Life may not be fair, but it's fairer than death.

Panic are so cute...

2009-12-29T10:14:41Z

I never really cared for panic...not a whole heap. Ryan kind of gets on my wick. I like him in fic from time to time, but you know, take it or leave it. I was weirdly gutted when they split in half, but didn't really CARE in the final analysis.

But then I saw this: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/2719848

And now I love Bden kind of a lot. Bless his little cotton socks.

"What's your favourite word to say? Probably 'Fuck'."

Beta needed

2009-12-29T09:32:27Z

Hi everyone. I am looking for a beta for a Ferard AU set in Disneyland. It's kind of out of control as it is at the moment. It started as one thing and zoomed off in another direction so I need a bit of help with pacing, and structure - just advice from the outside of the "it kind of goes funny here..." kind - not detailed notes or anything. But if you want to give notes that would be AMAZING. It's proofed as well as I can make it at the moment, so shouldn't be too much of a trial to read - spelling is good and not too many typos I hope.

It's 10,000 words at the moment, but could easily be double that by the time it's finished. At the moment there are a few note points dotted through it that need to be expanded on.

It's an R at the moment, but I keep feeling like it should go back to a PG or something.

I would be so incredibly grateful to anyone who has the time and inclination to help.

Please let me know if you're interested and I'll e-mail you a word file.

Thanks in advance!

So Frank Iero is gay...

2009-12-13T04:58:18Z

"I am completely gay for julian casablancas' voice. His record, phrazes for the young hasnt left my cd player. 4chords of the apoc.= my jam." about 5 hours ago from Echofon

tee hee! Oh Frankie. Now I demand fic where Julian goes on record as saying he is comeptely gay for Frankie FACE and then they meet at some kind of music awards and Julian makes jokes about how Frank only comes up to his knees. And Frank climbs him like the ginornous bean pole he is and they make out for hours and it is beautiful. Amen.

Actually, they are from such differently worlds I can't really see it at all so...I dunno. I think RL Julian would be all like "Who the fuck is Frank Iero?" And that would be sad.

I once interviewed The Strokes (I KNOW!) Julian and Fab were possibly the coolest, nicest guys ever, but they didn't really seem connected to the real world. In a good way. They vibrate at a higher frequency. Also they are stupid cute.

PS re Franks tweets. I kind of love knowing that 5 hours ago Frank was taking crap. Maybe I am a creep just like Frank said?

Fic review: I Was Your Silver Lining

2009-12-10T03:59:43Z

Don't you love it when you're snooping round your fandom looking for something to read to suit your mood - something complex and romantic and passionate, yet tender and full of pathos too - and just when you pretty much think you've read all the choicest work your fandom has to offer (and man, there is plenty!) someone posts something so incredible, so perfect for your mood, it's almost as if they'd tapped straight into your subconscious and responded to what they found there?

I know. It's fully awesome.

But you know what's better?

What's better is when you're snooping round your fandom and someone posts something incredible and awesome and engaing on a whole new level, that you didn't even know you absolutely desperately needed. Dudes, that is the very definition of awesomeness.

Such is the wonder of I Was Your Silver Lining by shoemaster and theopteryx

From the opening paragraphs this is a fic that will hook you right in. Shoemaster and Theopteryx create just the right amount of beguiling mystery around their somewhat creepy central character, Gerard, and his strange obsession with a teenaged Frank. They pace the big fur covered reveal well and it's not until you're pretty sure the fascination Gerard has for Frank can in no way end well that the story takes a bit of a hair pin curve in a new and even more beguiling direction.

There are moments that I didn't quite connect with - I think things are a little easy for them in the end - but the whole story it makes sense when you understand just what they've been through to get to this point. The rising passion between them, the tensions and unease is just so wonderfully rendered.

I always judge the quality of a fic by how long images from it stay with you after you've finished reading. The more like memories of a film you've seen it is, the better. That's very personal, I know. But suffice it to say this fic runs in my memory like a billion dollar block buster.

