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If anyone ever wants to make podfic of any of my stories you have blanket permission to do so.

Earlier I was at tumblr and saw the first picture behind the cut. It actual fact made me gasp with how much I loved it. The casual drape of Gerard's hand, the lighting. Just, everything about it. Following the link I went to the photographer's site, and spent a long time snipping and saving favourite pictures. Nearly 70 of them

I thought I'd share, so if you've seen before, enjoy for the second time. If you haven't. Feast your eyes on some new old pictures.

( In here )

One last thing. I posted this at MWD yesterday so apologies to those who've seen it already, but I wanted it on my journal too, because I love it a lot.

( More Mikey )

The photos that are coming out from Big Day Out are delighting me. ( Like this one )

The bandom kink meme continues to be amazing with fabulous prompts and fills. romantical responded to one of my prompts with a scorching hot Mikey/Pete biting fic. Sink Your Teeth In one where she shamelessly exploited things I'd been talking about on twitter, and I'm so glad that she did because, damn. *fans self*

I also wrote my own fill for one of the prompts. So you know, if you want to read 2k of un-beta read eventual Gerard/Ray it's right here. It was one of those stories that just come out of nowhere. Writing has been like pulling teeth lately which is why it was such a lovely surprise when I started to write, and looked up later and saw how much I'd actually written.

I also uploaded more of my old popslash stories to AO3, hopefully they'll all be up there soon.

Just got an email from LJ saying they were going to purge one of my accounts. After the initial, the fuck? reaction I went to see and apparently it's one I created in 2004 and never touched. All this time I could have been using it to sock vote on polls *g*

Okay, need to go get ready now as we're taking mam to the hospital to get her cast checked. Another morning of waiting, but on the plus side, I'll get to finish my book. Also, grocery shopping on the way home so I can get milk for my coffee.

It's been an excellent fannish day and it's not even 11 yet. In fact, as I start writing this it's 10:46, lets see what time I actually finish, if I stick to my usual routines it'll be two days from now.

Anyway. James is on day shift this week so it meant the usual 5am start. My routine for those is wake up, wander like a mole person as I make coffee for me and tea for James. Make his packed lunch and help him dress, see him off to work and then go see what's going on online, usually via twitter first. And today good things were going on.

You'll have all see the Mikey, Ray, Frank interview, yeah? It's delightful. First, Mikey is wearing his ugly, awesome hat. Which of course was knitted by Pete #tinhat. But at the same time I was flailing about that I was also dealing with how adorable the interview is. They're adorkable, every single one of them and fandom was awesome, producing gifs that gave me heart eyes like ( this one of Ray and Mikey )

Keep your hand on Mikey's like that always Ray, it would make me very happy.

You know what else made me happy? Mikey and Ray's wrestling date.

( Look how happy they are )

Also of note, Mikey's very careful placement of strands of hair either side of the ugly, awesome knitted hat. I bet those babies are so stiff with product they could take someone's eye out.

And that's my morning squee condensed into post form. I'm going to attempt to catch up on some snowflakes later, including maybe throwing out a killjoys wip that has very little hope of being finished. I also need to try and read some tabs, 7 rows of the things is a bit ridiculous.

Oh, and posting it's 11:05. Not bad considering all the coding I've just done. Now watch it not post.

Took mam to get her leg checked yesterday, and by the time we got home I was wiped. We hadn't even done anything that strenuous, just a lot of standing and sitting around, one waiting room after another.

The day before it was Corey's college interview at Durham. It's a much smaller facility than Sunderland and as it's actually a sixth form attached to a school, though one a few miles away, it operates in a much more structured way. That difference was something our guide made sure to stress, and that Corey needed to decide which of the two approaches would suit him best. Sunderland where there are more free periods and teachers who take a more background role in terms of making sure people turn up for lessons etc, or Durham where every period has a lesson and teachers who won't let anyone fall behind.

After all that Durham is still his first choice, so thankfully he was offered a place as long as he gets good enough exam results. Which is fantastic as it's a college that comes with a waiting list to get in.

Today I've been stripping more wallpaper in the bedroom. I've reached the walls around the bed now so I could watch Boardwalk Empire at the same time. Tomorrow it should be done and we can move onto wall prep and then actually go buy some paint and get the place looking nice again. I'm thinking something bright, we've got green daisy print curtains, a load of Penguin Pete prints with blue frames and the bedding is either yellow or blue, so I was thinking maybe a bright yellow for the walls.

Keeping to the domestic theme, I've had a chicken casserole cooking in the slow cooker all day and we've just had it for tea. Chicken and dumplings, om nom nom. Now I'm off for a bath complete with Lush bubbles and a good book. No doubt I'll be out in an hour or so looking like a giant prune yet again.

When I woke up this morning the new Coup De Main interview with Mikey had been posted.

I know a lot of people aren't happy about the video situation but I want to talk about things that thrilled me. Like, more spirit animal talk, especially about Ray. I mean, come on, that was adorable. Also, his hatred of eggs, so now we know Mikey doesn't like eggs, drinking milk and re-fried beans. Personally I think his childhood issues with them have something to do with Gerard, it seems like a big brother thing to do to make a combination of them all and pretend to drink it. Or maybe Mikey had eggs thrown at him that time he ran into a nativity scene. Who knows?

