the wrong end of the telescope

Dear livejournal, right now I have a torakowalski and the weather is lovely and we saw X-men: First Class yesterday (lovely tragic gay romance, entertainingly wrong about other things). Tonight I go on holiday from work. It's a good week.

Oh, and there was a story that went up yesterday. I was out between 9 and midnight, so I didn't get a chance to do my own post (meaning my wonderful cowriter posted the whole thing, and you should all gasp in awe, because damn, is she ever amazing), but here it is. Same verse as Why Wait Any Longer, which was posted almost exactly a year ago.

Title: Where We Land
Authors: fictionalaspect and harborshore
Band(s): The Like, Panic! At the Disco, The Young Veins
Pairing(s):: Brendon/Z, Ryan/Spencer/Tennessee, Annie/Laena
Word Count: 55,306
Rating/Warnings: NC-17. One scene contains violent imagery and references to the threat of attempted non-con. Some scenes also contain homophobic language and sexualized insults directed at women. There is no actual dub-con or non-con in this fic.

Summary:Ryan and Z are the resident outcasts of their small Midwestern town, best friends who are fiercely protective of themselves and each other. As junior year starts, Z's trying to get her (struggling) band off the ground, and Ryan mostly just wants to be left alone--but everything changes when Brendon Urie transfers to their school.

master post, full summary, author's notes and wonderful extras are over here

This story, you guys. We've been writing it for over a year, and it's been such a process of falling in love with the characters, over and over again, of falling into the friendship of Ryan and Z, their you-and-me-against-the-world, of writing about learning trust and love and figuring out how to make it alright without glossing over the hard things. What started as an accidental commentfic (fictionalaspect said "Spencer/Ryan/Tennessee" when I asked for a rare pairing, and then we came up with Brendon/Z as a counterpart, and two weeks later we had 17K) grew into something I--it's hard to explain. I loved working with fictionalaspect (so much, holy shit), I love what we made, I'm so glad it's done but I'm also bewildered that this enormous project (for me, anyway--longest fic I ever posted) isn't--we finished it. Here it is.

It's okay to post twice if the second time is also a fic, right? Ahem. This is, if possible, even sillier than the last one. Pure cotton candy fluff. ♥

Title: Make You Feel
Pairing(s): Z/girl!Spencer
Rating: PG
Warnings: None.
Word count: 1200
Summary: Z was thinking about a girl. HS AU.
A/N Apparently I'm writing torakowalski silly stories instead of writing my own big bang. But she deserves them! She wrote somewhere over 8000 words on her big bang this weekend, because she's awesome like that.

( Make You Feel )

Title: Every Word Rang True
Pairing(s): Z/Charlotte
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: None.
Word count: 1020
Summary: Z didn't stop talking to Charlotte when she left the band. She couldn't. Slight AU (Z isn't dating Ryan).
A/NFor the Sex Is Not The Enemy Challenge. Prompt: this picture. This is the version of Z and Charlotte with less angst. (It's possible I'm also working on the other version.) The title is from "Tangled Up in Blue" by Bob Dylan and this is also partly for redbrickrose, who wanted it first.

( Every Word Rang True. )

no_tags reveal!

Um, as always, I bring shocking news. I wrote All That's Best of Dark and Bright, which, yes, it has girls and quiet moments of emotional intensity and an authoritarian regime and magic. I'm not predictable. *grins*


Title: All That's Best of Dark and Bright
Pairing/Prompt: 57, The Like (gen or any pairing--Z/Tennessee), college shenanigans OR Brendon/Spencer, supernatural creatures.
Summary: Z had been waiting for months. A story of werewolves, love, and the beginnings of rebellion.
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: None besides implied violence.
Word count: 1100
Notes: It appears I wrote both the prompts. Kind of. A little bit. The title is Byron's.


( All That's Best of Dark and Bright )

Darling flist, it's the day after Christmas for me and actual Christmas for many of you: hi. I hope you're having a good day whether or not you celebrate, and I just wanted to say hi and love and stuff. Thanks for sticking around through what was a fairly tough year in many ways (though awesome in so many others). More on this later.

Right now I just want to rec two stories that lovely people wrote for me:

The First Time... is my Yuletide, and it's Bliss and Pash from Whip It, which, holy shit, have I ever said how much I love that movie? I LOVE THAT MOVIE. And this fic nails Bliss and her awkwardnesses and her certainties and her eventually-gets-everything-right so well, it made me absolutely super-happy. GO READ.

Then there's the Bandom Christmas challenge one, which, oh. It's To Wait For Love with Annie and Z and Z, oh, this Z is so perfect. She's quirky and getting steadier and she's figuring herself and her feelings out and I just--it's like you know me or something, dearest author. Thank you.

So go read about girls falling in love, you know, in between opening gifts and eating too much food or staring at the snow (or the flood, in one case). I'm going to go watch Mamma Mia with my family and SING ALONG TO EVERY SONG. Because we're dorks like that. And then I will crash; holy shit, how am I still this tired?

Tonight is Midsummer Night's Eve. I realize I haven't yet finished the female characters prompts, but I promise I will (part of the problem is that I want to write epics for every one of those prompts, so I'm trying to slash them down to a manageable size--telling part of the story, if you will) and I couldn't let tonight go by without doing this. It's my favorite holiday, the shortest night of the year (technically that was on Monday, but hey), and it comes with dancing and the sea and food and magic.

