#i want tk wrkte them.....

[ashesonthefloor]

oh actually this is a FANTASTIC game cos i have a doc FULL of lyrics i wanna use as titles. so here's a couple: "am i ready for love, or maybe just a best friend", "despite the weather, it gets better", "melancholy soundtrack". maybe i wont tell you what songs they are. unless that would help you determine the vibe? theyre from turning out by ajr, voldemort by with confidence, sometime around midnight by the airborne toxic event. ok i love u from bella

thank you!!! I think it’s really fun and I’m having a BLAST. will b honest I originally just planned on writing uhhh like the ao3 style summaries and then ended up just. writing out a part of the fic and then explaining my idea oops?

but everyone sent me so many angsty ideas Jesus Christ!!!! is everyone okay??? anyway I made ur last one fluffy. also all of them end happily because I said so

send me a song lyric and I’ll write a summary like it’s a fic title

“am I ready for love, or maybe just a best friend”

this one screams Cashton to me. where Calum’s got a massive crush, and confesses, and there’s a lot of internal struggle with Ashton leading up to that as he tries to figure out his sexuality and his feelings towards Calum. he figures it out after he confesses, though, and comes to Calum with an apology - and a declaration of love

“I like you,” Calum said, breath coming out in a long, slow shudder, shoulders relaxing like he was Atlas, with the weight of the world on his shoulders, and someone had just freed him from his burden.

“Yeah, I know. How long have we been friends?” Was Ashton’s reply, not clueing in to the tension, to the somber expression on Calum’s face. He started to understand, though, dread forming in his stomach when Calum shook his head.

“No, Ash.” His voice was too quiet in the silence of the room, the two of them it’s only occupants. Nothing there to stifle the quiet between Calum’s every word. It was deafening. “Not like that.”

“Oh,” he said. What can he say? There was no apology that could make this better. For either of them. He’d only just come to terms with being confused, there hadn’t been enough time to untangle the self hatred, or think about his too-close friendship with Calum that had always bordered the side of not-just-friends. “Oh.” Calum pressed his lips together, not surprised in the slightest. “Cal, I’m sorry-“

Calum shook his head. “Don’t. I don’t need the ‘it’s not you, it’s me’ talk. I know, Ash. I know. And maybe it was selfish. But I just needed to say it.”

“despite the weather, it gets better”

did someone say Lashton with a dash of angst? this one just SCREAMS that you start at the angsty part, or right after, and work your way up to the optimistic ending. I had an...angstier thing I’d written but we’ll go with this one. tldr: Luke’s life falls apart. Ashton helps.

Luke was pretty sure his life was falling apart. It was….miserable, to say the least. His dad had died, and he’d lost his job, and then he’d have to move to the city over away from his mum to get another decent one. Putting the pieces of themselves back together was harder when they were in different places, felt like someone had dumped three puzzles out on the floor and asked him to separate the pieces and put them together.

The only saving grace of the entire thing has been Ashton. He shouldered more than he had to, taking Luke in and helping him put the pieces of himself back together. Figuring out which piece goes with which puzzle, which piece goes where, went a lot smoother with two people and an extra pair of eyes. And maybe - just maybe - despite all the shit the universe decided to put him through. Maybe it’ll end up alright.

“melancholy soundtrack”

okay admittedly this one would probably be a little angstier but I’m DONE with the angst sorry. this one is a college au featuring depressed Michael who’s bored with his life, and stressed out by everything to the point of numbness, who meets positive Calum, who’s full of fun ideas and manages to make Michael see the good side of life. they go on a road trip and fall in love thank u

Michael was…. stuck in a rut. His life was monotonous. He got up and did the same fucking thing every single day, and he did not have it in him to even try to break the stupid fucking routine he had. He was cursing whoever had told him university was a good idea, no matter how much his therapist had said it would benefit him in the long run. This was the short run and he fucking hated it.

Calum changed things, though. Just a little. Like a whirlwind of everything good in life, he showed up in Michael’s life and flipped it completely upside down. He was dragging him out to dog shelters, and the movies, and actually getting him out of bed. After a few months of nothing but the dull, unhappy melancholy soundtrack of his life, he was finally back to feeling somewhat human. So when he suggests a road trip over the summer, who is he to say no?