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The Turtledove and Goldfinch Sing by Nebbs_But_Spicy (Nebbbula)
Fandoms: Whiplash (2014)
22 Aug 2025
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Louis Armstrong said that if you have to ask what jazz is, you’ll never know, so I don’t bother asking. I just listen. And feel. Someday, when I have the time, I’ll study it like I did symphony. Like I did baroque, even.
Moisture seeps into the corners of Will’s eyes. He can’t dig his fingernails into his forearm, as blunt and stubby as they are, so he settles for scraping their trim edges into the thin skin of his wrist. Foolishly, he thought he’d be accustomed to grief by now. After his mom, before his fifth birthday. After Sean, just a week after his nineteenth. And now, after his—
A burst of percussion snaps Will out of his spiral.
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The one where a violinist tries to forget his freshly dead mentor, and in doing so, finds a drummer trying to forget his living one.
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The aftermath of the Dunellen competition leaves Andrew yearning for what he had lost, which he can't help but seek out.
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Andrew doesn't know his fate after attacking Fletcher. His dad invites him for dinner in hopes he can make him feel better. Andrew misses Fletcher too much.
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Andrew hates his name, especially when his dad says it. Fletcher's name rolls off the tongue, and the way he says Andrew's is even better.
OR Andrew Neiman gets a little help on learning to love his name.
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Andrew tangles himself up in a complicated relationship with Terence Fletcher after the events at Carnegie Hall.
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Terence and Andrew's mutually assured destruction study. Post film mostly.
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After his award winning performance at JVC, Andrew is considered one of the best to ever hone his craft.
He finally did it, he became one of the greats.
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The Rise (and subsequent fall) of Andrew Neiman by grilledwater (sauteedwater)
Fandoms: Whiplash (2014)
23 Apr 2024
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“A jewel, sawed down and honed with both brute force and careful cutting. Clutched tight and forced into place among gold.”
“The final act of Andrew Neiman will be so great that no one will forget it- not so long as jazz exists.”
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A study on Andrew Neiman’s cataclysmic rise to fame, post-Whiplash.
[04/06/2025] Hello,
I’m happy to share that I’ve begun rewriting this piece. It will keep the same plot line, albeit with slight alterations. I’d like to think my writing style and skill has improved since I first posted this, and I’d like to do such a massive project justice.Rewriting, proofreading, editing, etc will take some significant time, especially since I’m doing it solo, but I aim to wrap up by the end of the summer. The revised work will be linked to this original as a series- hopefully to make finding it easier.
Until then, please let me know your thoughts, ideas, or questions, and thank you for the support you’ve shown me.
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Salad Days: A period of carefree innocence associated with youth and the careful passing of time; a heyday
This story takes place about a year after Alex has come into Andrew's and Fletcher's lives. It's summer in New York City at Andrew's and Fletcher's house and the pair couldn't be any better. Or could they?
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"Not much goes around these summer days except for the sound of seasoned jazz and the coolness of the evening watermelon slices."
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- Part 2 of Harmony and the Notes that Follow
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It’s February 14th.
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Andrew Neiman had never asked for another parent. His mother’s absence had never been a hole he’d sought to fill. Throughout the years, his mind had just been occupied by his dreams of mastering the drums and now getting in that fucking tempo Fletcher held above his head like water in a desert. It had also never occurred to him that his dad might be lonely, that he was the one with the hole in his life that needed to be filled by another person, who’d eventually be taking his mom’s place. Not until now, in his tiny living space, when his dad said:
“A- and I thought… you could meet this someone… dinner. Two weeks.”
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Whiplash fanfic.
Three occasions where Andrew Neiman's character is truly defined.
Warning: it does not end very happy.
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Andrew invites Fletcher to his apartment.
He doesn’t understand why the man is so suspicious of him. There’s nothing wrong. It’s not like he has any ill-advised plan for them.
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Sometimes, going down, you never do reach the bottom. It's petrifying. You can go in, and in, and in, and no matter how far you go, the depth only extends with you. By the time you realize, there is already no way of reaching the surface again before you've ran out of air. Sometimes, you don't mind.
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Jim's relationship with his son, measured in tears.
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Five times Jim cried when Andrew cried, and one time Andrew cried when Jim cried.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 475
- Chapters:
- 1/7
- Kudos:
- 25
- Hits:
- 335
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He’d seen the cryers, the yellers, the tattletales, the tough guys, the sulkers, the whiners…he’d found all their buttons and pressed them until they fell off. He understood all of his students to a degree, for better or for worse.
He couldn’t understand Andrew Neiman.
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Andrew and Fletcher have been together for nearly seven years. Through flying cymbals and car accidents, the two seem to be able to depart from one another. Now the duo has three kids, family drama, and problems of their own. Follow the pair as they navigate their new normal in hopes of achieving their dreams.
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Andrew and Fletcher try to keep their family together while dealing with their own relationship issues
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- Part 1 of Harmony and the Notes that Follow
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Senior year, Andrea gives in to her dad. Maybe studying music isn't the smartest choice.
It doesn't last.
(Genderswapped AU where Andrea goes to NYU instead of Shaffer)
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this is just an idea i came up with after i saw baby driver for the first time. tell me these two wouldn't be kinda cute together
td;lr: whiplash/baby driver AU where debora breaks up with baby after he went to prison so he moved up to new york to escape his past. he and andrew meet while andrew's busy looking for drumming gigs
(basically, takes place after both movie plots. so it's not really an alternate universe, if you think about it? more so a different interpretation of either endings. but i digress..)
anyways don't expect much from this, it's sorta just fun little drabbles i wrote up and i'll probably utilize this to fill in the hiatus between my tsp fic chapters. enjoy!
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Andrew was trapped in this relationship.