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. )