06 July 2008 @ 09:47 pm
topple  
VAMOS RAFA!

UGH SO EXCITED. How amazing was that match? I have warmed to Federer this year, so I was really happy that he fought back from two sets to love. However, I really think Rafa deserved to win, he worked so hard and just put everything into it and I LOVE HIS FACE, SHUT UP RAFA.

Plus I like that they are friends, and that they big each other up all the time, and that they had a teary cuddle at the net. Someone not me should write stories about how their on-court rivalry translates to the bedroom.

I'm also completely psyched that Venus won yesterday. She is my favourite current female player by about a million miles, and for some reason I cannot quantify, I really REALLY prefer her to Serena.

So this has been a fantastic Wimbledon! Not too many rain delays, and both my favourites won. Yay! It could only have been improved if Andy Roddick had made it further along, or Andy Murray had not made it in at all.
 
 
06 July 2008 @ 04:18 pm
No, I'm not dead.  
1. So when did I last post? Like, halfway through June? Fail.

2. I have not been writing much. This displeases me.

3. On the other hand, I have been doing wee crafty things, hindered mainly by my lack of supplies.

4. Hugh and I have an apartment for August 1st. Tentatively.

5. This means we have not signed the lease, but only because the owners wanted to meet us first. This week, hopefully tomorrow. Will post about the apartment in more detail then.

6. Oh crap, this means I have to pack.

Originally published at The Love Letter Sessions. You can comment here or there.

 
 
06 July 2008 @ 04:18 pm
 
Wimbledon final spoilers! )
 
 
06 July 2008 @ 03:02 pm
Hot things to read  
It's probably pretty clear by now that I am a fan of Panic porn. Like, a really big fan. I like smut! But while some PWPs actually bore me, others, well. They REALLY work for me. I have been lucky enough, within the past couple of weeks, to have read at least four things (that I can remember) that I thought were amazingly, scorchingly hot:


  • [info]theaerosolkid wrote me felching comment porn, guys. Bottom!Jon GSF felching porn. If you know my kinks at all, you know that she now owns a piece of my soul. *nods* The original comment is flocked, but she gave me permission to c&p. I have done so here!

  • [info]stephanometra and [info]fiddleyoumust wrote Spoils of War, the most FANTASTIC Panic GSF Brendon gangbang that is hot and funny and sweet all at once!

  • [info]airgiodslv wrote The taste of you on my lips, which, okay. YES. Spencer/Brendon that is filthy dirty but also squeezed my heart a little because of the things it said about their relationship and dynamics.

  • This is not a PWP, but it can't NOT be mentioned when I'm talking about really hot things I've read lately. [info]disarm_d wrote Erasing All This Body's Known, which is a Spencer/Brendon 16 Candles AU that...okay, it's funny at the beginning, and then the universe sort of constricts and shifts and gets rocky. Then it gets really hot/disturbing and made me feel all !!! but also conflicted. Which is a terrible description, but it's AMAZING and hot like burning.



In other news, the L on my laptop keyboard is getting stubborn on me. It doesn't want to work anymore without me banging it extra hard. (Hee! It likes to be banged extra hard! THAT'S HOT!) So if I'm in your comments, squeeing about something, and I'm all, "HOMG, I OVE THIS SO MUCH," I am totally not trying to create a new, shorter word for "love." Or trying to say, "I OVEN THIS," and missing the N. Just so you know.
 
 
07 July 2008 @ 07:54 am
You come on like a bloodstained hurricane  





Okay, so what is a bitter shower? One that scowls at you while muttering how it coulda been a contender hailstorm? Can a shower roll its eyes?

Anthropomorphic weather - bring it on!
 
 
Current Mood: cold
Current Music: stricken - disturbed
 
 
06 July 2008 @ 12:48 pm
 
I just emptied the trash on my computer and freed up 7.5 gigabytes of space. um, whoops?
 
 
06 July 2008 @ 03:42 pm
new music!  
New soundtracks are up at [info]muse_to_match - We Would Bring It On And On, and also a repost of my fanmix for bandombigbang :)
 
 
06 July 2008 @ 02:28 pm
Fic: i'll say it anyway  
I was watching the video for A-Ha's Take On Me and immediately thought that Cobra would do an amazing cover of it.

Then I started thinking about an AU to the video, like you do, and this happened. It's not crackier than bandom puppies, but IDK, it's pretty close. *hands* Not beta'd, all mistakes are mine.

