with words I thought I'd never speak

I've read some good stuff recently, but here's a few specific fics I want to mention. First, Knickpoint, which is Arthur/Eames for the prompt "barebaking for the first time". It's super hot, and I really like these characterizations, even though it is a little fluffier than my usual preferences (which is great for you guys, since nobody likes anything as depressing as I like it). Secondly, just because a man visits another man doesn't mean they're doing anything illegal (yet), which is also Arthur/Eames, and is very funny. Snappy dialogue and adorable imagery. And finally, a couple of Adam/TommyJoe fics: Scenic Route, because it has some of the long, drawn-out stuff I've been craving even though Tommy doesn't quite have a gay freakout, and The Boat That Would Row You Back, Carefully, because it's Dom/sub but not explicit, and it's really very very sweet. There's more recs at my delicious, of course, but those are a few that stood out.

I haven't been doing a whole lot except reading fic the past couple of days, because getting into two new fandoms at once is exhausting and there's so much to catch up on. Of course, with Inception, it seems like fics are just appearing out of nowhere at some kind of truly epic rate, and I can't even keep up with that alone (not all these fics are any good, though). With Adam and Tommy, it's more finding good fics that are maybe a little older.

But I have been doing something! Last night I really bit the bullet and started writing my werewolfbb fic, because lol I only had like two hundred words written in a notebook somewhere, and between last night and this afternoon, I've actually gotten a fair amount done! I'm just about up to 3k already, which is both good and bad because yay, closer to the minimum wordcount, but oh man, how long is this fic gonna be? I miiiight need to talk through my plot with someone soon, because I don't really have an ending planned out yet, so if anyone wants to talk about bandom werewolves? :D? Let me know. If I get a handle on this fic (and get a plot idea) maybe I can attempt the Inception bigbang. O.o

But besides that, I've just been sitting around reading fic and snuggling the little fluffmonster I have dubbed "lil dude". I think I mentioned that he's super shy, right? Well in the past couple of days, he's had a breakthrough and will now run around all over the house and explore things and LET PEOPLE TOUCH HIM! He is so soft and tiny. *______* He's still kind of a weirdo, but he lets me pick him up and pet him and snuggle him sometimes, which is quite awesome. \o/ HE IS SO FUCKING CUTE I CAN'T STAND IT. I wanna keep him. Except he's a boy and I don't really like boy dogs. :\

I am having conflicty conflicted thoughts about relationships and that nonsense, but that's nothing new, so I'll let it stew for a little while longer before rambling about it on here. I don't really want to filter this post, since it has fic recs.

that icon meme everybody's doing. except it works better when you guys do it because YOU ALL HAVE MORE ICONS THAN ME ;____; but I will try to make do. I used more than one for a few questions because I didn't want any of my icons feeling left out. :P

( meme! )


recs!
- with the lights on has a bigbang sequel: down to the water. girl!Gee/Frank, sooooo amazing. lots of Frank not knowing how to help, and that's really all he wants, is to help. I just reread the first one, too, and nnngh that's good. super hot sex, and I love both of them as characters. I wish I could say this is the best porn I've read recently, because it is amazing, but the problem is that I've read some other really awesome porn and then I couldn't decide. I will just say that it's the best het porn I've read recently.
- some really awesome historical fluffy backstory to go with I Was Your Silver Lining. knowing what happens next in the timeline is kind of heartbreaking, but this little glimpse is so great, how they're just so young and in love and happy. that makes me smile. :)
- also I reread To Cast Turpentine Kisses last night, because bandom needs moar kinkfic and nnngh it is so good. hello, awesome D/s relationship PLUS teacher/student angst. kiiind of makes me want to pick up (and catch up) lotruniversity again. (why was kink so abundant in lotrips but so hard to find in bandom? not fair!)
- another two fics I reread because I wanted something kinky: As Mine See It, where FRANK WEARS A COLLAR IN PUBLIC, okay, I love this fic a lot, and also Burn, where Frank is a total size queen and it is really hot.
- bexless posted a fic today and that is always exciting. kind of a crossover with American Idol and MCR, even though that isn't much of a crossover and is just more like real life. but anyway, it's Adam Lambert/Frank/Gerard, and don't worry, the OTP is still very much intact, and it is basically just SUPER HOT because it is set during Projekt Revolution when Frank was for all intents and purposes in heat. Pinch Hitter. it's hot.

plus, okay, she has a really great primer picspam to explain the situation. and I don't know about you guys, but I loooove primer picspams (and I hope people will make more once we start getting new pictures), and I'm always tickled by the way Bex explains all these people to newcomers. plus, nnngh Frank and Gee need to get on stage asap. PLUS it keeps flashing through my mind, all the times they've said that ProRev was their favorite tour and they had the time of their lives (while groping and kissing each other--oh hey, did you know Gerard got MARRIED during all that as well?!) and how it kind of got back to being fun again, and sorry but I just need to flail for a moment because OMG I hope they remember that when they start touring again. because seriously, it was the best for us too.

