Ten things I really really love about this fandom right now

1. The way Pete Wentz thinks that Patrick Stump is the best thing that has ever, ever happened to him, and wants everybody in the world to know it.

2. Gerard Way's stupid, earnest little face.

3. Mikeyway and his hot wife dressing up their cat in crazy clothes.

4. Gabe Saporta talking about his fans and their love stories.

5. The way Frank Iero pokes and jumps on and teases and falls all over Bob Bryar.

6. Seriously, Bob Bryar GOT SET ON FIRE, you guys. That is crazy fucking devotion.

7. Big huge geeky intensely homosocial fucked-up self-aware dorks. All of them. ♥ ♥ ♥

8. The way they play like they're so incredibly surprised and lucky and excited to be there, everytime. Trohmania! Frank defying gravity! Whatever! Just giving it everything they possibly could, because this is what they want to be doing.

9. The way that Gerard plays the pronoun game/avoids specifying the gender or sex of his relationships in any way.

10. The MCR Secret Santa, forever and ever amen.

work-not-actually-in-progress!

I have so much fondness and love for Pete/Mikey AU fic it's almost sickening. Seriously. Their stupid little faces, I don't even know! Boooooooooooys.

Man, but using del.icio.us to find stories by just searching for "pete/mikey" or "mikey/pete" as a tag is surprisingly frustrating, though. Just because they're used as a secondary pairing so often, because while I'm sure Gerard/Patrick (or whatever) is a lovely and intriguing pairing in its own right, it's not what I'm in the mood to read, with the other guys wandering off together in the background. My life: so hard.

My unfinished story folder has two files in it right now. One of them is my abandoned DS Match fic, the first 1000 words of angsty AU where Fraser is a medieval monk -- which, the IDEA is totally awesome, but the actual story is horrifically sucky. Not interesting sucky, either, just boring and vague and ungrounded with no real action or plot. So you're not going to see that.

The other file, though, is from a Canadian actor RPF I started the day after I posted the Katie Heigl/Callum Keith Rennie story. I can't remember where I was planning to go with this at all, but I know it would have been extraordinarily pretty, and smooching and sexin' was gonna happen. So, here you go, the whole 60 words I got down on it:

This time, Callum's the last one to get to the hotel room. Sandra and Molly have both already made themselves at home -- Molly's cross-legged on the bed with a glass of orange juice, stripped down to her bra and a pair of jean shorts, while Sandra is sitting in her stocking feet in the armchair, flipping through a magazine.

Awesome pairings the random generator has been me in the last five minutes: Mikey Way/Joe Trohman; Vicky-T/Brendon Urie; Spencer Smith/Gabe Saporta; Jon Walker/Gerard Way; Ray Toro/Ryan Ross; Travis McCoy/Vicky-T; Gabe Saporta/Gabe Saporta.

(I had to edit those out so I did not just give you every pairing I got with Mikeyway. He's not even my favorite in MCR -- that's Gerard -- and I totally support his real life marriage happiness, and yet. I want to see him make out with EVERYBODY, you guys!)

And then the last one it gave me was Pete/Patrick. All together: awwwwww.

Also, the last few days have really brought in focus the main problem I have with writer's block, which is not so much the feeling of not creating something -- which, yes, can really really really suck, but which I can come to terms with after a while -- as the fact that it makes it SO MUCH HARDER to bribe people into writing stuff for you. I could say "write me a sentence or paragraph of pete/mikey and I'll give you a cookie!", but internet cookies are not a very valuable form of currency.