ok but can we pLEASE discuss heaven is under our feet. it's my favorite fic ever, even topping throam. it makes me sob with joy. i bought and read actual Thoreau because of it.
OMG YES YES YES YES F-YES
Heaven Is Under Our Feet is beautiful- mostly because I already read Thoreau for my Intro to English course and I thought he was a prick, but then reading HIUOF it gave me this mad appreciation for what he was saying because I finally got it. Through the context of a super introspective Andy.
I don’t know if I’d call it my favorite, I still have a long list of fics to read since I’m literally so behind on bandom. I also have mad love for A Little Infamy from a trope perspective and Patrick appreciation <3. I think if anything was my top favourite of fic-level-fics it’d be You’re a Good Man, Andy Hurley as I mentioned before- but for ‘make this a real book and let me buy it’ literature level fic, OMG HEAVEN IS UNDER OUR FEET. I think I’ve read it 5 times through so far, and I might have to read it another two times tonight.
But the characterization makes me squeeeeeee. Good characterization regardless of reality is what got me reading throam (which holy shit can i buy with switched names so I don’t get side eyes on the bus, i spent a week straight reading that brick holy shit)- but yeah.
HIUOF has super painful moments but it’s also so sweet and thoughtful. The whole way HIUOF is written has this really well paced and thought out vibe. Like you see where the author is going, where they want to go- but the best laid plans have no accounting for emotions and stupidity and fear and decisions which seem like a good idea, but they really don’t.
The entire scene in the first fc house when everything is partially frozen just makes my heart ache. The watching snow melt as well, but generally the whole fic is so delibrate about it’s motions that you can’t help but fall in love. I like Andtrick, but if I didn’t I would probably still love this fic to death.
I wish there was more of it- considering it’s from 2009 though I don’t think there was ever more planned. It does tell a complete story so it’s not too bad.
Have you read Fngs fr th Mmrs by them as well? It’s Heaven’s little crackfic sibling and I love it too- not the same way, but chaosmanor is brillant.