also I know I've mentioned rereading unholyverse about a million times but I will rec that fic forever, to anyone, because it is one of my absolute favorites. and okay yes, not all of these fics are new, but they are all good and they're some of what I've been reading recently while waiting for the mcr bigbangs to be posted.

so yesterday I didn't work on my big bang but I wrote 2k of something else so I feel kind of accomplished! probably won't get much done today since I need to actually do homework for tomorrow, and today I also have PRACTICUM UGH UGH UGH right after drawing class. I really hope it will not be torture. (ugh practicummmmmm)

ALSO here are a couple pictures I uploaded for desfinado of Frank being a snuggle-whore, to go with the picspam theme of Frank being tiny and manhandled and subby, which is basically my favorite theme in the history of ever.

( frank is my favorite )

1. The Periodic Table of Typefaces, which was passed around on twitter a while back but I just needed to mention it here too. AWESOME.

2. Pictures of bugs that I actually like! Sleeping insects covered in dew. Weird and alien and kind of gorgeous. (via @amandapalmer -- I know, I know)

3. Abandoned places: 10 creepy, beautiful modern ruins. I LOVE these photos. I haven't looked at them all in detail yet, but I think my favorite is the last one on the list, which is the teaser image as well. So pretty and yeah, creepy. (via tumblr)

4. The first bandombigbang story has been posted, Winds Will Move Us Around by maryangel200. Lovely and quiet, and pretty angsty too. I still need to download the mixes. (And I still don't have a posting date of my own. ughhh)

5. Daily Ampersands @ tumblr, which is very super cool. I love ampersands (a lot).

6. I posted this on tumblr/twitter last night, but it's a sketch I did during the first day with a model in life drawing. And speaking of life drawing, I need to get dressed and catch a bus before I'm late, ack! /o\

ps: when a milk carton says it will be good until the 10th, it should not be disgustingly sour on the 5th. I only bought it a few days ago! >:( ruined my breakfast.

pps: finished reading Nightswimming this morning and already I want to read Unholyverse again (which I read JUST before Nightswimming). It probably comes up the most often in my list of favorite fics to reread.

okay, so i don't have anything useful to say except holy fuck how have i seriously NOT READ THIS BEFORE? tie your monster down by stereomer, and it's basically everything i ever want out of a fic, and SOMEHOW I'VE SKIPPED OVER IT UNTIL NOW, IDEK. and even though i'm pretty much positive i'm the only one on my bandom flist late to this party, i still have to rec it here.

THEY ARE SPIES, OKAY. DYSFUNCTIONAL, ADORABLE, BADASS SPIES. oh my god i can't even. i just love it way too much. there are parts that are laugh-out-loud funny, and parts that are kind of heartbreaking and sad with the pining and everything, and then, uh... there's a torture sequence that i actually had to stop reading. there are very few things that squick me enough to STOP READING and put it down and back away for a moment, but wow, this was a really good torture scene. i went back to it (obviously), but with my hands clenched into fists and covering my mouth, because HOLY CRAP. (yeah, i'm somewhat squicked by a torture scene, i get the irony here).

but omg such a fun fic, such an awesome, fantastic fic. I LOVE IT A LOT. i feel like my birthday has come early. don't you know i love action AUs? with SPIES? and GUNS? and MYSTERIES? and i think frank even has a bit of a pain kink. it's like all of my favorite elements stuffed into one fic by an awesome author. i just can't even deal, i'm so excited about this. i'm gonna reread it probably uh, tomorrow. i feel so late to this party! why have i never read this before? what is wrong with me?! don't make fun of me. i get excited about these things. i can't believe i haven't read it until now.

ps: if you're friends with mrsronweasley, read everything mentioned here or your bandom experience will be forever incomplete. i'm probably going to actually bookmark that post on my phone so i have easy links to all my favorite fics. seriously. oh god, i love bandom.

The first TEN people to comment in this post get to request a drabble of any pairing/character of their choosing from me. In return, they have to post this in their journal, regardless of their ability level. If you absolutely can't write, I don't see why you wouldn't be able to offer drawings or icons or something instead.

o1. strobelighted, Frank/Gerard
o2. wonder_walldbc, Toro's thighs
o3. snarkyrainbow, Mikey/Alicia sharing clothes
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ALSO! Ask me one fandom-related question in the comments. This can be fandom-specific, crossover, general, or about fandom/lj stuff/fic writing/etc. in general. Favorite character, favorite moment, unpopular opinion, something about a fic of mine... whatever. Wackiness encouraged.

ALSO ALSO! no_tags authors REVEALED! I adored pretty much everything I read (which was basically all the MCR ones), so here's a list of, uh, pretty much everything I read, in no particular order.