An example is a particlularly touching moment when the boys are watching day time TV that, to me, just sums up the quality of the writing. it's so subtle, but the emotional impact it ads when you realise what happened in Gerard's (and to an extent Frank's ) past is incredible. That moment - Gerard's reaction to what he sees on TV, Frank's obliviousness - I don't think I can do it justice by waffling on. It's beautiful.

The supernatural element is really charming too. It could have been heavy handed and forced, but it suits the tone and is established quickly and without undue fanfare.

Of course this is a Theopteryx story and so we get a little extra (as if you needed any other incentive to read this wonderful fic):
Art by theopteryx

Needless to say it is gorgeousness.

Anyway, I'm sure everyone has read it already, but I wanted to put my two cents worth in and show my appreciation for a wonderful piece of work. I can't wait to read it again.

roxy_palace @ 2009-11-15T12:25:00

2009-11-14T23:25:37Z

An invaluable skill I have learned: sucking up the little hurts and indignities and slights and proceeding as if they are nothing, and nothing can hurt you and you're all right with every little thing.

Another invaluable skill I have learned: never crying in front of anyone ever about anything.

It doesn't matter. it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. It's ok. It's ok. It's ok.

bunny

2009-11-03T07:53:00Z

are there any fic out there where Frank rehomes elderly and sick dogs and Gee is the new vet in town? I know, Gee's not really the Vet type (needles and all) but, maybe...

Disney

2009-11-03T07:34:05Z

http://twitpic.com/nz7nx

Ok, just mildly over excited that Frank and co were at Disney for Halloween...esp since I am nearly done with the Disney fic. Yeeeeeeeeeeee

It's Official: Frank + Cute Dog = MELTY

2009-10-06T00:18:43Z

Holy Mary Mother Of GOD...

As if his pic post of a last week (week before?) wasn't enough, I just found this pic, which I'd never seen before:

So, you know, now it's official: He actually is trying to kill us with his cute/hot/adorable and has been trying for some time.

1. FRANK, YOUR FACE!
2. PUPPY, YOUR ICKLE NOSE, YOUR FLUFFY FLUFF!!
3. SNUGGLES.

So which one of Frank's menagerie is this?
Also, the pic looks like a scan from a mag or something. Anyone know where it came from or if there was an article with it??
ALSO, from now on when ever Fic!Frank does something to piss Fic!Gee off and has to weedle his way back into Fic!Gee's affections, this is the face he's going to be pulling. FOR SERIOUS. I mean would you ever, EVER, say no to that face? No you would not.

You know, I'm going to send a copy of this pic to Richard Dawkins, because if that face (both of 'em) isn't proof of the existance of God, I don't know what is.

BRIAN!!!!!

2009-10-05T23:30:36Z

http://drinkingsouls.com/2009/10/brian-schechter-to-become-stuntman/

The question is...did he jump or was he pushed?

Also...

2009-09-30T08:10:56Z

Flist, you are awesome. HUGS ALL ROUND!!!!

Writing smut, a professional's guide...

2009-09-30T07:55:16Z

I just discovered the submissions guideline for Black lace novels - erotic fiction for ladies, published in the UK. It makes for good reading and I think a pretty good primer for anyone thinking of embarking on a spot of smutty Fic writing.

http://nt6744.vs.netbenefit.co.uk/guidelines.html

I have to say that pretty much everyone on my flist is totally down with the skills and tips discussed here, but what do you think of them? I think everyone who writes a fic should be made to read this or something like it at least once before posting anything. (But then I also think people who post with warnings like "Not Beta'd because I couldn't be bothered. If you don't like it tough." should be knocked about the head and shoulders with a stout stick...it's a thing...)

Also, why does it always have to be sassy ladies??

