#MIDNIGHTS = SOLANGELO ALBUM

[wrongcaitlyn]

Do you have any fame aus or anything else that inspired you for the dear reader series?

no fame au's, unfortunately :( i am a BIG fan of fame au's, however, so i do have some recs! but the inspiration for dear reader was largely just me listening to my music and forming an au around it - one playlist turned into two, which turned into seven, which turned into 16, etc - and then i had a full au plot in my head😭

but for recs!! i bookmark pretty much every fame au i read just because i love them so much. they're definitely my niche i just cannot stop putting these people on red carpets - and it's always been this waySDKJF

you'd be paranoid too (if everyone was out to get you) by harrowhark is a catradora fame au (popstar!catra) and it was one of the first fics i ever read on ao3 and literally changed my brain chemistry. now this was like 3-4 years ago, so it's been a while since i've read it, even though when i was in my shera hyperfixation i re-read it like six times i think - if you ARE a shera fan, i would 100% recommend this one, i still remember how incredible it was! did it inspire the dear reader-verse specifically? no, they're very different in terms of plot/characters, but i feel like if i'm talking about fics that inspired me this one's essential😭

everyone wake up new jinx album just dropped by Drindrak is similar to the first one in that it is a fame au that just made me love the trope so much, even though it is much more crack than angst, unlike you'd be paranoid😭it's an arcane fic where jinx... becomes a popstar? except it's like, set in runeterra and vi is still in jail and all of that. like. I DONT KNOW HOW TO EXPLAIN HOW MUCH I FUCKING LOVE ITSKDF i swear i just love a good crack fic every now and then, and this did it WITH fame?? i love. and so yeah, looking back on it, i actually do think it inspired dear reader a bit in the way that jinx was absolutely chaotic (will i ever stop on the jinx nico parallels? i wrote a goddamn solangelo timebomb au already but i'm still going to be pointing it out)

he was seen on occasion (pacing the rocks, staring out at the midnight sea) by stargirltv is a solangelo fame au!! and i know that i already rec'd it. but like. you have to know how much i LOVE this fic and though, once again, the plots are pretty different - but also similar in the sense of the character dynamics! so yeah tbh i'd say i probably did, unintentionally, take a lot of inspo from this, just because i do love it so much, and it was one of the only fame au's for solangelo that i had read (i've read much more now, ofc, seeing as i stalk the fame and social media tags like a hawk)

and then the last thing i feel like i have to mention when talking about the inspiration for this fic is the book, red white and royal blue. i think i mentioned in the first chapter of talk your talk's end note that this entire au?? started off as a rwrb crossover in my head. nico's age was calculated with alex's in mind. will going to college at nyu was because i originally planned for alex and him to idk meet at a class or smth. cecil was originally a law student (another ironic thing for a child of hermes, and yet i ended up making him work towards cyber security lmfao) just so he could somehow become friends with alex. i was fully emerged in this universe where somehow these friend groups collided, and i fully orchestrated nico as a popstar just so that they'd have double the fandoms to go crazy about it. so does it really have to do anything with rwrb in terms of plot?? no, but alex and henry are entirely to thank for this!!!😭

i know that i kind of took a bit of a strange route for a popstar au in talk your talk so it doesn't really match the usual trope? like person is already famous -> meets someone, either famous or not -> fight to get together bc of the press -> some sort of leaked photo of them -> they choose each other in the end. and dont get me wrong, i will eat up that trope any day, but i do really like what i did with talk your talk! i love any form of fame au, and so it's always just fun to see different spins on the common tropes :)

thank you for the ask!!

[thebluesideofmyworld]

Solangelo Singer/Musician!AU

Somehow ever since Troye Sivan dyed his hair into blond I can’t stop thinking about this AU where Will was a famous pop singer and Nico was that indie musician so while I don’t have the time to really write something decent about it, I am just gonna put what I had in mind here (and yes all the songs stated here are Troye’s songs. I love him. Sue me)

Will was a famous pop singer who has released two albums.  Grew up in a small town in Tennessee, he started his career by covering some songs on YouTube and he gained a massive amount of followers.  Lou Ellen, the daughter of a recording company’s CEO  convinced her father to offer him a contract.

Nico was an indie musician who played guitar and piano and he didn’t really care about what is happening in the entertainment industry. For him it’s the music that mattered and not who sang it. He wrote some songs but often he asked his friends, either Piper or his sister Hazel to sing the song that he wrote where he would record it and uploaded it on YouTube. He only sang a few of his own songs, the very personal ones. When he uploaded the songs, he only used pictures that Hazel drew so none of his followers really knew how he looked like. In fact, no one even knew what his real name was

Nico liked to write his songs in a small coffee shop that Jason owned, because Jason would let him stay for as long as he wanted. The coffee shop opened until 2 AM anyway.

One night Will was walking on the street with his hoodie on, somehow missing the life in a country side. It was laaaate at night, almost midnight, because that was the time when he could wander on the streets without being recognized by his fans

He found this small coffee shop only two blocks away from his fancy apartment and something just made him pushed the door to come inside.

Will ordered his drink and took a seat on one of the arm chairs. He noticed a notebook on the small table in front of the armchair.

