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reflectedeveHey guys, so! As of a couple minutes ago it is Thanksgiving here in the States, and um, one thing I'm thankful for is definitely fandom. Particularly bandom, which remains the fandom of my heart after nearly three and a half years.
Also, really late and right before a holiday, nobody will pay attention when I post my super dorky contribution to the bandom voice meme! /o\ In which I talk for almost seventeen minutes (and don't even actually explain why bandom has been so important to me). Ahaha.
Bandommeme by reflectedeve
The Questions:
1. What's your username and is there a story behind it?
2. Where are you from and where do you live now?
3. What are you wearing? Yes, I am hitting on you.
4. How long have you been in bandom? How did you get into it?
5. Which bands are your favorites?
6. Which band members are your favorites?
7. Have you seen any of them in concert? Any fun stories or memories to share?
8. Do you have an OTP? What is it, and why do you love it?
9. What story do you wish someone would write?
10. Are you working on something for bandom right now? Tell us a little bit about it.
11. You've got fic open somewhere on your computer right now, don't lie. So go to one of your open tabs or word documents or whatever, and read us a couple of lines.
12. Say these words: Iero, haberdashery, LOLcat, flist, dirigible, halcyon, nemesis, ephemeral, languorous
The transcript:
Hey guys, this is reflectedeve, and I’m doing this bandom voice post meme because I really miss fandom, and this is something I can do that might not take forever … so I can actually fit it in, and maybe even draw while I’m doing it. (Probably not.) I’ve never done anything with voice recording before really, so hopefully it won’t be too horrible.
But, yes! There are questions, so … I will answer them My username is reflectedeve; the story behind it is basically—well, so, I used to have a completely different journal, back in the day, that I used for both fandom and non-fandom stuff? And my fandom name, the thing that I used on my rare bits of fanfiction and fanart, was “Lilith.” When I decided I needed to get a separate journal for fandom stuff, I wanted it to be connected to that name. I really love playing around with religion , particularly Christian and Catholic theology, and stuff like that; the obvious thing seemed to be to do something Eve-related, if I wasn’t going to have my original Lilith-based livejournal screenname. So the first one I chose was actually “ave_eva,” with an underscore in the middle … which is the name of some random song that the Mt. Holyoke Glee Club sang once at a concert. I did not go to Mt. Holyoke; I went to a different college, but we sang together at this concert … I don’t know, it was a whim. Nobody could pronounce it This had not been something that would have occurred to me as a problem; when I first created the journal I was sort of between fandoms (I was kind of in Stargate: Atlantis) … but when I got into bandom I started going to concerts and meeting people, and no one could pronounce or understand my screenname. I got called “aveeva” a few times; it was confusing. So, I changed it to reflectedeve, which is a reference to Milton’s Paradise Lost. When Eve first appears, she goes and finds her own reflection in a pool, and she likes her reflection better than she was—she wasn’t particularly attracted to Adam at first, she thinks that her own reflection looks like a much more pleasant person to talk to, and God’s just kind of like “Um, no. Go be with your husband that I’ve given you.” But I like that scen a lot; I think that there are a lot of things you can play with in it. And also, I read somewhere—the concept of Lilith is actually a little murky, but some of the stuff I’ve read about her in the past has suggested that Lilith is associated with mirrors? So a “reflected Eve” could even be Lilith? Somebody wrote me a fic for Yuletide that used that scene once, it was awesome. So that’s the story behind my username!
I am from Western Massachusetts; I usually say Northampton because that’s where my family lives now and has since I was about twelve, but I also grew up partly in other parts of the area. I actually lived at a prep school about a half-hour’s drive from there when I was a small child. I love Western Mass; it’s where my roots are, and I actually think about moving back here. (I’m here right now visiting my Dad for Thanksgiving; my Mom’s out of town and my brother’s in France—because you needed to know that.) But right now I actually live in a little tiny town about halfway up Vermont—maybe a little further South than North—because that’s where my grad school is. It’s adorable; it’s also oddly empty. Like, even for a small town. If you walk out into it, you won’t see more than maybe a couple of people at maximum, when you’re visiting. It’s not a bad place to be an artist; the art community at the school is really close and really supportive and lovely … but it is definitely not a place that I’d want to live for longer than it takes to go to school there. It’s funny; I lived in Boston before this, or in one of the suburbs, sort of, and I couldn’t wait to get out of there. I’m not a big city girl, but this is a little small town even for me; or maybe it’s not the right character of small town. I mean, my community is great but the rest of the people that live in the town are mostly not that friendly, and largely absent. I don’t know. It’ll do for now.
