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Cheerio and have a lovely day!
Anna

It's that time of the year again! Yes. I will be making my Xmas Indie Mix '09, which of course has been preceded by Xmas Indie Mix '08, '07 and '06. The term "indie mix" is becoming less and less accurate since it's a collection of songs I happened to love that year, regardless of genre. But this year's is going to be good. (It's always good.) And I will share it with you! It'll be my holiday present! From me! To you! *SQUISH SQUISH* I've been compiling it already. It looks awesome.

( To Write -list )

( A conversation with my mother. CAMERA PEOPLE. CLICK. )

I will be doing that voice post, I swear! Requests still being taken if you've got something.

Have a good Friday! <3

Because I am a loser, I decided that it'd be cool to have a story for each letter of the alphabet. I had a look and I have not used J, O, M, X and Z. Pretty good, actually!

I started brainstorming in order to name the Joncer mpreg, and holycloud helped me. We came up with amazing names, such as:

Jon, the Famous Lawyer who Shakes Hands with Obama

Making Friends and Babies
Maybe I Got Knocked Up
My Baby, My Man (Bitch)
My Baby Is Amazing

Oh No! I Am Pregnant!

Unwanted Things That Happen Anyway
Unwanted Things That Happen When You Fuck in the Supply Closet
Unwanted Vegans

Xenophobia Is No Place for a Baby


I am sure no one is surprised when I say that the story still doesn't have a name. *FAIL* (but also lots of lolz, so that's okay.) I dare you to be more creative than us.

This icon represents how I feel right now. Except that Brendon and Spencer make it look sexy.

I haven't been updating quite as frequently lately, but not that much is going on. PATD and TYV are both being pretty quiet right now, and my life is work work work slash work work slash slash friends friends work guitar work work. I was talking to a friend of mine last night and I said (about my studies), "I just don't know if I'm smart enough!" To which my friend said, extremely wisely, "No one's smart enough. You just have to study." So that's what I'm doing during the day and then dividing my evenings between story-writing and maintaining a don't-die-just-yet social life. This is the most stress I've ever been under, but I enjoy what I do, so it's not that bad. I just need to kick my own ass every now and then. Pressure might also suit me a bit.

Early December is looking good for those of you who enjoy my stories. You might very well get two stories within a week, together over a 100,000 words (70's Ryden and mpreg Joncer). It seems like I've been rather slash-lazy this autumn, but you'll see! Oh, how you shall see. *evil laughter* And if I am right in my calculations, then I should finally get here. GET IT? \o/

Now I need 111 more words in this essay before I'm calling it a day. God, if I could write this shit like I can write my slash.

p.s. Supernatural tomorrow! \o/ Americans get it Thursday night, I download the episode Friday morning. It works beautifully! But it's the last episode until January. Noooo! :(

5 hours in the library. On a Sunday. But I always study on Sundays because it's a good study day. My brain seriously needs to unwind now.

"I know I've said this before, but the odds of us actually playing Free Bird... There are no odds. It is not gonna happen. I'll start with the first reason: we have no idea how to play Free Bird. The second reason is, in the lovebug's natural habitat, hearing that would just fucking kill him, wouldn't it? You wouldn't want that, right? He's adorable. He's cute. Thirdly, even if some, like, pick your deity, whoever, came down from the heavens or the hills or wherever your deity lives, and just blessed us with this vast knowledge of Free Bird and things, and we could play it backwards, we could sing it backwards, we could do all that crazy shit - we still just wouldn't do it. If this were the Make a Wish Foundation and you were gonna die in twenty minutes, or just long enough to play Free Bird... We still wouldn't play it.

And here's the end reason. The end reason is that life is too fucking short to play or hear Free Bird."

- Isaac Brock

lol, it's so, so true. This is why I love the guy. <3

( Update on WIPs. )

Also, James and I found betas for the gang!fic (and I shamelessly recruited a beta for the mpreg while I was at it), so thanks to all of those who volunteered. It means a lot to be surrounded by people who want to help you out! <3

p.s. I choose to believe that this is about the boys being in Brazil. Now go write me nostalgic BWalk or Joncer, please.

