Famous Last Words

Aahahahaa, okay so we were talking on Twitter about feedback; kudos vs comments and how sometimes you love a story A LOT and really WANT to comment, but don't and then never do and I discovered I'm not the only person who psyches themselves out of commenting like that. So here, have THE GUILT MEME:

We've all done it. That fic that you've read eleventy billion times and never actually commented on. Or maybe you only read it once but it was so good - SO fucking good that you just didn't know how to EXPRESS how good it was so you never actually commented, or you read it on your e-reader and never went back to comment, or you went back to comment and wound up re-reading it and STILL didn't comment, or it's been around forever and you kind of let yourself off the hook without commenting because there were ALREADY so many comments, surely the writer knows it's awesome, right?

Consider this meme a confessional. WHAT FICS ARE THEY?

( The fics I never commented on and I SHOULD HAVE )

OKAY, NOW YOU. Let's try and make this a meme!

Speak freely, nothing will get held against you. This doesn't mean you have to go leave comments NOW, like, unless you WANT TO, that's not the point. The point is, CONFESS.

P.S. It's kind of disheartening how every single one of these links was readily available in my browser history. THAT'S how often I reread these. /o\

I was cleaning up my Masterlist and realised I never re-posted this fic to my LJ or AO3. So, here is some Mikey/Ray kink fic I wrote for eledhwenlin's Bandom Kinkfest

Fandom: Bandom, MCR
Title: It's Not A Thing (except for when it is)
Pairing: Mikey/Ray
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Hair pulling, mild pain play
Summary: Mikey likes it when it hurts. Ray accidentally finds this out.
Author's Notes: Original post here. In my head this is a precursor fic to Theory And Practice. I just really like writing Ray negotiating Mikey's kinks, okay? Written for turps33's prompt because she and I love a lot of the same things.

Also available on AO3

( It's Not A Thing (except for when it is) )

Hey hey hey so it's V-day and apparently I should care. I kind of don't, really, though I would happily make out with everyone on my flist right now. Actually that isn't just a VDay thing, that is true of me EVERY day!

So, no_tags was fun, wasn't it? I wrote that one that I have since heard referred to as "THE CREEPY STALKER THRU THE WINDOW ONE" and apparently it was obvious FROM SPACE that it was me. This kind of surprised me a little! Because usually I write like a long PWP where it's mostly sex, and this one had PLOT and as I said to greedy_dancer NO ONE EXPECTS PLOT FROM ME, DO THEY? But apparently I smeared my id all over the page and my id looks a lot like Gerard being a creepy stalker with some fake boyfriends thrown in for good measure. Nice one, id.

(Fine, okay, I'll admit the voyeuristic side of things was probably a dead giveaway but WHATEVS.)

( blather about the prompt-picking and writing process )

Also, I got a story! eldee_fic got my prompt Frank/Gerard - this wasn't part of the plan and wrote You Live Life - a really gorgeous wingfic with some lovely imagery and it's her VERY FIRST bandom fic and it's LOVELY. You should read it!

So yeah, Sunday afternoon was FANGIRL MEETUPS!

( Fangirls in London ahoy! )

Last little no_tags thing, they are doing a bonus round, and if anyone were to write my spare prompt 32. Ray/Mikey - Ray gets way more action than anyone realizes. Mikey figures this out - I will give you my FIRST BORN. Or a cookie. Your choice! Hey, it doesn't hurt to ask, right?

Okay, LASTLY, here are some stupid faces for V-Day!



( IAN WOULD LIKE YOU TO COME INSIDE )

Happy Hallmark Day you gorgeous things!

NO REALLY I PROMISE THIS WILL BE BRIEF!

( LOL I TOTALLY LIED. THIS IS IN NO WAY BRIEF )

So in conclusion: Dallon is a tall drink of water. Spencer is a fucking HOTASS. Brendon is a hotass who gives me EPIC MOTTS and needs to spend less time talking and more time taking his clothes off and IAN IS A FUCKING HOTASS WHO CAN SHRED IN A WAY THAT TOTALLY ENGAGES MY COMPETENCY KINK AND MAKES ME WONDER IF HE CAN CHANNEL RAY TORO.

So yeah, I guess the gig was okay.

(About 3k of Frank/Gerard not!fic, rated PG, not beta'ed because it's RIDICULOUS.)

It all started because of This Tweet: bdo_official: That'd be @tonyhawk skating with My Chemical Romance in the background. Fairly average day here at BDO. #bdo2012 fb.me/1xI4Gdw7u

Which prompted this conversation:
kopperblaze Mcr skating with tony hawk??? I gotta see this, getting the laptop out for a sec at work >.>
gala_apples EXCUSE ME WHAT?
kopperblaze oh. i guess it is tony hawk skating with the mcr stage in the background. now i'm kinda disappointed lol
gala_apples Oh god, for a second I thought My Chem and Tony Hawk were legit hanging out. I NEED MIKEY WAY ON A SKATEBOARD.
ladyfoxxx Skater AU anyone?
ladyfoxxx Actually I want an AU based on Avril's sk8er boy. Someone get on that.
kopperblaze omg i've wanted an au based on that song for ages!!! Pref brian/mikey or ray/mikey or or. Actually i don't care,i want
ladyfoxxx so who is the posh one who does ballet?
kopperblaze uhm.... Ryan ross? Lol
ladyfoxxx LOL so then what, it's mikey/ryan?
gala_apples LOL THEN IT ENDS IN MPREG WITH RYAN. Awesome.
ladyfoxxx I actually want the sk8er boi story where the posh one and the skatey one end up together
ladyfoxxx I am such a hopeless romantic like that
kopperblaze me too. In that case mikey should do ballet
ladyfoxxx LOL mikey in a tutu
gala_apples DUDES. DUDES. IT IS CANON THAT FRANK TOOK BALLET LESSONS :D
ladyfoxxx well frank did go to private school, right? maybe it could be pre-punk frank?
ladyfoxxx or SECRETLY punk frank...

