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[turps]

Showing more of its little quirks my computer has reset its date so that it's apparently still May. Handy for those emails you send and pretend that you really did send them on time. Thunderbird also stopped checking for new emails, so I rebooted and the session saver kicked in with a saved session from a few weeks ago, and deleted the draft of the email I'd saved. Fail, Silver. Fail!

Anyway, have a meme. Comment to this post and I will give you 5 subjects/things I associate you with. Then post this in your LJ and elaborate on the subjects given. If you do want 5 things tell me or I'll just natter on about anything. I tend to do that.

I got these 5 from greedy_dancer and rambled on disgracefully.

Mikey Way -- It was Pete that first pulled my attention toward bandom, but it was Mikey who brought me fully over. I think he's smoking hot, but there's so much more than that. I love that he's had all these crazy hairstyles and somehow pulls them off. I love that he changes image -- popped collars anyone -- but also has clothes that he loves to death -- his band t-shirts, stripy hoodie, THE BOOTS OF SEX! I love that he has no shame at all about being a geek and is so ridiculously random, going from obsessing about Teen Wolf to meat chairs to worrying about being a good uncle. I love that he's exactly how we all expected on twitter -- obsessed. I love that he has this wide circle of friends and that he keeps in touch with so many people, like Pete and Joe and Hey Chris to name a few. I love that he shared a place with Frank and made out with Gabe and has a series of in-jokes with Pete. I love that he so obviously thinks Gerard is the best big brother ever! and that his band is his family. I love that while he doesn't smile in photos or in most footage if you watch behind the scenes he laughs and jokes and has a great time. I love that all the others said he was the one most likely to get all the girls and that he was such a fixture on the scene. I love that he's struggled through serious problems and came out the other side. Gerard gets a lot of credit for getting clean -- deservedly so, but Mikey suffered through similar issues and other kinds, until finally, after breakdowns and heavy medication and therapy he appears so much happier. I love that he wants to show the world how much he loves Alicia and that his pets are so important to him. I love that while he's not the youngest in the band he'll always be seen that way. I love his knock knees and beautiful mouth and magnificent arched eyebrows.

There's a lot of things to love, but mostly I respect him. A lot.

castalie -- I'm sure most people will know but I met Mouse forever ago. I've been on LJ 7 years and I knew her well before then, so in online terms it's been a lifetime. While I won't say I've watched her grow up, because she was an adult when we met, I have watched as she made her place in life, and that's so incredibly cool.

We actually met on The A Slash Mailing list. Which as the name suggests, is a mailing list for A Team slash. I'd posted something about h/c -- I know, you're all shocked -- and she replied agreeing and saying she was almost my neighbour as she lived in France. Which was the start of it all. We have almost identical taste in fic and the people we love, so much so that when that's different my world rocks a little. Like the fact she prefers Merlin and me Arthur. How the heck did that happen?

She's one of the people I know will never judge me, whatever I may say and has been there for me often through the years, even the times when other people would have walked away. We've exchanged emails, fic links and talked every subject under the sun. She encouraged me to write and post my first story and she's also a kick-ass writer herself. She's funny, gorgeous, has this wonderful zest for life, and if I didn't like her so much I'd be jealous. As it is, she's Mouse. My friend.

The Sentinel -- This was Mouse's fault. She emailed one day very excited about this awesome archive she'd found. That archive was 852 Prospect, and we both fell in love. Devouring stories and swapping links and just drowning in Jim and Blair. Neither of us had seen the show, and wouldn't for a long time, and at first we weren't keen on Jim at all. Mainly because in fic he could be written really badly as some kind of insensitive jerk. But it didn't take long to start finding Jim awesome too, swapping funny quotes and while we remained Blair babes, Jim was just as special.

I bought the first two seasons of The Sentinel from someone on the lists. I got this box filled with VHS tapes complete with specially printed Jim and Blair labels, and I put the first one in and just beamed, because it was The Sentinel, the show I'd learned to love through fic. Now, TS isn't actually a good show, the writing is terrible at times but what it has is two characters who clearly adore each other and are easily one of the slashiest couples on tv.

I had a lot of fun with TS, I wrote my first fic ever for the fandom, posted my first fic at 852, I was there as there was a swing from the lists to LJ, and of course all the years running sentinel_thurs The love for the show and fandom will always remain.

Gardening AU -- There are three stories I'm incredibly proud of writing in bandom, and this is one of them. The first tiny idea came at Camp Sparkle, talking about gardening AUs with msktrnanny, though what I ended with was nothing like we talked about. It was a story built around a concept, which is something new for me. Light against dark. Death against life. Where Mikey and Gerard were very much in the dark as opposed to Frank, Ray and Bob who were all light.

I did a lot of research for this, because I was always aware that severe depression is a serious subject and I would have hated to insult anyone with careless writing. As it is I've received so many comments about this story, both in private and public saying it resonates with people, and that's...well, I don't have the words to say what a compliment that is, that something I wrote can do something like that.

It's a universe I fell in love with as I wrote, Frank with his flower-painted boots and torn overalls and dyed hair. Bob so strong and solid and just there. Ray, so kind despite the fact giving so much attention to the Ways had to be a risk to his firm. Mikey who was holding the house, his job and Gerard together and was afraid to reach out for his own happiness. And Gerard, screwed up in so many ways, but hanging in there, even if it's only by his fingernails. I'm writing in the universe now and I'm going to miss it when it's over.

I'm also amused that I do have a gardening AU as I don't garden at all. Which is why I have many NJ garden centers bookmarked.

The UK -- I've never lived anywhere else, and I do like living here. I like that I don't have to worry about medical costs, because the thought of not being able to see a doctor or get medication you need because you can't afford is horrible. I like that within ten minutes I'm at the beach or into deep countryside. I love the sense of history and that there's such a mixture of tiny villages and sprawling cities.

I'm not that keen on how insular some people are and about the royal family. The fact that people are expected to curtsy or bow to someone just because of their name and the family they were born into bothers me. Sure, certain members of the royal family work really hard, but so do millions of other people and we're not expected to bow to them. I think it's old fashioned and actions that belong to another age. We're not serfs bringing offerings of cows and crops to the castle gates, I'll keep my respect for people that deserve it.



Finally, go vote for the fifth entry for the First Annual mikeyway_daily Planet Awesome Graphics Challenge, right here. And look back through the entries if you've missed any this week, because if you have you've missed good stuff.

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