Trade Baby Blues for Wide-Eyed Browns - Comments

@ Videl
The chapter from Jeanae's POV? Thank you! :) Yeah, we're suckers for his troubled mind. :p

@ birds ate my face
AGREED.

@ Dont Panic
How did I miss this comment?? Thank you so much

Patrick is so perfect

This chapter was amazing and desperately needed to be written. That was excellent. People forget Pete's so messed up, but that's okay cause we love him. :)

@ milesandmaisy
Exactly. The. Same.

I think that I love Patrick so much because I really identify with Pete. I feel like Pete and I are very much alike and that is why Patrick seems so perfect to me because he would balance me out. Plus he's fucking hot.

@ heatherlight
We're both as bad as each other then, clearly. :p I think that's one of the reasons I love Patrick so much--because he's literally Pete's antithesis. Patrick offers the complete opposite of Pete, in a lot of ways. I think that's why Anna's in the situation she's in. It's so easy to fall for both of them, in completely different ways.

Oh, don't get me wrong, I would be definitely in love with Pete Wentz. I have a soft spot for tragedies and I feed off sadness. Sad characters, tragic stories, bad endings, it's all there is to me. But it's hard to lovesomething that makes you a masochist, it's draining and unhealthy. I know someone who is just like Pete, and he is probably the most interesting person I know.

I would definitely fall in love with Wentz, even if I knew it would be my downfall.

@ heatherlight
I'm just as bad as Jeanae and Anna, because I revel in Pete's fucked-up-ness, and I can't lie and say I wouldn't have jumped straight in that rabbit hole with him if he'd asked me to. I don't even really think he does/did it on purpose--it's just who he is, and in perfect honesty I loved it then, and I still do now. Don't get me wrong, I love that he seems to have gotten his shit together, too, but part of me will always miss the Pete in GRAY. I'm kind of obsessed with the way that his mind works, because he thinks the same way I do. But you're right about the life not being healthy, and it's definitely a good thing he seems to have pulled himself together. Still, Pete will always be my idol--as he was then, and as he is now. Can't help myself. I'm drawn to the troubled mind.

I agree with you about stories romanticising the lifestyle, and I really wanted to try to channel Jeanae and really imagine what it would've been like being in love with someone like that. Of course, Pete's perception of events would be different, and you can't always trust the narrator, but we hear a lot from Pete and I wanted to hear her side of things. I mean, I can't imagine how hard it must've been for her. Thank you for the love, it means a lot. Going to try to update this afternoon, but I have an exam Monday so I can't make any promises. After Monday I'll be free as the metaphorical bird.

I have felt that way about Pete lately. Like. He has been a bit of a hero, my inspiration, dedication, blah blah blah but in truth Pete is a selfish asshole who thrives in his own misery. He likes the idea of being fucked up, thinks he's some kind of Morrisson. Maybe not now, but back then he did.

I have been through some changes since the fourth month of this year. I found people who thought like me, liked the same things as I did. I idolized them, just like I idolized Pete. Tragedy is good on books, but real life doesn't suit anyone the moment they wear it. I have been now through real troubles, real life, a real message that tells me "hey, being this way isn't as cool as you thought it'd be, sweets."

And we write these stories talking about how wonderful they are when in truth they could be a shit person with a shit life who can't be helped. I really don't know how Pete got his head out of his ass, maybe he didn't! But hell, I just read the last chapter and I think you deserve a goddamn applause.

Keep up with the fast updates, I love them.

@ birds ate my face
What d'yah think? I tried to get into her head and imagine what it would've been like to be on the receiving end of it all. Took some inspiration from GRAY...

@ star collision.
Glad you liked it. :) The words just came out on that one, I didn't really think them through. I just tried to...channel her, I guess.

@ milesandmaisy
I don't know :O Three times!!! I s2g, I almost had a stroke at that last one. Wonder how he'd feel if he knew I wrote kinky Santa sex about him. Probably not good. ;)

@ Ali Cat
Thank you!!! I really tried to just get in her head, so I'm glad you think it worked. :D

@ What_a_catch_lauren
:)) Thank you!!

That is powerful

Dang. That was so beautifully written, just like she would've said it. I loved it. I can't say anything more. Just wow.

how have you gotten so many replies from Patrick today...so jealous...

You;re totally welcome, by the way, for the comment. I feel like you needed to hear it. It's the same with my own stories. Sometimes you just have to be free of your inhibitions, and the words and characters have a voice of their own. I loved the chapter from Jeanae's POV. Things just don't go well for Pete's ladies, huh? Her story is so sad. Thank God she turned up when she did, though.

Whoa. Wow. I dunno what to say, other than zack is crazy as hell. I had to deal with a fucker like him. Thank heavens for Jenae

I never heard jenae's side of things, I don't know much about her, other than she got to bang Pete lol and that her actions helped create a great lyrical part of from under the cork tree, and probably take this to your grave. So, I'd like to read your take on things

@ milesandmaisy
You and me both

@ star collision.
Thank you for that. Yeah, sometimes you have to make yourself remember that just because you love someone else's writing and wish it were yours, doesn't mean there's not somebody else who feels the same about you. I need to get these words down, I think. It's been cathartic, writing without editing. I have a feeling my next fic will be more elaborately planned.

@ Videl
Thanks, doll.

ah i forgot to thank you for the plug :D i'll have to get you in my next update, cause this is excellent

Please please please don't be disheartened by your work. Obviously no two pieces are going to be the same and yours is amazing and it makes me feel things. But take all the time you need, I'm pretty sure you'll still have this huge gathering of readers when you're back. ;) You're breaking my heart a chapter at a time, you know that right? Pete is so wrong for her that he's right for her. Ugh.

poor Patrick...I will be waiting to pick up the pieces when she breaks his heart ;)