Shut Up, and Let Me See Your Jazz Hands

So I've posted two full lists and two minilists the last couple days.

Reinvent Love - All Brendon Urie, all the time. Lots of GSF, threesomes, Brendon/Ryan, and Brendon/Spencer. Also some Brendon/Jon, Brendon/Shane, and gen. Highlights include Brendon learning the wisdom of the whales, writing a song with wee!Pear Wentz, having wings, and being embarrassed about his small peen.

The Kids Are Alright - Kid fic! All kinds of kid fic. Being a kid, having a kid, raising a kid, turning into a kid...Good times. Bandom dominates with 24 (and a half) stories.

Minilist: Rocks Fall; Everybody Dies - Death stories. Again, lots of bandom, including one of my favorite apocalypse stories (and believe me when I say there is a stiff competition, considering how I love the genre).

Minilist: Boy Meets Girl (Oldest Joke in the World) - Het stories. Some awesome Gerard/Lyn-Z and also awesome Denny/Izzie, Rodney/Teyla, Wes/Lilah, and Dean/Jo.

Bandom makes me miss band.

I was in band fifth through tenth grade as a (fairly awful) clarinet before dropping out and deciding I was done forever; I really mostly joined band to get out of gym class - Ninnekah had everyone take music (during which I learned clarinet) and then you did band or gym (during which I learned piano). But right now I'm all nostalgic! I met my first real boyfriend in marching band and we got to have the kind of cliched high school romance you see in music videos. It was actually pretty good times.

But! Bringing it back to bandom: As a result of my band nerd past, I find drumlines smoking hot. Also trumpet players, but again, first boyfriend + nostalgia.

I want to see high school fic where Brendon and Spencer are in drumline together.

Other things I want to see in fic: MCR and U2 team up to save the world, either in a real-life social change way or a fighting supervillains way, don't care, it'd be awesome/hilarious. Five times Patrick was embarrassed in front of Prince. Brendon Urie, one man band, SERIOUSLY GUYS, he puts out awesome kids' records and credits aliases because people get weird when they realize he did all of it by himself and then he gets approached by Ryan Ross of Summer League for something and is found out and SHENANIGANS ENSUE. Brendon strips in high school to support himself (briefly mentioned in a seriously awesome Brendon/Patrick fic but it TOTALLY deserves to be its own epic, yes?). The time Patrick turned into the World's Angriest Kitten. Gerard runs a domestic abuse center.

Awesome things I've seen in fic lately: Brendon and Patrick on dueling pianos. Brendon, Patrick, and Gerard create a hit children's show. Accidental sexbot delivery (multiple times!). Lyn-Z getting Gerard pregnant. Lyn-Z pegging Gerard. Bob Bryar not fucking around with ninja training. Sex pollen (win for always). FBR surviving th apocalypse because they were in Gabe's basement. Kittens! At the Disco (three times!). Mob AUs. Pete/Dean Winchester.

I keep listening to this song and thinking of Gerard. Because really, "Jesus christ that's a pretty face/the kind you'd find on someone that could save"? TOTALLY Gerard "Saves Lives" Way.

It's nice that my assistant manager thinks I can do anything - favorite example, you have to be given computer authorization to do returns; Jessie was in CSR training two weeks before she got it, but the AM gave it to me after I'd done two returns, both of them with her right there - but then I get days like today. It wasn't a bad day! I was busy and I wasn't doing anything I particularly hated. But I started out in Tools, got some freight to put up, got moved out of Tools, told to design one fourway (the little freestanding shelving units by the registers) and stock two more, told to hang sale signs in three departments, then I had to man the service desk for an hour during lunches, then I had to help bag the 8+ boxes of peanuts that are nearly out-of-date (25 lb boxes, btw), then I had to change prices on a bunch of clearance items (the only thing I actually got done), and then, 30 minutes before I leave, I get more freight, walky-talkies that need antitheft sensors attached. Too much for one person to do! Too much for two people to do, even.

I've decided to add an Atwoods tag, because I apparently am going to keep talking about it. And I've decided that the tag is going to be "Okie Walmart" because that's what we are, we are the hick superstore.

I'm not actually crazy about the Spencer/Brendon, but at least three of my all-time favorite Brendon stories are S/B, so it kind of looks that way.

