Khana

:D
mcr with milenaa last night


that band is in turns insanely fun and pretty ridiculous.
mikey's hairstyle is ridiculous all the time.
the ways want more waycest. (no, really. no other axplanation for that behaviour.)
gerard "fucking hates new metal"
the new album is going to be so much fun
sadly, frank hid behind a stone post most of the time (from where i was standing, anyway)

now more hamburg with peaches and metalnurse, and then home on sunday.

(hyperacttive little kitten next to me. awwwwww! *cuddles*)

So, I've added a bunch of people yesterday/today, and saying hi only sounds polite. The thing is, I don't have a lot of very interesting things to say right now. Apart from spamming people about hamsters, but I promised less of that, so no hamsters today.

I don't know if I should introduce myself or something... I guess most stuff in in my profile or the friending-meme entry or somewhere, but feel free to ask anything, I don't bite. :)


I'm currently in love with the new season of Torchwood. When has this show gotten so so so awesome? The fact that this serial has a lot of time to develop the plot and build up suspension probably has something to do with it. But anyway, it's awesome, and I love it, and its characters - especially the new girl, she's very cool. Haven't seen episode #4 yet, as I had a friend over last night and even though she feel asleep before me, watching TV in the middle of the night seemed kind of... rude. So I'm going to watch the final two episodes tonight, and hope that the conclusion will be as amazing as the rest.

I'm also waiting for the current season of the Eighth Doctor Adventures to finish, so that I can listen to a whole lot of Eight and Lucie, again. Those audio plays are way too much fun.

And the new season of Leverage should be airing soon, I think. Wheee! More crazy Parker! :D

I'm still in the middle of trying to read all the bandombigbang fics. So far, I'm about a third in, and liked about two thirds of the fics. I could give you numbers - I have a very, very nerdy excel sheet with all the fics and what I thought of them in it, though I don't exactly remember why that seemed such a good idea at first. It's intimidating! Anyway, I won't bore you with numbers, but damn, I have read way way way too much fic these past weeks, and way too little else. There's Shakespeare and Bond and Stoppard that I should read, and I've been reading slashfic instead. Fandom has seriously screwed with my priorities...


We watched 'Ran' today in our Shakespeare adaptations seminar, a film by Kurosawa. Well, we watched about half of it, it was a bit long for one session. What I saw seemed pretty cool, so I'm thinking about going to the full screening in two weeks or something. I guess I'll decide if I'm in the mood for bloody fightscenes and over two hours of subtitles on the day.

I should really start studying for my 'Cognitive Grammar' exam next week. But that stuff is so dry, and I don't understand half of it, and really, it's very very boring. Meh.

Also need to figure out topics for a term paper in 'Comparing Political Systems: US/UK'. Depending on whether I really need to stick with the topic that our group did a presentation on, I'll need to come up with something that fills at least ten pages and deals with the Queen/British monarchy in some way, or, if I can pick whatever I want, I'll try and find out more about the Welsh Assembly. Not that there are any really really interesting topics for papers in this, but I really need the credits.

The semester is drawing to a close, I have one more week of courses and then I'll be (even more) free to do what I want. Which will hopefully include visiting peaches in Sweden, and hosting a new challenge at ficathon_de. Maybe that'll help kickstart my creativity or something. Not that it really worked the last two times, but we'll see.


Also, does anyone have an idea if it's possible to edit tags (I mean, keep the tage, but change what it says) on DW and LJ at the same time, or do I have to do that all by hand? I suppose it might be a bit inconvenient that they are more or less German only, right now...
Well, I guess I have free time coming up.


Okay, I'll need to go and buy a carrier for the hamster that gets shipped to Frankfurt this evening now. [Oh, look. They are creeping in again. Oops.]

Okay, so you might have noticed that I'm currently reading lots and lots of bandom-fic, what with bandombigbang happening and all. And I know I don't really have a lot of people from that fandom on my flist, but damn, this fic was so good that you need to read it. And it doesn't even matter if you don't know the fandom - I started out reading lots of bandom AUs because the good ones work fantastically as original fic as well. And I think this one should, too.


Anyway, I Dream a Nation of You, by foxxcub.