I'd love to be able to go out and buy M/M in the shops. Obviously it wouldn't be Fan Fic, but I mean modern, erotic fiction about men who fancy men written for women by women or at least by men who have half a clue what women like to read. Does such a thing exist outside fandom?

Imagine Bexless's Conclusions with 'original' characters in the same vein, developed and enriched over a 75,000 word novel. Imagine Unholyverse!!! three books, pulsing with excitement, UST and passion. Oh my god! I would eat that shit up! The settings, the details, the slow, aching romantic build, the fantastic emotional romantic payoffs, the red, red, red hot sex...(note to self, read Conclusions again tonight!!!) Who wouldn't want to read that?

I don't know but it seems like there might be an audience for it out there too, and I'm not just talking about Fandom. I mean I came upon the world of slash completely by accident. I started reading what I thought was just a really well written fan addition to the Tolkien universe...except around the 1000 word mark there was suddenly, (beautifully and tastefully) cock everywhere!

It was like someone had reached into me deepest darkest hind brain and flicked a switch. "REMEMBER HOW YOU LOVE THIS????, PROLLY NOT BECAUSE YOU DIDN'T KNOW UNTIL JUST NOW! WOOT WOOT."

There could be hundreds and thousands of women out there who have not yet realsied they can get WAY turned on, physically, mentally and emotionally, by the way WOMEN (predominently) write two men falling in lust and love.

Anyway...my point is, if there's RL slash out there I would like to read it, and if there's not then why not?

And how come Bexless can write a romance I utterly believe and trust in her spare time just because she wants to, with no comeback except our heart felt comments of adoration, AND GET PAID NOTHING. And yet there are writers out there GETTING PAID to write Romance novels that not only talk down their noses at us but are in no way shape or form as romantic, passionate or adorable as 99.9999999999999% of the stuff Bexless writes??? HOW COME???

I'm using Bexless as an example, but there are so many awesome, awesome writers in this fandom that I would seriously pay money to read.

So I guess what I am wondering is, why am I not being given the chance?

girlcomic ahoy

2009-09-28T07:03:55Z

I think the world needs a girlcomic called 'Peppers'n'Frank': the ongoing saga of Peppers, the incredibly cute Chihuahua and her love-lorn owner Frank, the reluctant guitar teacher. The story is always told from Pepper's POV and frequently feature's her beloved owners' tragically lame attempts to get into the pants of his next door neighbour, Gerard, the Artist, who is endearingly oblivious.

Peppers is always fending off the advances of Gerard's comically oversexed chocolate Pug (as yet unnamed),

Frank frequently resorts to the wearing of all-day pyjamas and moping round the apartment. Sometimes he falls asleep on the couch and has nice dreams in which he is no longer a pussy and asks Gee out on a date.

Peppers always likes to snuggle with daddy when he is having naps on the couch in case he has bad dreams.

etc etc.

now...who's going to write this??

Oh my sweet christ...

2009-09-26T04:29:41Z

*speechless*

"Once bitten, I must now roam eternity as a chihuahua of the night. "

*meeps*

I just discovered this picture...

2009-09-11T22:18:59Z

And my head has actually melted off.

Yes. That is Frank.

Holy.

Shit.

ETA: I just realised 'Frank' is without an adam's apple. MANIP! Best one I've ever seen...whoever the body is has quite manish hands though...CONFUSION!

I will never get a boyfriend at this rate...

2009-09-07T09:50:22Z

Because I spend my weekends making mental assed shit like this:

Dear Fandom...

2009-09-06T05:22:19Z

Conjugating verbs:

To ring
Ring, rang, rung. "The guy hasn't rang yet." should read, "the guy hasn't rung yet."

To drag
Drag, dragged. "he drug him out to the carpark." should read, "he dragged him out to the carpark"

To buy
Buy, bought

The bring
Bring, brought

PLEASE NOTE: Brought and bought have two very different meanings that can confuse a sentence if interchanged.

