earlier n he was like Gentle™️ ab it n i was like Melting™️ he’s so sweet n goofy bUt now i’m 2 shy 2 ask if he wants to see the film w my pals cos like -🍓

This is adorable, I stan, completely This boy is like a bakery fiction dreammmm X

[shawnmend-yes]

nice boy got off work just as i was clocking in but we had a lil chat ab films and idk i might invite him to see a new one coming out next week w my friends and maybe we’ll be friends after haha feeling a lil spicy 🤪🤪🤪-🍓

Yes yes yes we stab a confident queen and we adore new friendships, go for it! X

[shawnmend-yes]

this nice boy at work has this playlist i always tease him ab and today he switched it up and there was SM playing and for like a solid 5 minutes i had to tell myself that just because he’s nice n like SM doesn’t mean i want to date him 😂😂😂 -🍓

D a t e H i m Kidding Sort of Not really

[shawnmend-yes]

I've been doing lots of things I'm scared of recently and I'm proud of me

[shawnmend-yes]

hiiiii omg have u heard the new demarco album ? thoughts ? 🍓

hiiii, Ah I've never heard anything by them but I'll go listen!! For you! X

[mottlemoth]

Gods grant me the megalithic balls of those people who only comment on something to say, “I’d have preferred this story to be different.”

Your fanfiction authors aren’t waiters in a fancy restaurant. You can’t request they shuffle off back to the kitchen and ask the chef to make this dish here but more like you prefer.

Your fanfiction authors are friends who’ve brought homemade dishes to a free potluck supper. 

If you try something and it’s too spicy, move on. If you try something and think it’s overcooked, move on. If you take the foil off something, have a sniff and think, “Hoo boy, not for me,” don’t go find the person who made it so you can tell them. Just zip it, move on, and have something else from the table. There’s plenty to choose from.

“But I’m trying to help you improve your skills.” No, Karen, you’re whining because you like sausage rolls and I brought lamb madras. Shut the hell up.

[jenniferrpovey]

It is, however, perfectly legitimate to complain because the person didn’t label the bowl properly and you have now broken out in hives.

(Otherwise known as content warnings).

I love this analogy, just had to extend it slightly ;).

[technicallyoneofakind]

It is also perfectly legitimate to offer suggestions for specific portions of the fic that feel awkward in pacing and such. You get the flavor the writer was going for and appreciate it, but you think it would taste even better if they added a little more or less of that salt or oregano earlier or later on in the preparation.  

Suggestions about technique are lovely and welcome- just don’t be an ass about it. 

[mottlemoth]

Adding, with respect, that if you’re going to offer suggestions to other people at the potluck fanfiction supper:

1) You better be a decent cook yourself.

2) You better be certain they didn’t mean to make it like that. They might actually like their dish that sweet/spicy/crunchy around the edges, and what you’ve decided is a mistake is in fact their preference.

3) You might want to restrict your suggestions to those people who approach you and ask, “Hey, you know about cooking. Can I get an opinion? Do you think I maybe made this too salty?”

4) Be sure of what you actually want to do here. To help a stranger improve their craft? (And, well… who asked you?) Or do you just want to show off that you know what you’re talking about?

5) If you only bother speaking to other guests to explain to them how you think they messed up, I ain’t inviting you again.

6) If someone’s a new cook, just starting out, or nervous about sharing what they’ve made… shut up and eat it. Tell them what you enjoyed and what they got right. They’ll figure out the negatives themselves through practice. It is 100% not cool to make someone feel like they can’t cook, can’t write and shouldn’t bother trying again, just because you’re experienced enough to spot the mistakes they made. We all cooked up some absolute flaming atrocities when we were starting out. People ate it, smiled, gave us a thumbs-up and let us keep learning. Don’t take that away from someone. 

(And yeah, do label your damn bowls. If the sign says it’s super sweet apple pie and I cut into it to find steaming hot daddy kink, I will not be pleased.)