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Ryan Atwood Centric Fic Recs

Seventeen Birthdays

A short fic of Ryan, with a little help from Taylor, reflecting on what it means to suddenly have been a Cohen for more than half his life.

remember to let her into your heart

The thing about domesticity is: you never completely understand what’s happening until it happens.

Ryan/Taylor fluff

is a heavy heart too much to hold?

She sat on their bed with the box in her lap, just staring at the contents. Some pictures, a sweatshirt, ticket stubs. Memorabilia from a lost love. From a lost life.

It broke her heart.

More Ryan/Taylor fluff, past Ryan/Marissa

Fall of the Sparrow

Post season 1 Ryan reflecting on his life, absolutely beautiful writing

Exposure

Ryan didn't like photos, not really. Not even looking at them, and definitely not posing for them.

Ryan and the Cohens

Homecoming

It's Thanksgiving and Ryan's driven his graduation-present truck, used, he insisted, home.

Ryan and the Cohens

Give it Away

Ryan knows nothing comes for free

This one is a little darker so read the tags. Ryan and Sandy centric. Early season 1.

“if you weren't real i would make you up"

Tell the truth, but tell it like it’s a lie.

Ryan Atwood grows up, and his relationships grow up with him.

Post series Ryan, Seth & Summer

slow down, we've got time left to be lazy

In the end, the long and short of it was that their boys called.

Their sons called, and in a month they’ll be off to college, and who knows how many more times they’ll get this, the opportunity to rush to the rescue, to be their parents.

How long they’ll still have the sweetness of the belief that their parents will fix anything.

Of course they’d gotten on the plane.

Sandy Cohen, series finale and (just) beyond.

Magpie

Going fast enough, there was motion to it, and shape. The wires dipped in-between the poles, then curved back upward, then back down again - a never ending parabolic curve, like a child's drawing of ocean waves. He would imagine different creatures running on top of the wires - tigers, pandas, lions, cheetahs, or even a little miniature version of himself - running and leaping, keeping up with the car. He'd follow the horizon this way too - holding up one of his toy army men and lining up its legs with the line where the land met the sky. On the interstate, outside of the city, driving past farms and craggy hills and suburban enclaves, bunches of houses crowded up in little clusters like fungus erupting through the cracks in a tree's bark - everything looked like a toy. Like he could roll down the window and just scoop everything up, pull the whole world inside to look at it closer.

More Ryan reflecting on his life, more beautiful writing.

I Come From Chino (where the asphalt sprouts)

“Did you ask because you want your dad to be involved, or because you don’t?” Kaitlin asks, and Ryan can’t quite meet her eyes.

“I’m not—I don’t—it’s not my decision, Kaitlin, I don’t—”

“Ryan,” she says softly.

“He’s a shitty dad, okay?” Ryan says. “It’s not—I don’t—I just don’t want him to fuck up another kid.”

Ryan has some concerns about his new baby brother.

Ryan & Kaitlyn fluff

everything is gonna change.

Their last moments as a family of four, and their first as a family of five.

Kirsten & Ryan centric

cut me out and color me in

Ryan meets Taylor Townsend his second week in Newport.

He’s not entirely sure what god he pissed off to deserve it, but someone out there definitely hates him.

Season 1 AU

the homes we make

Sandy and Kirsten move Ryan into the dorms at Berkeley.

Ryan and the Cohens fluff

My Broken House Behind Me (and good things ahead)

“Taylor wants to have kids,” Ryan says one day, as he sits at the kitchen counter, watching Sandy make dinner.

or Ryan and Taylor open their home and their hearts to a couple of foster kids and make themselves a lovely little family.

And a little bit of self promotion:

Hey, Mister No-Name Kid, So Who Might You Be (And Could You Fight For Me?)

He wants to run; he wants to claw off his skin and get as far away as possible from this body that had put that fear in someone else’s eyes. And that’s the thing about punching people, Ryan knows a little too much about what it’s like to be on the other end of things.

or Ryan has some complicated feelings about violence and Seth is a good brother.

Wake Me Up When It’s All Over (When I’m Wiser and I’m Older)

But then there’s the relief, because, well, wasn’t this supposed to be the easy part? Growing up? Wasn’t this supposed to be the thing that just, kinda … happens to you? He’s pretty sure he wasn’t supposed to have to fight for it, that he wasn’t supposed to have to survive.

or Ryan doesn’t really mind having grown up.

Through the Warmth, Through the Cold, Keep Running Till We're There (We're Coming Home Now)

Ryan leaves a message, saying, “Call me back, man, your parents are worried sick,” even when what he wants to say is, “You’re a fucking idiot. You think I wanted to leave?” or maybe, “You have everything, dude. Everything. Don’t throw it away for me. I’m not worth it.”

or Ryan and Seth the summer after season 1.

If I’m Lying Here, Will You Take Me Home

It didn’t stop him from wanting, but it stopped him from having. And having was dangerous because it left you with a lot more to lose.

He lays awake at night on the thousand thread count sheets, listening to the melody of crashing waves outside his window instead of the sound of crashing plates in the kitchen, and pinches himself because this must all be a dream.

There are tiny bruises up and down his arms for weeks.

or early season one Ryan learns to trust this family that’s taken him in, even if he still can’t figure out why they did it.

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Hands Off Protest Boston, April 5th, 2025

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Posted my 100th story today. I feel like I’ve peeked. This is it. This is my contribution to society.

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— LEONARD COHEN, Hey, That’s No Way To Say Goodbye

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@spicedrobot Thanks for the template and the idea!

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Sometimes it’s just you and your emotional support adoptive brother duos against the world.

