#road trip recs

[pressedink]

hello tumblrland friends :,)

i’m about to embark on a roadtrip of the cross country variety and i am in dire need of things to listen to!!!

please send your fav songs / artists / playlists / albums / podcasts / audiobooks i want it ALL

<3

[anna-scribbles]

particularly inspired moment from ch 2 of mine and @sha-nwa‘s new enemies au fic call it even 🫶

[steddieunderdogfics]

Take the Money and Run by thisapplepielife

@thisapplepielife

Rating: Explicit

143,931 words, 22/22 chapters

Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply

Tags: Alternate Universe - Future, Alternate Universe - Everyone Lives/Nobody Dies, Gay Eddie Munson, Bisexual Steve Harrington, Recreational Drug Use, Eddie Munson Lives, Hurt/Comfort, Not Canon Compliant, Post-Season/Series 04, Alternate Universe - Road Trip, Mutual Pining, Idiots in Love, Good Uncle Wayne Munson, Cover Art, Canon-Typical Violence, Period-Typical Homophobia, Friends to Lovers, Getting to Know Each Other, Road Trips, Internalized Homophobia, Slow Burn, Falling In Love, Top Eddie Munson, Bottom Steve Harrington, Switching, Angst with a Happy Ending, Happy Ending, optional future epilogue with kids, can be read without the epilogue

Summary:

“Rules. Like, there’ll be no eating in my car. You’re not driving my car. No heavy metal,” Steve keeps listing, “you’re not picking up women and fucking them in m-” “I'll try to control myself,” Eddie interrupts with a quip, a smirk. Fucking girls in Steve’s car, or anywhere else for that matter, isn’t going to be an issue, unless something pretty fundamental shifts in him. Steve continues, completely ignoring Eddie, “You’ll wipe your feet. You’re not dragging dirt all over my car. No hitchhikers. No cutesy road games. No smoking in the car. I’m not paying for all the gas.” “Ass, gas or grass, got it,” Eddie says, like he's taking this very seriously. He is not taking this seriously. Or: Road trip!

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[pink-evilette]

if you like Hick you should watch American Honey ♡

♡ themes/motifs ♡

~ young girls running away from their neglectful families

~ road trip, american summer

~ coming of age, firsts and love/heartbreak

[mediumgayitalian]

im just curious but are there any songs that like really remind you of solangelo? Like the kind that have you rotating them in your head while you’re listening to it

YES YES IM SO GLAD YOU ASKED IVE BEEN ASSEMBLING A PLAYLIST. it is here. it’s small for now but on it is included:

- beautiful things by benson boone, which is a very will about nico song. i’ve been imaging a scenario where will opens for one of his mom’s concerts with this song :D

- july by noah cyrus, to me this is a sad nico to will song

- hair tossed, arms crossed by mark ambor, OH THE PLANS I HAVE FOR THIS SONG OH MY GOD. it is so so college au solaneglo to me and i have a WHOLE ASS longfic planned ask @a-good-sandwich lol

- dandelion by ruth b., is so will writing this song about nico in his notebook to me….i have a fic about this one too resr assured

- line without a hook by rick montgomery, is it a reach? yes. but to me this is will being asked to sing something for the campfire and he looks at nico, and things are visibly tense right now and no one knows why, and he sings this, and he is just so clearly talking about nico and it’s so uncomfortable in a really specific way?? i want to write this too. god

i have small lyric changes i would make to each song to fit better, feel free to ask about them!! ‘cause i have like lowkey fics i want to write for most of these and i do plan on it. also. y’all are so right i’m obsessed w will who was taught guitar by his mom. hold me accountable okay i want to write these.

[satyrhoofs]

Any qrow or ironwood enjoyers if you’d like check out my ironqrow fic it’s fun promise & just added a new chapter :p

[ghost-bxrd]

Do Calvin and Jason have a road trip playlist, if so what are some notable songs on it?

Y E S !!!! I even made a playlist on Spotify for this already but it’s still a work in progress >.<

Most notably would be the following four atm

I Know the End by Phoebe Bridgers

…a haunted house with a picket fence to float around and ghost my friends…

Live in the Moment by Portugal. The Man

…we don’t need history when your family is swinging from the branches of a tree…

Devil Town by Cavetown

Life’s alright in devil town, yeah, right, no one’s gonna catch us now…

Hayloft II by Mother Mother

…my baby’s got a gun, you better run…

Strangers by Ethel Cain

…with my memories restricted to a Polaroid in evidence…

Both Jason and Calvin have a love for songs that have a mostly upbeat melody with dark/questionable lyrics. If it’s two people singing the song, they’ve taken to dividing roles and screaming the chorus at the top of their lungs.

If it were up to Jason though they’d listen to “I know the End” twenty four hours a day. Calvin vetoed that three days into the roadtrip, because he was seriously tempted to crash the car at that point.

