the luminous outset became the interminable middle

Reveals should happen any moment today, but I already started this post without the author names so I'm posting it now and finishing my Yuletide read through this week.

Once Upon A Dream (7866 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Twisted Princess (Disney Fanart)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warning: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death
Characters: Aurora (Twisted Disney Princesses - Jeftoon01), Snow White (Twisted Disney Princesses - Jeftoon01), Belle (Disney's Beauty and the Beast), Maleficent, The Evil Queen (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs), Maurice (Disney's Beauty and the Beast)
Summary:

Belle hears a story about two sleeping princesses.

Excellent retelling and blending of tales, adding a measure of darkness, but also allowing the story to be about survival.

Spoonbridge and Cherry (4993 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Young Adult (2011)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Relationships: Matt Freehauf/Mavis Gary
Characters: Matt Freehauf, Mavis Gary, Sandra Freehauf
Summary:

In which Matt tries to get used to being Mavis Gary's rock bottom.

Nails the tone of the film perfectly.

there will be killing ('til the score is paid) (1390 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Twisted Princess (Disney Fanart)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Characters: Fa Mulan (Twisted Disney Princesses - Jeftoon01)
Summary:

Mulan doesn't ever regret it. AU of Jeftoon's backstory: something helps Mulan, but it isn't exactly Mushu. Warnings: a fair bit of violence, kind of dark. (But not exactly unhappy? IDEK.)

Ten more and I'm in the G section now!


( 10 Things I Hate About You/Bring it On, Basketball RPF, Community, Ever After, Can't Hardly Wait, Disney Princesses, Brick, Born to Die (Lana Del Rey Album) )

I've finally made some headway on the mixes. One has all the music (including lyrics, and order) picked out and I made a mock cover to send in as the rough draft. Eleven songs total, and two artists being repeated but the songs really fit so I don't feel bad about that at all. The 'cover' isn't too much but if it does end up being the cover I won't feel like I did it halfway. I'm just hoping to have some time to play with the cover some more.

To reward myself, I read a bit of fic just for my leisure: A Golden Silence Rings Clear by doctor_jasley It has space, zombies, and amnesia which are just a few of my favorite things. It's gen and a fun read. Oh and it was written for me b/c I am that lucky sometimes.

I've fallen behind on my reading but I'm going to catch up this week. It's not like I haven't been reading but I haven't been writing them up which is something I've wanted to get used to. Oh, and I bought a new journal for book reading.

There are moments when I find myself cackling at my computer reading fanfiction* where the actors in a television show join fandom for an imaginary movie with homosexual incestuous subtext (might as well make the hypothetical fandom SRS), twisted in a knot of crack and meta and awesome and I have to go-- MY LIFE IS AWESOME. FANDOM IS JOY.

*Fandom is SRS Bznz by elizah-jane //CWRPS, SPN//Misha/Jensen with appearances by others (Quinto!!!)//NC-17

Excerpt:
Jensen does not know who the fuck this preeveht-minion bitch thinks she is, but he hates her immediately. She waltzes into his fandom with a fucking entourage and thinks she can lay down a claim of BNFdom because she's been in other fandoms before? The fact that she has apparently written at least a dozen Jared/Jensen fics is really just icing on the cake. Even if Jensen is at least somewhat badass and hilarious in her stories.

Today has been kind of a waste in the I-did-nothing-outwardly-productive way, but what can you do?

Okay, I feel conflicted. Suarez posted on twitter about being voted as sexiest male vegetarian for PETA, so I go check it out, fully prepared to vote for the dapper bassist but then I look at the list and I see Frank Iero, Gabe Saporta, ,and Nick Zinner! Last year I voted for Frank because it's Frank and I find him unbelievably hot; him looking like the live action version of Mario didn't hurt eiter (what! it was my favorite game). Also there is Nick Zinner, moody guitarist of my heart. How much attitude would you have to put out for Drowned In Sound to say 'X, said moodily? So I still have the window open, waiting to vote.

Greta is up for female vegetarian, and I didn't even know she was, so hooray to more information!

In other news:

And yes, it rattles you down to your bones, but that's something you're just going to have to work out. One man is not enough to throw your entire world out of its steady orbit, though he might just bring the nation to its knees.

Isn't that line just gorgeous? What, another sample? ok.

He says, I don't want to hurt you but I need for this to hurt, and you shiver, because yes, that's it, that's precisely it. You remember best the things that hurt you, above and beyond that which makes you happy and makes you smile; it's easy to tarnish perfect happy memories, but indestructible are the ones that are hard and clear and so painfully vivid as to be completely incapable of distortion.

You know those stories that make you just want to pause and absorb it? Make you have to create a new tag to convey how much you enjoyed it? This is one of those for me.

We won't talk about how I got sucked into American Idol RPF, ok. I had to join a comm!

Hatefucked by the sickness fist...yep, that can summarize my situation pretty well. Of course, out of my family I'm the one to get the most sick. What is this? Day three. I look like crap too: red nose from all the tissue, dazed fever glance, can't taste anything. It really sucks.

Enough of my complaining....

The more I watch Burn Notice, the more I want a Bandom AU of it. Ideally I would see it as MCR and Gerard could be the ex-spy and Mikey, his fuckup younger brother.  Frank could be Gerard's crazy ex who loves explosives; and either Ray or Bob could be Sam. I wouldn't even care, just make a Burn Notice AU :)

and if I can't woo you with MCR, let me think of PATD.