Sorry if it seems rude, but I keep seeing these in fic and even though I'm not a real grammar geek (I don't know whether I'm talking about past partciples or what the hell all) I read a lot and mistakes like this kind of jolt me out of the story. Happens to the best of us.

This site can help you to check: http://www.verb2verbe.com/EnglishConj.aspx?verb=ring&tail=&type=query

Fusions and things

2009-09-06T02:20:35Z

Ok, here's a couple of castlists for a couple of fusions I've been thinking about lately...

One of my all time favourite films, Bladrunner has had people fretting over it for years. What does it all mean, which cut is the best, was that scene really ad libbed? Etc, etc. Some of the great lines are in that film and some fabulous charcaters. And best (worst?) of all, it is a vision of a future you can kind of see happening. When Ridley Scott retrofitted the future, he snapped us out of the Atomic, 'we'll-sort-it-out', future fantasy sci-fi had existed in up to them, and slapped us upside the head and ushered in the post-atomic age.
So why stick bandom in it? I dunno. I tried this with Samllville when I languished in that fandom a few years ago, but I could never get the characters to sex up enough. The darkness and the langor (there's a definite End of the Weimar Republic feel to a lot of the film - Zhora's sex-show night club with the Teutonically inflected MC, the long leather coats, the systematic extermination of unwanted types.) is very sexy; and the relationship that blosoms between Rachel and Deckhard is at once deeply flawed and touchingly true. Where else could too such fuck-ups find true love except with each other? The dehumanised, and the inhuman? It seemed to me to be the right place for fanon inspired Frank and Gee to meet.

Frank – Deckard: He'd a be a great, feisty, snarky, sensitive-yet-wishing-he-wasn't, Decard. I like the idea of him being a reluctant killer and I kind of imagined making him and Pete become friends, before Frank realises who and what he is and what Frank has to do about it. As for Frank being a replicant too? I never liked that reading of the film. I personally would like a cut WITH the voice over AND the slam cut, elevator ending, but no unicorn dreams. Mikey and Gee have all the unicorn dreams.

Gee – Rachel: "Do you like our owl?" Imagine him with that smokey eye make up, the slick, retrofitted suit, the cocky, sexy, subtle, vulnerablity. Perfection.

Brian – Bryant: Bryant is a racist dick. But Brian is the only person I could reasonably fit in this role.

Ray – Gaff: I considered Mikey, but no, Gaff is Franks 'minder', if he is a replicant. He lets them go at the end and his line, his comapssion: "It's too bad (s)he wont live..." is one of the most heartbreaking in the film.

Bob - Holden: I know it makes me a bad person, but Bob is kind of expendable in this story idea. SORRY!

Pete - Roy Batty: Originally this was going to be bert and then I couldn't stand the cliche. Also, Roy Batty has one od the most famous, heartredning, beutiful soliloquies in the history of Syfy cinema. No way would Bert frikken McCrakofmyass pull that off. Gotta be Pete.

Mikey – Pris: A very different one from the film. Film Pris is kind of nasty and creepy as fuck - the sex toy that kills. Mikey will be far sweeter and less obviously dangerous. I don't think I can kill him either. It just doesn't work for me. In never has...I always want the skin jobs to live...but anyway...

Patrick – Leon: Goes the way of the Bob in this case. Sorry Pattycakes!

Brendon – J.F. Sebastian: This is a case of classic casting against type. Brendon's Sebastian is going to be more nerd doctor, that reclusive skin disorder guy.

Ryan – Tyrell:The man with the God Complex who causes all the trouble. I didn't even have to think twice.