For [info]imntsaying, who had a rough day yesterday. ♥


i'll say it anyway
Jon/Spencer | 3000 words | PG-13

Spencer's never been one for comics.

but that's me stumbling away )
 
 
Current Mood: dorky
 
 
06 July 2008 @ 03:18 pm
WANTED: Dance Across The Country Tour, Cambridge, 07/09/08  
Looking for a spare ticket or two so I can take my kid sister. Please?
 
 
06 July 2008 @ 12:35 pm
And on the list of fannish shows I watch and never seem to post about...  
I usually watch Dr. Who with [info]lovelokest, but she went out last night (I passed due to crazy brain issues), so ended up watching it by myself.

spoilers for the Dr. Who season finale )
 
 
06 July 2008 @ 07:25 pm
GERARD WAY: THE MAN WITH THE PLAN  
so, okay, the zombie apocalypse arrives, right, and the world is in chaos, everything is crazy, no one knows what to do! (EXCEPT GERARD.)

so in my head, for some reason, the zombie apocalypse just happens to coincide with a time when a bunch of bands are on tour, okay. and so all these bands are barricaded in their tour buses with zombies surrounding them, like, dudes, we're practically just sitting here in a LUNCHBOX, we need to figure something out! so after some deliberation, pete wentz is like, "i have the solution!" and the rest of fall out boy sit there expectantly, as though he's going to suddenly produce some sort of badass zombie fighting weapon out of the back of his skinny jeans.

but pete's solution is actually just to call up gerard way, who, at this moment, is sat there on the my chem bus with the rest of his band, drinking coffee and reading his ten point emergency 'IN CASE OF ZOMBIES' plan outloud to them. (frank keeps asking 'what if' questions, and gerard does NOT appreciate this -- it's not productive group work! and he's coming to that LATER IN THE PLAN anyway. it's all written out. with bullet points. maybe footnotes.)

so gerard answers his phone, looking quite confused, because seriously, no one calls him ever, normally! let alone pete wentz! and all of fall out boy are on speakerphone and like, "WHAT DO WE DOOOO," and gerard clears his throat importantly and is like, "well..." and then mikey wanders back in, where he'd been like, idk, the designated coffeemaker of the hour, all, "who is it?"

and gerard's like, "fall out boy, they need me to save them!" and mikey's all, "oh, hey," at the phone and then, "here's your coffee," to gerard, and then pete's like, "mikeyway! so, hey! what're you wearing?" and gerard is like, "GUYS, GUYS, PLEASE, THINK OF THE PLAN." and the zombies outside are like, "gnuurrrggghhhhhh."

help me out, guys! what does gerard's plan actually entail? do they somehow get together as a zombie fighting team, only to be hindered at every corner by pete and mikey making out? are panic somewhere nearby, reacting really, really calmly to this whole ordeal by smoking up? does bob get to break down some doors? because i'm of the opinion that bob should always get to break down a door or two.
 
 
06 July 2008 @ 11:30 am
 
flist, I am confused. why would anyone make and upload a playlist without any indication of the track order? track order is important in playlists and mixtapes CDs, people!
 
 
06 July 2008 @ 11:00 am
deceive inveigle obfuscate  
so, [info]fox1013 and I were watching XF last night because we're trying to prepare for the new movie and we watched "Humbug" and then I watched "Dod Kalm," "Fearful Symmetry" and that one episode with the combination of Samantha, Luke from BtVS, and abortion doctors and the retrovirus that made your face turn green and melt off and the conclusions I have come to (or renewed, actually) are:

1) ZOMG SCULLY DO ME DO ME DO ME

2) Barring that, DO SKINNER (scully/skinner = cranky, competent, face punchy, mulder-mocking otp of my heart)

3) No, seriously, MORE SCULLY.

4) Darin Morgan = WIN (truthfully, I like all of the Morgan, Morgan and Wong eps.)

5) The list of episodes "necessary" to understand the new movie doesn't make any sense, unless the movie is about how a genetically engineered vampiric flukeman with cancer who can tell the future falls in love with scully. which, okay, IS NOT AS FAR FETCHED AS IT COULD BE. (eps are: pilot, "beyond the sea," "the host," "clyde bruckman's final repose," "memento mori," "post-modern prometheus," "bad blood," and "milagro." THERE'S ONLY ONE REAL MYTHARC EPISODE YAY YAY YAY.)

