Monday. Reporting in.

[dira]

1. So I was in New York this past weekend for my birthday, and met up with fangirls, as one does and, as one does when Yuletide season approaches, repeatedly pimped my favorite super-obscure media thing, Niels & Gang. It's a webcomic-ish-thing, by Humon, who does the slightly-less-obscure Scandinavia & the World (sort of a kinder, gentler, Scandinavia-focused Hetalia, judging by my fandom-osmosis knowledge of Hetalia). Which is to say, Niels & Gang has webcomic installments, but a lot of the story is told with a piece of wordless art and a blog-post explanation/caption below it. (I gather there's further canon available in comment threads, but I haven't gone hunting for it all.)

Niels is a bisexual Dane in a long-term relationship with an African-American couple, Natalie and Duncan, Uncle Niels to their young son. He's also a totally amoral criminal who gets lonely when the cop who used to be devoted to hunting him down (but now, having lost his wife, is mostly interested in not dying and being a father to his young daughter) neglects him. There's a complicated cloud of other law-enforcement and criminal types around Niels and his beloveds, but, really, here are the important bits:

Morning Glow: Niels, his lovers, and his mommy/daddy issues.
Uncle Watches Over You: Niel, kiddo, two henchmen and one very sorry criminal who threatened Niels's family. (Niels's backstory is in the blog post.)
Threeway Wedding: what it says on the tin, plus Duncan and Natalie's backstory in the blog post.
Seduction of a Boyfriend: How Niels got together with Natalie and Duncan.
Rainy Days Are Fun: more domesticity.
Stop Calling: domesticity and arch-enemies.

Aaaand in case you forgot the thing I said up there about Niels being a totally amoral criminal:
Please Don't Cry: Niels, his victim, a gun, and a box of Kleenex.

SO. LET'S HAVE SOME NIELS/NATALIE/DUNCAN FOR YULETIDE, IS WHAT I AM SAYING.

2. I was going to say some other things (because it has been pointed out to me that sometimes people, when they have a LJ/DW, they use it to keep their friends updated about their actual life in some fashion). I was going to say something about New York being awesome and fangirls being awesome and dating being weird and difficult, but it is Monday and my brain is at pretty low ebb, so. Enjoy Niels & Gang, and maybe I will try that talking-about-actual-life thing some other night. *g*

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[dira]

:D :D :D

[omphale]

I'm pretty sure I've already got my list of three fandoms to nominate, but damn, I am TEMPTED on this one.

Also, ASkars. Most ridiculous of the ridiculous, and yet he does that thing with the language and accent shifting and my brain instantly combusts. It's just not right.

[dira]

*beams*

And, here, lest you think I am somehow escaping the ridiculousness myself...


Brad's tattoo must have taken hours. Hours upon hours of outlining and coloring--and it included a portrait of Frost, so it couldn't have been done before. Through all of it, Brad must have kept calm enough that his wolf never distracted the artist working on him. The design crossed over his spine, spread across his ribs, and yet there wasn't an inch left unfilled; there was no sign at all that Brad had allowed his brother to interrupt the process. Brad had kept as cool then as he was now, patient and quiet. Ice on the ground. Nate understood what Frost had meant when he named Brad.

[omphale]

Oh my god, Brad and Frost and TATTOOS. You don't play at ALL fair.

Brad had kept as cool then as he was now, patient and quiet. Ice on the ground. Nate understood what Frost had meant when he named Brad.

Fuck. Now i want to do my costume tattoos as wolf-verse. No, no. Horrid heavy metal scene it is. Maybe just a little tiny wolf. Instead of the bulldog tattoo. That might work.

(In other news, I have all the pieces of my uniform but my pants. I don't think I can go as stripper!Brad. That would not go over well.

Also, I am totally not writing drafts about Ray's efforts to convince Nate that no, really, in a previous life he was Lancelot and he ALREADY slept with Brad and so there's really no reason not to do it again. Not at all. I wouldn't do such a thing. Because I am totally not in this fandom.

*headdesks*)

[pocketmouse]

No, I think you going as stripper!Anything would go over really quite well indeed.

[omphale]

You do not get a vote. I'm not going as a stripper; Shannon will win the costume arms race by default. He might win anyhow.

[pocketmouse]

Then we will just have to slowly divest you of your costume, piece by piece, like last time.

[omphale]

It won't take as long; this year I don't have nearly so many costume pieces. Then again, I'll probably try a lot harder to hold onto them.

[dira]

Ahahahaha um. I had no idea Brad (or ASkars?) had a bulldog tattoo, where is it? He totally has a wolf tattoo in that spot in the wolf-verse. Obvs.

(I am totally not cheering on those nonexistent drafts, and welcoming you happily into this fandom. Because you are not writing and not in this fandom. I understand entirely.)

[omphale]

I don't know if Colbert has one, but ASkars has three fake tattoos in the series--the Big Ridiculous Metal Scene, a blue triangle wrapped with a red möbius strip into a rough version of a star of David just below his neck, and a bulldog puppy with a helmet on his left shoulder blade.

It's possible I'm contemplating the second one as an actual tattoo. Because I have Thoughts on such a thing, and also it's pretty damn cool looking. But the one that would be replaced with a wolf tattoo would be the goofy cartoon bulldog, which I didn't like all that much anyhow. It would look better as a stylized wolf somewhere in the main backpiece. I'll have to think about it while I'm drawing up the rest of the tattoo pieces tomorrow.

(I'm so glad you understand. Sansets just keeps typing out AHAHAHAHA at me and then pushing plot bunnies onto my twitter feed. I think she may be secretly evil.)

[dira]

Ha! I will have to look for that while rewatching to figure out my yagkyas story. &Brad; &Brad's horrible tattoos;

(That doesn't actually sound very secret at all.)

[omphale]

Brad and his horrible tattoos are a particular interest of mine. For obvious reasons. (Also, if you need copies of the images I reworked from the screencaps, let me know. They're not perfect, but I'm pretty sure they're close to accurate.)

As for IRL Colbert, he definitely has at least two, and I'm betting that he's got all three, based on that one photo of his back that's floating around the internet.

I am supposed to be doing much, much more important research than this. But I made the mistake of picking the costume without regard for my usual issue with accuracy and general OCD behavior when it comes to all things military. Oops.

(It's not. Today it was a combination of Nate singing lullabies when Brad has nightmares and Stark Sands being...well. Stark Sands. Complete with hips and puppy dog eyes and neck tattoo and a fabulous command of profanity and just enough Swedish to get himself in trouble.

And then there was discussion of what might happen if Stark Sands got involved with fictional Brad Colbert, which is...at least better than that one conversation we had about Brad Colbert and Pete Wentz hanging out and eating tacos and talking about tattoos and what a hassle it was to have boyfriends with Opinions About Music. And the one where Pete got backstage passes to MCR so that Brad could give Nate the best thirtieth birthday gift ever.

I am so going to hell.)

[dira]

*sits quietly with kidfic bunny and Secretary AU bunny and says nothing*