Out of curiosity, Will picked up the notebook and flipped through the pages, finding lines of words, beautifully crafted into some sort of poetry

Will was reading some sort of poetry on the last page about how someone wanting to see the stars and not wanting to say goodbye to someone else when the sound of someone clearing his throat made Will look up and he found a guy with dark hair and a pair of dark brown eyes

Nico found a guy was flipping through his books where he jotted down his ideas for new songs. Nico just finished writing the lyrics for the song that he wrote for Bianca because even though Bianca passed away 12 years ago because of cancer Nico still missed her every day and one of his fondest memory about her was star gazing together where Bianca would tell him about the constellations and stories about those constellations. The blond guy looked up and for a second Nico forgot how to breathe and why he was there because damn those eyes were so blue, too blue

The blond asked him whether Nico was writing poetry or something and Nico usually did not tell people about what he has been doing and especially not to strangers but those eyes and there was just something, something about this blond guy that made Nico tell him that no, he wrote songs and a stupid wide smile that was just so ridiculously bright just bloomed on the blond’s face

Before Nico knew it he already sat down in front of the blond whose name was Will and they started talking about the songs that Nico was working on and hey what a coincidence they had the same app on their phones to make some music

They compared the tracks that they have recorded to each other. Will found Nico’s music to be something refreshing and Nico somehow just fell in love with Will’s singing voice that was just so soft and that was exactly the kind of song that he wanted for this one song

They did not realize that they had spent hours talking about music until Jason showed up and tell him that he was so sorry and he did not want to interrupt but it was like fifteen minutes to two am and he was closing the shop.

 Despite the fact that it was far past midnight both Nico and Will were really on fire about this one thing that they felt would be very likely become like, a real song if they just keep continue working on it 

 So when Will suggested that they continue working in his apartment because it was not really far from the coffee shop

They went to Will’s apartment and spent a few more hours when they finish a piece of song complete with the lyrics.

It was 8.30 in the morning when they fell asleep, Will on the couch and Nico on the armchair, papers scattered all around them

Will woke up in late afternoon and Nico was gone but on the paper where they had the last version of the piece that they were working on was Nico’s handwriting: That was fun. Maybe we should do it again. His phone number was scribbled on the paper.

Two or three days later, Nico was totally not thinking about Will when he was playing some random notes on his guitar

Then he got a phone call from Will asking whether Nico would be available in the evening because they need to have some serious talk

Nico was freaking out a bit with the serious talk but he showed up in Jason’s coffee shop where he found Will was already waiting with someone named Cecil that he introduced as the person doing Will’s legal stuffs and that kind of stuffs

Basically Will wanted to release the song that they wrote together as his newest single so he asked Nico whether he would be okay with that and if he said yes than he would continue with the song writing process along with the legal stuff and other shit like that

Nico didn’t instantly say yes, besides, he was still kind of shocked to realize that Will was a real actual pop singer who had released an album last year with some singles topping the chart but Will said it was okay Nico could think about it for as long as he wanted to

But three days later Nico texted him and just said okay let’s do this

So they met again and the next few weeks Nico and Will spent so much time together writing that song

Two months later, Will released The Fault in Our Stars as his newest single. His fans were ecstatic and the fact that Will wrote a line where he thanked ‘the angel who came to me in a dark night and bring a new light into my life’

After the single was released, Will and Nico still spent time together. Yes they were still write new songs but they’re also like hanging out like playing video games in Will’s apartment or watching TV series or whatever 

It was almost scary for Will to realize that spending time with Nico had become something that he was really looking forward to. It was like it had been always been too long since the last time he met Nico before they could meet again. This realization that hit Will ended up with Will writing Wild as the his next single

One day they went somewhere and went to a photo booth and did some silly pictures together then they drove around the city and talked about wouldn’t it be nice if they could just go anywhere in the world because hey they were still young anyway right? The euphoria of going out together for the whole day ended up with them writing Youth

One night, somehow they talked about their past, including about the first time they found their sexualities and how they had struggled about it (well, Will was born and raised in a quite conservative family and Nico was born and raised in a Catholic family in Italy), they ended up writing Heaven together

On another night, Will told Nico about Jake Mason, his ex-boyfriend that he left before he started his career in the music industry. He told Nico how sometimes he felt guilty about him leaving Jake just like that and while Will was moving forward with his career Jake was still there in their quiet hometown and yeah Will felt guilty but at the same time he didn’t think he and Jake would work out as a couple anyway. Nico encouraged him to write a song about it and hey, they ended up writing The Good Side.

On another occasion, Will was having a mental breakdown because he was so so tired with all the pressure in his career and Nico came to calm him down and just held him close and talked softly to him, quietly whispered at Will and ran his hand soothingly on Will’s back. Nico talked to Will about some small simple things in life that made life beautiful and he asked Will about what were the things that Will remembered the most about his childhood and what were things that Will liked, just some simple basic things in life but those little things that could put a smile on your face and just made you feel at ease. The next day, after Will felt better, they started writing Ease

(No it’s not finished yet but it’s past midnight already and I could barely keep my eyes open but I still have some headcanon about this AU because I already had what songs that Nico would be uploaded on his channel that he wrote about his relationship with Will and also how they wrote for him  together and WIll wrote Bite because gosh he really wanted Nico to kiss him and how they write My My My but maybe I’ll do it next time and MAYBE just MAYBE I am going to wrote a Solangelo series based on this AU)