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\

So at 10:30pm on November 1 I decided I was going to try to do NaNoWriMo this year. Because I make all my important decisions at the LAST FUCKING MINUTE. I am completely unprepared (character outlines? plot points? WHAT?) and I am writing a story based around a musical playlist (not this one. Ha.)

Obviously when one is scrambling to get one's word-count up, one needs a mix, full of motivational "I am a literary WARRIOR" type of music. And also some power ballads so you can pretend you are in an 80's movie montage WRITING YOUR HEART OUT. Possibly in SLOW MOTION. Or no, rather, FAST MOTION. Yes, that would be better.

To all my fellow NaNo-ers, and in fact, ANYONE writing a story for a challenge, or anyone who just finds that writing a story IS a challenge, I give you this mix:

( You Can Do It! A Mix For The Literary Warrior )

So there's been a fair bit of talk lately about how Bandom needs a Reverse Big Bang, so mizubyte and I thought we'd give it a go.

If you're interested in participating head on over to bandomreversebb and put your hand up!

Also, thanks to turlough for the lovely banner!

Oh and please feel free to pimp the comm!

Got a question? Gerard Way is the answer!
Gerard Way so good you want it again.
It's not a trick, it's a Gerard Way.
Gerard Way is an investment in good appearance.

I have been playing with Sloganmaker too much, it seems!

FIRSTLY! Karma has been a HUGE BITCH to saxihighlandck and money woes look like they might make her cancel a much longed for trip back home (including non-refundable shit). So! She is WHORING HERSELF OUT and selling her soul fic to try to raise some $$$. CHECK OUT HER BARGAIN FIC SALE HERE. You could purchase a fic or fics of your VERY OWN and help out a fellow fangirl in need. I've also whored myself out to her cause and am offering three fics for sale for her - buyers choice. ANYTHING YOU WANT. Send the poor girl home already.

Secondly, huge thanks to everyone who wrote me fic for my Revenge of the Reverse Ficlet Meme thingy. IT WORKED. YOU BROKE MY BLOCK. I AM WRITING AGAIN. So thank you!

( List of awesome stories behind the cut )

I am SPOILED ROTTEN YOU GUYS. I FUCKING LOVE YOU. It's never to late to claim a prompt and rockeandroll, bebunny, villiagegreen and gala_apples still have prompts on offer too, so go see if you get bitten by a bunny (because if no one writes violent moshpit sexings for gala_apples I MIGHT DIE.)

In other news, I MADE A FANMIX because my tremendous love for brooklinegirl's amazing fic This Town Is Wrong can apparently only be expressed through song. Or rather, through 17 very carefully selected songs. Download it and enjoy! And if you haven't read the fic yet, DEAR GOD, do yourself a favour and go and read it. It's WONDERFUL. Gorgeous, adorable, heart-clenchy and satisfying and it has artist Gerard and teenage Frank, and some of the hottest sex I have ever read EVER (and I have read a LOT of porn. A LOT.)

Speaking of porn, if you haven't already downloaded shiningartifact's awesome podfic of A Matter Of Logistics by brooklinegirl what is WRONG with you? It's delicious, incredibly well read and incineratingly hot. I have a HUGE crush on shiningartifact's voice and I just want her to to read me porn FOREVER.

Also! b_dsaint is running a Bandom Video Music Awards over at her LJ and she's currently taking nominations. Categories are awesome, with stuff like Best AU Storyline Video, Best Slashy Moment in a Video, Worst Acting and all kinds of fun shit. Go nominate!

In conclusion! Let's watch Matt Skiba eat cupcakes.

( THERE IS FROSTING LICKING YOU GUYS. IT'S LIKE FOOD PORN. I'M DYING HERE. DYING. )

Hey so, apparently when I've had too many mojitos I plan chat parties. WHO KNEW? The good news is, y'all humour me so:

THE FANNISH LOVE PILE CHAT PARTY ON AIM THIS SUNDAY IS A GO!