Um, heh, what am I wearing? Well! I’m wearing a black button-down shirt; it’s sort of a linen material and it’s a little bit see-through so there’s a black tank top on under it. I have on a tie tied directly around my neck in a Windsor knot that has black and very light pink diagonal stripes? I’ve had some arguments with some people about whether it actually qualifies as pink, but I think it probably is. And it’s cold in here, so I’m wearing a corduroy jacket, sort of a black jacket that’s got a sort of suit-cut to it over that … which has the interesting effect of mostly showing the tie and not the shirt under it, so I could just be wearing the tie! I wore a shirt with even less of a neckline with this jacket and a tie last weekend, and some dude came into the coffee shop where I was sitting and said “oh, I think you’re missing a dress shirt.” And I’m wearing jeans and black wool socks ‘cause it’s cold. Yeah.
I’ve been in bandom for about three and a half years, since April 2008. It’s kind of a funny story. My best friend, who has gone by Bastet, or sweetvalleyslut on livejournal—she hasn’t been active in fandom for a few years, but she got into bandom at least a year, maybe a year and a half? Yeah, it had to have been a year and a half ahead of me. And I was really kind of a jerk at her about it! I was like, what, that music is CLEARLY bad … I don’t think I’d even heard most of it? I don’t know, I’d heard like one Fall Out Boy song that I still don’t like. I just was being weird and … kind of a snob about music, which I have since tried to stop doing. But I was like, WHATEVER, I don’t understand; I don’t have a PROBLEM with RPF but I also don’t get why you LIKE it, and we had arguments … we were both in this transitional late- or post-college place in our lives, and it was stupid. I remember going to tour the Dark Horse editorial offices in 2007, because I’m a comic person, and I got a neat opportunity, and my friend told me, “let me know if you run into Gerard Way there!” I actually wound up getting into a conversation about him with Scott Allie, but I was just like, I don’t get it. His COMICS were pretty cool—I had read the first issue of Umbrella Academy, and maybe that was starting to soften me a little bit, but I was like ehhh, I don’t get this.
But, then I moved out of my parents’ house—I lived there during college because my college is in my hometown—I moved to the Boston area for work, so I could save money for this grad school that I’m at, in early 2008, and I was miserable. I’m really attached to my family; I mean, it was really time for me to move out, but it was hard to, and my best friend was going to be leaving to be in the Peace Corps that summer, and I felt so lonely, and I hadn’t really had a fandom I’d been happy with for awhile … I’d been in SGA for ages but I got really disenchanted with it, I got tired of it eventually. The fic was good; the fic was always really good, but the show just started to bother me. I occasionally get into this place where I’m like, ALL OF MY FANDOMS ARE JUST FULL OF MEN. And I want women. I want female characters, dammit. This happens a lot, actually. I used to be in fandom to—read this fic, in all these major slash fandoms, and then all the fanart I would draw would be of femslash for like, X-Men, or Kim Possible one year; I don’t even know. So I was just generally cranky, and my friend had given me one or two My Chemical Romance songs on a mix of random stuff that she gave me, because I was putting together a workout mix, and she was like, well, you might be able to deal with some of these things. I started listening to them a LOT. Um. I don’t know. I don’t even … let’s see. That happened, and then oliviacirce wrote that story which I’m not gonna even attempt to pronounce ‘cause the title’s in French, but it’s the one she wrote about Greta and Victoria that Victoria then commented on and was like, “good call on the tights”? You may know the one I mean? I read that, ‘cause I really wanted some femslash, and then I was going to draw a picture based on it for my best friend’s birthday (belatedly). I was like, ooh, I’ll read more bandom femslash, I don’t have enough of that! So, I read a couple more stories … and THEN Olivia wrote that one Pete/Mikey/Alicia fic, “Call It A Love Song”? I don’t know; something about the whole Summer of Like thing and Pete/Mikey and everything, and I finally, finally gave in. I was like, so Bastet, I think I wanna read bandom stuff … give me all your recs. And, yeah, the rest is history. She laughed at me a lot, which she had the right to do.
