Blues in the Bod [5/5]

( Andrew turned inwards. It wasn't so hard. )

Blues in the Bod [4/5]

( In the end neither Andrew nor Carey made costumes. )

5/5

Blues in the Bod [3/5]

( It was only second week, but by the end of it Andrew felt like he’d been in Oxford forever. )

4/5

Blues in the Bod [2/5]

( As Nick Cave said, GET READY FOR LOVE... )

3/5

Blues in the Bod [1/5]

( Welcome to Merton, new exchange students! )

2/5

Blues in the Bod [masterpost]

Title: Blues in the Bod
Author: extemporally
Fandom: The Social Network RPS
Pairing: Andrew Garfield/Jesse Eisenberg
Rating: PG-13
Wordcount: 34,000
Warnings: Alcohol. Lots of it.
Summary: A. Garfield's a messed-up, confused fresher at Oxford. Enter Jesse: messed-up, confused exchange student from New York...

A/N: I started writing this on the 15th of August and two weeks later I looked up and it was done. I'm still not quite sure what happened, but I have to say that tremendous thanks are due to oddishly, without whom this undefinable thing would certainly never have happened: thank you, bb, for the countless handholdings, for allowing me to email you with words that made no sense, for your flawless betas (your many rounds of those), and for being an all round greatest person. I love you. ♥

Next, a big thank you to forochel, who let me quiz her endlessly about Jay Chou and Wang Leehom (yes! they appear in this story! EVERYONE appears in this story at some point) and told me to fix my commas, and was wonderfully acerbic.

And lastly, thank you to everyone who ever cheered me on, on Twitter and LJ (my freaking out is multi-platform). Love to you all.

This story is a love letter to a) Oxford b) Andrew Garfield and c) (British, American, & some) actor RPF.

part one | part two | part three | part four | part five

twice is nice but three times is just right.

brb going to California for three weeks! This entry will push the number of times I've posted today to 7; for that, I apologise, but I really wanted to review these books before I left.

Corridor, by Alfian Sa'at.

( twelve short stories about present-day Singapore: kind of weird putting myself back at the start of Alfian's bibliography )

Earlier, by Eleanor Wong.

( second volume of short plays. okay, couldn't really get into the more intellectual conceits. )

Nazi Literature in the Americas, by Roberto Bolano.

( Roberto Bolano writes like how I want to live. #startjudgingnow )

Collected Plays One, by Alfian Sa'at | Trilogy, by Haresh Sharma | Weetzie Bat, Witch Baby, Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys, Missing Angel Juan, & Baby Be-Bop, by Francesca Lia Block | Bloomability, by Sharon Creech | Sex Kittens and Horn Dawgs Fall In Love, by Maryrose Wood | High Fidelity, by Nick Hornby | Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China, by Leslie T. Chang | The Boy Next Door, by Irene Sabatini | Singapore Shifting Boundaries: Social Change in the 21st Century, edited by William S.W. Lim, Sharon Siddique, & Tan Dan Feng | The Frenzy, by Francesca Lia Block | Goodnight Mister Tom, by Michelle Magorian | The Spirit Catches You And Then You Fall Down, by Anne Fadiman | Saraswati Park, by Anjali Joseph | Eston, by Stella Kon | Rape: A Love Story, by Joyce Carol Oates | Rice Bowl, by Suchen Christine Lim | The Tipping Point, by Malcolm Gladwell | Renaissance Singapore? Economy, Culture, and Politics, edited by Kenneth Paul Tan | Miss Seetoh in the World, by Catherine Lim | Free Food for Millionaires, by Min Jin Lee | Jointly & Severably, by Eleanor Wong | Wills & Secession, by Eleanor Wong | Mergers & Accusations, by Eleanor Wong | GASPP: A Gay Anthology of Singaporean Poetry & Prose, edited by Ng Yi-Sheng | Rebecca, by Daphne du Maurier | Gone Case, by Dave Chua | Sex and the City, by Candace Bushnell | The Waters & the Wild, by Francesca Lia Block | Growing Up: Getting Along in the Sixties, by Tisa Ng | Oreo, by Fran Ross | Caucasia, by Danzy Senna | Chavs: The Demonisation of the Working Class, by Owen Jones | Racism: A Very Short Introduction | Modern China: A Very Short Introduction, by Rana Mitter | Feminism: A Very Short Introduction, by Margaret Waters | A Game of Thrones, by George R. R. Martin | Tam Lin, by Pamela Dean | Sons of the Yellow Emperor, by Lynn Pan | Scapegoat: Why We Are Failing Disabled People, by Katharine Quarmby | Tipping The Velvet, by Sarah Waters | Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro | The Lantern Bearers, by Rosemary Sutcliff | The Silver Branch, by Rosemary Sutcliff | The Eagle of the Ninth, by Rosemary Sutcliff | The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald, edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli | Brick Lane, by Monica Ali | The Savage Detectives, by Robert Bolano | Homage to Catalonia, by George Orwell | Cat On A Hot-Tin Roof, by Tennessee Williams | Flapper: A Madcap Story of Sex, Style, Celebrity, and the Women Who Made America Modern, by Joshua Zeitz | Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit, by Jeanette Winterson | The Moon By Night, by Madeleine L'Engle | To Live, by Yu Hua | Into The Wild, by Jon Krakauer | The Next Competitor, by K.P. Kincaid | Raffles Place Ragtime, by Phillip Jeyaretnam | Bella Tuscany: The Sweet Life in Italy, by Frances Mayes | Mao's Last Dancer, by Li Cunxin | Marie, Dancing, by Carolyn Meyer | Man Walks Into A Room, by Nicole Krauss | How To Be Good, by Nick Hornby