ETA: AUSTRALIANS!! I STUFFED UP THE SYDNEY TIME IN MY ORIGINAL POST. CHAT KICKOFF IN SYDNEY IS 5PM SUNDAY, NOT 5AM - I HOPE THIS MEANS YOU CAN MAKE IT. This is why you should never try to work out timezones when drunk

In approximately 19 hours we shall commence flailing like twelve year olds on AIM. That will be 8am London Time - here is the current local time in London.
( Details! Details! )
UNTIL THEN!

In the meantime y'all should go hit up villiagegreen for her awesome Drunken Peach Upside Down Cake recipe - the official cake of the Fannish Lovepile!

AND you should go read some porn. Specifically gracie321's Leather Studded Kiss. It's like 8.5k of sub!Frank! With Gerard being all dominant and talking plenty of hot sin at him. It all started with chuckaloonie's suggestion that dom!Gerard should get sub!Frank to wear his collar onstage. Yeah, that girl gives GOOD prompt. Anyway it's gracie321 so you know the porn is searingly hot. Don't just listen to me talk about. Read it.

And that's the end!

There are lots of exciting things going on!

Firstly! b_dsaint and dancinbutterfly are coming to the UK for visits in the winter! Cuddles! Meetups! Shenanigans!


Secondly! I am going to The Download Festival! I just bought my ticket!

Is anyone else going to Download this year? TELL ME! We should hang! Drop me a line - I need someone to see The Damned Things with me because no one I know in RL has heard of them.


Thirdly! bandombigbang! It's nearly posting time! I am so excited for new fics to read and even though I am still fiddling with my giant monster (65k people... woah) I am kind hanging for my posting date and OMG fanmixes and OMFG art! ART!


Fourthly! I signed up for KINK BINGO! Because there will never be enough porn in the WORLD and apparently I need to write more of it.

( Want to see my kink bingo card? )

So guys? Suggestions? Prompts? Squee? LET'S TALK FILTH.

Holy shit that's a lot of exclamation points.

I am breaking my self-imposed LJ-ban to quickly wave and say that I'm not gone forever I'm just drowning in my bandombigbang right now as I rush to get some kind of conclusion slapped together before the end of the 30th April (in Hawaii). Thank god I will have a month to polish, I am going to need it.

I know I have tonnes to catch up on and I saw that gracie321 wrote OTP high school fic and slashxyouxup wrote OTP paint!sex fic and coreopsis wrote Bob/Skiba and villiagegreen and b_dsaint both wrote ficlets galore and I'm sure there is a bunch more I have missed, not to mention all the Wave 1 BBB I want to catch up on.

SOON MY PRETTIES. I promise, comments soon!

But first: an ending, a title and a summary. Particularly the ending. I am very nervous that I am not going to finish this in time.

Wish me luck guys. And feel free to kick my ass a lot.


Oh and I just broke 50 000 words. WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK MAN?

You guys. YOU GUYS!

b_dsaint made me cover art. OMFG super awesome cover art for not one but TWO! TWO of my fics.

*dances like a maniac*

( pretty behind the cut )

( and then I flail about Pete Wentz being a media whore. It's rather entertaining. Trust me. )

I AM JUST GOING TO ROLL AROUND IN ALL THIS AWESOME.

b_dsaint Sweetie, honey, sugar-plum I ADORE YOUR AWESOME FACE. THANKS FOR ALL THE PRETTY!!!

I have officially signed on for bandombigbang. Both waves.

I AM GOING TO DIE.

Apologies in advance for all of the whinging this will no doubt incur when I start pounding my poor muse into the floor.

I know which two stories I am writing, but not exactly what will happen. Particularly my wave 2 story. I know the verse, I know it well but I have no idea what will happen. But I need deadlines, this will MAKE me write, right?

RIGHT. OKAY. I AM COMPLETELY INSANE.

That's all.