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Wax never blogs anymore and really this is more the kind of thing people talk about on Tumblr, BUT

today someone commented on a My Chemical Romance alternate universe fanfiction novel she posted SEVENTEEN YEARS AGO just to tell her they were super creeped out to realize that the characters in the fic were 15 and 21, respectively.

LOL.

Current Mood: the antis are just everywhere
Current Music: they don't even realize their pearl-clutching is non-normative in fandom

I still am friends with most of the people I bonded with in bandom and I still am in regular contact with ... quite a few of them, so I’m amused that fandom failed to notify me when Fall Out Boy’s new album finally dropped (like I knew about the singles, sure, but I was getting pretty impatient to buy the album).

Anyway, I finally noticed less than a week ago that it was out and bought it and I’ve now listened to it about six times and also rewatched the videos in order to get a better grip on the wack imagery that’s going on this time. A few points:

I wonder if anyone has asked Pete Wentz “Why llamas?”

Nobody puts Patrick in a neon purple coffin!!

Every now and then I remember the album was delayed and then there was briefly a confusion because it came out with two different tracklists because SOMEONE changed the official track order at the last minute after repeatedly delaying the album to lock himself in the studio and tinker. Probably the same tiny, angry, ginger musical genius who once punched Pete Wentz in an argument about lyrics. Anyway, I remember this and start laughing literally out loud again because I love Patrick, that angry angel-voiced little musicomaniac.

Pete Wentz and his brilliant lyrics are often alarming but I think “I want to sleep on every bit of fuzz and stuffing that comes out of you” is the most alarming yet. I’m kinkshaming.

My favorite part about these videos, aside from Jaden Smith’s cameos lol, is the faces Andy is making whenever the camera rests on him, which usually is a bit like Where’s Waldo, kind of, “I’m just here and all this Meaningful Wack Symbolism is definitely happening around me right now”. Exception: In “Wilson” when he’s really getting into his facial gymnastics for the infomercial.

If you’d asked me in 2007 I’d never have guessed that MCR would like, release basically 1 more album and disappear (though perhaps they’re doing something again sometime, idk, there was a rumor?) while Fall Out Boy would continue to regularly put out albums and basically stay in my top 3 favorite artists from Infinity on High right through to now (and Folie a Deux is still my fav).

The other day in the shower I had an epiphany that I will never be able to ~move on from the unfinished novels that are contributing to my writer's block if I don't post them, so I got rid of the 8-year-old one and the 5-year-old one, both of which present practical difficulties that I haven't figured out yet. (And if you haven't figured out a plot snarl in 5 years, you probably won't.) And I do already feel a bit lighter, actually!

The first one was my original SGA Harlequin, actually started before the original Harlequin challenge and never finished in spite of all

isilya's efforts. I got through the arranged marriage bit but then I kinda lost steam without writing the conflict. And the second one is a medieval Vampires vs Werewolves MCR AU. I'm still sad about this one - I loved the premise (which was inspired by header spelunking back in the day) and it was so fun. I bit off more politics and warfare and action than I could chew with the plot, though.

The Trophy Husband (18974 words) by cimorene
Fandom: Stargate: Atlantis
Relationships: Rodney McKay/John Sheppard
Summary:

"I would marry you--actually get married to you--we would be spouses--"

"Yes, yes, yes, holy matrimony, husband and husband, yes."

"And in return you would pay for all the medical care my mother needed."

"I think that's the point. Yes."

"So we would get married, and then I would, what, I would be your wife?"

The Midnight Council (42323 words) by cimorene
Fandom: Bandom, My Chemical Romance
Relationships: Frank Iero/Gerard Way
Characters: Mama Way, Mikey Way
Summary:

Gerard, the child of a forbidden love between vampire and werewolf, ascends the throne of werewolf clan Wajdra at the tender age of eleven. The political situation between the dwindling numbers of the werewolves and their ancient enemies, the vampires, is precarious at best, and when his vampire mother and brother retreat to Transylvania, the only one Gerard can truly trust is Frank, the little werewolf cub who swore himself Gerard's liegeman the very day that they met. Gerard and Frank are raised side-by-side in the castle in a political tinderbox, but as Gerard's coming-of-age approaches, a war between vampires and werewolves looms ever nearer, while humans encroaching on their territory threaten both with extinction.

This is way late because I forgot I had made the video. But then I found it yesterday! (Oops. Fixed.)

( 9 minutes of some fools unboxing Panic! at the Disco's Vices & Virtues, the limited edition box )

After watching "Na Na Na" (the preview video) 20 times, "Na Na Na" (the lyrics video) 10 times, and "Na Na Na" (the official video) only 6 or 8 times yet but I plan to make it about 100, I'm getting increasingly excited for the new MCR album. (I've spent the last 3 weeks rereading first

bexless's Frank/Gerard fic, then all my bookmarks, then all of mine, then wading through delicious Popular and Recent tags.)