Theme: the song that insired me was Roisin Murphy's dirty, nasty, sex soaked, electroclash version of Slave To Love

***
This is going to be very, very different.
Breakfast Club is a fucking classic. Everyone knows that. So I find it hard to beleive no one's done this before. Maybe they have? Please let me know. Anyway. It's a classic, but it's horribly flawed. The character's are wonderful. Even in New Zealand where we all wear school uniforms to High School and everyone is as much of a dork as everyone else, those stereotypes made sense to us. Anyway. The flaws only really occured to me years later, but at the time all I knew was that I really wanted a film in which John Bender recognises that his true soul mate is Alison, together they kill Andrew and Claire, adopt Brian as their son and take off on a rampage across the US ending in a hail of bullets and disaster somewhere outside Reno - kind of Heathers meets Bonnie and Clyde meets Rebel Without a Cause or something. That film never happened, but man it would have been great. Obviousely I'm not going to do that to MCR either, but I do think they could fit nicely into those stereotypes with just a little tweeking of the storyline. The only thing I'm going to keep from my Rebel without a Bonnie and Heather version is Alison, or in this instance, Gerard does not get a naff makeover, a snog from the Jock or ignored by my much smaller, but no less adaroable John Bender, Frank. In the movie, when John Bender tells Alison accusatorially "I know you..." that should mean something. In my version, it absolutely will.

Frank – John Bender: He's said himself that he was a bit of a trouble maker at school and smoked heroic quantities of pot. Perfection! Also, I want to see him in that long coat, work boots, floppy hair get up. You know you do too.

Gee – Allison Reynolds: Seriously, she even kind of looks like him. Also, she was my fashion hero when I was in school. I kind of was her, right down to carrying my entire life in an over the shoulder sack and hiding my body in a series of mahusive old man jumpers and my eyes behind thrity tonnes of kohl. Gee is my fasion icon now, I also want to be him (only, like, without the cock). It's a natural choice. Also my fanon Gee was this awkward, unpredictable and weird. He also draws - only not covered bridges, but he does make dandruff snow...cute and gross. *sigh*

Ray – Brian Johnson: Obviously.

Bob – Andrew Clark: I can SO imgine Bob doing wrestling. In fact I do often. *mmmmmm tights*

Mikey – Claire Standish: Ok so here's the biggest break with the story, because obviously Mikey and Gee are brothers and always will be, so I'm working this one in as a suprise. How can he be the Claire character, and also be Gee's brother...you'll never guess...

Pete – Richard Vernon: I just don't think Pete could ever be as much of a dick as Vern is, but that's who I'm casting. I'll make it work.

Gabe – Carl the Janitor: I have big plans for Gabe as Carl. Big, sexytimes plans. Because you really shouldn't have Gabe in one of your fics unless you're planning big sexytimes.

Theme: Got to be MCR's own Kill All Your Friends.

Breakfast in bed at 2pm

2009-09-06T01:07:39Z

Oh my god. Marmalade is awesome.

Roxy Poster, blood, guts, French cinema

2009-09-06T00:31:44Z

Just helped pay for Bandit's edumacation (go Ivy league, kid, you can after what I just shelled out) Got a My Chem t (all ready for summer) and a bunch of other shit, just so I could gt a FREE copy of the Roxy poster AT F*CKING LONG LAST. How many people have I plagued about that frikken poster? THOUSANDS. Well, I gots me one. Sadly it's a litho and not a screenprint, but you can't win 'em all. It'll look boss in my collection, for sure.

Awesome night last night: watched horrors with Typhoid crew: Martyrs (for which my buddy Cortes did the soundtrack) and the most brilliant mocumentary, Behind the Mask. Also, Exorcist three which is a criminally underrated film. Seriously brilliant dialog and George C Scott vs. Brad Dourif. Genius. Driving home at 4 in the morning, Venus high in the sky and NO ONE on the roads was eerie and beautiful.

Questions...

2009-09-01T10:26:59Z

1. Congrats to everyone who got kink and cliche bingo cards in. Well done youse fullas! But how come hardly any of you have written Bandom?? Am I missing something?