6) the XF: Fight the Future soundtrack remains AWESOME.

I ran out of things. um. anyway. XF: I Want to Believe at Comic Con group outing, y/y?
 
 
Current Music: one - filter
 
 
06 July 2008 @ 10:41 am
 
Blake and I are so sore and hoarse today but it was TOTALLY WORTH IT. Do you want details from yesterday's Warped?

Fuck that, of course you do, because it was fucking awesome.

Warped Tour '08, San Antonio, TX )
 
 
06 July 2008 @ 01:38 pm
This hole you put me in wasn't deep enough  
The Black Parade is awesome. But, in my humble opinion, Three Cheers is slightly awesomer, which is why I wanted rips of the stuff from Maxwell's off TBPID! When the internet was unforthcoming, I took it upon myself to rip audio and video of the Three Cheers songs performed at Maxwell's (along with the new song, Untitled, which is fantastic). I would have done more of the Black Parade stuff but this process takes forever on my computer, sorry! Below I have links to: a zip file of the mp3s, a zip of the large videos (.mp4, suitable for iPod but also good for computer viewing), a zip of small videos (also .mp4 and mostly good for iPod), and individual uploads of the large videos. The video zips both contain all of the videos listed before, and the audio zip contains them all except House of Wolves because I never got around to it. If anyone wants something else uploaded individually, let me know! I hope you enjoy them!

Individual large videos:
Untitled (24 MB)
It's Not A Fashion Statement, It's a Deathwish (25 MB)
Helena (58 MB)
You Know What They Do To Guys Like Us In Prison (37 MB)
I'm Not Okay (22 MB)
Thank You For The Venom (27 MB)
Give Em Hell, Kid (33 MB)
House Of Wolves (44 MB)

AUDIO (23 MB): Megaupload//Sendspace
VIDEO (Large, 265 MB): Megaupload//Sendspace
VIDEO (Small, 148 MB): Megaupload//Sendspace

Enjoy!!
 
 
Current Mood: accomplished
 
 
06 July 2008 @ 09:59 am
WHAT.  
what what what? that is so weird and random. stick-on eyeshadow!
 
 
06 July 2008 @ 09:51 am
o flist my flist  
flist, yesterday and today I totally meant to get up early to miss the beach traffic and drive in to work and get some extra hours in. and both yesterday and today I totally woke up, turned my alarm off, and went back to sleep for another four hours. dammit.

also, flist, this morning in the shower I knocked my foot-callus-scrubber-thingy down and the noise when it hit the tub almost gave me a heart attack and now I kind of don't really need any caffeine today. but it reminded me to use it because obvs I wasn't in a hurry to finish my shower and get to work, so now my feet are all soft and nice. I think I'll redo my pedicure today.

also also, flist, my shave cream says "coconut & lime" on the tube but it smells like peppermint. I AM SO CONFUSED OMG.

...but my legs are nice?
 
 
06 July 2008 @ 12:37 pm
In search of Whofic  
Until last night I never felt the need for fanfic in the Whoverse. I was fine with just being fannish over the canon. In fact, my only brush with Who fanfic was my mom having a friend years ago when I was in high school who wrote Third Doctor fanfic.

But now...I kind of need some. So, oh mighty flist, want to help me out? I'm searching about the Net myself for fic, but if anyone has any awesome fics they think I should read, I'd jump at that.

Here's the catch though...I am incredibly, decidedly in the camp of asexual!Doctor. Apologies for that; with the possible (but still somewhat iffy) exception of Doctor/Master (which is more fucked-up than romantic), I just have a virulent reaction to Doctor!romance in or out of canon. (Yes, I'm looking at you, Stephen Moffat.) To borrow an old X-Files term, I'm very much a noromo in Doctor Who. Which means I don't have any interest at all in any type of shippery/romantic/sexual fics. Which is probably going to make it difficult to rec me newer fic since I know there's a lot of Doctor/Rose and Doctor/Jack out there. :/ So I'm looking for Old School canon-type fics, preferably with the Tenth Doctor, though I could also go for Four, Seven or Eight.

And if there's any platonic Donna fic out there anyone can point me toward, I would love you forever. (ETA: Have found a motherload of Doctor-Donna gen after judicious LJ interests jumping. \0/ Will be back with recs later after reading at least some of the, um, 50+ fics I just bookmarked. Also, cut for spoiler ))

Merci, beacoup.
 
