the wrong end of the telescope

My sister just left for the US, but I don't feel like dwelling on that, so I'm going to post three recs before I go to work.

The first one is Welcome to Planet Motherfucker, which is about zombies and how MSI end up investigating rumors of a cure against the zombie virus. Along the way MSI meets MCR and Chantal, and Gerard and Lyn-Z fight some zombies and, you know, yeah. But because nokomis305 is my favorite, this is not a story where the girl is any kind of damsel in distress, but a zombie story where said fair lady is the most awesome, amen. This story is so much fun, and I know she thanks me in the acknowledgments, but seriously, my involvement was limited to flapping my hands enthusiastically and telling her to kill more people. Also I kept typing ZOMBIES in all caps. Go read it! It's GREAT. I love, love, love the way Steph writes Lyn-Z--human, believable, funny and fantastic--and her Chantal is fucking perfect, as always. As is everyone else. I have so much adoration for this story, seriously.

The second one is liketheroad's Prairie Doll of Mine, which is a Ryan/Spencer small town au. This--it's Ryan and Spencer holding on to each other in the face of prejudice, it's about finding safety and home in another person. I told her she broke my heart and put it back together, and I don't know how to recommend it except to say that again. It's lovely and achy and I just, yeah. Wonderful.

And the last one was just posted--colouredmango's Until I Am Home With You. Butcher/Sisky, and oh my god. I read it this morning, a little heartsick and tired, and I left her a most incoherent comment, I can't even. It's a beautiful story--Butcher goes on his Chinese internship and leaves his boyfriend, high school student Sisky, behind, but they stay together, stay in touch. Oh, love. Love.

Scratch Your Name (Into the Fabric of This World)

Pairing: Background Bob/Brian, Chantal/Jimmy, Amanda/Dusty/Katie Kay.
Word Count: 24,214
Rating/Warnings: R. Character death, violence, some blood/gore, brief mentions of torture and a past rape.
Summary: As the only survivor of a series of executions by the Squad at an underground music show, Lindsey starts her own private revolution doing (illegal) street art. Then, one night, caught out by and running from a Patrol group, she gets unexpected help in evading capture -- and joins a much more public revolution. Set in a very different New York City.


Author's Notes:

This fic would never have happened without a great deal of help from some amazing, amazing people. First and foremost, I can't tell you how much I owe enhendi and wasoncedelight--they held me to my own canon, yelled at me about characterization and punctuation and my many, many run-on sentences. torakowalski helped me build this universe, in a series of emails wherein I went "What if..." and she nodded encouragingly at me and asked intelligent questions, and then she betaed one of the early drafts as well. Finally, without the hand-holding, the cheering, and the support of nokomis305, thesamefire, and absenteye and many other poor souls on my flist, the story would not have been finished. I love all of you very much, ladies.

Also and obviously, I am most grateful to my wonderful artist tuesdaysgone, my fantastic mixers sweetnovicane and astaria51, who created marvelous, marvelous bonus content for my story, and to the bandombigbang mods for running this awesome challenge again. Someone mentioned color-coded spreadsheets, and oh man, I can't even imagine the madness. Finally, I borrowed the summary from here.

Master Post | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Epilogue


Bonus Tracks/Enhanced Content

Fanart:

Art by tuesdaysgone

Art by absenteye

Fanmixes

Fanmix by sweetnovicane

Fanmix by astaria51

Master Post | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Epilogue

( Part 2 )

Master Post | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Epilogue

( Epilogue )

We’re Dancing Free (But Stuck Here Underground), a mix by sweetnovicane

I sort of felt like I got three pieces of art, because both my mixers provided stunning cover art for their fanmixes as well. Extraordinarily happy-making and surprising, that. This mix is long and great and satisfying, and the variety of genres on it made me most pleased. I mean, okay, there's MIA and Bruce Springsteen on the same mix, and god, there's so much wonderful here. I can’t even—I love this, I was listening to it while making my last revisions, because the energy of it all just captures the story so well. And there's Muse, and Pink, and the whole thing ends on the song that made me start listening to the Dresden Dolls. ♥ Also, would you look at the picture for the track list. Perfect, that.

( This way for the music )

First rec post. So much awesome, you guys, I love this fandom. *beams* First set of recs--there might be some mild spoilers in the reviews, but I honestly don't think I have anything in there that isn't in the summaries. Also, these are merely the stories I loved the mostest--there are a lot of other great ones as well, I just had to limit myself to the ones I'm going to be rereading a lot.


( big bangs have I loved )

Now I'm going to maybe take a walk if I can face going outside in this gloriously awful weather--me and my cat are a lot alike, when it's raining and chilly we stand at the front door making frowny faces. The difference is that he generally has more of a choice about actually leaving the house. Sigh sigh. But the rain is highly necessary, so I'm not complaining. It also makes going swimming at the outdoor pool AWESOME. It's a public one, just down the hill, and when the air is colder, no one goes, so I get the pool to myself and it's so warm.

Oooooh, actually, I'm going to go watch Brazil play soccer on the TV. Much warmer. And with the added benefit of awesome soccer.