It’s really not surprising? I mean, it’s not surprising at all. I LOVE music, and I love music STORIES; I love a lot of movies about music, like Velvet Goldmine, and I don’t know, Almost Famous and Empire Records, you know, teen movie city. And stuff like that. We used to talk about how our ideal show would be a TV show about a band! Preferably one with some girls in it, that would be really well-written and neat, and those would be stories I’d want to read about, or watch. So it’s not surprising that bandom appealed to me; I just had to get past some weird mental block in my head. I got COMPLETELY obsessed with My Chemical Romance; I got tickets to see them at Madison Square Garden on eBay for, I don’t know, twice the ticket price? And the rest is history … although I’ve been kind of on hiatus, unfortunately, since I’ve been in grad school. I am a fanartist primarily, and I can’t keep up with my schoolwork and fanart; in fact, I can’t keep up with my schoolwork, so what are you gonna do?
My Chemical Romance is definitely my favorite band, hands down. I mean, I’ve appreciated most of them at one time or another, and I’m a really big fan of both Pete Wentz and Patrick Stump, both in Fall Out Boy and in their own solo stuff … I love Greta; I love both the Hush Sound and Gold Motel quite a lot. Panic I’ve been back-and-forth on; I like them, they just don’t speak to me quite as much I guess. But yeah: My Chemical Romance is my favorite band, and Gerard Way is pretty much my favorite band member. He’s a large part of the reason I’m here … I mean, I love him as a comic writer as well as as a singer. Well, there’s some overidentifying; let’s put it that way.
I have seen quite a few of the bandom bands in concert. I’ve seen MCR four times, which is not that much, considering, but I’ve loved every time; Fall Out Boy, along with Cobra and Hey Monday the once—I’m glad I managed that before they stopped; Panic once, back during the sixties phase; the Hush Sound I think three times—two of those times they were backing the Cab, so I saw them too; and I’ve gone to see the Black Cards and Patrick Stump solo one time each. I think that about covers it, unless you want to talk Amanda Palmer, who I saw a whole bunch of times before kind of falling out with her a couple years ago. Most people know that story, or know what she did, I guess.
I don’t have an OTP. I like a lot of pairings in this fandom; Gerard is my favorite, so I will generally read a lot of combinations with him, but I got into this fandom partly on the strength of Summer of Like and Pete/Mikey, and I love them too. I don’t know, I mean, a lot of my favorite writers write Frank/Gerard, so that winds up being the pairing I read the most, but I can read lots of things.
There are lots of stories I wish people would write; I don’t know. When I was gonna do Bandom Reverse Bang, before I realized I could not possibly hack it—I kept going back and forth on this, I hope there’ll be another round—I was gonna do this idea I’ve had in my head for awhile, which would be a Labyrinth AU with Pete as Jareth and Mikey as Toby, even though I usually hate that pairing—but, well, hence the fusion—and Gerard as Sarah. I think it would be hilarious. But that’s not the story of my heart, exactly. I don’t know if there is one. I want more stories about Gerard making art in various contexts; I really want that, obviously, ‘cause that’s a personal connection. But I like ridiculous AUs in this fandom, I like kinkfic, I like all kinds of things.
I am not currently working on anything for bandom, tragically, because I have no time. I think over winter break I definitely want to do some things; I have a whole list of artbunnies going back to whenever. Or I might just wind up illustrating whatever jjtaylor writes next; god knows I do that a lot. We’ll see.
