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airinshaw and missmollyetc's questions answered, anyway:
Fromairinshaw:
1. What was the thing thatstrangecobwebs said that finally got you into bandslash? What tipped the scales?
It actually wasn't something she said! It wasmissmollyetc's doing, honestly. I had been reading fic and looking at picspams when they happened across my flist, and Molly got me to watch the "Ghost of You" video, at which point I said, "Okay, okay, I want to read a My Chemical Romance WWII AU." She couldn't actually hook me up with one at the time, but a few days later we were talking in comments (ironically, in the comments to my happy birthday post to brooklinegirl) when she mentioned that there was this Panic! hooker AU where My Chem runs a free clinic.
Oddly, I'm pretty sure that the actual words that convinced me to click were "the Spencer/Bob is so, so right." I only knew which band Spencer was in, nothing else, and I was barely clearer on who Bob was, but the power of the Spencer/Bob compelled me nonetheless.
2. Have you seen the Dawson's Creek episodes with Jensen in? Where he's clearly Dean undercover in Boston. And maybe thinks that Jen is actually a demon that needs killing because DAMMIT she is?
Haha, nope! I've only ever seen the very first episode of Dawson's Creek, although I think I did happen to see it twice. I thought that Dawson guy was both self-righteous and factually inaccurate, and was never tempted to watch more of the show.
3. What's your favourite book in the world?
Hm. Favorite novel has for most of my life been Michelle Magorian's Good Night, Mr. Tom. It's a YA novel set in WWII, about a boy evacuated from London to a small village. I've reread it approximately once a year since I was eleven, and the copy I own is actually the one I first read, swiped from my fourth grade teacher's classroom (I mean, I returned it, but when I was in high school I asked my mom, who worked near the school I went to, to borrow it from my teacher for me. My teacher didn't even remember owning the book, so once she and my mom managed to find it on her bookshelf, she said I could keep it). I keep feeling like I should reassess this, like maybe since I was eleven years old I have read something else that was similarly important and that I loved as much. Nothing springs to mind, though.
Except that actually, my favorite book is probably my paperback copy of T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets. I carry it around with me constantly.
4. What happened in the worst fic you ever read?
Oh, man. You know, I'm really pretty good about the back-button and also about repressing stuff. But in the only fic that ever activated my gag reflex, I think the actual action consisted of Brendan Shanahan kissing Steve Yzerman. That's just not right.
5. How does it feel when people still tell you how much Hawks and Hands rules?
Really pleased! And a bit sheepish, because I never quite know what to say apart from "thank you," which always seems sort of insufficient. But really happy, and really proud to have written it.
Frommissmollyetc:
1. Kill/Marry/BFF/Fuck: Patrick Stump, Gerard Way, Mikey Way, OR Bob Bryar?
I feel like a completely terrible person for having an immediate, intuitive answer to this question. Kill Mikey, marry Bob, BFF Patrick, fuck Gerard.
Except, you know, if these are all coexisting in the same plane of reality, I hope the killing-Mikey thing was very much not my volition, or I'm probably going over the cliff right after him, and Gerard is maybe jumping after he (or Bob, or Ray, or Frank) pushes me, and I feel pretty bad about that part.
2. Who would win in a cage match: William Beckett, or Spencer Smith?
My gut instinct is that Spencer unleashes a streak of viciousness heretofore unimaginable, and wipes the floor with William.
3. What's your favorite band/genre and why?
Um. Hm. Right now it's My Chem, because I am all emotionally invested in them. Three months ago I think it was Girlyman, because I am all emotionally invested in them. A couple of months before that I think it was The Mountain Goats, and that music is pretty autobiographical so again I think I was kind of emotionally invested in the songwriter as a person. So basically I hop music-obsessions like I do fandoms, looking for new woobies, and as I know jack about music I can't ever really say why I like anything musically, and my grasp of musical genres is... sketchy.
Oh, except: I am a huuuuuge lyrics junkie. I am only slowly learning to pay any attention at all to parts of a song that are not the vocals, so the words are hugely important in my liking of a song/group/etc. And I suppose the one overriding commonality in music I like is that I can (making no claims of quality) sing along with it.
4. GUN TO YOUR HEAD: My Chemical Romance plays your next party, or Patrick Stump bumps into you at a Starbucks and talks your ear off?
Wow, I don't think I even require the gun to my head to make this choice: My Chem plays my next party. I'd invite every fangirl I knew, and everyone else I knew, to make sure I had a big crowd to stand in and stare worshipfully while they played for us/me, and people would take pictures and video and we would all clutch each other and squee about it for the rest of our LIVES, and I wouldn't have to actually, you know, interact with them too directly, or outside the performance context.