Firstly, happy November! \o/

Secondly, thanks to all of you who volunteered to help James and me out with our gang!fic. I've not gotten the chance to talk to her yet, but we will decide on a beta/betas when we both get our asses online. Then I will email whoever we end up with. But I just want to say thanks for offering flaily fangirls like us a helping hand! :)

Two things in relation to this:
1. Brendon's not a priest in the story. I now realise how sexy it would be if he were. Ryan pounding away at his virginal ass in a silent church, Brendon biting on his tongue, white collar tight around his neck, looking up at the crucifix before closing his eyes, his body trembling as Ryan takes him right there. That would make me all kinds of happy, actually. But that's some other story.
2. Still not English! Nope, sorry. I know I sound vaguely British when I speak, and I most certainly do use British English because it's what I speak/think/write, but nope. Not English or British at all. I'm just another bloody foreigner. *shakes head*

Now onto other things! I'm doing this horrible thing right now where I blatantly neglect real life in order to write fic. This includes putting off studying, being generally anti-social and, even right now, I am fucking starving, but instead of dragging my ass to the kitchen, I am making it wait because I want to write this story, GODDAMIT, and no one and nothing is allowed to bother me while I'm at it! I used to do this so much when I was writing TBRS. Good times.

But in some other good news the Joncer mpreg is now 18k. \o/ And Spencer is, er, around three months pregnant.

p.s. TMI: I had a sort-of sex dream about Ryan Ross last night. Thank god my alarm went off before him and I started doing that sex tape we had planned. Dear brain, can we move onto Spencer soon? That'd be awesome. Thanks. Sincerely, me.

:D :D :D :D \o/ \o/ \o/

The Ryden Revival has just totally EXPLODED all over my flist, and I am so fucking psyched! Picspams, fan art, fan vids, drabbles, fics, audio fics! You need to go check out the awesomeness. GOOOOOOOOOOO. To the rydenrevival, that is. ivesia19 has done so much work for it as well. She is clearly amazing. She even reads one of my stories out loud! How cool is that? WAY COOL. There's also a short and cute Ryan/Brendon story of mine somewhere in the midst of all the fucking awesomeness.

As my life hates me, I have class in thirty, then I also have a special lecture tonight from a visiting scholar and then a deadline tomorrow, and there is all this Ryden just there and I whimper having to make it wait! :(

But you don't have to wait! So go! Let's flail together!

Beta needed

Since I am spamming Tiffany's inbox with the 70's fic, I'm looking for someone to take on the task of betaing the co-write holycloud and I have been working on.

Fic: Motorcycle gang!fic.
Anticipated length: 60,000/70,000 words
Pairings: Jon/Spencer, Ryan/Brendon
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Some violence, guns, self-inflicted injuries, gay sex, kidnap, Christians and motorcycles
Vague idea of what it is: After falling out with their gang, Ryan and Spencer need to run for it. (Again.) A mass murderer tags along, and together they decide to terrorise the family of a wealthy priest.

We'd probably send you roughly 20k at a time. The fic isn't finished yet, so there is no rush. But we do want someone efficient, and a grammar expert, someone who will ruthlessly tackle our poor structure and careless punctuation. Experience a plus.

So if you're interested, comment here (screened) with your email address and feel free to advertise yourself. I will then consult James and we will get back to one of you (meaning the two or one and a half who volunteer).

Cheers and have an amazing Friday/Saturday/Halloween wherever you are. :)

ETA: Thanks to all who volunteered! James and I will getting back to the person(s) we settle on.

New layout, check it out! I spent ages playing with the colours (or shades, rather) and deciding on the font. My life is so trivial.

arctic_grey arctic_grey arctic_grey
arctic_grey arctic_grey arctic_grey

The gorgeous banner was made by mikikoshikawa. Thank you, darling! <3 And look! It has Ryan in it! Maybe a bit in the background, but he's in there! You go, baby!

My boys will be together in my header if not in the real world. GODDAMMIT.

Denial, let me show you it.


Yay Friday, yummy garlic mushrooms. Gotta love that Chinese place around the corner. Now more mpreg fic.

Since yesterday was a recover-from-a-hangover day, today is a holy-shit-so-much-work-to-do day. But I need to take breaks or my brain will explode! So here's a meme to distract me. Stolen from a handful of people by now!

10 WORDS OR LESS meme
You post a pairing from any fandom that I know at least a little about. (Essentially this is bandom.)
I write 10 different categories.
Each in 10 words or less.

❶. Angst:
❷. AU:
❸. Crack!fic:
❹. Crossover:
❺. First Time:
❻. Fluff:
❼. Humor:
❽. Hurt/Comfort:
❾. Smut:
❿. UST:

I already know I will seriously struggle with this, but it'll be good for me! Make sure that the pairing you go for hasn't already been requested. Apart from that, go crazy, give me wacky or conventional pairings. As long as Zack's not in the pairing because ew, you guys. The likelihood of me going over the ten words is also pretty likely, but I will try my absolute best. Honest.

p.s. Thanks for taking the poll, I am pleased to announce the disgustingly adorable coupledom of Greta and Butcher. No worries, though, Ian will still be around, and Greta will braid his hair! Patrick will be around too, but due to the plans I already had for his character in the story, he will not be smooching Greta. Unless Butcher wants a threesome. Potentially hot. Someone should request that pairing!

