1. I have about twenty comments I need to reply to, sry. I will get to that soon. My head has been in places for a while.

2. If you DLed the PXP mix I posted the other day, you should probably make sure you have the correct Sherwood track on the Pete playlist ("The Only Song," not "Song in My Head;" idk, guys, they're even from the same fucking album. Who teaches kids how to title songs these days, seriously? Ugh. The worst part might be that I only even know about them because of goddamn William Beckett, whom I only know about because of Whatsisface Wentz. BANDOM ATE MY TASTE IN MUSIC BUT GAVE ME PATRICK STUMP). The zip and track download were wrong, but now they're both fixed. Sorry. Again.

3. No Sweat are liquidating their online store in an effort to survive the next few months. Please go by and buy some stuff from my favourite online retailer. Fair trade/fair labour, often organic, sometimes vegan things of all kinds for ridiculously low prices. They're sold out of cruelty-free un!Chucks, unfortunately :/

4. I'm going to see STXI with my dad and maybe Rafael in the next couple of weeks (this will be viewing number five, tying this movie with the original Rescuers for most number of times I've seen something in theatre). I think Dad will like it, but he might miss Shat too much (his first question was, "Do you think the new guy is as tough as Kirk was?" I'm like, "Uh, well, he mostly wins fights by being able to take a good beating? Some outwit/outlast strategy, you know." And he's like, "So, he's exactly as tough as original Kirk, lol." ♥)

5. Going on an impromptu (for me) minibreak in July to a guesthouse at a converted train station in Mara, BC. There're some lakes and a river and probably there will be canoeing and hours and hours of wet, sunburned, bug-bitten children. Should be nice. I'm gonna DL a bunch of Trek books to Tiny Laptop and take my new swim trunks.

6. Checking out Richard II at Bard on the Beach with my little brother on July 14, I think. The schedule this year is super-annoying, and trying to accomodate both my brothers is hard.

7. PORN. Accidental/experimental!d/s is totally one of my bulletproof porn kinks, and this triptych here? Is the good shit, oh my gosh. Have some. Zachary Quinto/Chris Pine (AKA Pointy-ears and Captain Fine from STXI): "You Know I Don't Ask for Much," "Hit the Floor," and "Work It Out" (eta: Okay, no, wait, I have to tell you guys the truth, 'cause that's how we roll. The last one is kind of fluffy and hearts and rainbows and ~*~*~NEVAR FALT LYK THIS B4~*~*~, but whatever. In between that stuff, it's pretty hot). NC17 and RPF, duh.

THE END.

rec:

If you love American Gods, modern mythology, random anime references, and tales of the underworld (Patrick Stump as a funereal facilitator of vengeance is just beautiful casting, guys), read these fics (start with "On Your Behalf," which has three parts linked internally--only the first part is tagged). I hadn't seen or heard of them before the most recent story was posted for bandombigbang, and I'm both sad and delighted to have just met this universe today (also confused, because how did I miss this shit? iphignia939 is on my geedee flist for a reason!!!). NNNNNNN MYTHOLOGY AND FOLKLORE AND PATRICK IN A SUCCESSION OF PERIOD SUITS.

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idea:

Most recent addition to the "I'm an ideas man, dammit!" file:

"GQMF: a photomeme." Do you ID as genderqueer? You should put your mafuckin face (torso, leg, whatever) on the internets. Photo portraits (preferably self, but whatevs; group shots also welcome) of GQ mofos, either with the full LATGQMF manifesto treatment, or as simple macros ("GQMF," "GQ My Face," "Genderqueer Mofo," "GQ Mofo," etc.). Anchors to a Blogspot or similar non-LJ platform.

Response options: Y/n/I would participate/you're nuts here's why/this is offensive here's why.

(Yes, I still want to do the DTES/SRO fundraising t-shirts. Really, really a lot. Do people ever get paid just for coming up with awesome public project ideas? Because I would be amazing at that job and win a lot of awards.)

(Oh hai mtf!Pete icon, where have you been hiding lately?)

Spammy today, sorry. I did something kind of bizarre and out of character this evening, and now I don't think I'm going to be able to sleep (because changing is hard and stressful and anxiety-inducing, yo). Especially since whatsisface is snoring, blah. But I have to go to sleep, because I have to get up at 3:15 for work.

Whatever.

( and so a snippet about almost sleeping, from the 'lord knows' sequel. )

It only took me ten years to figure out UST! \o/

Also, "fall, fall, fall" by mojokid. Amazing! "A post-series story in which Steve Sisco tries to kill Dan, basically." Sports Night, yay!

