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It was the no_tags reveals a few days ago, so I can reveal I wrote An Almost There Connection, the Frank/Gerard accidental exhibitionism on tour story. The fact I wrote it was guessed by no one, which is unsurprising as in all my time in bandom it's only the second time I've written an actual plotted out and beta read F/G. The first time was for no tags, too. I had no intentions of grabbing that pairing but after stuffsit, which was weeks worth of careful writing and dealing with emotions, I wanted something quick, easy and fun, and that prompt seemed to fit the bill.

But man, as always there was frustration posting. In years past I've always managed to post at the ficlet fairy journal instead of the comm. This year I didn't do that, but when I was pressing the preview post thing, each time it was saying that I was posting as turps. I knew I wasn't. I was logged in as ficlet fairy, but despite knowing that I sat and stared at that preview post for ages. So I went and loaded up chrome to see if it was some weird firefox thing going on, but nope. Previewing as turps there too. At this point I was more than a little frustrated and imagining myself as the first idiot to post to the challenge under my own user name. In the end I just had to go for it and press post, heart thumping like crazy and getting ready to delete if the worst happened. Thankfully it didn't.

So yeah, that was me. If you want to read, the story is up at AO3 now.

Rec wise, no_tags was amazing this year. There are so many great stories, but the two that stand out to me are Lucky Graveyard Boots (and a song to sing) which is the Alicia Way retired demon hunter story and is your button fly a metaphor which is Pete/Mikey SoL. Both are incredible.

I've also signed for Waysplusone, because the Ways plus another is always a very beautiful thing. Now I just need to decide on my plus one.

It's snowing again today, in fact, it's been snowing on and off for days now. Corey got an unexpected day off from college yesterday due to severe weather that closed the site. He was hoping for another one today, but it wasn't to be. James is still in his weird sleeping patterns. He goes to bed with me but then stays up for ages playing on his iPad. i had to laugh last night, we'd gone to bed and James' loaded twitter on his iPad so I'd be able to check the college twitter to see if it was open again this morning. After doing that he started to read his account, which he hardly ever uses, and got to my tweets and asked, what does diaganal slash zero diaganol slash mean? Is it an arsehole? So I'm lying there already half asleep trying to work out what he's talking about and then it clicked he meant victory arms. An arsehole, really.

I did have fun on that twitter session though. I was watching MCR v FOB on MTV rocks and it's always good when you're watching stuff along with other people. Many comments were made about Pete being hot in the videos, with a nice side step to talk about Pete/Mikey and bass licking. I resisted the urge to go watch What a Catch after though. Pete going down with his ship. Sadness always.

Anyway, before I go, James took a few photos when the snow first started. ( I thought this one looking out from our back gate was cool. )

Forgot to say, I'm enjoying the Comic Relief Celeb specials of The Great British Bake Off so much. I've missed Mary, Paul and their soggy bottoms.