Also hoping and expecting that the new upkick in band activity will lead to a resurgence of MCR fandom, since I keep seeing everyone echoing the same renewed excitement everywhere. I know there's that one Dreamwidth community that is for Killjoys-specific news items, but what about more traditional fan-stuff? Is there a Dreamwidth center for MCR or just bandom fanworks or whatever, the equivalent of

bandslashmania? (Ideally MCR-only, from my point of view. But I'll take what's there.) (Actually, what I'd like ideally is one where people make and share tons of screencaps and gifs in the comments and then squee about them, like the Tommy/Adam community

waxjism follows on livejournal, because there really aren't enough MCR gifs.) I mean, I know there are the old communities on livejournal, but I like to move my community interaction to DW where possible. It's just a bonus usually that the traffic is less over here because I don't have the attention span for high-traffic communities or newsletters, really.

Basically... what should I be following? (I lost interest in bandom quite a while before I moved to DW and most of the people I talked to about it over there aren't here, but I figure it's not outside the realm of possibility that someone who happens to have the right information is out there.)

I'm trying to cure myself of leaving half-finished WIPs on my harddrive this year, and I found this one, which I think came out of a conversation with

bexless several years ago about how Pete Wentz would make the worst sub ever. On the one hand, it's short enough that it's more of a sneeze (or a joke?) than a story, but on the other, it's never going to get any longer! So here it is.

Giving Orders in Bed for Dummies @AO3
Patrick/Pete established, inexplicit, 411 words, humor/kink

Eventually it was clear that his options were (1) give in, (2) listen to Pete whining about it for the rest of forever, or (3) kill him, and Patrick wasn't entirely confident in his ability to commit the perfect murder yet.

Hey dudes, anyone (else) who was coveting the hot pink Cobra Starship shirt with the neon unicorn silhouettes - heads up, it's on sale for $9 USD at the fueled by ramen store, but they're down to only size L.

Omg, remember the マイキーファキンウェイ shirt? :D WAX ORDERED IT FOR ME ♥as soon as she saw it was for sale♥, without even being asked. This is why she's my soulmate yo. (In the immortal words of Gabe Saporta from the title track of the new Cobra Starship album!!, ♫"I'm like, 'Hot damn! Gotta make you my boo!'"♪)

Other new albums that have occasioned a lot of excitement in our household recently

COBRA STARSHIP

The Used (this is mainly Wax, but I actually like them too. Just don't tell her - I have way too much fun mocking them.)

Mandy Moore (this is mainly me, and I haven't even managed to get a copy of it yet)

Kelly Clarkson (and this is relevant to Wax's current obsession with American Idol whereby she has to spend all her time on ontd_ai to the extent that she doesn't have time to watch TV with me. We all know that Ryan Seacrest considers "My Life Would Suck Without You" to be his and Simon Cowell's song, right? Right.)

Paramore (not out yet, and unlike the other bands within a few degrees of Pete Wentz's cock, it hasn't leaked yet as far as I know)

And now I got an email from Threadless that they want to give me $3 off. Granted this is very little money and of course it's a gimmick of sorts, but it might possibly (probably) mean that we absolutely have to order something anyway. Even though we have like three months of tshirts (without washing them in between I mean) already, hahah.

Current Music: m-flo ♥ Chara - Love to Live By

OMG I NEED THIS SHIRT SO MUCH. THEN I CAN MATCH WAX. (That says, phonetically, MAIKII FAHKIN WEI ♥ obvs).

For those of you who don't care about bandom: this post is about bandom.

So the ~~REALLY hardcore pot-head~~ "retro" half of Panic was Ryan Ross and his wingman Jon Walker. Apparently this is the first leak of their stuff? The first thing I've heard about it anyway. And okay, first of all, they've named themselves The Young Veins. Ahahaha. And here is their leaked tune, which is provocatively called "Change":

The Young Veins, "Change"

...and yes, that is Ryan Ross singing. But while it's a pity he can't sing, it sort of seems to fit. After a few bars, I said "But the Beatles already existed!" (Also "Didn't they 'do' the Beatles on the last album?"). But then I heard the rest. It's more the lovechild of the Beatles and Simon & Garfunkel, really.

I don't care, per se, about bandom anymore, so this is not an indication to talk about it really, but Wax was telling me the reason she was looking at pictures of Ryan Ross hanging off of Pete and Ashlee is that he forgot to pay his bills again and had to leave his house. So.

Somebody should write the AU where Brendon is the PA Pete hires behind Ryan's back to manage his income and pay his bills.

*waves hand* Carry on.

Current Mood: confused
Current Music: some godawful techno

Writing meme: ( Post the first lines from each of your 25 most recent fanfic pieces and try to find a pattern. )

The most notable pattern, for me, is that the first lines of each fandom are more similar to each other than to the others. Overall, there's 10 of what I'd call setup first lines (ie when the beginning of the action happens, this is what's already going on...) and only #7 & #16 start with an emotional reaction/character monologue (although 7 could sort of count as setup and 16 as action as well). 11 start with action and there are three, all in the same fandom, that start with dialogue.