Everyone and their mysteriously literate dog has already recced this, but: "Be Sought Or Seeking (Or Found)" by crayola123 is amazing. Like--that's an absolutely fucking awesome Patrick characterization, right there. I would go so far as to say perfect, in fact. Everybody else is good too, and it's kind of angsty and fucked up and still has a happy ending! Yay! eta: Oh and it's also hot. How could I have forgotten that part? Silliness.

SO who wants to beta my Big Bang? Somebody has to, or it's disqualified. I mean. I'll post it anyway, but really. I cannot rewrite it, so I just want a melodrama/internal consistency/could you drop any more dream covers in there?/Patrick-is-just-too-angry beta. Y/n?

This being home on admin leave has its perks, for real. I probably wouldn't be able to finish this if I had to work today and tomorrow.


Big Bang: 17094/20000.

It's a post of pimpery. Etc.

1. playfullips is doing a lazy person's friending meme: Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaave you met ______? You comment with your username and other people tell you people you should friend. Stuff. I didn't comment with my username, 'cause I'm actually very happy with my flist at the mo, even though sometimes you guys go "OMG PATRICK HOTTEST PICTURE EVER" for a day and a half and I don't understand what you're talking about. I mean, I like the locked-elbows-hands-in-pockets thing too (A LOT), and I do really swoon when he wears black t-shirts (I maybe poked at his belly on the screen a little. ONLY A LITTLE), but really guys. What? That is exceedingly hot? Because he has girl hair for once in his life (it's a little wavy!)? Are you kidding? Did you see this? It's very old, but still. Way hotter.

No, seriously. I am well-aware that his shoes are probably shiny purple and green plastic with sparkly red laces. I would still snuggle them. He gives very good topface, is all I'm saying (it makes some people want to punch him in the mouth! That's how good it is!).

Anyway, enough about my aesthetics. Um. Go play in the friending meme.

2. The Bandom Het Fic Exchange. Exactly what it says on the box. I was annoyed at myself for not requesting Pete/Ashlee ageplay (they are both seven! They play LEGO and Easy Bake Oven and watch cartoons!), but it's possible I should just write that shit myself. And never ever put it on the internets.

3. PANIC! I love your stupid incoherent conceptual faces. I pimp nothing with this bit. I'm just saying. I love them and their ridiculous brains.

4. Uh. This one isn't pimping anything either. But the venue for the Cobra show got changed to the Plaza Club from Dick's on Dicks and I'm kind of annoyed. Because I know Dick's and I like it and I know exactly where I want to be (in the gallery upstairs zomg: fewer people, better view, closer to two bars AND a bathroom), etc., and I know jack shit about the Plaza. Fortunately they apparently have decent theme nights (for a straight club on fucking Granville Street), so I'll probably go check it out for dancing one night before the show. Still. Wtf, Gabe.

5. There was something else I wanted to pimp, but I can't remember what it was. Oh right, playfullips's fic. "But The Point Is Probably Moot"--it's a very cute wee "Patrick likes Ashlee!" story. I likes it. Title from "Jesse's Girl" ftw!

The end! Going to work on "Document" now! Trans!fic? Several dollars per dozen. Making Patrick's girlfriend an actually important character? About a buck. Naming a queercore band after a women-only BDSM party? PRICELESS.

Hi! I'm posting a lot lately, sorry.

Meme, via 1001cranes, who posted fucking awesome fic today.

Name a character and I'll tell you three (or more) facts about them from my own personal pseudo-canon. (Includes RPF, and for extra fun, can be a fic 'verse specific.)

I have, for reals, large warehouses-down-by-the-docks full of personal pseudo-canon. PLUMB THEIR DEPTHS.

Unrelatedly: I've never, ever enjoyed or been good at writing conflict (um. Except for those underage roughsex Everwood stories, haha). And yet, about half of everything I've managed to write of everything I'm working on is FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT. And actually pretty good, surprisingly.

I think probably I should blame Patrick, because he always starts it. Or maybe I should blame myself and my enjoyment of angry!Patrick (oh it's so wrong and mean, and yet. He yells sarcastically at people and makes girls cry time and again. Mine is an evil laugh).

Yeah, so I'm really behind on recs (my memadding is not behind, just the actual recs, let me show you them part). Oh well. Three recent things, none of them like each other, all of them PG13 or less:

( hey it's a new year, let's have some recs. )

I found it! The "Patrick is a Roman slave" AU!

