Snowflake Challenge 2017 - Day 2

[winterlover]

snowflake_challenge  - Day 2

In your own space, share a book/song/movie/tv show/fanwork/etc that changed your life. Something that impacted on your consciousness in a way that left its mark on your soul.

I really don't know if how I am made me fan of the things I am a fan of, or if being a fan of those things made me the way I am now.

Because this journal is mostly about me and bandom, I want to share a bandom-epos that was one of the first longer fics and AUs that I read when I started reading bandom-fic. I did read it on a jounal (LJ or DW?), but recently looked for a download on AO3, and yay, it's there, too!

"Screaming Down the Starlit Sky", a Vampire-AU by herlovewasajoke and reena_jenkins probably features every bandom-person that existed at that time it was written. And Adam Lambert. I guess that's how I found it, because at that time I had been looking mostly for Adam Lambert-fic.

The series is made of 16 parts and based on the video for A Little Less Sixteen Candles, a Little More "Touch Me" by Fall Out Boy. I didn't know most of the bands or people, didn't know the video, but was captured by the story. After that I looked for more and more bandom-fic. So my life as a reader was changed.

Comments

[akamine_chan]

Hee. I get that. One of the first bandom stories I read was Vampire Detective, and I was soooooo confused. Who are these people? Why is Gerard a detective? Etc. It would have gone more smoothly, I think, if I had just be told it was original fic, instead of trying to match up characters with Real People.

[turlough]

I haven't read that one but I share your experience with first longer bandom fic. Mine was Our Comedies Are Not To Be Laughed At - the one where they're all in film school and Spencer's the Bedazzled Amphibian Menace.

[turps]

Well I'm very glad you found that story and ended up here.

Though I'm sure it would have been confusing!

[winterlover]

Oh, I have that tabbed recently (if you mean Gerard Way's Detective Agency). Want to read it soon.

Because I didn't really know the people, I wasn't too confused, more intrigued and keen on reading more.

I do prefer non-AUs, but some AUs are as good as original fic, so I'm not avoiding them.

[winterlover]

:-)

*bookmarks "Our comedies...."-fic*

[winterlover]

*hugs*. I'm glad I found my way over here.

It was confusing, but also made me interested in those characters.

[akamine_chan]

*boggles at you* Yes, I mean Gerard Way's (Vampire) Detective Agency.

I'm so surprised you haven't read it; it's an absolutely brilliant AU.

[winterlover]

I really came across that fic only at the end of last year.
No idea why. But now I'm close to reading it. *pushes it up to the top of the list*