TITLE: (TO DIE WILL BE) AN AWFULLY BIG ADVENTURE
FANDOM:: Bandom
WORD COUNT: 72,763
RATING: PG13ish?
PAIRINGS: Gerard/LynZ; Gerard/Frank; Pete/Ashlee; Pete/Patrick
BETA: JJ Taylor, Novembersmith and Cass all provided absolutely invaluable beta assistance, and any infelicities which remain are entirely my own doing.
ARTWORK: by FayJay (ie me!)
WARNINGS: This story really isn't pornalicious, and nobody is sexually assaulted. Nevertheless, the first scene (in which Gerard is forcibly turned into a vampire) may be triggery for some readers on that basis, and the question of consent in regard to vampirism is addressed.
DISCLAIMER: Goes without saying, but this is a work of fiction. No insult is intended to anyone named herein - heaven forfend any of them stumble across it, but if they did I hope they wouldn't be traumatised by the depictions (and might indeed be tickled by some of the ideas). They all seem like lovely people and I'd be very sad to cause them distress. Nevertheless: not true.
SUMMARY: Gerard has always vaguely liked the idea of being a vampire, in much the same way he's always vaguely liked the idea of time travel, or of being a pirate - but it's only when he wakes up dead that he realises that not all his fans (or friends) are actually human. This is rather a shock to the system, but Gerard does his best to deal with the fact that he's now an undead American, and he's lucky enough to get a little help from an unexpected corner. Just as he thinks he's starting to get the hang of being a vampire, however, everything suddenly goes to hell in a handbasket, and before he knows it there are angry vampires slayers chasing him around LA, and an urgent appointment with the Fairy Queen looming before him...
A story about love, family, metamorphosis, art, trust and geekery. Conceived and written as a gift for the lovely![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
cupcakegoth, without whom it would not exist in any form.
(Also archived at The Archive Of Our Own
CHAPTER ONE ( Read more... )
FANDOM:: Bandom
WORD COUNT: 72,763
RATING: PG13ish?
PAIRINGS: Gerard/LynZ; Gerard/Frank; Pete/Ashlee; Pete/Patrick
BETA: JJ Taylor, Novembersmith and Cass all provided absolutely invaluable beta assistance, and any infelicities which remain are entirely my own doing.
ARTWORK: by FayJay (ie me!)
WARNINGS: This story really isn't pornalicious, and nobody is sexually assaulted. Nevertheless, the first scene (in which Gerard is forcibly turned into a vampire) may be triggery for some readers on that basis, and the question of consent in regard to vampirism is addressed.
DISCLAIMER: Goes without saying, but this is a work of fiction. No insult is intended to anyone named herein - heaven forfend any of them stumble across it, but if they did I hope they wouldn't be traumatised by the depictions (and might indeed be tickled by some of the ideas). They all seem like lovely people and I'd be very sad to cause them distress. Nevertheless: not true.
SUMMARY: Gerard has always vaguely liked the idea of being a vampire, in much the same way he's always vaguely liked the idea of time travel, or of being a pirate - but it's only when he wakes up dead that he realises that not all his fans (or friends) are actually human. This is rather a shock to the system, but Gerard does his best to deal with the fact that he's now an undead American, and he's lucky enough to get a little help from an unexpected corner. Just as he thinks he's starting to get the hang of being a vampire, however, everything suddenly goes to hell in a handbasket, and before he knows it there are angry vampires slayers chasing him around LA, and an urgent appointment with the Fairy Queen looming before him...
A story about love, family, metamorphosis, art, trust and geekery. Conceived and written as a gift for the lovely
cupcakegoth, without whom it would not exist in any form.(Also archived at The Archive Of Our Own
Huzzah! First draft of Jilli's story done!
Mar. 2nd, 2011 12:01 amLovely feeling, finishing something! Although there's probably still some poking-with-a-stick to be done, but nevertheless, have finished the Vampire!Gerard story. Took five weeks (Well, six, but I wrote next to nothing during half term), wound up 75,000 words long.
I am very heartened by the fact that I seem to be fairly reliably able to sit down and write 3000 words or more a day when I've got a story in my head. This is a vast improvement over my performance back in the day, when it took me two years to write an epic Harry Potter novel. (Granted 'Invisible To See' is 98k, but nevertheless - TWO YEARS, ffs.)
I was a bit tempted to hang fire and put it into the Bandom Big Bang, and I might yet, but then I worried that if I did, maybe the artwork wouldn't look like the artwork in my head. This is a story that puts lots of pictures in my head. (No, I don't mean porn. It's more of a fairytale, really, with vampires and werewolves and fairies oh my, and some discreet saucy bits.)