[irondadfics]

Do you know if there is any fics where like Peter goes on a trip and gets sick and tries to not bother Tony but after a while he just wants Tony to help him feel better?

here’s some. Happy reading! The trip scenes are in the first chapter of the first two

You caught me at just the right time (until you couldn't) by 14million_constellations

“I thought Spider-Man didn’t get sick,” Tony said, smiling.  “And I thought Tony Stark didn’t care,” Peter says, now not only looking like death but sounding like it, and Tony frowned. Peter noticed. “Sorry. You do care. I know you do. --or-- The 5 times Tony realized Peter was sick, and the 1 time it was almost too late.

5 times peter clung to tony by parkrstark

...and the one time tony clung to him.

Summertime Sickness by Spideysickfics

"Well, this is your lucky day, then!" Peter replied enthusiastically, putting his hands on his hips and puffing out his chest as he broke into a wide grin, "You're looking at a former Boy Scout!" Tony let out a huff of air. "No shit, a Boy Scout, huh? When did you quit?" "First grade." Peter's grin didn’t waver. Tony rolled his eyes with a laugh. "I'm sure you're very knowledgeable." OR An Irondad camping trip and sickfic to soothe your soul

You'll Get Better Soon by Good_As_I_Am94

Peter made it through dinner but while they were walking out his dad put an arm around him, “I’m fine.” “Yeah. You and fine aren’t friends. What’s really going on?” Tony asked. He didn’t know if this was mental, emotional, or physical. He knew Peter had been through it since coming back from being blipped and being adopted so there was always the chance the kid was just having a tough day but Tony wouldn’t ignore the gut instinct telling him something was wrong with his kid.

[randomfandomisuppose]

Someone, anyone, if such a fic exists, please recommend me fics where the batfamily go on a family vacation or road trip. I just really need to see them both having fun and dealing with the typical family vacation woes of being stuck in a small space with your annoying ass siblings for hours on end.

[crepesuzette2023]

Two new fics (for the Summer of Love Fanworks-a-thon)

I wrote two stories: Banana Milkshakes and Armpit Hair (John and Paul in Paris 1961. Prompt: will someone finally come on Paul's eyelashes?)

I ain't no fool, and I don't take what I don't want (Paul and Mal's trips in '66 and '67. Prompt: Mal and Paul make love al fresco during one of their trips. Paul wears nothing but the flimsy scarf he's seen wearing here.) The complete collection is HERE! (<- probably going to be updated steadily) Thank you @beatleskinkmeme/ @theoldmixer for organizing the event. You're the best. <3

[steddieunderdogfics]

future in your hands (sign, sealed, delivered) by formosus_iniquis

@formosusiniquis

Rating: Teens and Up

10,390 words, 1/1 chapters

Archive Warning: Creator chose not to use

Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Childhood Friends, Friends to Lovers, Epistolary, Appalachian Eddie Munson, Steve Harrington Has Bad Parents, Non-Graphic Violence, Pen Pals, Minor Background Ronance, Road Trips, Period-Typical Homophobia

Summary:

Dear Eddie, Mrs. Simpson says I’m supposed to thank you for volunteering to be my partner even though you’re a fifth grader. I don’t know why I should though since now I actually have to do this stupid pen pal project. I know she only paired me with an older kid cause she thinks I’m dumb. But thanks for the extra work I guess. Sincerely (cause we aren’t friends), Steve Harrington --- Assigned to be pen pals elementary school, Steve and Eddie find themselves growing closer than they could have imagined as children. Sending letters where they become confidants, friends, and more over the years they write to one another. Nearly a decade after they start an incident sends Steve himself to Eddie. The two leave Hawkins and road trip together to their Happily Ever After.

Thanks for the rec!

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[aftgficrec]

My favorite fics are soft andriel, and teen andriel.

Here’s my recs:

Raised on little light by maqicien

Falling is a lot like drowning by chaoticas_hell

This wasn’t in the prophecy (series) by Arirmis

(Account locked) Raise me up so you can watch me fall by Yes_No_ofcourse

And this last one is angst and dark but I do love it

Hiding scars under exy gear By rinz

Wow, that’s a lot of recs in one submission!  Usually we just get one or two 🤣. - S

You can find some of those fics here:

‘Raised on Little Light’ here (since updated)

‘Falling Is A Lot Like Drowning’ here (since updated)

‘Raise me up so you can watch me fall’ here (locked, now complete)

This wasn’t in the prophecy by Arirmis [Rated T/M, 73294 words, incomplete, last updated Feb 2024]

Percy Jackson AU where all of the foxes are demigods, Andrew meets Neil shortly after his mom dies, and joins him on the run instead of going back to camp. Part one spans from their first meeting to their first kiss; Part two will take place a few years later, when certain circumstances force them to return to camp, and Andrew has to deal with what he left behind, on top of their current problem. While both fics should be able to be read individually, it does make more sense if you read them in order :)

Part 1:  Cross your fingers, here we go (T, 25037 words, complete)