I do have some fic open somewhere … but it’s kind of embarrassing ‘cause a lot of these tabs have been open for at least four months! I haven’t been reading fic, I don’t have time; I need to go seek out some more podfic to listen to while I draw. I have “Draculoids Will Never Hurt You” open, by were_duck and sassbandit, which I got part of the way through; I was reading it on the bus when I was still commuting to my job in Boston, and I never finished it, but it was really cool and I’d like to go back and finish it eventually. And I have a story called “How Deep The Bullet Lies,” by littledust, which is an X-Men: First Class fic that somebody recced to me ages ago, but I still have not read. And then I have “Follow My Lead,” by littlemousling, open, which is a Spencer and Brendon AU where Spencer is a pro-dom and Brendon is a dance instructor. They’re getting into a relationship, and Brendon wants to be the top, and Spencer wants him to be the top, but he doesn’t really know HOW. I need to comment on this story, because I read it as like, my bedtime reading awhile back; sometimes if I work hard enough I do let myself read a little (not very often). And this one, it was amazing; I loved it. I loved the dynamic between the characters, I loved how believeable the struggle was for Spencer, and I loved the thing with dancing as sort of a way to get into understanding kink and like, somebody taking the lead. So I should tell her that! I … try to be good at leaving feedback; god knows I love getting feedback. I fail a lot. So yeah, I have not lied.
Okay! These words. Iero. Haberdashery. LOLcat. Um, okay, I admit it, I think “f’list” in my head, but I suppose “eff-list.” Dirigible. Halcyon. Nemesis, ephemeral, and languorous.
This has been a lot of fun; it’s also super long, so I wouldn’t blame anybody who didn’t make it all the way through. Thanks guys! I love you. No, seriously. I think that I need to be a little less ridiculous about grad school, if that’s possible, next semester, because … I don’t know. I actually read some not!fic that people were writing today, in a post, while I was on the train down to visit my dad, and … it made me so happy. I miss fandom.
Okay. Bye! Before I decide to try singing something next!
Have a lovely holiday if you're here, and a lovely tomorrow if you're not! <3
Also, really late and right before a holiday, nobody will pay attention when I post my super dorky contribution to the bandom voice meme! /o\ In which I talk for almost seventeen minutes (and don't even actually explain why bandom has been so important to me). Ahaha.
Bandommeme by reflectedeve
The Questions:
1. What's your username and is there a story behind it?
2. Where are you from and where do you live now?
3. What are you wearing? Yes, I am hitting on you.
4. How long have you been in bandom? How did you get into it?
5. Which bands are your favorites?
6. Which band members are your favorites?
7. Have you seen any of them in concert? Any fun stories or memories to share?
8. Do you have an OTP? What is it, and why do you love it?
9. What story do you wish someone would write?
10. Are you working on something for bandom right now? Tell us a little bit about it.
11. You've got fic open somewhere on your computer right now, don't lie. So go to one of your open tabs or word documents or whatever, and read us a couple of lines.
12. Say these words: Iero, haberdashery, LOLcat, flist, dirigible, halcyon, nemesis, ephemeral, languorous
The transcript:
Hey guys, this is reflectedeve, and I’m doing this bandom voice post meme because I really miss fandom, and this is something I can do that might not take forever … so I can actually fit it in, and maybe even draw while I’m doing it. (Probably not.) I’ve never done anything with voice recording before really, so hopefully it won’t be too horrible.