Been thinking about updating my if you read my recs post, because surely my tastes have changed in two and a half years? But apparently, no, the only thing no longer true is my aversion to Harry/Sirius. I read that now, sometimes. And I'm more. I don't know how to say this. I latch on more? I will get a fictional craving and leap on it like it's a fleeing gazelle. So a fandom will go from a once-in-a-while thing to my fifth or sixth most recced in short order, but then I may put it down and not pick it back up for months/years (see: Smallville).

I remain confused about marking genderswap/sexswap/genderfuck/whatever you want to call it. Because. Generally, I go by the gender the character identifies as, like the trans!Pete fic has a slash tage because he identifies as male. But do people have a fundamental aversion to girlparts that I should warn for het in stories with spontaneous sexswap? And the always-a-girl thing. Not something I dig so I didn't really have a policy but there was epic-length girl!Spencer getting knocked up by Panic GSF and really, who says no to that? And I know where that one goes, but then there's the Trish/Peyton thing and the Ryan/Bren and the Frankie/Gee and they're het or femslash or whatever, but if you have an OTP, wouldn't you want to read it? So I want to stick them on the slash page, but they are NOT SLASH. I am TORN.

I want a Pete Wentz list named Long Live the Carcrash Heart and an MCR list called Let's Save Some Lives.

I find Gerard's sincerity about life-saving pretty much as charming as I find Harry's cupboard-raised social awkwardness.

Vampire list called Bite of Your Kiss! I post these things, because if I write them down I lose them.

I was reading an essay - sadly, I cannot remember where - that talked about the author not having OTP but OTCs - one true character. And that's totally how I do, so thanks for the phrase, whoever you were.

I keep seeing meta on True Blood and how the show's so much better than the books and I have to say: You guys are stopping after the first book. The show is drawing on all 10+ of them. Of course it's more layered! They're foreshadowing things Sookie won't find out for years! And for the people who talk about the shallow beginnings of book!Bill/Sookie - he's her first love. Remember that? Probably happened when you were a teenager, probably started just because your beloved was attractive and cool (to you, at least)? That's what she's going through. And the MFEO vibe will later become hilarious/bitter-making.

I feel kind of weird about the continuing rpf kick. Because I have a project deadline and I either need to man up and figure out a way to do all-rpf lists without it feeling like a cop-out (if I just wanted to "50 random awesome things I just read" I could be throwing up a list every three or four days) or I need to read something else for a while. Seriously, I have (nominally) multifandom lists that 50 - 75% rpf at this point and that's...not really cool with me. SGA, especially, has a million fics about kids and two million more about death, yet I can't convince myself to go look; I just have "NEED MOAR BRENDON" on a loop in my head.

There are certain jobs/situations where you're expected to form an exclusionary "us-against-the-world" kind of bond with those (mostly) of the same gender and most of those are also very macho, very straight, the military, the police, most professional sports. And then you get bands. And I really really love that.

I am seriously in love with this: If Music Be The Food Of Love (I'll Have The Veggie Burger). Brendon being a brave little toaster and totally oblivious to Spencer being stupid in love with him! Angst! Happy ending! <3333333

Bandom has totally jumped to my fifth biggest fandom at this point. I am infatuated, for real. I want to join comms and ask for recs and shit. And hey! Possibly some of you could point my lazy ass at what I want.

I want EPIC hurt/comfort with a happy ending. And epic like long but also epic like noncon, abuse, a disability like blindness or aphasia/muteness, widower left to raise a tiny child, etc. Patrick, Brendon, or Gerard centered, because they are my favorites.

I will read them with most people, but Pete/Patrick, Bob/Patrick, Frank/Gerard, Bob/Gerard, Gerard/Mikey, Ryan/Brendon, and Brendon/Spencer are especial favorites. Oh! Also any combination of Frank/Gerard/wives and Panic ot3/gsf.

It's kind of weird, most of the bandom stories only have the relationship angst (he doesn't/won't ever love me back! he's too good for me! I can't make a move or it will fuck up the band!) even though some of these guys have hardcore shit in their pasts. It makes me wonder if it's just because people are more uncomfortable writing about true Bad Things or if it's just the "section" of bandom I read.

Or if I'm just skewed by coming from fandoms that are very much about the whumping. The Sacrifices Arc remains my perfect piece of fiction and it's pretty hardcore. Move out of HP fandom and it looks really fucking harcore.

Mmmm, Sacrifices Arc. God, I love that fic. I mean, Saving Connor, not that great, but then you hit No Mouth But Some Serpent's and that story owns me. Everything that bothered me about canon got fixed. And huge angst - character death, torture, mind control, abuse, the hero spends several books maimed - but also epic comfort, from lovers and friends and family and even respected enemies.