Also, of course, there's a three month wait between now and handing in your first Big Bang draft. Which...yeah, no. Cannot.
So I have decided I must needs be my own One Woman Big Bang for this story. Which is okay, actually, because I already have a playlist that I listened to while writing, and I'm working on art now.
Here is an illustration I've knocked up this evening. It is not as good as the illustrations in my head, but it does kind of have the right flavour. (Regrettably it's not a picture of anyone you'll recognise - it's just a picture that goes with the story, near the end.)
Yay! Art project: I haz one! (I know, I know, I'm not Fanartist level good, but it's nice dipping my toes back into the whole art thing, and I shall have fun with this.)
I am very heartened by the fact that I seem to be fairly reliably able to sit down and write 3000 words or more a day when I've got a story in my head. This is a vast improvement over my performance back in the day, when it took me two years to write an epic Harry Potter novel. (Granted 'Invisible To See' is 98k, but nevertheless - TWO YEARS, ffs.)
I was a bit tempted to hang fire and put it into the Bandom Big Bang, and I might yet, but then I worried that if I did, maybe the artwork wouldn't look like the artwork in my head. This is a story that puts lots of pictures in my head. (No, I don't mean porn. It's more of a fairytale, really, with vampires and werewolves and fairies oh my, and some discreet saucy bits.)
Also, of course, there's a three month wait between now and handing in your first Big Bang draft. Which...yeah, no. Cannot.
So I have decided I must needs be my own One Woman Big Bang for this story. Which is okay, actually, because I already have a playlist that I listened to while writing, and I'm working on art now.
Here is an illustration I've knocked up this evening. It is not as good as the illustrations in my head, but it does kind of have the right flavour. (Regrettably it's not a picture of anyone you'll recognise - it's just a picture that goes with the story, near the end.)
Yay! Art project: I haz one! (I know, I know, I'm not Fanartist level good, but it's nice dipping my toes back into the whole art thing, and I shall have fun with this.)
Oh, Gerard Way, you dear creature.
Jan. 20th, 2011 09:49 pmPottering around the internet trying to get some sense of who Mike Pedicone is, as he will probably have to crop up in the story I'm writing. I have established that (1) he and Frankie are clearly loving one another to bits, and pulling each other's pigtails in a very fourteen-year-old-asshole manner, which is very disarming.
(Courtesy of Damned_Colonial:) ( Read more... )
I have also established that (2) Gerard thinks that his new drummer Mike should not wear a shirt.
...oh, Gerard, you are such an enabler. I do love your mission statement of exploiting the boys and making the girls keep their shirts on. And Frankie is SUCH a good little minion, stripping the shirts off hot menfolk obedient to your every whim.
::marvels at Bandom::
Bless you, and your delightful missus, and wee Bandit, and all the rest of the Swiss Family Way, and those who sail in them.
(On an entirely different note OH MY FUCKING GOD, HAAGEN-DAZS DARK CHOCOLATE ORANGE IS PURE SEX IN A POT!!! OM NOM NOM!!!)
(Courtesy of Damned_Colonial:) ( Read more... )
I have also established that (2) Gerard thinks that his new drummer Mike should not wear a shirt.
...oh, Gerard, you are such an enabler. I do love your mission statement of exploiting the boys and making the girls keep their shirts on. And Frankie is SUCH a good little minion, stripping the shirts off hot menfolk obedient to your every whim.
::marvels at Bandom::
Bless you, and your delightful missus, and wee Bandit, and all the rest of the Swiss Family Way, and those who sail in them.
(On an entirely different note OH MY FUCKING GOD, HAAGEN-DAZS DARK CHOCOLATE ORANGE IS PURE SEX IN A POT!!! OM NOM NOM!!!)
Pretty Things (on a Bandom theme)
Jan. 8th, 2011 12:59 amTHING ONE: Has everyone seen Lindsey Way's gorgeous sequence of dioramas? I already thought she was pretty damned awesome, but these knocked me for six. So much intricate detail! What lovely wee things she's made! It's a sequence of pieces around the theme of a funeral - my favourite is the one where the chaps with the deer headdresses are sacrificing a fluffy wee beast (a cow or bull, I think?) and the gory guts bursting out of its belly are butterflies. Lyn-Z, you are made of win, lady. And the giant squid/kraken one, with the fragile curls of sea foam and the light shining in the squid's eye - that's lovely too. And, okay, I really liked the second piece, 'Tears Explode Like Bombs', with the fireworks echoing the strings of tears. Basically, I think these are fabulous, and my girlcrush on Lyn-Z just increased tenfold.