 
Current Mood: apathetic
 
 
06 July 2008 @ 12:21 pm
cliffhanger tennis sucks  
RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIN. :(

/Stephen Colbert

ETA: And LJ's not giving me my comments. Hate.
 
 
06 July 2008 @ 05:42 pm
*MONUMENTAL EPIC FLAIL*  
Oh. OH. OH MY GOD. It's... it's actually done! They've posted it! HOLY FUCKING CRAP THIS IS THE MOST MONUMENTAL THING SINCE RACHEL POSTED THE LAST PART OF THE FOREVER NOW TRILOGY OH MY GOD.

In short, [info]ignipes and [info]emilyray has FINALLY posted the prologue and first chapter of their EPIC commentfic. 180k words, I'm pretty sure, of marvel. 17 chapters and worth every second. Jesus Christ, guys, if you like Panic at all -- hell, if you like creative writing at all -- READ IT. And then you need to stalk [info]shacklesnchains for the rest of the updates.

I realize I'm probably getting ahead of myself, reccing this thing already, but. Seriously. SERIOUSLY. IT'S JUST THAT FUCKING GOOD, GUYS. And I read it unbetaed and unfinished and held my breath for every next little snippet they'd beat out in Kali's comment threads.

It's DONE!!!! And they make me want to use an excessive amount of CAPSLOCK and !!!!!!!!! just by EXISTING. GOD.

♥ X INFINITY

Oh, and also? JENNIE CALLED ME TODAY. SHE IS IN THE COUNTRY GLORY GLORY HALLELUJAH. \o/
 
 
Current Mood: excited
 
 
06 July 2008 @ 08:55 am
iso: brownie recipes  
I know I have lots of people on my flist who cook/bake/are amazing in the kitchen and so I turn to you in my time of need:

You guys, I need a brownie recipe.
Tags:
 
 
Current Music: Take A Chance On Me - A-Teens
 
 
06 July 2008 @ 10:26 am
you'll always be my thunder  
Oh god, another mix. HI. But this one is different! It has, like, an actual theme. \o/

The other day, [info]adellyna made a mix from music that came out when she was in high school. (here.) And I went !!!!! and made one, too. Also, [info]_typingmoney_ made one! (here) It's a party!

This is not nearly all the stuff I could have included, but it's, like, 33 songs. That just seemed like enough, you know?

Photobuckettracklist and download )
Tags:
 
 
06 July 2008 @ 04:41 pm
 
knee deep
gerard/frank(ish)
PG-13
~1150 words

The van is hot and smelly and sticky and too cramped for any real kind of comfort, but Gerard finds himself curling inwards a little, a little towards Frank anyway. Frank mutters something in his sleep, twitches forward; their arms press together, radiating heat.
 
 
06 July 2008 @ 11:33 am
I wouldn't front the scene if you paid me  
Eeeee, this MCR interview is PRECIOUS. A couple snippets of it were on the LOTMS DVD, but not very interesting parts. The interviewer has just posted the whole thing and I LOVE it. Some of the best bits:
MIKEY: Bob would be played by Lou Ferrigno.

GERARD: Bob knows a lot of celebrities. He’s just knowledgeable, you know a lot of celebrities. You spit out names I don’t even know. Come on man, cast the movie, it’s your job.

BOB: Gerard…Brad Pitt. Obviously.


GERARD: Obviously.

BOB: Mikey. What was the dude we saw the other day? Caddie Shack 2 guy?

GERARD: Oh! Jackie Mason. I think Christina Ricci would play me, Brad Pitt would play Mikey.

BOB: Ray would be…that’s a rough question.

GERARD: How about Ashley Simpson.

BOB: No, Ashley Simpson would be Frank.

GERARD: Okay, Ashley Simpson will be Frank.

BOB: Definitely. Ray would be that American Idol dude.

After some discussion over which American Idol dude he was talking about…

MIKEY: OH! Clay Aiken!

GERARD: Okay that works. We’ve gotten it all.

YOU GUYS, PETE KNOCKED FRANK UP. AHAHAHAH. Also, hilariously, Christina Ricci is the most accurate choice of that whole group! Geraaaaaard. And he thinks Mikey would be Brad Pitt! Ugh, WAYS. <333333
With so much talk of death in their lyrics I wondered what is happening right now that they would like to be dead, or something that is dead that they’d like to bring back. So I wondered and wondered, and then I asked them. Their response?