Spencer could be the ex-spy and Ryan is his best friend who is kind of a fuckup but is trying to help him now. Brendon could be his crazy ex, because Brendon loving expolosives would be a spectacular thing. (You know you want it!). Jon could be Sam, Spencer's friend from his spy time and is informing on Spencer. Jon would be an excellent Sam :) That is the main cast....

I guess one benefit of me being sick is that I can think of AUs in bandom.

Here is a crossover fic with Burn Notice and FOB. In this, Patrick gets kidnapped and Pete gets some help. Great fic and you should go read it.

of high school fics? or pretend boyfriend stories with hidden crushes? Umm, never. There will never be enough, especially when they are as good as the story I'm reccing here. Sure, you may have doubts, but just know that I had to wait about half a day to calm down enough so this rec post wasn't full of babbling, capslock, !!!!, and *gifs of frank licking things. (still, I don't know if that would convey the level of adoration I have for this one)

( where I ramble how great it is (including late night AIM message with made up words) )

Title: A Wave You Glide in On by scoradh 
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Ryan/Brendon (main), other background pairings
Band(s): PATD focus with excellent cameos by FOB and others
Summary: Brendon and Ryan pretend to date each other.
Length: 14,200
Notes: contains douche!Brendon with a heart of Gold, one of my favorite things! AU

Excerpt
( preview it if you must )

I Don't know what else I have to type to convince you.

It is seriously like every time I'm ready to chill out a little on Panic (realizing that my quest to own ...Live in Chicago will not happen before '09 can do that to me) and then I get pulled back in.

*Spencer Smith actually shaved and I didn't believe it for a second, but there are pics on patd. Though seeing Spencer's face in all it's androgynous hotness is a plus, does anyone else feel that Brendon looks really hyped up for some reason? And how it seems Brendon is now trying the facial hair thing?

*rossetti wrote fic based on new FOB music. I love it when people write stories based on the music, so here is a link for your pleasure.  (oh yeah, it's a brendon/ryan one and it's based off 20 Dollar Nosebleed if you guys need more info.) I'll probably make an 'official' rec post for it but for now, just go read.

According to LJ, I've been away for over a week now! Jeez, it is so like me to announce a hiatus and then post, but then fail to actually post when I am supposedly 'back'.

*nano--I can proudly say that I have crossed the 10 000 word barrier! I know that I am massively behind, but I am really just fine with getting to 25 000 by the end of November. I do believe that if this year had not been an election year then I would have been more focused on finishing Nano and not on the election and stuff like prop 8 and the thing in Florida. I've been reading a ton of articles about Prop 8 especially (Yay Pete for planning to go on Larry King Live, though I am so much more of a Rachel Maddow girl myself; but he didn't make it due to scheduling stuff---is Liberal Studies getting ready to make an appearance?). So yeah, past 10 000 words, and the plot is in my head just waiting to be typed; plus, I have some pages handwritten that I need to type, so I'm not as far behind as it seems.

* Since I passed my word limit, now I can read foxxcub's excellent new fic based on Pretty Woman. I forced myself to abstain from foxxcub's awesomeness, so no one can ever say I lack will ever again. I definitely plan to read it tomorrow before I jump into nano tomorrow morning.  (I just added a link to it just in case some of you haven't read it yet, but seriously, what took you so long?)

* I love my google blog reader because the SNL sketch with Justin Timberlake in drag danced along to Beyonce's latest cymbal :) If you haven't seen it yet, then you are missing so much hilarity. Just know that Timberlake can work heels so well and you can tell he's a dancer. Plus, can a girl ever have too much Paul Rudd? That answer will always be no :)

* I was going to have to post a rant about Grey's Anatomy and how it is being ridiculous in the bad way. Believe me, it was full of anger and actual profanity. Here is my actual note I left to myself on Google--So pissed right now. I'm calling bullshit on the Denny stuff and Callie and no amount of recollections of vases and kittens will make me feel otherwise!” But to add to my WTF reaction: Grey's Anatomy is not, nor has it ever been, a supernatural themed show. Either way Izzie is crazy with this Denny stuff, and maybe they are leading to Izzie having a brain tumor and then dying off the show. I'm still upset with Dr. Hahn being sent off for frustrating reasons; but I am feeling too positive today to adequately convey my distaste.

* I find the bassist for Gym Class Heroes so attractive. What, I can be shallow sometimes.

*Maybe this is a sensible reason for the mustache of a certain drummer? I don't really think that, but I did find it interesting.

*Top Chef-- is anyone else watching the new season? I am loving it a ton, and I find Richard adorable :) He reminds me of Cliff, Marck's boyfriend on Ugly Betty. I don't have an early favorite yet.

*Every time I hang on Jezebel and someone mentions how slash is being written featuring Obama and Rahm Emanuel or Rahm Emanuel and Stephen Colbert (guys the roast video for Colbert is hilarious, even if you don't  like politics, it is still funny) my head starts to explode a little bit. I know fannish behavior is 'out in the open' and all, but I still feel weird seeing fandom mentions beyond LJ and fanfiction.net.

*Oh I have a new challenge for super_bandom due this Wednesday, so if I post something on the f-list don't be surprised. Yes, I can do this while working on the nano. Speaking of other ideas, the Jon/Spencer 'not stalking' story fleshed out a little more and some more of that Pete/Spencer companion to the Nate/Patrick from months ago had some progress.