THING TWO: It occurs to me that I may have given the impression that I think ALL fanart is pants, or something. Or that it's mostly pants. And that is very much not the case - I pretty much expect it to be awesome (and any time that anyone's done an illustration for one of my stories I've been completely &hearts _ &hearts about it, and OMG they have been lovely) which is why I am all DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD: on those few occasions when I see someone getting Big Bang Art that is not so much with the awesome. (It is taking a great deal of self control to keep from posting links to the 3 pieces I'm thinking of, but there is no way that could be anything other than crass and needlessly cruel, so I won't. But I WANT TO. Because I am petty)
I have huge respect for Fan Illustrators - it's a very particular skill set, being able to compose and execute something lovely and fitting which reflects a moment in a story AND ALSO depicts characters who are based on real people so that they are recognisable. I don't feel confident that I could do it - certainly not to the standard that I see from the good fan artists out there.
So I thought I would provide links to things that ARE lovely, in a variety of styles. This is totally not a comprehensive list, or anything methodical, because I don't tend to bookmark things, so this is more a grab bag of pretty things I happen to have seen in the past couple of days:
All the artwork by various artists for Novembersmith's excellent Frank/Gerard AU 'Anatomy of a Fall' (which is one of my favourite stories in all the world at the minute. Just - love. Love love love. It's like the perfect teen supernatural romance antidote to 'Twilight', and I wish it was published, albeit with a find'n'replace on the names, because teens deserve this much more than they deserve Meyer's ouvre, imho).( Read more... )
The illustrations for 'A Presumption of Functionality' by Sunsetmog (Steampunk P!ATD, Brendon/Spencer)( Read more... )
The illustrations for JJ Taylor & Ataratah's 'Only Going One Way' (Bandom/Due South crossover, Frank/Gerard and Ray/Fraser - and, lord, this is an adorable story. 'Due South' is one of my very favourite fandoms to read - the tone of the show was just so wonderfully warm and quirky, and I &hearts the combination of a romance and a procedural wrapped up in a faintly surreal and gently comical package. Throwing in the Bandom lads just cranked the awesome up to eleven.)( Read more... )
The illustrations for impertinence's 'Not The Passionate Dance' (Ashlee/Pete, Historical AU Sherlock Holmes fusion thingy. This was AWESOME. I loved this spin on Sherlock Holmes, with the Watson figure being a woman who'd spent years crossdressing in order to study to be a Doctor, and who'd ended up enlisting in the army. Ashlee is unspeakably kickass and pragmatic and just fabulous in this, and Pete is fairly fucked up (and doesn't have any kind of useful meds to help with that), and for all that it's probably a bit wobbly and anachronistic and whatever, it's a delightful read, brimming with UST, and with a decent bit of thought about gender and class roles. I love nonheteronormative het romances, and this is a lovely example.)( Read more... )
So there we are - those are some of the pretty things I've seen in the past few days. Lots of people make awesome Big Bang Art - and awesome other art. Which is why I want to cry when I stumble across the crappily executed, carelessly knocked out stuff, and feel really bad for the writers.
Have you any examples of lovely fanart you've encountered the past week or two that you'd like to point me at? Any fandom? (Sorry, I realise these are all Bandom, but I don't think they're anything to scare the horses.)
THING TWO: It occurs to me that I may have given the impression that I think ALL fanart is pants, or something. Or that it's mostly pants. And that is very much not the case - I pretty much expect it to be awesome (and any time that anyone's done an illustration for one of my stories I've been completely &hearts _ &hearts about it, and OMG they have been lovely) which is why I am all DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD: on those few occasions when I see someone getting Big Bang Art that is not so much with the awesome. (It is taking a great deal of self control to keep from posting links to the 3 pieces I'm thinking of, but there is no way that could be anything other than crass and needlessly cruel, so I won't. But I WANT TO. Because I am petty)
I have huge respect for Fan Illustrators - it's a very particular skill set, being able to compose and execute something lovely and fitting which reflects a moment in a story AND ALSO depicts characters who are based on real people so that they are recognisable. I don't feel confident that I could do it - certainly not to the standard that I see from the good fan artists out there.