But spirit animals, and things being super exciting. A lot of this interview is gold, made especially so as due to a twitter conversation with Kopperblaze I now have it fixed in my head that it happened in a sex shop. Then again, that same conversation also eventually ended up at a cross dressing waycest where they run away to a small town together point. Twitter man, it's a weird place.

I'm behind in the snowflake challenges and rather than spend forever trying to think of things that I'm good at, have the easy one.

Day 7 -- In your own space, create a list of at least three fannish things you'd love to receive, something you've wanted but were afraid to ask for - a fannish wish-list of sorts. Drop a link to your wish-list in this post. Maybe someone will grant a wish. Maybe you will grant a wish. If any wishes are granted, we'd love it if you link them to this post.

I love fan art and would love some of Tints verse Frank. He's so vivid in my head with his coloured fringe and gum boots and grass-stained clothes. Or Revolution Mikey, that would be gorgeous.

Mikey/Ryan fic. I know it makes no sense, I know if they ever did meet it could end in a mottsy Singer type situation but I don't care. More Mikey/Ryan always!

More gsf! The kind where all four -- or five, I'm always happy for Bob to be involved, hell, throw in Otter if it's early days -- are really into each other and get off on being together.

And on that note I have a mountain of ironing to tackle.

I'm back to scraping wallpaper in my bedroom today. I ask you, why did I decide redecorating it was a good idea? The 80s stripes and border combo would have come back into fashion one day, and if asked I could have said the faded squares were deliberate design elements.

I have to admit though, I got Corey to do the parts of the wall I couldn't reach. So I got to scrape behind the bookcases and he did over the windows.

Other things. It was bandomstuffsit reveals yesterday so I can share that I wrote Standing on the Edge Believing for s0ckpupp3t. Mikey centric, body swap with hauling around, cross dressing and implied gsf going on. Surprise!

Though not a surprise to few people, in fact, ladyfoxxx actually said in her comment to the story that she knew the writer, because I'm just that transparent it seems.

( Story talk )

Huge thanks go to kopperblaze for the cheerleading, sperrywink for first beta, and themoononastick for the final beta despite being sick. Sorry for teasing with James, one day I will get him together with Mikey just for you ♥

Also, it was lucifuge5 who wrote The Bunk Next Doorthe story of Frank/Mikey awesomeness for me. I'm very impressed she managed to keep that secret when I follow her on both DW and twitter.
Thank you so much, bb. You helped make this exchange amazing for me.

Getting online was almost impossible yesterday, most sites timing out and the ones that did manage to load doing so really slowly. A call to Sky and they said there was no issues on their end but considering it was affecting every computer in the house I was dubious about that. Finally, after nearly a day of this they announced that there were connection issues with Sky broadband users in the NE of England. Way to be on the ball, Sky. I had no twitter at all, I had to wake up alone -- I'm not actually that chatty on twitter usually, but the same people tend to be there when I first get up. I'm used to drinking coffee and exchanging a tweet here and there as I wake up -- Sky took that from me D:

Anyway, this post does have a point other that fists of rage against Sky. It's the bandomstuffsit reveal today so, anyone want to guess what I wrote?

I can't offer anything in return as I'm scrambling to get BRBB written, but play anyway? I have been told if you know me it's really easy to know what story is mine and of course, no guesses from betas etc.

I didn't do any end of year memes because quite honestly I'd like to forget that most of the last half of the year happened. It was one thing after another with the end of year bonus being the night before Christmas eve mam came home drunk, fell off the front step and broke her leg. Not that we knew that at the time, I just all but carried her inside, eventually got her up to bed and then days passed. A week later she finally said she couldn't deal with the pain in her leg any more.

Nearly a full day at the walk in centre then hospital, and the fracture doctor sent her home in a double tube grip thing and crutches, but things are never that simple because after a day of saying the pain was still unbearable she phoned the hospital and was told she should have never been allowed to leave without a cast on and it was insinuated that she'd refused one, which is bull as I was in the room with her and the doctor recommended the bandage.

So she's off to hospital with my brother and sister today as James is in the middle of his night shifts. Which is why I was sleeping this new year, only waking up to watch the firework on the horizon as midnight rolled over.

I took down all the decorations yesterday, and actually got stuff put away. Though by put away I mean boxes sat in the spare room as only James knows the magic arrangement that gets them all back in the small cupboard. Thank you so much to everyone that sent cards and gifts. I loved them all and they helped make my Christmas extra special.

I think I may post a stuffsit rec post before reveals because I've read some incredible stories in the last few weeks, and am very happy about the amount of Frank/Mikey that's being posted \o/

Also, you should go check out the secret!married bandom comment fest especially the replies for the secretly married Ways. Because, secretly married Ways. It's a prompt of awesome and already there are three fills for it.

ETA: I forgot to say, I got my picfor1000 prompt. My initial thought was some kind of rebirth and meeting always idea, but I've been swayed toward post apoc making out.

It's not just for bandom, any fandom goes. So go, check it out.

Second. I was talking about this on twitter yesterday but felt the need to have it here too. ( I want all the Mikey/Frank porn focussing on Mikey's belly and hips )