But, yes! There are questions, so … I will answer them My username is reflectedeve; the story behind it is basically—well, so, I used to have a completely different journal, back in the day, that I used for both fandom and non-fandom stuff? And my fandom name, the thing that I used on my rare bits of fanfiction and fanart, was “Lilith.” When I decided I needed to get a separate journal for fandom stuff, I wanted it to be connected to that name. I really love playing around with religion , particularly Christian and Catholic theology, and stuff like that; the obvious thing seemed to be to do something Eve-related, if I wasn’t going to have my original Lilith-based livejournal screenname. So the first one I chose was actually “ave_eva,” with an underscore in the middle … which is the name of some random song that the Mt. Holyoke Glee Club sang once at a concert. I did not go to Mt. Holyoke; I went to a different college, but we sang together at this concert … I don’t know, it was a whim. Nobody could pronounce it This had not been something that would have occurred to me as a problem; when I first created the journal I was sort of between fandoms (I was kind of in Stargate: Atlantis) … but when I got into bandom I started going to concerts and meeting people, and no one could pronounce or understand my screenname. I got called “aveeva” a few times; it was confusing. So, I changed it to reflectedeve, which is a reference to Milton’s Paradise Lost. When Eve first appears, she goes and finds her own reflection in a pool, and she likes her reflection better than she was—she wasn’t particularly attracted to Adam at first, she thinks that her own reflection looks like a much more pleasant person to talk to, and God’s just kind of like “Um, no. Go be with your husband that I’ve given you.” But I like that scen a lot; I think that there are a lot of things you can play with in it. And also, I read somewhere—the concept of Lilith is actually a little murky, but some of the stuff I’ve read about her in the past has suggested that Lilith is associated with mirrors? So a “reflected Eve” could even be Lilith? Somebody wrote me a fic for Yuletide that used that scene once, it was awesome. So that’s the story behind my username!
I am from Western Massachusetts; I usually say Northampton because that’s where my family lives now and has since I was about twelve, but I also grew up partly in other parts of the area. I actually lived at a prep school about a half-hour’s drive from there when I was a small child. I love Western Mass; it’s where my roots are, and I actually think about moving back here. (I’m here right now visiting my Dad for Thanksgiving; my Mom’s out of town and my brother’s in France—because you needed to know that.) But right now I actually live in a little tiny town about halfway up Vermont—maybe a little further South than North—because that’s where my grad school is. It’s adorable; it’s also oddly empty. Like, even for a small town. If you walk out into it, you won’t see more than maybe a couple of people at maximum, when you’re visiting. It’s not a bad place to be an artist; the art community at the school is really close and really supportive and lovely … but it is definitely not a place that I’d want to live for longer than it takes to go to school there. It’s funny; I lived in Boston before this, or in one of the suburbs, sort of, and I couldn’t wait to get out of there. I’m not a big city girl, but this is a little small town even for me; or maybe it’s not the right character of small town. I mean, my community is great but the rest of the people that live in the town are mostly not that friendly, and largely absent. I don’t know. It’ll do for now.
Um, heh, what am I wearing? Well! I’m wearing a black button-down shirt; it’s sort of a linen material and it’s a little bit see-through so there’s a black tank top on under it. I have on a tie tied directly around my neck in a Windsor knot that has black and very light pink diagonal stripes? I’ve had some arguments with some people about whether it actually qualifies as pink, but I think it probably is. And it’s cold in here, so I’m wearing a corduroy jacket, sort of a black jacket that’s got a sort of suit-cut to it over that … which has the interesting effect of mostly showing the tie and not the shirt under it, so I could just be wearing the tie! I wore a shirt with even less of a neckline with this jacket and a tie last weekend, and some dude came into the coffee shop where I was sitting and said “oh, I think you’re missing a dress shirt.” And I’m wearing jeans and black wool socks ‘cause it’s cold. Yeah.
I’ve been in bandom for about three and a half years, since April 2008. It’s kind of a funny story. My best friend, who has gone by Bastet, or sweetvalleyslut on livejournal—she hasn’t been active in fandom for a few years, but she got into bandom at least a year, maybe a year and a half? Yeah, it had to have been a year and a half ahead of me. And I was really kind of a jerk at her about it! I was like, what, that music is CLEARLY bad … I don’t think I’d even heard most of it? I don’t know, I’d heard like one Fall Out Boy song that I still don’t like. I just was being weird and … kind of a snob about music, which I have since tried to stop doing. But I was like, WHATEVER, I don’t understand; I don’t have a PROBLEM with RPF but I also don’t get why you LIKE it, and we had arguments … we were both in this transitional late- or post-college place in our lives, and it was stupid. I remember going to tour the Dark Horse editorial offices in 2007, because I’m a comic person, and I got a neat opportunity, and my friend told me, “let me know if you run into Gerard Way there!” I actually wound up getting into a conversation about him with Scott Allie, but I was just like, I don’t get it. His COMICS were pretty cool—I had read the first issue of Umbrella Academy, and maybe that was starting to soften me a little bit, but I was like ehhh, I don’t get this.
