Famous Last Words

This list is a WIP. It is by NO MEANS complete. In fact, it is painfully incomplete. I am TERRIBLE at keeping track of things I've read (and even worse at ones I haven't) so I've no doubt missed a lot of great fic, therefore I need your help! Please link me to fics in the comments I have missed so I can add them! Ray-centric fics only. This should be a reclist of fic where Ray is the main event. Because he's worth it.

Massive thanks to anoneknewmoose for html help and links and to akamine_chan for being an LJ guru.

( Ray/Mikey )
( Jet Star/Kobra Kid )
( Ray/Gerard )
( Ray/Frank )
( Ray/Bob )
( Threesomes! )
( GSF )
( Ray/Everyone )
( Ray solo )
( Gen )
( Ray/Ian )
( Ray/Spencer )
( Ray/Dallon Weekes )
( Ray/Patrick Stump )
( Ray/Dewees )
( Ray/Christa )

ETA - Massive thanks to turlough, monkey_pie, sneaky_sena, pennyplainknits, shinetheway, halfeatenmoon, anoneknewmoose and akamine_chan for their valuable additions, and also for convincing me to add my own fics to the list.

New additions always welcome! Please feel free to let me know about new Ray fic!

My ongoing quest to get Ray laid continues unabated.

Fandom: Bandom – MCR and FOB
Title: Over Sharing
Pairing: Ray/Patrick (Pete/Mikey)
Rating: M?
Length: 2400 words
A/N: This is all cee_m's fault. And pennyplainknits too. Inspirational material here. Huge thanks to akamine_chan for prompt and excellent beta.

Summary: "You're not Mikey," Ray says dumbly.

"Yeah, no shit," Patrick says, shifting his bag, "So he didn't tell you then?"

"Didn't tell me what?" Ray asks, then his brain kicks in (hey, it takes a few minutes for him to shift gears out of jerking-off mode). "Oh wait - let me guess. Mikey's crashing with Pete so you're stuck with me?"

Also available on AO3

( The one where Ray and Patrick are forced to share a hotel room. )

You know when you get that first idea for a fic, all shiny and exciting and you immediately latch onto ONE scene or ONE moment that you desperately want to write? Sometimes you write thousands of words JUST so you can write that ONE scene or moment?

Well that's what happens to me, anyway. OFTEN. So I did a quick poll earlier on Twitter and it appears I am not alone in this. And now I am desperately interested to know what everyone else's key scenes/moments in fic are.

So! Tell me. What was that scene you wanted to write in that particular fic? Did it come out the way you thought it would? Did it end up being a key scene, or just another scene? Was it a scene a lot of people commented on? Did you (GASP) need to cut the scene out of the fic in the end? ;___;

( I'll go first! )

OKAY NOW, your turn! Tell me about your key scenes! Comment below or repost to your journal so people can ask you about specific fics!

Is there a particular fic of mine that you'd like to know what my That One Thing scene was? Ask me! (my masterlist is here)

Is there a shiny new plot bunny on your horizon with a key scene you want to write? Tell me!

Talk to meeeee….

So eledhwenlin, pennyplainknits and I all drank the Ray/Ian Kool-Aid together and we maybe have a lot of feelings about hot guitarists with awesome hair and how they should hook up. Which devolved into twit!fic which devolved into not!fic which devolved into not!fic with large chunks of porn scattered through it.

Title: Eruption (or: Ray Toro's Jailbait Boyfriend)
Fandom: Bandom
Bands: MCR, Panic
Pairing: Ray/Ian
Word Count: 10k
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Insanity. Leather pants. Pete Wentz.
Summary: Ridiculous twitter-originated not!fic where Ray has a crush on Ian, Mikey can detect people's sex habits by the way they play guitar, Spencer is unimpressed by Ray's ass, Ian is a tiny hotass and their respective bands are a bunch of interfering assholes.

Oh, and Ray wears leather pants.

Here on AO3

Fandom: Bandom
Bands: MCR, The Used (Panic, FOB)
Pairing(s): Frank/Mikey (Ray/Spencer)
Word Count: 50 500 words
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Canon fuckery - this is an AU which borrows heavily from canon, but it's still an AU.
Summary:
"You and me, right Mikes?"

"Yeah, fuck everybody else."

Best friends since high school, if Frank could've chosen a brother, he'd pick Mikey. Then Mikey became a rock star and Frank... didn't. After years of radio silence, Mikey steps onto a stage in Jersey and back into Frank's life.

(Or, the one where Frank is a school teacher and Mikey plays rhythm in The Used.)

A/N: This story owes a lot to a lot of people. To anoneknewmoose for stellar beta and making sure I knew it was worth posting. To mizubyte for straightening out my canon fuckups (she drew me a diagram of the Starland Ballroom, you guys!) and being generally brilliant. To jenepel and silly_cleo the most awesome Nano gurus without whom this story wouldn't even have been finished, and to turps33, kopperblaze, cee_m and my entire twitter feed for continually reassuring me that there were people out there who actually wanted to read this ridiculous story. Lastly, to the awesome bandombigbang mods for running the challenge beautifully and being super helpful and amazing.