2. How can I have fallen for a fandom which simultaneously has some of the most incredible authors writing in it, along some of the absolute worst I have ever had the terrible mis fortune to read in my whole entire life? Some days there are entries on my flist that make me want to spork out my own, much loved, eyes. I just read one that was so long, rambling and pointless I felt sure there would be some red hot nasty as fuck sex lurking near the end or something, because otherwise WHAT WAS THE FUCKING POINT? It was tensionless, plotless, pointless...and then THERE WAS NO SEX. That is no way to win friends and influence people. By the same token I just finished a fic that took me three whole days to read, many, many, many flaws, but so well written and the the plot so adorable that those flaws were easy to skip over (an AU about university written by someone who had clearly never been, or who had started out writing a high/boarding school AU and decided to make everyone a little older at the last minute??)

2b. Why aren't there more nasty Boarding school fics starring Frank as the homesick new boy and Gee as the worldly, Byronic, senior who 'shows him the ropes' so to speak. Jesus, I'm off a way to hell for that one!

3.Could Frank I ero be any cuter? (I have the answer to that already, it is NO. No he could not. Because it would kill me. Kill me stone dead.) Did anyone read his tweet about why he put on weight? I wanted to smash whoever asked him about that in the face, but he was so cool about it. I am SO SICK of reading so called fans talking about his fucking weight though. The guy is a fucking legend. Apart from making me, with my own weight ups downs, feel less of a fucking freak of nature, Frank's weight means zip the fuck all - he was still hot, his bands (pick which ever one of the three he was working with over that whole period) were still fucking awesome, he was still a funny little fucker. But it was like people were actually offended that the guy turned out to be human after all. Jesus fuck. I hope everyone who sniggered about his size feels like shit knowing it was due to medication he took to ease serious pain. Y'all're a bunch of twats.

4. Did anyone else spend time yesterday laughing their asses off at the fan response to Frank's proposed block-a-thon? "Frank doesn't care about the fans!" "Frank hates his fans" "Frank has changed!" Jesus fucking christ! The guy sits at a computer and reads your mental assed tweets and fucking replies to them, sometimes for hours at a time, posts pictures of his life, talks about his personal shit with you, fucking GRRRRRRRRRRRRR, is a fucking presence online, and still you're not happy. I think he's earned the right to weed out the lame! You don't own him. If he wants to post pictures of his dogs shit and call it "My Number One Fan!" he fucking can (he didn't but I'm just saying...) If he wants to post a picture of a Rhino taking a dump (he did) then tto bad. If he wants to block a few people who annoy him with crap, then get the fuck over it (please note I stayed well out of the firing line and didn't tweet anything at him for like a whole 24 hours, just to be on the safe side.) You don't own him. Or the fucking internet, dick. (Maybe they've made a rod for their own backs being so accessible to their fans?) You know what, if he eventually gives up on posting because he's sick to death of silly little immature squibs crying every time he says something they don't get/like/feel 110% comfortable with, or that in some way messes with the bizzare 2D version of Frank Iero that lives in their heads, then I will hunt every single one of you down and slap you.

5. Is anyone else going to see MCR in Sydney at Soundwave? I have never paid so much to be so throughly insulted and annoyed by a promoter in my life. Usually the ticket buyers get shafted by Promoters but these guys take the fucking cake. Me: "How can I ensure getting tickets if I live in New Zealand?" Promoter: "Move to a real country." What the actual fucking fuck? You know the worst thing about that? It was really blimmin' funny. Australians, the bloody bastards.

Fic Rant part Deux

2009-08-25T11:13:21Z

You know what reallt grinds my gears? Great summary, great idea, fantastic AU twist...CRAPPY,FLORID, PURPLE, CRAPPY WRITING. Jesus wept.

roxy_palace @ 2009-08-23T16:43:00

2009-08-23T04:53:59Z

Meme:

1. My username is ___________ because _________.
My username's Roxy_Palace after a character I devised a long time ago as part of an imaginary online zine -She was going to be this hip little scene kid manga character and the zine was going to consist of interviews conducted by Roxy online. She named herself after the run down former movie house in her home town whre punk bands used to play. Imagine her delight when her fav band decided to make their comeback rock-aganza at The Roxy in LA!

