Famous Last Words

So let's see what happens if I just pretend it hasn't been MONTHS since my last post and I just post a meme because it sounds fun and melusina told me to.

*JAZZ HANDS*

Give me a link or title to one of my fics (any 'verse/any fandom), and I'll give you a detail that didn't make it into the fic - it could be background canon, deleted material (if I have it), a look into the future - or ask me a question about inspiration, the writing process, research.

Most of my fic can be found here: My AO3 Works. I really should update my LJ/DW masterlist sometime...

HIT ME!

*sound of crickets chirping*

Hey look - my first DW crosspost! Go me! (I sure hope this works now). I actually started this post a while ago by my internet has been bodgy so here are some now-out-of-date statistics!

( Top Ten Fics on AO3 meme )


MEME NUMBER TWO! Just because I feel like it,

Give me a title in comments and I tell you the story that would go with it. Note: you can specify a character or pairing too!

I will probably spin you a notfic of some kind.


In other news I got a story in for this year's bandombigbang wave one. Woohoo! I totally decided to write it 2 weeks before draft deadline and just burned out a whole bunch of words that I didn't even read back before I sent it in (my poor poor artist and/or mixer). It's so ridiculous but I kind of love the idea, so I just need to get it finished and polished up. Not that I'm doing memes to procrastinate or anything... I wouldn't do that, right? *adjusts halo*

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….

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?

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\

Okay, I was going to wait for stuffsit reveals so I could do final numbers, but I am too impatient! Here is my 2011: A Year In Fic post

( Fic I wrote last year, with commentary )

Total number of fics: 19 fics, 2 "commentfics" that are really fics (over 1000 words), 2 not!fics, 4 ficlets, 1 podfic
Total word count for 2011: 144 296 words (excludes my bandomstuffsit fic)

If you add on the 50 000 words I wrote for my NaNoWrimo, and my stuffsit numbers that gets me up around the 200k mark! I'm happy with that.

( Those meme questions with all the deep thoughts and feelings )

Now that's a lot of navel gazing and a whole LOT of words! If you got through all that I love you. And if you've read ANY of my crazy ramblings this year, even if you didn't comment on them - thank you. If you've ever left me a comment or recc'ed my fic to someone, or listened to me whine about how HARD it all is, word-warred with me, beta'ed for me or told me I could do it - I love you and thank you.

If something I've written made you smile, or made your temperature rise, made you sad or made you think, then I'm doing something right. Thanks for being around this last year.

Feel free to share any of your own opinions if you have them!

ETA - Okay so apparently I am unlocking this?

So it appears that the thing that is going to make me make an LJ post after being a slack-ass slacker* who doesn't update much lately is this bandom voice post meme that is all over my flist right now.

If you haven't done it yet YOU SHOULD DO IT! \o/?

The Questions:
1. What's your username and is there a story behind it?
2. Where are you from and where do you live now?
3. What are you wearing? Yes, I am hitting on you.
4. How long have you been in bandom? How did you get into it?
5. Which bands are your favorites?
6. Which band members are your favorites?
7. Have you seen any of them in concert? Any fun stories or memories to share?
8. Do you have an OTP? What is it, and why do you love it?
9. What story do you wish someone would write?
10. Are you working on something for bandom right now? Tell us a little bit about it.
11. You've got fic open somewhere on your computer right now, don't lie. So go to one of your open tabs or word documents or whatever, and read us a couple of lines.
12. Say these words: Iero, haberdashery, LOLcat, flist, dirigible, halcyon, nemesis, ephemeral, languorous

Apologies in advance for my snottyness, I have a mild cold. Go ahead, make fun of my (rather muddled) accent. Also, my apologies to brooklinegirl for getting my snot all over the first paragraph or so of her most awesome story.

bandom voice meme by ladyfoxxx

*slack-ass slacker is actually code for "being eaten alive by my NaNoWriMo"

Hey so did everyone see our boys did last night's show in costume?

The Toropire:



( EVERY DAY IS HALLOWEEN WHEN YOU'RE FRANK IERO )

In ADDITION to this (as if this wasn't ALREADY enough), I woke up this morning to THIS TWEET from Ray:



( RAY IS SUCH A FILM NERD OMG, AND APPARENTLY SO AM I SINCE I HAVE ALL THESE OPINIONS ABOUT CHRISTOPHER LAMBERT'S CAREER )

In other news, I am still banging away at fills for The Timestamp Meme. If you requested something, and I haven't posted a fill yet, I am ON IT, it's just taking me a million years a little longer than I expected because I keep writing actual STORIES, instead of the notfic I planned.

( Fills so far! )

I am also working on my moldypitsandall fic, and laughing my way through mizubyte's beta notes. I squicked her. Twice.

Hi F-list! Work is nuts! Delicious has broken all the tags with a "/" in them, which is maybe kind of a problem in a fandom that's mostly 'slash', but that's okay because MCR are ridiculous costume-wearing cupcakes.

HOW ARE YOU?

So this one has been popping up all over my f-list and I wasn't going to do it, then I realised it was ANONYMOUS and somehow that makes it easier. IDK. There is a reason I like anon_lovefest so much. It's easier if you don't know it's me, okay? I'm SHY.

THE YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL MEME

My thread is here.

And now I can go anonymously fangirl and drool at y'all. Like the creeper I am.

pikasafire tagged me for this meme and I think I need to send the winged monkeys after her.

MEME: YOUR FIRST FIC!

Post your very first fanfiction. Don't edit anything out. Leave in all the bad spelling, terrible grammar and painful summary.

Tag five other people. Have fun!

Fun. FUN? Seriously you guys, this is worse than I thought. I originally thought "Oh wow, at least it's not in first person!" and then I went and FOUND it (still on gossamer OH MY GOD.) And then I discover not only is it actually MOSTLY in first person it is also... wait for it... SONG FIC.

SONG FIC YOU GUYS. I'M NOT KIDDING. JON BON JOVI MOTHERFUCKING SONGFIC.

( I can't believe I'm posting this here where you can all see it )

Dear lord, that was MORTIFYING. Really. I think the SG stuff is less embarrassing.

I'm not sure if you all know but b_dsaint is on a self imposed LJ ban for lent, but since pikasafire fingered her for this too, she's graciously allowed me to bare her soul on her behalf. So BEHOLD!

Miz's first fanfic. (It's Newsies, in case you were wondering.)

I tag villiagegreen, piratesunk, brooklinegirl, turps33 and amproof. And ANYONE ELSE WHO WANTS TO PLAY. I AM CURIOUS, OKAY? Don't make me stand here in shame alone.

Now if we could all please forget everything you've just read. Thanks? Bye.