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Tarnished Gold Standard [Mature] - cofic with doctor_jasley

Sat, 24 Aug 2013 19:11:08 GMT

Title: Tarnished Gold Standard
Author: bootson & doctor_jasley
Bands: Fall Out Boy (cameos by Cobra Starship, Panic! at the Disco, My Chemical Romance, & Gym Class Heroes)
Pairings: Patrick/Pete, background Brendon/Frank/Gabe
Word Count: 22,500
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Graphic violence, firearms, explosions, physical injury, abduction, minor OC death, grief responses, co-dependency
Summary: Director Wentz has made the Department stronger, more sane, and safer. Unfortunately, nothing is a sure thing in the field of private sector espionage. No one knows this better than Agent Stump, the best field agent on record. When a job goes south, it becomes more obvious than ever that the Department’s finest rely more on one another than anyone else, no matter how many people have their backs. (A sidestory to Never Wanted to Save the World by doctor_jasley.)

Tarnished Gold Standard [AO3]

Inspired Works

Fanart:
Art by ladytiferet
Warnings: aftermath of violence
Notes: There is nothing more beautiful than a beaten up tiny BAMF.

Fanmix:
we're all as mad as hatters here by morganya

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I'm Not Okay (I Promise)

Sun, 24 Mar 2013 03:07:10 GMT

Well, I haven't spent much time on LJ or DW in... I don't know how long. It's kind of sad that the thing that brings me back is because I need to rant and I don't want to take it to Tumblr.

MCR is over. I can't say I've been there since the beginning. I was limited in my musical depth until Blink 182 somehow led me to FOB who led to Panic! and so many other bands, but even then, I held some weird distinction where MCR was not my thing until I got pulled - kicking and screaming and backwards - into bandom and fell a little bit in love with Frank Iero and his stupid fucking giggle. MCR was a recent thing, compared to Panic!, FOB, and Blink. I still adore them though. I'm glad I got to see them, more than once. MCR led to me meeting so many fantastic people in person (including one of my very closest friends in the entire world chellealistic [LJ]). For that alone, I'm always going to be thankful. Maybe that's why it's so upsetting. It's the memories.

It's always the memories that get you, in the end.

It feels like a PERSONAL break up. I remember it feeling this way when Blink 182 broke up (when we all couldn't dare to hope they would mend those fences), when FOB went on "indefinite hiatus" (when we all assumed that was them pandering to us and trying to avoid backlash by using the term "break up"), when Panic! split in two (when Brendon and Spencer were struggling so much with an album that we all started to doubt they'd ever finish and worried the short-lived TYV would be the only thing left from the divorce), and when TAI disbanded (when William going solo was never a guarantee).

It felt exactly like this. But we all got through it. There were tears and moments of weirdly acute sadness. There were discussions of how we'd never find music we liked again, how we'd never connect that wholly with another band. Maybe we didn't, not really, and maybe we won't. Maybe we'll always have old albums and concert stories that stand out as some of the greatest things we've ever experienced. Maybe we'll move on to fun. and Neon Trees, The Lumineers and Cartel and love them and everything about them, but hold a place of sadness about what used to be, about MCR and the glory days of old.

Maybe this will be a Blink 182 situation, and one day, they'll be back. Out of no where we'll have rumors of a reunion and a twitter announcement that they're trying but no promises. Maybe we'll have kids who will be into annoying pop psuedo-bands who will mock us for going to a reunion show and acting like teenagers for a band that meant so much to us but championed the title "emo" like a badge before "hipster" was a thing and those kids were even born.

Probably, we'll move on, in that way you always move on when someone you loved walks out of your life. It will always be there, but the pain will slide into fond nostalgia. We'll get there. Some day. It is not this day, but I promise you, the whole fandom will get there.

It may be a cliche but: Keep running; We'll carry on.

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Fic: Safe in the Dark [PG-13]

Fri, 11 Jan 2013 03:11:47 GMT

Title: Safe In the Dark
Pairing(s): pre-Brendon/Frank/Gabe, pre-Nate N/Spencer S
Rating: Pg-13
Warnings: Strong violence, werewolves, original character death
Word count: 7135
Summary: An AU vaguely set in the Teen Wolf universe. When an Omega turned out to be more than Frank’s werewolf instincts and Gabe’s ex-hunter skills could handle, they formed an alliance with Spencer and his human best friend, Brendon. Too bad they didn’t expect Victoria and the rest of her hunters to catch them in the crossfire.
AN: Title from a song by Ludo of the same name. bandomstuffsit 2012 gift for doctor_jasley HUGE thanks to pikasafire for the beta, saxihighlandck for looking it over and promising it wasn't a train wreck when I had some sort of existential crisis, and theletterelle for being my sounding board for EVERYTHING. Love you, guys!

( I hate you. )

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trope_bingo

Sun, 06 Jan 2013 05:41:03 GMT

Because I'm apparently incapable of passing up something like this, I signed up for trope_bingo. Here's hoping I actually write some fills for the awesome prompts I ended up with!

( trope_bingo card )

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