ETA: Thanks for giving me some exercise, I clearly needed it! As of now, I'm done with the meme. I've used up my imagination. Crack!fic scenarios are damn difficult. Kudos to crack writers.

Poll #1475629 Greta's soulmate
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 44

In the summer of 1977, Greta is a happy hippie (a generation too late) with pretty dresses and flowers in her hair as she tours with her old acoustic guitar and sings about world peace. She is also hopelessly in love with her better half, determined to make the world a better place with their epic cuteness. Her hippie soulmate clearly is

I am kind of leaning towards Ian or The Butcher, but I feel so conflicted. Other takes on this much appreciated.

Thank you! <3

( Answers. )

If you managed to read all that... Well done you!

I'm resisting the urge to extensively blab about the Kelts/Ryan drama (oh those two) (check fbr_trash if you don't know what I'm talking about), but I'll say this: she should have just given the song a middle finger instead of going to him about it (his reply clearly just made her feel worse). She should have risen above it and walked away gracefully! Instead of, you know, giving fangirls like me the opportunity to roll my eyes and say things like, "Oh those two!"

Sometimes mutual silence is the best cure for a broken heart.

lol at the tag fest.

p.s. Elton John's Tiny Dancer has been stuck in my head for two days now. COULD IT PLEASE JUST GO AWAY? Thanks.

A simple meme stole from flist that I decided to do after I noticed that people actually asked really cool stuff! Goes like so:

Ask me questions!

You can be anon or logged in - either way, comments are screened. (I usually do not allow anon comments, but I am changing the settings for now.) In a couple of days I'll post a new entry with my answers. (I reserve the right not to answer, however, if you, like, ask me for my address.)

They can be serious questions or silly ones. You can ask me more than one, of course. If you always wanted to know what my favourite colour was, now's your chance!

p.s. I don't have a favourite colour.
p.p.s. Damn, now I spoiled that. :(

ETA: Now done, anon comments no longer on.

So this might have already reached your ears, but there is a bit of a plagiarism wave going on right about now as several PATD writers have discovered a person who has turned their stories into American Idol fanfiction. As far as I know, so far sateenmusta, choclitbunny, nyquil_love and myself have been victims of this person's inexcusable behaviour. I would still strongly advise all writers to check this person's master list to see if their work has ended up there in a badly rewritten version. I don't think that list contains everything, however.

I called the person out on copying my story, she claimed her work is merely a "well-used plot" and not a copy. I, however, beg to differ: my story, of which she used the first half of, and her story.

Also, this person's point of view on the whole mess can be read here. I think it is fair to say that this person has no idea what the concept of "plagiarism" entails. (But I ♥ Tiffany for kindly pointing her the way to finding out.) I also have difficulty understanding what kind a person she has to be to deny her plagiarism when she has clearly been caught red-handed. If it were me, I'd die of shame.

My point is that this has happened to me before, and no writer should have to put up with this kind of behaviour. So if you're a writer, make sure she hasn't stolen a story from you, and if she has, tell her to take it the fuck down already. Shit like this just makes me sad. I didn't check if she has taken anything else from me, she might have, but I didn't feel like feeling even worse about the entire thing.

If you ever come across a story that you think might have been stolen from me or has been copied from me in some way or form, please do let me know ASAP.

Thank you.

ETA: Rather unsurprisingly, she has since f-locked her entries. (Apart from the master list.)

Can we please discuss this:


snatched from young_veins

Jon's hair. His hair, you guys. His fucking hair.

I need group therapy.

I need therapy for needing group therapy over a dude's hair.

His hair.

If he keeps it on a ponytail sometimes, it has now been officially coined as "the jonytail".

I noticed this will be my 200th entry on this journal. What a perfect and fitting opportunity to celebrate grammar! Or just spelling, really.

Correct spelling is one of the main ingredients of life. Trufax.

"artic" is not a word. Say it out loud now - aaaartic. What is that? What does that mean?

"arctic" is a word used to describe the very Northern bits of this planet. That is what I am! Hello! :) Fun fact: I grew up north of the Arctic Circle. It was very awesome, snowy winters, bright summers. One winter I made a snow bear in the garden, then we threw water on it and it went all icy and then you could ride the snow bear. Roooock.