So prompt me, dearlings. A pairing or gen (give me a character, then), a fandom (The Like, Bob and Brian, Veronica Mars, the Bats (DCU), BTVS, the Panic boys, Greta, Kitty and Lyn-Z...), and a quote from A Midsummer Night's Dream. They'll be my reward come Monday when I'm allowed to think about other things again.

And now I am off! An island awaits. ♥

So it's torakowalski's birthday. Most of you don't know this, but Tora was basically my second friend on livejournal, or something like that (we met because I started telling her a story about Bob kidnapping his poor, stressed manager and taking him on a road trip to the Grand Canyon--yes, that story), and she was the third one I met in real life. You guys, she is so wonderful. Hilarious (and she has the best smile) and tiny and great and we spent an afternoon at Foyle's talking about Bob/Brian porn and scandalizing the poor gentleman next to us--and soon I will see her again! I am of the excitement.

This is my poor, paltry offering for her birthday--it is so silly, so silly, but you know how ridiculous I am, darling, and I hope you like it. It's been--you are a good part of why my life is just a little better these days. All the love ever, yeah? ♥


Title: Got That Crazy Rhythm
Rating: PG-13
Summary: High School AU. Bob hates Brian Schechter. No, she really does.
Pairing: Bob/Brian. Background Z/Tennessee and Brendon/Jepha.
Warnings: None, really. Teenagers and mucking about with everyone's ages, that's about it.
Word Count: 1750
Disclaimer: Bob Bryar is not a girl, nor did he go to high school with Brian Schechter or Z Berg.
Author's Notes: For torakowalski on her birthday. ♥, darling, this is the silliest thing, but I do hope you like it just a little bit. The title is from Dylan's "Had a Dream About You, Baby."


( Got That Crazy Rhythm )

*peers out from under her thesis-shaped rock* So I hear there's a volcano? In Iceland? Doing things? This is nuts, you guys. It doesn't seem like anyone has died, and I hope I haven't gotten that wrong. All planes are canceled in Stockholm and the air space is closed, because apparently it's incredibly dangerous to fly through volcanic ash. Here's hoping it stops soon, because danger and chaos and the ashes being potentially lethal for people who are seriously ill and they're coming right at us, guys, they're already over Sweden. CRAZY. Also, I'm supposed to leave for the US in a month and I want to see my little sister graduate. It's an extremely minor concern in the grand scheme of things, but I love my sister a lot and I want to be there. And compared to the Haiti earthquake and the Chile one, this is decidedly minor. Obviously. Still, a little nuts.

So. I would like to offer ficlets, because I want to think about other things. I'm going to do the first five prompts I like, which may or may not be the first five that appear, because what I can write right now is a little limited.

Theme: post- or pre-apocalyptic scenarios WITH HOPE. Interpret that as you will. Pairings or gen are fine. Bands/fandoms I can write: Mikey, FOB, Bob and Brian (they're a subset of fandom, right?), The Like, Panic/The Young Veins (even if my Jon voice is nonexistent), MSI, others possibly. I can also do Veronica Mars, DCU or BTVS, though the last two feel like cheating since it's not like they've never done the apocalypse thing before.

Prompt away!

ETA: I am done! Five, er, seven ficlets.

It only took me twelve days...and now I'm really tempted to come up with a wretched pun on partridges in pear trees. I fear I am far too sleepy, though.

Here, darlings, the ficlets--there are superheroes, stories about music, awkward high school AUs, rare pairings, gen, lots of alwaysagirl, gen, Gotham City, and random crossovers. In order, we have the following:


The Right Music, Z/Tennessee, for softlyforgotten. Z's pretty sure it's her turn to be brave.


One More Time With Feeling, girl!Bob/girl!Brian, also for softlyforgotten (the trick is to leave me a first prompt and then have the second one be my favorite pairing in all the land). Bob glows when she plays.


I Should Refuse You, Bob/Mikey/Alicia, for fleurdeliser. Bob isn't used to having epiphanies in the kitchen.


Ready To Go Anywhere, Mikey/Ray, for antihysteric. Ray has a crush. Frank knows about it.


Temptin' You To Defy It, Lyn-Z/Z Berg, for unlurkster. This is set in a verse where Z and Lyn-Z go to the same high school, and Z sings in Kitty and Lyn-Z's band. She also happens to be dating Lyn-Z, and prom is coming up.


Should I Wait?, Frank/Gerard, for ciel_vert. Frank is definitely thinking too much about that one time when Gerard kissed him and they weren't on stage.


In Time, Patrick and William gen, for airgiodslv. Patrick isn't sure how to do this coming out thing.


Not Afraid To Look At Her, possible future girl!Bob/Frank, for jrho. Bob is not down with this shit.


Cast Your Dancing Spell My Way, Z and girl!Ryan, for blindmouse. When Ryan woke up, she'd figured it out. Superpowers!au.


Take The Dark Out Of The Nighttime, Bob/Gerard/Lyn-Z, for crowgirl13. More of the Bob/Gerard/Lyn-Z in Gotham AU; more epiphanies for Bob.


Stay While The Night Is Still Ahead, girl!Brendon/girl!Spencer, for bayleaf. Set in the same verse as the Z-and-Ryan one above. Spencer wants Brendon to stay.


Not Alone In The Dark, Kon/Veronica Mars, DCU/Veronica Mars crossover for jamjar. Kon has been at Neptune High for a while now, but it's kind of lonely.


Stuck Inside A Mobile, Jon and Tom gen (and a random AU), for halflinen. And off they go, down the rabbit hole...