It's set in a steampunky world, and centered around dragon rider Jon and his dragon, Helia, who have been on the run for several years at the beginning of the story, because the government ruled out dragon riding and was hunting riders down. He hides near a town where he has met Brendon, the local vet, and everything would be okay, if there weren't Spencer and Ryan who stumble into his hut one night, having been shot by government people. They are with the resistance. And then the story takes off.

It's 46,000 words long, really plotty, the worldbuilding is really good, the characters are fleshed out and their relationships develop nicely. It features a foursome (and don't I love the fact that there's a lot of shippy moresomes in this fandom? :D), though nothing graphic, the rating is PG-13, and sex really wouldn't have been necessary. There's also beautiful artwork and a really fitting soundtrack, and what are you waiting for, anyway? Steampunk and dragons, people!

Oh, in case you know the bands, or want to google what the people look like or something, this features mostly Panic at the Disco, with a bit of My Chemical Romance and Fall Out Boy thrown in. But as I said, it should work quite well as an original.

So, I assigned most of the roles/instruments for the Big Damn Orchestra AU.

And the sad thing is, now I want to babble to someone who is going to play what and who will be shipped with whom, and I don't really have anyone to babble this to, cause sadly, I don't really have bandom-people on my flist yet, and I don't think anyone who doesn't at least vaguely know whom I'm taking about will understand a single word.

it would be all "and omg, patrick is the conductor, of course he is, and mikey gets to play a contrabass, and jon does, too, even though he's way too small for it. spencer will be greatly amused by jon and his giant bass. and also, gerard and ashlee somehow are friends, and no-one knows exactly how that came about, but there it is, and they hang around the practice space all day, cause they are singers, you see, and they aren't actually in the orchestra, and--"

yeah. you see my problem?

*wants to babble excitedly...*


now to actually start writing...


EDIT: started writing! 350 words in sth like 10 minutes, and I know that's rediculously little, as a complete word count, but oh, it practically writes itself just now, and seeing as i got mostly stuck writing the other, plotted thing after about 50 words, I didn't really plot this time, and am not even sure which pairings I will end up with, just have a lot of possibilities, and also, writin again! Let's hope it keeps being easy. Hasn't been easy for... a long time. damn, I miss(ed?) writing.
19.650 words to go. omg.

Um, so, I kind of wrote The Three Investigators (Die drei ???)/Bandslash (My Chemical Romance) fic just now. And it seems like it might want to turn into something longer. Huh.

Well, two current obsessions, one a bit more recent than the other...  Gee lives in LA now, apparently, Bob visits him there with his dogs, and also, I noticed that all these bandom boys seem to acquire dogs left right and center. What's with that? And T3I have been living in that area for decades now. Crossover waiting to happen, obviously. Also, I wanted to practice writing those characters bevor diving straight into the bigbang.
Also also, I'm using the original names for T3I, because it fits better with the language. Will incorporate the German canon (girlfriends, cars, jobs, etc), though.


In case you are interested:

The Three Investigators and the Case of the Vanishing Canines

My crazy, amazing girlfriend who came over just for the day to cheer poor still-somewhat-sick me up (and believe me, that is quite the journey! crazy, I tell you! and also, incredibly amazing!) just convinced me to write for the bandombigbang. dear god.
And I'm gonna run with the idea I got last weekend watching DVDs with Nicole, and write Donnie-Darko-AU. Because, Frank, and also, because Donnie gave a pretend name at some point and said he was Gerard. Hah.

So, erm.

20k in english and a new and crazy fandom. till... end of march, I think? EDIT: End of april, actually.

OMG!

*dies*

Happiest of Birthdays to you, blady! :)
Hope you have a really nice day!


The Drabble Wichteln actually worked out, I just entered the last two Drabbles and didn't have to call for a single stand-in writer. Everything will go up tomorrow at 10. Yay! :)



How the hell did I stumble into Bandom? I mean, I know how - I started reading just AUs, then I started reading the other stuff as well. It's not the smallest fandom, so good fic isn't all that hard to find.
And two days ago, I started listening to the music and realized that they aren't half bad. At least Panic at the Disco and Fall Out Boy are rather good. My Chemical Romance was a bit too much with the screaming. But maybe I'll get used to that as well?
Oh dear.
This was a fandom I really, really did not want. I mean, come on, RPS? Argh!