Meeting Patrick unexpectedly would just lead to me losing the power of speech and five minutes after he wandered off I wouldn't remember anything about it except the sensation of blushing/sweating/shaking and whichever was the most idiotic thing that popped out of my mouth. Plus, I am not a huge fan of Starbucks. All that coffee! *g*
5. Name your Greatest Band AU idea!
Okay, now I need the gun to my head. Hmmm. It's probably the one where (nearly) everybody is in prison together, because it covers so much territory, band-wise. Plus it includes Frank Iero, Prison Librarian, and there is nothing not awesome about that. :)
It does actually have a name, but that's sekrit. ish.
airinshaw and missmollyetc's questions answered, anyway:From
airinshaw: 1. What was the thing that
strangecobwebs said that finally got you into bandslash? What tipped the scales?It actually wasn't something she said! It was
missmollyetc's doing, honestly. I had been reading fic and looking at picspams when they happened across my flist, and Molly got me to watch the "Ghost of You" video, at which point I said, "Okay, okay, I want to read a My Chemical Romance WWII AU." She couldn't actually hook me up with one at the time, but a few days later we were talking in comments (ironically, in the comments to my happy birthday post to brooklinegirl) when she mentioned that there was this Panic! hooker AU where My Chem runs a free clinic. Oddly, I'm pretty sure that the actual words that convinced me to click were "the Spencer/Bob is so, so right." I only knew which band Spencer was in, nothing else, and I was barely clearer on who Bob was, but the power of the Spencer/Bob compelled me nonetheless.
2. Have you seen the Dawson's Creek episodes with Jensen in? Where he's clearly Dean undercover in Boston. And maybe thinks that Jen is actually a demon that needs killing because DAMMIT she is?
Haha, nope! I've only ever seen the very first episode of Dawson's Creek, although I think I did happen to see it twice. I thought that Dawson guy was both self-righteous and factually inaccurate, and was never tempted to watch more of the show.
3. What's your favourite book in the world?
Hm. Favorite novel has for most of my life been Michelle Magorian's Good Night, Mr. Tom. It's a YA novel set in WWII, about a boy evacuated from London to a small village. I've reread it approximately once a year since I was eleven, and the copy I own is actually the one I first read, swiped from my fourth grade teacher's classroom (I mean, I returned it, but when I was in high school I asked my mom, who worked near the school I went to, to borrow it from my teacher for me. My teacher didn't even remember owning the book, so once she and my mom managed to find it on her bookshelf, she said I could keep it). I keep feeling like I should reassess this, like maybe since I was eleven years old I have read something else that was similarly important and that I loved as much. Nothing springs to mind, though.
Except that actually, my favorite book is probably my paperback copy of T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets. I carry it around with me constantly.
4. What happened in the worst fic you ever read?
Oh, man. You know, I'm really pretty good about the back-button and also about repressing stuff. But in the only fic that ever activated my gag reflex, I think the actual action consisted of Brendan Shanahan kissing Steve Yzerman. That's just not right.
5. How does it feel when people still tell you how much Hawks and Hands rules?
Really pleased! And a bit sheepish, because I never quite know what to say apart from "thank you," which always seems sort of insufficient. But really happy, and really proud to have written it.
From
missmollyetc: 1. Kill/Marry/BFF/Fuck: Patrick Stump, Gerard Way, Mikey Way, OR Bob Bryar?
I feel like a completely terrible person for having an immediate, intuitive answer to this question. Kill Mikey, marry Bob, BFF Patrick, fuck Gerard.
Except, you know, if these are all coexisting in the same plane of reality, I hope the killing-Mikey thing was very much not my volition, or I'm probably going over the cliff right after him, and Gerard is maybe jumping after he (or Bob, or Ray, or Frank) pushes me, and I feel pretty bad about that part.
2. Who would win in a cage match: William Beckett, or Spencer Smith?
My gut instinct is that Spencer unleashes a streak of viciousness heretofore unimaginable, and wipes the floor with William.
3. What's your favorite band/genre and why?
Um. Hm. Right now it's My Chem, because I am all emotionally invested in them. Three months ago I think it was Girlyman, because I am all emotionally invested in them. A couple of months before that I think it was The Mountain Goats, and that music is pretty autobiographical so again I think I was kind of emotionally invested in the songwriter as a person. So basically I hop music-obsessions like I do fandoms, looking for new woobies, and as I know jack about music I can't ever really say why I like anything musically, and my grasp of musical genres is... sketchy.
Oh, except: I am a huuuuuge lyrics junkie. I am only slowly learning to pay any attention at all to parts of a song that are not the vocals, so the words are hugely important in my liking of a song/group/etc. And I suppose the one overriding commonality in music I like is that I can (making no claims of quality) sing along with it.
4. GUN TO YOUR HEAD: My Chemical Romance plays your next party, or Patrick Stump bumps into you at a Starbucks and talks your ear off?
Wow, I don't think I even require the gun to my head to make this choice: My Chem plays my next party. I'd invite every fangirl I knew, and everyone else I knew, to make sure I had a big crowd to stand in and stare worshipfully while they played for us/me, and people would take pictures and video and we would all clutch each other and squee about it for the rest of our LIVES, and I wouldn't have to actually, you know, interact with them too directly, or outside the performance context.
Meeting Patrick unexpectedly would just lead to me losing the power of speech and five minutes after he wandered off I wouldn't remember anything about it except the sensation of blushing/sweating/shaking and whichever was the most idiotic thing that popped out of my mouth. Plus, I am not a huge fan of Starbucks. All that coffee! *g*
5. Name your Greatest Band AU idea!
Okay, now I need the gun to my head. Hmmm. It's probably the one where (nearly) everybody is in prison together, because it covers so much territory, band-wise. Plus it includes Frank Iero, Prison Librarian, and there is nothing not awesome about that. :)
It does actually have a name, but that's sekrit. ish.