I want every fandom to have something like that, basically, something that epic and intricate and dense.

1. This song. Love Is Not a Competition (But I'm Winning) by Kaiser Chiefs and Love Is Not a Competition (But I'm Winning) by Paramore.
2. Dirty Nancy, the talking unicorn.
3. Psych/Fall Out Boy RPF. If only it were longer. (Note: Link to be fixed as soon as I refind the damn thing, fuck. Stupid file saved incorrectly.)
4. Bill Beckett happening to people.
5. Chuck Bass/Draco Malfoy. It is GENIUS.
6. Ryan Ross is a pirate captain and Brendon talks to animals.
7. Gerard is a terrible pirate, but Frank is a worse ninja.
8. Patrick Stump and Brendon Urie geeking over music.
9. Bandom West Wing, now with more gay! And also hot foursomes/fivesomes.
10. MCR in general. I'm kind of starry-eyed, you guys. I just never really went there, you know? I read, but I didn't love and now I am wallowing. Lamenting the relative scarcity of crossdressing!Gerard, but mostly I am just in crazy, flaily, full-on capslock LOVE.

1. Greta is my favorite girl.

2. Gerard Way Saving Lives makes me giggle because it's true.

3. Seriously, this would be an awesome time for someone to slip me some Frank/Gerard recs.

4. Or Bob/Patrick. Because When Drummers Harmonize makes me ridiculous happy.

5. A Good Man Is Hard to Find is what's really rocking my life right now, though. Detective Patrick is serial killer catnip! Gabe Saporta is probably the third creepiest serial killer I've ever read! Um, that's more of a compliment than it sounds; turns out, I love serial killer stories.

6. Kidfic is awesome.

7. Listening to this song on repeat is weirdly hypnotic.

Just posted 50 Restraining Orders Waiting to Happen, 50 awesome pieces of RPF (including 16 sportslash fics), to list50.

List number 60! Rock on! And only the tenth fandom-specific one I've done.

Awesome stories, check 'em out.

Although, of course, right after I finish it is when I see Be Thou Bound, the new sequel to and the moon in their nets. Y'know, the one where Pete's part-faerie and talked shit about the Queen of Air and Darkness so they have to play for their lives.

Why is there no May/Walsh fic? Seriously, there hasn't been any posted on olympic_slash since '04. That is ridiculous! Kerri is adorable and supergay for Misty.

Also, I am eight short on my RPF list, with a possible eleven open if I find a bunch of somethings awesome. I want to just post and be done! Although I'm glad I didn't finish before today, because there's an awesome Phelps/Thorpe fic that makes me giggle madly.

I found another Phelps/Thorpe fic and I am wary, yet intrigued. Phelps is a water mage. It could be awesome.

And then I found something that I love utterly, but I don't think I can rec it because it has no pairing or real title, but it's so very, very awesome. thorne_scratch is writing a Scaly Dick WiP wherein Michael Phelps is growing scales. On his dick. So he calls Ian Crocker. Who brings Aaron Piersol and Ryan Lochte to help him in his Time of Need. It pretty much wins at life.

I totally thought I could whip out an RPF list tonight, but it turns out no, I cannot. After roughly six hours, I've got 32 fics. I keep getting distracted by the awesome! Slightly impressive fact: Only one fic of 32 has been recced before and that one is ridiculous funny and needed to be on there.

Also, I knew I wanted Phelps-slash, and Artemev/Durante, and synchro-slash (Klein/anyone, for serious!), but apparently, in my heart of hearts, I long for Misty May/Kerri Walsh kidfic.

I dunno either.

I...want swimmer-slash. I was watching men's synchronised diving and Sascha Klein? Is a pretty, pretty man. I would like him/any of the other divers except the wee British boy who looks rather as I picture a stunted-yet-athletic Harry Potter. Plus, I would find it unbearably hilarious if the post-coital involved one turning to his competitor and scoring his execution and synchronisation.

Michael Phelps is awesome and honestly, I kind of want to go back and find some of the Phelps/Thorpe fic from the Athens games.

Also, this icon HAS NEVER BEEN MORE APPROPRIATE.

Sidenote: So Kerri Walsh met her husband the day she first played with Misty May; who else wants polyfic? It's a double anniversary.

Sidenote 2: Someone has hexed our women's gymnastics team, what the hell.

My superbrilliant insight of the day = Ianto Jones/Gabe Saporta. Because when Gabe talks about putting people in the basement out of LOVE, Ianto GETS IT.