So I thought I would provide links to things that ARE lovely, in a variety of styles. This is totally not a comprehensive list, or anything methodical, because I don't tend to bookmark things, so this is more a grab bag of pretty things I happen to have seen in the past couple of days:
All the artwork by various artists for Novembersmith's excellent Frank/Gerard AU 'Anatomy of a Fall' (which is one of my favourite stories in all the world at the minute. Just - love. Love love love. It's like the perfect teen supernatural romance antidote to 'Twilight', and I wish it was published, albeit with a find'n'replace on the names, because teens deserve this much more than they deserve Meyer's ouvre, imho).( Read more... )
The illustrations for 'A Presumption of Functionality' by Sunsetmog (Steampunk P!ATD, Brendon/Spencer)( Read more... )
The illustrations for JJ Taylor & Ataratah's 'Only Going One Way' (Bandom/Due South crossover, Frank/Gerard and Ray/Fraser - and, lord, this is an adorable story. 'Due South' is one of my very favourite fandoms to read - the tone of the show was just so wonderfully warm and quirky, and I &hearts the combination of a romance and a procedural wrapped up in a faintly surreal and gently comical package. Throwing in the Bandom lads just cranked the awesome up to eleven.)( Read more... )
The illustrations for impertinence's 'Not The Passionate Dance' (Ashlee/Pete, Historical AU Sherlock Holmes fusion thingy. This was AWESOME. I loved this spin on Sherlock Holmes, with the Watson figure being a woman who'd spent years crossdressing in order to study to be a Doctor, and who'd ended up enlisting in the army. Ashlee is unspeakably kickass and pragmatic and just fabulous in this, and Pete is fairly fucked up (and doesn't have any kind of useful meds to help with that), and for all that it's probably a bit wobbly and anachronistic and whatever, it's a delightful read, brimming with UST, and with a decent bit of thought about gender and class roles. I love nonheteronormative het romances, and this is a lovely example.)( Read more... )
So there we are - those are some of the pretty things I've seen in the past few days. Lots of people make awesome Big Bang Art - and awesome other art.
Have you any examples of lovely fanart you've encountered the past week or two that you'd like to point me at? Any fandom? (Sorry, I realise these are all Bandom, but I don't think they're anything to scare the horses.)
Assorted Bandom things (including fanart)
Jan. 4th, 2011 08:39 pmThing One: OTPs( Read more... )
Thing Two: Patrick Stump( Read more... )
Thing Three: Drawings( Read more... )
....and, HOLY SHIT, they are showing up enormous on my screen, which is pretty weird since they're crappy little iPhone photos, and the drawings themselves are maybe a third or a quarter the size of the images on the screen. Um. Don't know why that is. Anyway, yeah - pretty rough and ready felt-tip sketchy things, maybe half an hour on each one, but still - recognisable, I think?
I mean, God, they're just quick sketchy things, and generally I wouldn't post my own stuff, let alone something so fast'n'dirty...but I've just seen several examples of Big Bang fanart that really made me think "Somebody actually had the nerve to post THIS as a finished piece for a big bang, and it looks like it was drawn by a twelve year old who'd never seen any of the characters. The bar is not set as high as you're telling yourself it is, Fay."
So, yeah. I'm kind of stupidly pleased that I can apparently still do that. Cool. Really need to get some more practice in, though - I mean, I know I'm not on top of my game by any manner of means, but I think these are fairly respectable for quick sketches. And I'd like to do one of Gerard that isn't crap, to go with the one of Frankie.
...sorry, this is a bit like a five year old doing show and tell, isn't it? Um. Right. Anyway, so, yeah, that happened.
Thing Two: Patrick Stump( Read more... )
Thing Three: Drawings( Read more... )
....and, HOLY SHIT, they are showing up enormous on my screen, which is pretty weird since they're crappy little iPhone photos, and the drawings themselves are maybe a third or a quarter the size of the images on the screen. Um. Don't know why that is. Anyway, yeah - pretty rough and ready felt-tip sketchy things, maybe half an hour on each one, but still - recognisable, I think?
I mean, God, they're just quick sketchy things, and generally I wouldn't post my own stuff, let alone something so fast'n'dirty...but I've just seen several examples of Big Bang fanart that really made me think "Somebody actually had the nerve to post THIS as a finished piece for a big bang, and it looks like it was drawn by a twelve year old who'd never seen any of the characters. The bar is not set as high as you're telling yourself it is, Fay."
So, yeah. I'm kind of stupidly pleased that I can apparently still do that. Cool. Really need to get some more practice in, though - I mean, I know I'm not on top of my game by any manner of means, but I think these are fairly respectable for quick sketches. And I'd like to do one of Gerard that isn't crap, to go with the one of Frankie.
...sorry, this is a bit like a five year old doing show and tell, isn't it? Um. Right. Anyway, so, yeah, that happened.