Current Mood: rushed
Current Music: kent - Musik non stop

This Bob as a Viking thread on the Bob/Ray manifesto has been bringing the giggles for several days now. BOB. ♥ (and Ray!)

Current Mood: sick

Today was my day with the Bob/Ray Manifesto at

bandom_ships, so check it out ~~or I cut you~~. I spent like 12 hours on that shit, yo.

Current Mood: accomplished
Current Music: Snook - Längst fram i taxin

Kidfic is like the fandom equivalent of Cosmo.

cim: Oh, that was deep.
wax: I said something deep yesterday but I can't remember what it was!

And that's why it's horrifying. It's all precious moments and babification and "Oh look at his widdle pudgy belly-welly!"

wax: D: This is why I like Mikey Way, because no one can be gross about him because he's so fucking bony.

Current Mood: sore

What follows is a meticulously calibrated scale of Levels of Horror generated by particular tropes and elements of a story. Every story falls somewhere on this scale. Examples at each point provide convenient references!

10. CHILD RAPE is more horrifying than
9. a MAFIA SEX HOUSE is more horrifying than
8. a PENIS SHRAPNEL injury is more horrifying than
7. SURPRISE VEHICULAR MANSLAUGHTER is more horrifying than
6. SURPRISE lubeless FISTING is more horrifying than
5. SURPRISE secret EATING DISORDER is more horrifying than
4. background DEAD!MIKEY [aka background dead!main character] is more horrifying than
3. COMPLETELY OOC DIALOGUE is more horrifying than
2. EVERYBODY'S GAY (even Andy and Joe) [aka even the really straight ones] is more horrifying than
1. TRIVIAL CANON ERRORS (such as meat-eating Frank).

A 0, of course, is not horrifying at all.

An appropriate comment for anything between 1 and 9 on the scale is "Well, at least it's not child rape."

Current Mood: satisfied

Dude, look what Emilie Autumn¹ made. It's a skull... hair bow... pearl... Christmas ornament² (?), with silver tea and wine charms! Because she's the coolest.

I am reasonably confident that Nesty Verse Mikey made something like this once. But probably not quite as cool. Maybe it said 'Mery XMas' or something.

Now I feel inspired to create a lot of emo and gothy Christmas ornaments so we could have a goth Christmas tree next year. That would be fun.

1.EA is a goth-industrial singer/songwriter/violinist/electric violinist.

2. Or possibly a hair ornament?

Current Mood: amused
Current Music: don't make me LOL when I'm drinking a beverage!

So we were just aim-chatting in a chatroom because we wanted to have a threeway - CHAT, GET YOUR MIND OUT OF THE GUTTER. GEEZ - and when I went to name the room at first, I had just keysmashed, but gaim rejected the name so I did a tiny, shorter keysmash without any non-Western characters in it, and I ended up naming it 'as'.

And a few minutes ago, some random person came into the chatroom. And Wax was like, "Cim! Who is that?" And I was like, "Who is who?" And she was like "IN THE CHATROOM" and I looked, and right then - into the terrifying silence - this person goes, "Frank isn't very nice"... and then leaves.

And immediately Bex is like "Who was that?" and we simultaneously were like "WE DON'T KNOW" and she was like "AAAAAAAAH ME EITHER".

SURPRISE FISTING! That was just wrong!

So, for more security, I made a new chatroom with a more complex title derived from our antipathy for a certain well-known pairing - wait, okay, it's not a secret so I'll just say it - it's Frank/Bob, we can't stand that fucking pairing. But anyway, we got a more secure chatroom this time. We're still shaken.

And that reminds me of how once

hollsh walked into some strangers' house by mistake, thinking it was a friend's, and accidentally stole a soda from their fridge before noticing the kitchen was populated with strangers, and then turned and left without talking to them. (That's why I love her. But man, that must have been SO CREEPY.)

Current Mood: shocked

Ray's hair! Call me!

Current Mood: pleased
Current Music: Queen - Who Wants to Live Forever

My brother-outlaw took over my computer for a while this evening and we were listening to TBP, so I felt inspired to illustrate the front-row seats at the Penitence Ball, where skeleton!Gerard and The Black Parade are, of course, in attendance.

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The Penitence Ball, by cimorene111, 01 Dec 2007; ink and coloured pencil

The Penitence Ball, by cimorene111, 01 Dec 2007; ink and coloured pencil

( medium and full-sized versions )

Current Mood: artistic

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multi-fannish American queer cat & bunny owner in Finland

Entries tagged with fandom: bandom

Puriteens, as I've seen them called on Tumblr

Bandom: on the release of Fall Out Boy’s MANIA

Moving on from two half novels, SGA and MCR

unboxing panic

DW-centric MCR places?

Really old bandom ficlet newly posted

my loss, someone else's gain. sigh.

a music & tshirt interlude

practicin' for japan

LOL

what a fool.

writing first lines

(no subject)

this is a hacky-sack

or actually more like Women's World?

THE HORRIFYING THINGS SCALE

to make you regret not having a christmas tree

SURPRISE chatroom FISTING

WHOOM.

front-row seats at the penitence ball (illustration)