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so you won't have to cry or hide in the closet

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ryan atwood + love

@lgbtqcreators creator bingo: comfort + throwback

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THE O.C. 1.04, “The Debut”

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This is perfection

sandy & ryan's familial bond || THE OC: S1E23 / S4E09

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How have I never seen this? I feel robbed.

Marissa and Seth deleted scene from season 1, episode 19; 'The Heartbreak'

source: Delenadiarixs S on YouTube.

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As I have finally gotten around to setting up an Etsy shop, these little guys are now for sale if anyone is interested!

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Have I actually managed to be the first one here to cry about AO3 being down?

I was expecting lots of post but there is nothing. This is crazy.

Edit: Never mind they fixed it.

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100 Things to Love About the OC

1. Ryan Atwood

2. Taylor Townsend

3. Summer Roberts

4. Seth Cohen

5. Sandy Cohen

6. Kirsten Cohen

7. Little Kaitlin Cooper

8. Teenage Kaitlin Cooper

9. The Summer Breeze

10. Seth’s Tahiti dream and “Yeah, she has no idea, I’ve never spoken to her before.”

11. Captain Oats

12. Princess Sparkle

13. The “I Wish I Was a Mermaid” Poem

14. 🎶California Here I Come🎶

15. Seth & Summer’s upside down kiss in the rain

16. Bagels 🥯

17. The bagel slicer

18. Sandy’s smear

19. The Pool House

20. Pad Thai

21. Callbacks and circular story telling

22. Marissa: “Who are you?”

Ryan: Whoever you want me to be.”

23. “You know what I like about rich kids?” BAM “Nothing.”

24. Ryan saying “Hey, my dad is right here,” to Sandy with the little shoulder bump

25. 🎶The Bluest Line🎶

26. 🎶Mmm, Whatcha Say🎶

27. 🎶Hallelujah🎶

28. Summer’s “Ew”

29. Bunnies🐰(Pancakes and Flapjacks)

30. Summer and Ryan’s we got into college spinning hug

31. The Model Home

32. The rare moments in which the core four were all happy

33. The “new & improved” core four, now with Taylor Townsend

34. Sophie Cohen

35. “You’re a Cohen now, welcome to a life of insecurity and paralyzing self-doubt.”

36. Ryan and Seth little secret handshake thing

37. Sarcasm

38. Seth standing on things to declare his love

39. Summer standing on things to declare her love

40. Sandy giving Ryan his Berkley sweatshirt

41. Kirsten crying when Ryan left to go back to Chino

42. Peach Tort

43. Sandy was in a gang and, “We robbed from the poor and gave to the poor.”

44. Sandy punching Frank

45. Ryan’s sad little everyone leaves me wave

46. Ryan and Sandy’s bus stop hug

47. Ryan and Kirsten’s goodbye hug

48. Kirsten hugging Ryan and Seth at the same time

49. Seth and Ryan’s aborted handshake hug

50. Ryan and Seth’s whole friendship/brotherhood

51. Marissa and Summer’s whole friendship

52. Summer and Marissa being step sisters for a hot second

53. Summer and Taylor’s whole friendship

54. Ryan and Summer’s whole friendship

55. The gang adopting former bully Luke Ward for a hot second

56. Seth running away to live with former bully Luke Ward

57. Luke Ward

58. Alex Kelly

59. Alex and Marissa for the three episodes they were allowed to be happy

60. Marissa coming out to Summer

61. Chrismukkah

62. Chrismukkah stockings all in a row

63. Seth’s Christmukkah song

64. Summer saving Christmakkah

65. Seth’s color coded holiday alert system

66. “Taylor thinks Ryan is funny.”

67. And similarly:

Taylor: “Ryan, you told a real joke!”

Ryan: “Not a very good one, but yes I told

a real joke. Thank you, don’t tell anyone.”

68. Taylor’s red dress

69. Ryan: “How do you keep doing that?”

Taylor: “Doing what?”

Ryan: “Saying what I think before I feel it.”

Taylor: “Because I think about you.”

70. Ryan telling Taylor that he loves her

71. The whole flash forward ending montage

72. But most especially the boy on the stone wall and “Hey, kid, you need some help?”

73. Summer sticking her tongue out walking down the aisle at her wedding

74. Seth’s bar mitzvah friendship dance

75. Atomic County

76. The fact that Cosmo Girl (Marissa) gets her powers from a magic flask

77. The comic book Seth makes Ryan to convince him to come home

78. Ryan’s speech about social security running out and “Where I come having a dream doesn’t make you smart. Knowing it won’t come true? That does.”

79. The model home

80. The fact that Seth loves The Vegas

81. The fact that Seth has more friends at The Nana’s retirement home than at school

82. Ryan punching people who really deserve it

83. Seth making a list of people Ryan has punched while Ryan’s bleeding on the side of the road

84. Drunk Seth

85. The beach

86. Seth’s skateboard & Ryan’s bike

87. Seth’s Paris mural he painted for Marissa

88. Seth & Marissa’s whole friendship

89. Taylor stalking Ryan and their, “And then I can stock you.” “And then I can stock you,” scene

90. Newpsies

91. The Newport Group

92. Ryan the original arsonist and Seth the encore

93. The fact that Kirsten can’t cook

94. Everyone’s genuine terror when Kirsten tries to cook

95. The fact that Seth and Summer are the epitome of he fell first, she fell harder.

96. Seth: “At least I leave you funnier than when

I found you.”

Ryan: “I’m a lot better off than when you

found me.”

Seth: “Me too.”

97. Summer being a super cool environmental activist

98. Ryan finding his true family

99. Taylor finding her true family

100. The way Ryan looks at Taylor