And a bunny was born. It actually is less sk8er boi and more ( Frank The Secret Prep School Punk )

So the Author reveals for bandomstuffsit have gone up!

The person who wrote my most excellent gift The Things Frank Plays is s0ckpupp3t who is someone I'm not very familiar with so YAY now I get to go and backread lots of wonderful things! She did such a great job of filling the fic with things I love, I'm going to be devouring her masterlist with gusto.

...and apparently it wasn't at all obvious FROM SPACE which one I wrote:

The One Where Ryan Ross Thinks He Knows Everything - always-a-girl!Spencer/Ryan/Brendon, NC-17 - Original Post

YES. I WROTE PANIC. Not only did I write Panic, I wrote bb!OT3 high school Panic fic with always-a-girl!Spencer. Because apparently when I decide to write outside my comfort zone, I go WAY OUT of my comfort zone.

( blather about the writing process )

Also, the BB OT3 high school AU was my SECOND attempt at writing this fic. My first attempt was going to be always-a-girl!Spencer/Ryan/Brendon established relationship fic where Ryan fucks up his flight on Christmas Eve and instead of having their first Christmas in LA like they planned, Brendon and Spencer have to road trip to Salt Lake City to find him and they have their first Christmas together in a hotel room at a random Holiday Inn. With sex. Punishing Ryan for missing his flight sex. Of course I got one scene into that fic before it all petered out and I just had to switch tracks if I wanted ANY hope of finishing on time.

I still have that first failed attempt at that fic, and I'm going to post it here like some kind of DVD-extra:

( DVD EXTRA! A scene from The One Where Ryan Misses His Flight )

So that was my bandomstuffsit adventure. How was yours? Was it easy to write your fic, or excruciatingly hard? Were you writing for someone you knew, or a stranger? Did you have to challenge yourself to fill your recipient's wishes, or did they turn out to be your long lost fic soulmate? Was there any fic you were DYING to find out who wrote? (I was desperate to know who wrote my gift, as well as the gorgeous Frank+Ways fic, which turned out to be sneaky_sena so my masterlist-backreading-frenzy is only getting larger and larger...)

HI I AM STUCK AT WORK ON A SATURDAY TALK TO MEEEE

Hey hey hey, so it was pouring rain yesterday and I got soaked on the way to work :( but I dried out eventually and my day improved with the addition of a nice cup of tea and some Patrick Stump.

I don't really believe in New Years resolutions, but I'm going to try to post more and keep up with comments this year. And COMMENT ON FICS when I READ THEM, fuck I am so BAD at doing that. I spent most of my spare moments yesterday clearing my LJ inbox and answering comments from as early as like, July. So if you got a comment reply from me for something you posted ages ago - that's why!

Anyway - today is the reveals for the bandomstuffsit! I'm taking a page out of turps33's book and asking - does anyone want to guess which one I wrote? (Hint: If you're on twitter you'll know I was freaking because it involved writing characters I'd NEVER written before, and I was whining about it. So there's that, but I feel like aside from that aspect it is obvious from SPACE that I wrote it.)

Anyone got a guess? Anyone? C'mon play with meeeeee...

I'll also take this opportunity to pimp the story that was written for ME and say I'm rather desperate to know who wrote THAT too! It's The Things Frank Plays by SOMEONE AWESOME. Gerard gets hard to handle on tour so Lindsey hires him a hooker, in the form of FRANK. It's really fucking gorgeous, hot, adorable, funny and I just LOVE the way that Frank is written in it. And Gerard is so GERARD, and did I mention the sex? Because it is SMOKING.

How about a list of some of the other stories from the exchange I really enjoyed?

( Half Assed Recs List! )

This is by no means an exhaustive list, there's still so many I haven't read! /o\ Which ones did YOU love, dear flist, so I can make sure I put them on my to-read list?

Oh man, I just realised that posting a recs list in the same post as a guessing post might be giving a lot away (though I did comment on all those fics so it's not like I'm giving THAT much away.)

So I was starting to put together stats for my 2011 Year in Fic and I realised I've got a bunch of ficlets, not!fics and commentfics I've not properly posted, so since today is the last day of 2011, I guess I need to post them now!

( always-a-girl!Gerard/Lyn-Z/Frank - continuation of the Punk-Ass-Threesome High School AU )

( Pete/Mikey - dustverse )

( Frank/Gerard - not!fic sequel-ish thing to Hard Candy )

( Gerard/Lyn-Z - not!fic - one year after Black Satin )

( Pete/Mikey/Alicia - angsty vaguely Summer Of Likeish snippet )

( Gen-ish Killjoys in Space! Ficlet )

( Frank/Gerard as street racers ficlet )

( Jamia/Lyn-Z/Alicia all girl circle jerk ficlet )

( Frank/Gerard - cop Frank, fugitive Gerard ficlet )

It continues to be VERY apparent that I just can't write commentfic.