GERARD: Hair crimping needs to go. You know what I’m saying?

BOB: Hair straightening.

GERARD: Hair straightening?

MIKEY AND RAY: OH!

GERARD: No way dog! You’d ruin every band out there! Um, hair crimping has to go. I don’t see it very often but when I do it burns my ass.

BOB: Slippers.

GERARD: Yeah, slippers. We’re gonna bring back slippers from the dead.

MIKEY: I think Hula-Hoops need to come back. There’s less violence in the world when people are using Hula-Hoops.

AHAHAHAHAHAHA. No way dog! Gee is so street! Heeeee. What is Bob's obsession with slippers?? And oh, MIKEYWAY. Bringing about world peace one Hula Hoop at a time. <333333
Anyone who read the latest issue of Alternative Press that has read the latest interview with The Used knows about what Bert had said about his appearance on the album, and his story about himself and Gerard making out for a long period of time. I wondered about this, so I asked him.

GERARD: I don’t really comment on that. Um. Yeah.

Okay, okay. No comment. But at least is it a true story?

GERARD: Uhhh, yeah. Kind of. Me and Bob make out all the time so it’s not a big deal.

*flailyhands*

There's lots of other really great stuff, both serious and silly. They all talk about their favorite songs to play live (Mikey's is Helena because it's fun... oh MikeyWAY) and favorites off the album. Gerard says Vampires is the best song off the first record, which I found really interesting. And just, lots of things, go read! :D Thanks to [info]chemicalromance for the link.
 
 
Current Mood: amused
 
 
06 July 2008 @ 11:26 am
Doctor Who  
Reactions to the Who finale )
 
 
06 July 2008 @ 11:09 am
 
Talk to me about icons, guys. Maybe I am just old and crotchety, but I've had people gank my icons without asking a few times in the last couple of months and seen it happen to friends, and it always makes me kind of DDDD:. Like, on the one hand, I feel kind of like a ridiculous asshole for wanting to go to the person and say "Please to not use icon, kthnx," but on the other hand... please to not use icon, kthnx.

Liiiike, if I wanted to have the same icons as other people, I would get mine from icon comms. I really enjoy being the only person to have whatever shitty icon it is I made and am using.

So! Thoughts? Am I alone in this? Are there other people who get stompy and protective over their icons? What's the accepted etiquette for asking someone to please stop using the icon that you made just for yourself or, like, had a friend make just for you?

/lame
 
 
06 July 2008 @ 09:06 am
Fic: But Not the Song  
But Not the Song
by [info]emilyray and [info]ignipes

Fandom: Panic at the Disco + just about everybody else in bandom, ever. (Except for Andy Hurley. We forgot him.)
Pairings: Brendon/Vicky-T, Brendon/Ryan, Jon/Ryan, Spencer/Butcher, Ryan/Spencer, Brendon/Spencer, pre-Panic GSF
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Rape, character death, a whole lot of violence.
Note: It's ~186,000 words long. It will be posted a chapter a day over on [info]shacklesnchains, so we'll only spam the flists of those who want to be spammed.

Summary: Massive sprawling slave AU. There are boys in cages and shackles, and they get rescued and escape and get captured and run a lot, and there are people with whips and guns, and there's a lot of getting hurt and huddling for warmth and complicated feelings, and also secret conspiracies.

Story Index Post

Prologue

This is the craziest thing I have ever been a part of writing. I hope you enjoy it! \o/
 
 
06 July 2008 @ 04:10 pm
New Panic fic  

Fic: But Not The Song
'You can cage the singer, but not the song.' - Harry Belafonte

NC-17. ~186,700 words.
Or watch the comm: [info]shacklesnchains
_

We're posting a chunk every day for the next three weeks, because half the fun of this thing was writing in the cliffhangers.

 
 
Current Mood: FINALLY
 
 
06 July 2008 @ 08:49 am
But Not the Song (1/17)  
Story Index and Warnings | Prologue

Chapter One )

To be continued.
 
 
06 July 2008 @ 08:26 am
But Not the Song (Prologue/17)  
But Not the Song
by [info]emilyray and [info]ignipes

Slave AU. Panic at the Disco & many others. Please see the Story Index Post for warnings and chapter links.

Prologue )

Chapter One