But, then I moved out of my parents’ house—I lived there during college because my college is in my hometown—I moved to the Boston area for work, so I could save money for this grad school that I’m at, in early 2008, and I was miserable. I’m really attached to my family; I mean, it was really time for me to move out, but it was hard to, and my best friend was going to be leaving to be in the Peace Corps that summer, and I felt so lonely, and I hadn’t really had a fandom I’d been happy with for awhile … I’d been in SGA for ages but I got really disenchanted with it, I got tired of it eventually. The fic was good; the fic was always really good, but the show just started to bother me. I occasionally get into this place where I’m like, ALL OF MY FANDOMS ARE JUST FULL OF MEN. And I want women. I want female characters, dammit. This happens a lot, actually. I used to be in fandom to—read this fic, in all these major slash fandoms, and then all the fanart I would draw would be of femslash for like, X-Men, or Kim Possible one year; I don’t even know. So I was just generally cranky, and my friend had given me one or two My Chemical Romance songs on a mix of random stuff that she gave me, because I was putting together a workout mix, and she was like, well, you might be able to deal with some of these things. I started listening to them a LOT. Um. I don’t know. I don’t even … let’s see. That happened, and then oliviacirce wrote that story which I’m not gonna even attempt to pronounce ‘cause the title’s in French, but it’s the one she wrote about Greta and Victoria that Victoria then commented on and was like, “good call on the tights”? You may know the one I mean? I read that, ‘cause I really wanted some femslash, and then I was going to draw a picture based on it for my best friend’s birthday (belatedly). I was like, ooh, I’ll read more bandom femslash, I don’t have enough of that! So, I read a couple more stories … and THEN Olivia wrote that one Pete/Mikey/Alicia fic, “Call It A Love Song”? I don’t know; something about the whole Summer of Like thing and Pete/Mikey and everything, and I finally, finally gave in. I was like, so Bastet, I think I wanna read bandom stuff … give me all your recs. And, yeah, the rest is history. She laughed at me a lot, which she had the right to do.
It’s really not surprising? I mean, it’s not surprising at all. I LOVE music, and I love music STORIES; I love a lot of movies about music, like Velvet Goldmine, and I don’t know, Almost Famous and Empire Records, you know, teen movie city. And stuff like that. We used to talk about how our ideal show would be a TV show about a band! Preferably one with some girls in it, that would be really well-written and neat, and those would be stories I’d want to read about, or watch. So it’s not surprising that bandom appealed to me; I just had to get past some weird mental block in my head. I got COMPLETELY obsessed with My Chemical Romance; I got tickets to see them at Madison Square Garden on eBay for, I don’t know, twice the ticket price? And the rest is history … although I’ve been kind of on hiatus, unfortunately, since I’ve been in grad school. I am a fanartist primarily, and I can’t keep up with my schoolwork and fanart; in fact, I can’t keep up with my schoolwork, so what are you gonna do?
My Chemical Romance is definitely my favorite band, hands down. I mean, I’ve appreciated most of them at one time or another, and I’m a really big fan of both Pete Wentz and Patrick Stump, both in Fall Out Boy and in their own solo stuff … I love Greta; I love both the Hush Sound and Gold Motel quite a lot. Panic I’ve been back-and-forth on; I like them, they just don’t speak to me quite as much I guess. But yeah: My Chemical Romance is my favorite band, and Gerard Way is pretty much my favorite band member. He’s a large part of the reason I’m here … I mean, I love him as a comic writer as well as as a singer. Well, there’s some overidentifying; let’s put it that way.