Millport is a horrible, dry as fuck little town in the vast nothingness of the dust hole that is Arizona, and Andrew hates it with vigor.  He has been tracking a horde of Manticores for weeks now, and isn’t that something? A half-blood having to chase after the monsters. He is starting to feel like one of Renee’s hunters, when Andrew is pretty sure the nasty scorpion-cats should want to kill him more then he wants to kill them.  Or, Andrew expected to find all sorts of things on his first quest. He didn’t expect a twitchy, blue-eyed half-blood with monsters on his heels, and he surely didn’t expect to fall in love with him.

tw: implied/referenced child abuse, tw: implied/referenced rape/non-con, tw: implied/referenced torture, tw: implied/referenced self harm, tw: child neglect, tw: assumed character death

Part 2: Mortal Bodies, Timeless Souls (M, 48257 words, incomplete)

„Minyard! Get your ass up and put some armor on! Abby, Greene, get the infirmary in shape, border control just spotted a motherfucking Drakon in the woods!“ As if Wymack’s order triggered it, a ear grating screech echoes all the way to the big house. The camp counselor curses. „Move it people, there are half-bloods out there that need to get to safety!“  Or, for two and a half years, Aaron has been grieving the brother he buried, only to learn now, that Andrew is very much alive. He also has a scarred little shithead in tow, that Aaron wants to punch in the face regularily. Life is fun like that.

tw: blood, tw: violence, tw: implied/referenced child abuse, tw: implied/referenced rape/non-con, tw: implied/referenced torture, tw: implied/referenced self harm, tw: child neglect, tw: assumed character death, tw: vomit

Hiding scars (under exy gear) by rinz [Rated M, 34309 words, incomplete, last updated March 2024]

Juggling a mobster serial killer household and high school is harder than Neil had anticipated. and that goth kid on the roof really needs to mind his own business. OR a high school AU where neil and mary never run from nathan and neil meets the foxes in private high school instead.

tw: implied/referenced child abuse, tw: implied/referenced rape/noncon, tw: implied/referenced self harm, tw: imlied/referenced torture, tw: graphic violence

[ineffableclassics]

Crowley folded his newspaper and accepted, with grim resignation, that he would have to try and save the world. It wasn’t that he particularly wanted to do it again; the first time had been bad enough and he’d needed an eleven-year-old to do the hard bit. He didn’t feel any kind of great love towards all living things at the moment, or have any heroic feelings. He simply knew that nobody else would do it.

And Aziraphale, who had stumbled his way into the centre of it all, would be trying desperately not to let it happen and failing, because Heaven wouldn’t let him succeed. One more time, and he resolved that it would be the very last time, Crowley would have to fix things for him.

Crowley goes on a road trip across America to delay the Second Coming. Aziraphale tries to teach angels about humanity. In between, they talk.

Words: 36,062

Status: Complete

Rating: Explicit

By @spockgirl

[perry-the-purple-platypus]

yall are there any young royals fanfic out yet that are just the core four going on their road trip ??? i neeeeed and can’t fiiiind cause im a stupid little idiot maybe <3

[rwrbficrecs]

Hi, I’ve found your page recently and I was wondering if you have a road trip/they meet during a trip recommendation? Thank you for this blog🫶🏻🫶🏻

Hi ! Hope you enjoy ❤️

Road Trip:  campfire love (you fell asleep on me) by viciouslyqueer Every Day's a Holiday (When I'm Near to You) by bleedingballroomfloor outta luck to spend by potentiallyunlovable when i'm back in chicago (i feel it). by @chaa-kiao

Trip/Holiday: accidentally (but absolutely) indecent by @indomitable-love AirBnB My Baby by @indomitable-love Airplane Mode by @clottedcreamfudge  Down By The Water, I Saw You by @myheartalivewrites Espresso House Rhapsody by @everwitch-magiks for you alone by fel24601 (incomplete - but it’s very good I promise) in a holidaze by @tedddylupin in summer air by @acdsbff (series) (our last summer) memories that remain by bleedingballroomfloor Piss-up in a brewery by @clottedcreamfudge Pitching a Tent by @omgcmere  show me all of your seasons by @villiageidiot The Holiday by @dracowillhearaboutthis under the tuscan sun by @dumbpeachjuice Vacation, Meant to Be Spent Alone by @three-drink-amy Huge thanks to my lovely team of volunteers for helping collect these recs ❤️ If you’d like to help out too, check out the Volunteers Page 🥰

[stuffydollband]

Happy Halloween! My song “To All Local Ghosts” is available NOW wherever you get your music!

This is an old demo of an even older song that I wrote about a roadtrip across the US from Florida to Washington in 2013. I thought I’d lost this extremely rough demo, and had abandoned hope of it reaching the public, but it’s been recovered and I’m so excited for you all to hear it! This recording is very… textured, but tbh I feel like that loans something to the vibe of the song. It feels… Alive. Haunted. It feels like it could’ve been recorded in a car on a road trip.

So give it a listen, you spooky little weirdos, and enjoy what’s truly one of my favorite songs I’ve ever written. Oh, and the last third is in French because little baby 2013 Jupiter was AMBITIOUS