The whole fic on AO3

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5

Bonus Materials

Fanart:

One gorgeous piece by anna_luna (Spoilery for the fic)

Fanmix:

You're My Guitar Hero by almostblue

Art - One Piece by anna_luna
Art rating: G
Spoilers for the fic!
Medium: Copic markers and watercolors on paper

( Amazing art under the cut (spoilers for the fic) )

Yeah so you know that fic I've been banging on about for a while that I want where Ray has a secret past as sex cam guy and someone finds out? Yeah. Well, I kinda wrote it...

Fandom: Bandom, MCR & Panic
Title: Nostalgia Porn (Is The Best Porn)
Pairing: Ian/Ray
Word Count: ~6 000 words
Warnings: NC-17 for explicit sex. Pornography. Some timeline fuckery to put Panic in London for the NME awards.
A/N: So it was pennyplainknits's and cee_m's and kopperblaze's and bebunny's birthdays in... May and I was going to write them some birthday fic! I am... a little late. Whoops? Um, happy belated birthday porn guys :D? Big thanks to anoneknewmoose for stepping up to most excellent beta duties. ♥

Summary: Ian's thoughts are interrupted as Brendon, his gaze stuck firmly on the screen, asks, in a rather startled voice, "Why do you have porn of Ray Toro on your computer?"
Also available on AO3

( AKA the one where Ray has a secret past in porn and Ian finds out )

I am still not seeing a light at the end of the work tunnel, but BY GOD I am going to continue to have some kind of fannish presence. I'll do a life post SOMETIME, I promise, but right now I just want to do this top 10 AO3 fics meme I am seeing around because it interests the shit out of me.

So the idea is to sort your fics posted on AO3 by hit count, post the top ten and try to analyse your results. And GO.

1. James Cameron Got It Wrong 3187
Higher count than any other by almost DOUBLE. Yeah it's a big bang and a popular pairing (Frank/ Gerard) with bonus crazy threesomes (Frank/Frank/Gerard) but STILL. It blows me away that this crazy fic has been read so many times. YOU GUYSS. <3

2. Price Of Pretty 1634
I find it HILARIOUS that this is number two. 1600 hits and ZERO comments and mostly guest kudos? WHO ARE ALL YOU PEOPLE READING THIS FIC? You don't want people to know about your thing for spanking? Is that it? I DON'T UNDERSTAND. Well far be it for me to judge. GO YOU GOOD LURKERS. MORE POWER TO YOU.

3. Reaching Through The Mirror 1292
Gerard/Gerard prequel from the same verse as James Cameron so I guess that makes sense. But I love that my top three basically goes: SELFCEST THREESOME, SPANKING and SELFCEST. /o\ Go me.

4. Tell Me Something True 1178
A Mikey/Ray in position 4! You guys, you have NO IDEA how much this pleases me. I know it's probably mostly traffic via James Cameron since they are in the same 'verse but I STILL adore that a Mikey/Ray is doing so well. LOVE THIS PAIRING.

5. Feeling A Moment 1020
Frank/Gerard podfic co-op with podklb - I am not really sure why this one is up so high, probably because of the podfic because klb is such an awesome reader. Also NO SEX IN THIS ONE. WHAAAT.

6. No Experience Necessary 999 (somebody click now!)
My very first bigbang! The pizza 'verse. My first long trying-to-have-a-plot bandom fic with HS Frank/Gerard and Mikey/Ray I love it and want to cradle it to my bosom and I'm so happy it's still getting read.

7. Against The Wall 996
Oooh it's a tight race between positions 6 and 7! More D/s in the BDSM dom!Frankie verse from Price of Pretty. I guess people like BDSM fic?

8. Emergency Contact 948
I am ASTOUNDED to see this one in the top ten. When I first posted this fic it had very low views, but I think it had something of a renaissance when pennyplainknits podficced it and suddenly it climbed the list. Also YAY because Pete/Patrick/Mikey is a threesome I will ALWAYS love and there will never be enough of.

9. Ass-Kickin' Chick Music 886
My bandomreversebb fic! Only very recently posted always-a-girl!Gerard/always-a-girl!Frank, I'm so chuffed it made the list. I didn't think it would get much readership being femmeslash and yet... wow! Interestingly the LJ version of this fic seemed to get less traffic than the AO3 version, so it's possible that people's reading habits are changing?

10. In Production 854
Awwww I am so glad this one made the list! My second ever big bang, the movie AU of my HEART that was Gerard/Brian, Pete/Patrick, Bob/Ryan so it was never going to be a fandom favourite, but I'm VERY stoked it's made the top 10.

Honorable mentions: More BDSM fic at number 11, Waycest snowballing threesome came in at number 12 and my other-fandom Misfits selfcest fic at Number 13. WEIRD, you guys, WEIRD.

What does this MEAN? I... don't really know. People tend to read other fics if they are in a series? People like self cest? People like BDSM? People like PORN? People are less likely to comment on epic porn-fests about spanking?

I DON'T KNOW, YOU GUYS, TELL ME. What does this MEAN?