- arijit singh,
- bollywood,
- day6,
- fic,
- haikyuu,
- hq,
- kurodai,
- music,
- open water,
- pynch,
- safar,
- the raven cycle,
- travel,
- trc
open water iii.
What can I say about this song that actually manages to encapsulate it? That I can't name another song that conveys both the yearning for a home AND the love of the journey as an end, in and of itself? That Irshad Kamil wrote his career-best lyrics here (other than for Nadaan Parinde, which is a whole other conversation, by the way)? That it's a positive and hopeful sounding song but it till breaks my heart every time I listen to it?
I had to restrict myself to just one roadtrip fic but you should know they would all fit here. But if it had to just be one, the kurodai--for the line I have quoted below. The Raven Cycle fic is my current fixation and I'm still undecided on whether it truly fits this list or not. The DAY6 one is an all-time favourite, I go back to it so very often.
"That one home that I had--
That old fear of mine
But now I don't belong to my own home,
I had belonged to the journey and
Continue to belong to it."
i. back to the wind by dicaeopolis
Fandoms: Haikyuu!!
Pairing: Kuroo Tetsurou/Sawamura Daichi
Rating: T, 5.9k
Summary: Post-college roadtrip au. Dialogue-heavy, funny, just quintessential kurodaism.
Favourite Line: Daichi gestures out the windshield. The highway has narrowed into a two-lane road, with pavement that’s barely past gravel and lines faded to little more than discolorations on the road. “We ran out of highway.”
ii.
Fandoms: Raven Cycle - Maggie Stiefvater
Pairing: Ronan Lynch/Adam Parrish
Rating: T, 5.3k
Summary: Post The Raven King but doesn't take the Dreamer trilogy into account. Adam is a lawyer, Ronan is Ronan. LDR-specific longing, domesticity, and of course, dreams.
Favourite Line: Ronan and him had gotten better at talking over the years, but never about the one thing that’s eclipsed them – that Ronan has always known where his home was, while Adam is perennially drifting towards the golden horizon, unmoored.
iii. out of the blue by carolee_sea
Fandoms: Day6 (Band)
Pairing: Kang Younghyun | Young K & Kim Wonpil
Rating: G, 2.4k
Summary: Atmospheric seaside stroll. All the what and where and who is home metaphors.
Favourite Line: wonpil taps at the firm sand with his feet, grains of sand moving around in his shoe. “i’m going to sit here until the tide reaches me.”