Big Bang Masterpost "Open your Eyes, Open your Heart", Jared/Jensen, Nc-17

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Fic title: "Open your Eyes, Open your Heart (proud like a god don't pretend to be blind)"
Author name: the_milky_way
Artist name: babycin
Genre: RPS AU
Pairing: Jared/Jensen, hinted Danneel/Sandy
Rating: NC-17
Word count: ~ 30.000

Summary: “Times where the band was all over the news and the new best thing are long gone. Sure, they are still on the road, still attract a decent crowd but they haven’t a released anything new in close to three years now. About to lose their record deal Jensen is desperately trying to find new ideas. But writing new songs proves to be much more difficult than it used to be. On a chance night he finds inspiration, only for it to turn out to be a washed up casting star seemingly earning his money out on the streets. That’s not really what he had in mind as his new muse. Jared, though, seems determined to stay around.”




Part I * Part II * Part III * Part IV

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PDF (with Art)


ART: Masterpost

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Notes:
Please check out babycin's awesome Art Post here and leave comments. Thanks so much babycin for the great artwork and for creating the file, it was a pleasure working with you on this.

My first Thank you goes to my beta readers parka_girl and enablelove . Thank you so much for keeping up with me and reading through it. Your suggestions helped a lot and I'm grateful for your help.
You are awesome. All remaining mistakes are, of course, mine.
Credit for the Band's name goes to kros_21 and morgentau who suggested stuff in long comments and I kinda stuck with that one idea. Thanks girls. :)
Another round of "Thank you's" goes out to those who have been holding my hand through all of this, so basically half my flist. You guys are awesome and I really appreciate all the encouragements and comments.

Thanks to wendy and thehighwaywoman for running this every year.

Title taken from the Guano Apes song "Open your Eyes"

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Soundtrack:

* There are three links to YouTube videos of the songs within the story, in case someone wants to listen to them while reading.
These are the songs that inspired me during writing and some of them made it into the story.



01. Guano Apes "Open your Eyes"
02. Hurts "Wonderful World"
03. Andrew Belle "In My Veins"
04. Roxette "Way Out"
05. Embassy "Gravity"
06. Lifehouse "Halfway Gone"
07. Hurts "Stay"
08. Guano Apes "Oh what a Night"

Soundtrack in a zip.file re-uploaded

Comments

[brunettepet.livejournal.com]

It was a real pleasure meeting this band and reading the trials being on the downside of fame offers. The pressure Jensen was under and the grueling schedule of touring and constant scrutiny were all beautifully described and made his long gone panic attacks understandable. He was worn to the bone and he had the fate of the entire band and their staff on his shoulders. Then along comes Jared and even though the terrible pressure is still there, at least Jensen's creative juices are flowing again. Jared being a prostitute just complicated things.

Except Jared was never a prostitute and this misconception tainted their fledgling friendship before it could even get started. It was hard to read Jensen being such a total dick to Jared and still struggling with the attraction he was feeling to the other man. When Jared finally blew a gasket, I was surprised nobody got hurt in the fallout. It was a pretty spectacular mistake to make and it was difficult to come back from such a humiliation.

I was delighted reading the two men becoming real friends and the first scene of them collaborating was really great. Mike immediately jumping on recording Jared was wonderful. I love how the friendship and collaborations finally opened the floodgates for their flirting and touching and finally, finally getting together.

The band ditching their label was a wonderful relief, and now they only have themselves to answer to. The creativity is flowing on all sides, and you've brought everyone into such a happy, centered place, it's made me happy for everyone. It was all a delight to read.

[the_milky_way]

I don't really know where this fic idea came from but the misunderstanding has always been part of it, so I'm really happy to see that it actually worked and that it fits with the whole story.

Thank you so much for your awesome comment, it made me smile and so glad to see that you liked all the parts of this story. It's been a journey for me and sometimes this thingy took me to places I never thought it would. I sometimes wondered where my Jensen!muse was going with all this and why it had to be such a dick but I kinda always knew Jared would the one make it right for Jensen in the end.

Thank you!
<3