Seeing two separate misspellings of one's name within ten minutes can get a bit frustrating, petty though it may be. You click it and find out I don't exist! But I do exist, two hundred times now. :(

So two C's in there. Check 'em out. The C's. In the username.

Love and hugs,
Isaac and Me

I can't believe they arrested Polanski. Not cool, Switzerland, not cool. I mean, a warrant for his arrest from 1978? Jeeez. But I also think that he shouldn't get any special treatment merely for being famous and neither should they let him go just because Famous Hollywood People & Co. say so. We're all equal but some are more equal than others, and if he did molest some girl back in the 70's, then he should face the consequences.

But still! Not cool Switzerland - he was there to accept a reward, and they arrest him. Guess he won't be coming back next year...

I went to see (500) Days of Summer, and I really liked it! A story about growing as a person and what love is for different people. Sad thing is that I felt like I got some closure for my own romantic loose ends, but that's only good, right? I'm kinda considering taking the back-and-forth effect of the movie and turn my rydenrevival ficlets into a single fic that traces the epic Ryan/Brendon relationship from (1) to... er... When did Ryan and Brendon meet? Early 2004 or was it earlier than that? Someone help me out here! Okay, let's say they met 12th of March 2004, which is (1), and then we jump to (1912), which is the split. I'd still make it schmoopy, though! It could be called (2000) Days of... er... Schmoopy Things. lol, I'll work on it.

And you should join the comm and participate in the Rydenness, but also in the Joncerness! So go check out joncerjumpstart too because when Ryan and Brendon are fucking, Jon and Spencer inevitably end up screwing each other.

Now time for brunch! ('Cause I was too lazy to have breakfast.)

Oh dude, I just noticed this! It even has the fraternity slogan in the back! :D People are awesome. If you want your own Sigma Chi Beta hoodie to endorse the golden boys of Swan University, then get to it!

I've decided to do ficlets for the Ryden Revival. I'll take a time machine and go back to the rosevest days! So much Ryden back then. And since it's a happy revival, I'll probably make it all cute and sweet. Uh. If I can. I'll try, though, I swear!

But my cute and sweet well is running dry as always. Cutesy, sexy, soulmate-y, precious Ryden. You want that, right? RIGHT?

So... prompt me? *puppy eyes*

Remember the times when Ryan and Jon were still in Panic! At The Disco? Yeah, me neither. But let's try! Rewind a few years! Bird make-up! Rosevest! Brendon constantly trying to kiss Ryan on stage! Groping! Starting to ring any bells? Interview hand-holding, wearing each other's clothes...? The speculations of how Brendon lost his virginity to Ryan. In the ocean. Or something, I don't even care, that theory is just pure win. And, you know, how A New Perspective is totez about a sex dream Brendon had of Ryan. So yeah, they're in different bands now, but it's a lovers' tiff! It happens!

Ryden is a force of nature. Seriously. And we need to be reminded of it, so go go GO and join The Ryden Revival. Just to piss off Ryan Ross. \o/

Also, I changed the beggarsnotes layout. OOH, SO PRETTY. Whenever I change a layout it takes, oh I don't know, hours and hours. SO YOU GO AND LOOK AT IT, GODDAMMIT. APPRECIATE MY HARD WORK.

And I'll cut to the chase here and beg (again). Who wants to make me a new banner for this journal? Someone? Please? *sobs* PM me, IM me if you want to help me out. I'd love you forever. Pity the Photoshop retarded people!

day 01 | a song
day 02 | a picture
day 03 | a book/ebook/fanfic
day 04 | a site
day 05 | a youtube clip
day 06 | a quote
day 07 | whatever tickles your fancy

This meme is coming to an end now! I couldn't think of much that would tickle my fancy, but I saw this meme around, so let's end the meme with another!

The meme is worded like so: ask me about a pairing I have written (or haven't and you think I should write) and I will give you five facts about them or a ficlet/part of a work in progress.

The way I understand this is... um. You give me a pairing. The pairing in general or from a story? I'm not sure. You specify. If it's just "Zack/Spencer", then the five facts could be anything, I could make them English bulldogs and go with that, but if you want to go for a specific story, then go ahead. Then again, I've never written any Zack/Spencer, so you can also give me that and then I'll make up something. I think. Uh. Does this actually make sense to anyone? idk, we'll play it by ear!


p.s. Separation Sunday has always been the one Hold Steady album I haven't gotten that into, but I've now discovered it. This album rocks so fucking hard. Aaah, I wanna go to a Hold Steady gig (for the third time). So much rock in this band.