2. My journal is titled _____________ because __________
My LJ fu is pretty shit, so I don't even know if my LJ has a name. If it did it's be Adventures in Smut or something. I think it might be called the skinny or something? I don't know. I should prolly check that out...

3. My journal is sub-titled _______________ because _______________.
'It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye...'
I kind of had this idea that people think what we don online is meaningless and harmless, and yet such huge bust ups happen on LJ it reminded me of kindergarten, where kids act out without knowing why, thinking it's all in fun until someone gets rfeally upset and over-reacts. But that was a long time ag and I think most of the poeple I interact with here are pretty sophisticated and emotionally intelligent. So I prolly need to chage that too.

4. My friends page is called _________ because _____________.
'The Skinny' coz that's where I go to get the skinny on what's going down. Or something...I really haven't thought this through have I?

5. My default userpic is __________ because ______________.
It's the Neon sign from the Roxy in LA. When I saw the image in a bunch of pics from MCR's shows it was too good to let lside. I like to see my name up in lights!

Fic Rec: Sunsetmog is my dealer

2009-08-22T12:47:36Z

High School Au's are like crack, once you start you can't stop, and it gets so you just NEED the HC cute no matter how crummy the quality. You get so you're mainlining whole bunches of the stuff, just searching, searching for another one as good as the one that got you hooked in the first place...but you never find it. So you make do with ill thought out plots and shallow characterisations and sub John Hughesian cliches, wasting away in pursuit of the perfect fic, the one that just doesn't exist...

Until one day, one shining day, a chum recs you a fic with a pairing you usually avoid like anyone over 30 avoids Zac Effron movies, but you read it anyway because Hello, High School AU, and you never know, maybe, maybe this time it will be different...

The first thing you notice when you click on the link is a bunch of fan mixes and fan art - sounds promising, but you've been burned before...also it appears to be about rugby, the sport that has plagued your life since birth and on occasion reduces the intellectual capacity of your entire country to the equvalent of a jar of blue green algae. But still, HIGH SCHOOL, bring the Pep!

Man, it's long too. If it's good that will be utterly and completely awesome. But if it's bad, it's gonna hurt. Because you wont be able to stop reading, hoping against hope that it'll get better somewhere, somehow...

You let your cursor hover over the link that says [one], take a deep and abiding breath and click...

I'm a fan girl, right. I mean, aren't we all? But anyway, I know we're a little prone to hyperbole when we come across something that takes our fancy, but believe me when I say Sunsetmog is a fucking genius.

Seriously, s/he is a writer of consumate skill, heart and sensitivity. S/he understands that genuine conflict is the living difference between 'messing about' and actual writing. S/he knows how to tell a story.

You Can Sit Beside Me When The World Comes Down and it's sister HSAU If Music Be The Food Of Love (I'll Have The Veggie Burger) , are Spencer/Brendon Panic fics that would not be out of place in a collection of short stories about romance, or school, or coming out, or coming of age or anything really, by any editors standards - fan fic or no.

Beside Me also includes healthy dose of Rywalk, Rugby, and very classy story telling. Food of Love is darker, but nonetheless compelling, focussing on a heartbreakingly tragic Brendon's struggle to find his place in the world. I can't decide which is the better story and thankfully I don't have to. They compliment each other nicely: one a sweet, rosey eyed, coming of age romance, the other a bittersweet, heart rending, coming of age romance. See? Beside Me is certainly the more High School centric if that's what your after and gods know I always am! But there's no way you wont enjoy Food of Love if you enjoy the other.

Anyway, read them both because you wont regret it. If you're not madely in love with Bden and Spence by the end of it then I don't know what.