( list of fics and their authors! )

And now I can tell you that I wrote the Frank/Jamia/Gerard pegging fic, Toys to Play With. Which apparently is kinda hot? IDK, I WAS SURPRISED BY THE COMMENTS, I HONESTLY WAS. Thanks, guyssss. (And I'll be reposting the fic here at some point.)

eta: Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer are officially engaged. &HEARTSSSSS;

I spent a lot of today writing character sketches and stuff with giddy_london for our AU OF AWESOME, which seriously looks like it's gonna be epic, no joke. at first it was just like, professor!Gerard + bartender!Frank, but now there's BRIAN SCHECHTER and BOB MOTHERFUCKING BRYAR and MIKEYWAY and Pete and Alicia and Ray and even Jamia and Lyn-Z. and it's going to be so awesome, you guys, seriously. Mikeyway has whoreboots and is a lazy A&R guy! it's awesome!

in sort of related news, signups are open for bandombigbang, and I'm seriously thinking about signing up. (and how many times am I going to say "seriously" in this post, omg!). maybe with my mafiafic, which is already sort of epic. but even if I didn't sign up to write, I could maybe sign up to do fanart? which, y'know. um, I'm totally not confident in my art abilities, but it's a possibility, I guess. or maybe even do both, write and draw! if I'm that ambitious. O.o

ETA: this is one of the best fics I've read in a while, frankly (heh, frankly). Frank/Jamia, pegging. you should read it, it's hot. I love Jamia.

c-verse

part one

part two 

oh god.

*speechless*

My sister had to go to the hospital last night 'cause she fell weirdly on her leg while rock climbing. So now she's all doped up on pain meds. What fun! O.o

Italian was cancelled today. It would've been nice to know that before I left the house, but oh well. The teacher's Spanish class was cancelled too, so I dunno if she's sick or just doing something else today or what. It'd be nice if it was cancelled tomorrow....

Physics, though. Unfortunately, not cancelled. I hate this class. I was kinda like this during the whole thing today: @___@. And that moron guy? This time he nearly fell asleep (I could hear a bit of snoring) and when he woke up, he was picking ear wax out of his ears. It was disgusting. Anyway, I stayed after class to talk to the teacher and he didn't really answer my questions, but he's just weird and I don't like him so I just left. Oh, but the class after mine is taught by my old math teacher. He was so nice... I wish he taught my physics class and not the engineering one, or whatever specialized one he does.

Can you believe that I'm having trouble writing my 'Trauma' vignette this week? I don't usually have any problems with traumatic stuff. >.< The other one this week is 'Specimen', which is "a story telling one anecdote about a memorable character." Hmmmm.... *thinks* Any ideas?

And finally, voting for the mome awards - I am having so much trouble deciding which fic to vote for in the Billy/Dom Long Fiction category. THEY'RE ALL SO GOOD! I had slightly less trouble for the Short Fiction category, but still, those were all good too! I want to vote for them all. LOL

Oh wait, one more thing. I don't remember who I downloaded this song from, Everything's Alright (I Think It's Time) by Jude. But I really really love it, so thank you, whoever you are. Who would'a thunk I'd love such an uplifting song? My favorites usually tend towards angsty... :P

*copied text*

LUNAR ECLIPSE--FULL COVERAGE: On Tuesday, Aug. 28th, the full Moon will enter Earth's shadow for a 90-minute total eclipse. People on the Pacific side of Earth will have the best view as the Moon turns a dreamy shade of sunset red. Favored areas include the Americas (especially western North America), Hawaii, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, east Asia and Antarctica. The show begins Tuesday morning around 2 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time (0900 UT).

Although the dominant color of a lunar eclipse is red, sometimes another hue appears--turquoise. Earth's shadow has a turquoise-colored fringe caused by our planet's ozone layer, and this can be seen for a few beautiful moments at the onset of totality. Today's edition of spaceweather.com shows you what the turquoise fringe looks like and explains how to catch it.

Also, amateur astronomers are encouraged to assist NASA during the eclipse by scanning the darkened Moon for explosions caused by Helion meteoroid impacts. Typical flashes reach 6th magnitude--easy targets for mid-sized backyard telescopes equipped with digital video cameras. The eclipse is a great time to look for these "lunar meteors." Observing tips and more information are available at http://spaceweather.com


hm, i might try to stay up to watch that. maybe even get my telescope out of the closet. :)

in other news, kiltsandlollies's Offering, and its half-finished sequel, Schism: omg. Billy/Dom with Dom/Elijah, Dom/Sean Astin, and implied Sean/Elijah. the pairings kinda made me pause, but not for long and i was so glad i got over that initial reaction. probably not a good idea for more sensitive readers, though. lol i can't believe i hadn't read this before now!

and also, if you haven't read her Officer and Gentleman, you really really really should. the heavy angst, violence, and character death might scare some people off, though...

first chemistry test is today and i'm sensing a repeat of biology: reading the chapter (for the first time) about an hour before the test. oh what a fun year this is gonna be. i am really looking forward to starting italian in september, though.