Granted, I only found it because the author finally posted the last chapter, but still. YAY.

"Non Sum Qualis Eram" by megyal.

It's pretty much completely different from what I thought it would be--not necessarily in a bad way, just, you know. Sometimes in a bad way. The writing is like an historical novel; take that as you will. There's also a lot of jumped time. I still like it, a lot. It gets pretty awesome in the fifth chapter, and the seventh (also last) is sweet like mad, because it rocks the social historical accuracy and isn't judgemental about it.

ANYWAY. I'm just chuffed that this story actually exists, and that I found it. Huzzah!

"the discreet agony of being method" by sanyin. Jared/Jensen/Christian Bale (or, Jared/Jensen, Jensen/Christian). Oh, it's hilarious and fucking hot, because yes, yes, yes, black nitrile gloves. YES.

Um. So, right, a little light bondage, a little gentle fisting. NC17, after a bit!

In which I blather on and wring my hands for a ridiculously long time before linking the damn story:

Um, so. A random question and curious clickery through a stranger's memories led me to--something. I should have known it existed, because if there's one thing fandom excels at, it's fucking with your childhood heroes.

Yes, we're talking about Matthew Good slash. IDK, OKAY. I didn't write it. I'm kind of squicked by the idea of the idea, to tell the truth (I am a big fat hypocrite; watch me dance!).

But there is a good handful of this stuff on the internets, and the particular story I am about to link is pretty good. The author had previously written MG/Billie Joe (from Green Day--set Edgefest '98), and it was kind of bad. My philosophy is to try things twice, however. Yes, even things that squick me.

"Five Reasons Matt Good and Raine Maida Hate Each Other" by canis_takahari. I rate it 14A for language and the fact that the idea of the idea squicks me (you think the MPAA is any more objective?). It's really very painful and human (with a touch of unnecessary melodrama at the end, but Matthew can be an unnecessarily melodramatic guy) and somehow the characterisation is kicked up about fourteen notches from that other story. Crazy sauce.

It's also short, so it's not like you get dragged into something long AND squicky or whatever.

Plus, you know, if you don't like Raine Maida, this is the story for you!

recs:

All AU (in the sense that, well, no band). Various ratings.

1. "'we could make beautiful music together' - 18 (Glenview)" by iphignia939

Joe almost dropped his chicken sandwich. "You put an ad on craigslist?"

This is the original Craigslist story. The one that hasn't been recced by everyone and their brother. I like it better. No, seriously. Because there is conflict! And a show. And something kind of like phone sex. Good kind of phone sex. And wardrobe angst. And--I don't know. Something about it just speaks louder to me, though "'i like finger instruments and mouth organs' - 18 (glenview)" is theoretically more filthy, which is also of the good.

Anyway. Pete/Patrick, NC17. Some people might consider it underage, since Patrick is actually only seventeen, but hey! He's legal in Illinois, which is really all we need to know.

2. "(many things lacking names)" by provetheworst

Pete doesn't pay a lot of attention to it, at first. He first notices at five AM, when light is coming through the windows at just the right angle to cast long shadows in front of every object and the carpet in front of him is still bright. The hallway, he walks down it and there's no shadow on the wall. Pete shrugs and falls into bed, ignoring Hemingway's whine at the disturbance. The dog settles down soon enough.

This is brand spanking new, and I usually like to sit on things a while before I rec them (or I don't come across them until they've been up for two years; either way), but it's just fantastic.

Because, omg. People. MAGICAL REALISM. Ee!

Pete loses his shadow, Gabe channels the cobra, and Patrick--Patrick has the best and worst kind of superpower. There is also William Beckett, because William Beckett rocks. This story isn't perfect, but it is so close. And man, seriously, MAGICAL REALISM. More of it, please!

Pete/William initially, then Pete/Patrick. PG13. Two parts, first part linked.

3. "Something Stupid" by ficjournal

Stump hates when Wentz refers to the car as the Mystery Mobile. There is no mystery about it, Stump argues.

Hahaha. Ghostbusters.

Quirky formatting (no quotation marks, for one thing, but I can dig "artistic vision"), and some unnecessary spelling errors. Also, it's an asshole!Pete story. STILL. GHOSTBUSTERS.

Pete/Patrick, then Patrick/Joe. NC17.

recs:

All FOB, all Pete/Patrick, all G-14A.

( six recs. i get long-winded and repeat the chorus a lot. )