The romance, is subtle, slow building, tentative and very real. No one is entirely sure of anything, not even themselves. Ego's get in the way, get hurt, get left behind. Scenery is painted, personalities develop, grow, blossom, hearts are broken. What more could any self respecting HSAU fan want??

Bad Fic

2009-08-17T07:05:27Z

Why...WHY! I want to spork out my eyes it was so bad.

So bad I didn't even finish it.

Ok things I never want to read again:

1. 1st person fic. I've only ever read one that was any good and wouldn't you fucking know it, written by a painfully infrequent poster. But so good (So very very good) I will break my self imposed No 1st person rule only for this.

Look, the key to writing in this tense, as my infrequently posting 1st person hero knows, is TO WRITE IN CHARACTER, not just as an 'oh so clever' way to disguise (HA!) a painful Mary/Gary Sue: "Oh my god, Frank. Do you mean to tell me you want to sex me?! You want me in a sexual way? Really? Because I am so sexy?" I couldn't believe it. Frank wanted my ass.

CLUE: NO ONE IN THE UNIVERSE SPEAKS LIKE THIS. EVER. THE FUCKING END.

2. Suprise! I'm bisexual! Just...no...

3. Suprise! I'm bisexual! And I want to fuck everything and everyone! Seriously? SERIOUSLY?

4. Frerard where either Frank or Gee is an unmitigated prick for no apparent reason. I don't mind Frank being an asshole, I kind of mind Gee being an asshole, that's a personal taste thing though...but can we at least have some reason please?! Also, why the fuck would you choose to write in this fandom if all you want to do is drag these guys through the gutter and back and back again and then take a piss on them and laugh when it makes them cry? No one is as irredeemable as you've writen them. It's as painful and annoying as reading Perfect!fic.

5. Back tracking and abandoning character epipahnies just to keep your 'day time soap' going for 1000000000000000000000 posts. Do some fucking reading. Good stories end. they have a beginning and they have a middle. Interminable shit the just dribbles on with every painfully extracted moment of character 'development' being shunted aside, backtracked upon or even simply forgotten, is not plot. It's verbal diorea.

6. Where the fuck is Bob? Where the fuck is Ray? Seriously, these guys are awesome. Where are they and why don't they get to fuck Gee sometimes? or Mikey? or Frank? This is a personal preferance thing, but sometimes, sometimes I would like Ray to get some. Bexless did it best and proved beyond doubt that Ray/Mikey is HOT.

7. Everyone is fucking gay. Clue: NO THEY ARE NOT. Unless you can really handle this well, and to date I've only read one bandom ensemble 'we're all gay here!' that worked, not everyone needs to love cock. Some of the guys can love pussy and not detract from the awesomeness of your gay as fuck OTP.

8. I love that you are gay! It's so sweet! Guess what? Even the coolest people have complex responses to finding out their friends are gay. Sometimes it starts out bad, and they come round. Some times it starts out good and turns to shit when reality sinks in. Sometimes people genuinely are cool about it. MIX IT UP. Try and find out what really happens when epople come out to their friends. Not everyone is fucking in love with homosexuality. not everyone will give a rats ass, even. Clue: it is fucking boring as shit when all your characters have the same reaction to everything. Not being sure about something doesn't make you a homophobic hater. But it might make one of your secondary characters a good tool for exploring what it means to be a good friend, what it means to be unsure about your own sexuality, what it means to fall in love with someone you didn't expect to fall in love with...who knows?!

9. There are so many more but that's just my ranty pants for today.

This fandom is FUCKING AWESOME. I've never been made to feel more welcome, or been more inspired by the work in any fandom I've participated it. And I know, I kow that I am bound to make some of these mistakes at some point. But just today, for now, these are the big fat hairy bugs up my Readers ass.

Deep breath.

Pete/Brendon

2009-08-17T05:51:48Z

Anyone else feeling the Petrendon Love? http://petewentz.com/post/164655536/angels-and-kings-at-its-best-acoustic-set-dont