my afternoon so far

( damn you mcrficfinders! )

( How are so many of my friends unfamiliar with Hannah Montana? )

good news! plus recs! plus alias!

pre_emptive quoted someone about how Gerard Way's name acronyms to "gay drawer." As she pointed out, it is doubly appropriate given the secondary meaning of draw-er, ie someone who draws. NEW LJ NAME TIME.

Today I got an email from business affairs at the university informing me that after two and a half weeks, they have finally gotten around to depositing my aid money into my bank account. It takes a day or two to clear, but OH MAN YOU GUYS. I CAN HAS CLEAN LAUNDRY AND TOILET PAPER?

Here are two stories I really loved recently that you might love too:

+ The End of the Rainbow by onneonnights -- ADORABLE PETE/MIKEY COLLEGE AU ALL FOR ME MWAHAHAHAHA. Yep.

+ Swap by impertinence -- my first reaction to GOOD WAYCEST appearing on my friends list is to think it's some sort of trick. When I figure out it's for REAL OMG, my next thought is that I must be being rewarded for something. I don't think I've actually done anything to deserve this, but I'm okay with that.

I'm still continuing slowly on with my rewatch of Alias; I'm up to about 2x03. God, I had forgotten how everything just seems to suddenly click into place at the end of season 1, the shift from kinda fun to suddenly breathless awesome. And now I have Lena Olin. SIIIIIIIIIIGH. I think Irina/Jack might actually be the hottest het couple ever to appear on television. (And you guys know exactly how fierce my love for John/Aeryn is, so this is not an easy decision.)

In one of the episodes in late season 1, Will finds this photograph in Sydney's junk drawer. If I had found that picture in a friend's junk drawer, I would be like "Wow, I didn't know Syd's dad used to be a homosexual actor!" But, no, Will made like actual deductions about spies and stuff. Will was a way better reporter than I would be, man.

ETA: Oh, man, I was going to go watch QI series 5 on youtube, but the link I had saved is for a suspended account. Anybody know where I can get a hold of stuff?

context is meaningless

Apropos of nothing: there is no character in the entire history of fandom that I feel more strongly about their affinity for trans and genderqueer individuals than I do about Gerard Way. It is seriously an integral part of his make-up for me! I can believe under some circumstances that Gerard might self-identify as straight -- but that his sexuality doesn't include transwomen, at the very least? No way.

gerard in a dress: i have a thing

So I spent a large portion of this evening talking to various people about cross-dressing in fic and came to two conclusions:

1. Dudes in drag has never been one of my kinks in any other fandom, but bandom is an exception, and I think the main reason is that here it's definitely interconnected to larger gender and identity issues in a way it isn't in a lot of the other things I've read. The canon dressing-in-drag events only add to that, really. It kind of rises organically from the canon. Particularly with Gerard, which leads to my second realization

2. Gerard Way has known how to be a hot chick for way longer than he's known how to be a hot guy. He knows he makes a hot chick, he's known that at least since art school, so that's something he's been able to have confidence in for a while. A lot longer than he could have been confident as a hot guy, because dude -- how long do you think it's been for him, for that? Well into the history of the band, I'd say. Not more than a few years. He was pale soft awkward geek boy for a long time, you know?

Ugh, Gerard. WHY SO FASCINATING.