I have seen quite a few of the bandom bands in concert. I’ve seen MCR four times, which is not that much, considering, but I’ve loved every time; Fall Out Boy, along with Cobra and Hey Monday the once—I’m glad I managed that before they stopped; Panic once, back during the sixties phase; the Hush Sound I think three times—two of those times they were backing the Cab, so I saw them too; and I’ve gone to see the Black Cards and Patrick Stump solo one time each. I think that about covers it, unless you want to talk Amanda Palmer, who I saw a whole bunch of times before kind of falling out with her a couple years ago. Most people know that story, or know what she did, I guess.
I don’t have an OTP. I like a lot of pairings in this fandom; Gerard is my favorite, so I will generally read a lot of combinations with him, but I got into this fandom partly on the strength of Summer of Like and Pete/Mikey, and I love them too. I don’t know, I mean, a lot of my favorite writers write Frank/Gerard, so that winds up being the pairing I read the most, but I can read lots of things.
There are lots of stories I wish people would write; I don’t know. When I was gonna do Bandom Reverse Bang, before I realized I could not possibly hack it—I kept going back and forth on this, I hope there’ll be another round—I was gonna do this idea I’ve had in my head for awhile, which would be a Labyrinth AU with Pete as Jareth and Mikey as Toby, even though I usually hate that pairing—but, well, hence the fusion—and Gerard as Sarah. I think it would be hilarious. But that’s not the story of my heart, exactly. I don’t know if there is one. I want more stories about Gerard making art in various contexts; I really want that, obviously, ‘cause that’s a personal connection. But I like ridiculous AUs in this fandom, I like kinkfic, I like all kinds of things.
I am not currently working on anything for bandom, tragically, because I have no time. I think over winter break I definitely want to do some things; I have a whole list of artbunnies going back to whenever. Or I might just wind up illustrating whatever jjtaylor writes next; god knows I do that a lot. We’ll see.
I do have some fic open somewhere … but it’s kind of embarrassing ‘cause a lot of these tabs have been open for at least four months! I haven’t been reading fic, I don’t have time; I need to go seek out some more podfic to listen to while I draw. I have “Draculoids Will Never Hurt You” open, by were_duck and sassbandit, which I got part of the way through; I was reading it on the bus when I was still commuting to my job in Boston, and I never finished it, but it was really cool and I’d like to go back and finish it eventually. And I have a story called “How Deep The Bullet Lies,” by littledust, which is an X-Men: First Class fic that somebody recced to me ages ago, but I still have not read. And then I have “Follow My Lead,” by littlemousling, open, which is a Spencer and Brendon AU where Spencer is a pro-dom and Brendon is a dance instructor. They’re getting into a relationship, and Brendon wants to be the top, and Spencer wants him to be the top, but he doesn’t really know HOW. I need to comment on this story, because I read it as like, my bedtime reading awhile back; sometimes if I work hard enough I do let myself read a little (not very often). And this one, it was amazing; I loved it. I loved the dynamic between the characters, I loved how believeable the struggle was for Spencer, and I loved the thing with dancing as sort of a way to get into understanding kink and like, somebody taking the lead. So I should tell her that! I … try to be good at leaving feedback; god knows I love getting feedback. I fail a lot. So yeah, I have not lied.
Okay! These words. Iero. Haberdashery. LOLcat. Um, okay, I admit it, I think “f’list” in my head, but I suppose “eff-list.” Dirigible. Halcyon. Nemesis, ephemeral, and languorous.
This has been a lot of fun; it’s also super long, so I wouldn’t blame anybody who didn’t make it all the way through. Thanks guys! I love you. No, seriously. I think that I need to be a little less ridiculous about grad school, if that’s possible, next semester, because … I don’t know. I actually read some not!fic that people were writing today, in a post, while I was on the train down to visit my dad, and … it made me so happy. I miss fandom.
Okay. Bye! Before I decide to try singing something next!
Have a lovely holiday if you're here, and a lovely tomorrow if you're not! <3
