I love the winter...

Title: Aftercare
Author: winterlover
Fandom (Pairing): Bandom, My Chemical Romance (Frank Iero/Gerard Way, Mikey Way)
Rating: explicit
Word Count: 1.300
Summary: Aftercare. After Porn.
Disclaimer: Mostly written in 2015, polished tonight

on AO3

I posted it for the Bring Back The Porn Challenge 2020.

I haven't posted much lately (forever), but I did take part in the bandom_holidays fanworks exchange and had lots of fun creating some "movie-posters" for sperrywink . I didn't have time to take part in Bandom Big Bang, so I'm glad that I was able to create something at the end of last year. And because I recently learned that AO3 lets you copy and paste pre-fabricated html, I can now professionally link to it:

Artwork for sperrywink (96 words) by winterlover
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: My Chemical Romance, Fall Out Boy, Bandom
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Mikey Way/Pete Wentz, Frank Iero/Mikey Way, Patrick Stump/Pete Wentz
Characters: Mikey Way, Pete Wentz, Frank Iero, Patrick Stump, My Chemical Romance (Ensemble), Fall Out Boy (Ensemble)
Additional Tags: Digital Art, Fanart
Summary: Artwork created for Bandom Holidays 2018.


My belated Christmas present in the exchange was a great Killjoys-story:

Winter Wasteland (3884 words) by ViciousVenin
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: My Chemical Romance, Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys (Album), The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys (Comic), Cobra Starship, Bandom
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Fun Ghoul/Party Poison, Kobra Kid/Gabe Saporta, kobra kid/night shade
Characters: Party Poison, Fun Ghoul, Kobra Kid, Jet Star, Gabe Saporta, gabe "night shade" saporta, Korse (Danger Days)
Additional Tags: night shade is like. not really gabe he just looks like him, and is generally suave guy, and he loves his lanky boyfriend kobra, Pining, Mutual Pining, Light Angst, Unresolved Romantic Tension, but it is resolved and it's cute, Fluff, Cuddling & Snuggling, Happy Ending, Nonbinary Character, Nonbinary Party Poison, bandom holidays 2018
Summary: "Winters are hard out in the desert, even harder than the summers."

snowflake_challenge  - Day 5





This is an easy and a difficult task for me. Easy because everything I'm reccing I really love, but also difficult, because HOW TO CHOOSE ONLY THREE?
Oh well, I'll try:

1) turlough's knitting is something that I always admire, but her contribution to Bandom Big Bang this year was the best:
Welcome to the Black (Cat) Parade are knitted MCR-kittens! They're so cute and so well done, up to the uniforms, or the eye-makeup, they were one of my highlights of this year's BBB.

2) I must admit I didn't have time to read all bandom_holidays entries yet. But I read "Soon The Bells Will Start" by Jiksa and loved it. It's a funny story about misunderstandings around Christmas resulting in - or not resulting in (no spoilers! ;-)) - a threesome.

3) "Front Row Seats" by LadySmutterella, illustrations by johanirae is a great story about animal transformation which I had expected to be fluffy and funny, but after I had read half of it, I had giggled a lot but also teared up a few times already. A very emotional story that I was very impressed with. The illustrations are brilliant as well.

I'm late, but that's what happens when I spend New Years Eve at friends and then time at my parents. I had great fun there but no time for memes. But I don't want to miss this year, so here we go:

snowflake_challenge  - Day 1



I always liked to rec fics from the last year, but when I look back at 2016, there are actually only three works that I posted over the last 12 months, starting only in September.

But I do like them, so they will be my recs:

1) 100 Ways To Say “I Love You” (not really 100, actually)
It's a collection of drabbles in the Killjoys-universe (bandom) inspired by 100 prompts. I only used 17 in the end, but I quite like how those drabbles turned out to paint a bigger picture of the Killjoys' lives in the desert.

2) Speaking of pictures - for Bandom Big Bang I created Art for "No Future In Our Dreaming" by Prophetic. I was very inspired by the story and my love for London, so I made some art from photographs I had actually taken myself in London over the years.

3) Last, but definitely not least, I took part in Drabble Day 2016 where I wrote drabbles for 10 different fandoms (The Lord of the Rings, Sherlock, Bandom, Star Wars, Fear the Walking Dead, Please Like Me, My Mad Fat Diary, Harry Potter, Doctor Who, Alles was zählt) in 12 hours. That was great fun and an inspiring end to the year.

snowflake_challenge  -  Day 3



1) Icons and Artwork for the Bandom Holiday Exchange 2015
My most recent work. I'm very happy that the recipient liked what I created.

2) Poison Pink
Art and ficlet for a bandom_meme  prompt.

3) Oh, Tom
Words for the little known fandom "Alles Was Zählt" which I mentioned in another entry. No knowledge of the fandom is necessary to read this, mostly because I finished an old draft and have no idea myself what exactly this was about. But I liked the sentiment, so I put it on AO3.

For my first participation in bandombigbang I chose to make complementary artwork for a fic.

I made graphics for Sundrowned's story "Hand in mine, into your icy blues".
I started out in a fandom about gay figure-skaters with issues, so I couldn't resist when I read the prompt for the story.


Title: Digital Art for Sundrowned's story "Hand in mine, into your icy blues"
Creator: winterlover
Bands: MCR
Pairings: Gerard/Frank
Characters: Gerard Way, Frank Iero, Mikey Way
Rating: Teen and up audiences
Warnings: blood - in one of the dividers
Summary: complementary artwork for Bandom Big Bang 2015, Wave One




I created three different kinds of graphics:

1) cover art

2) scene/chapter dividers [WARNING for blood in one of them]

3) three bigger pieces, inspired by quotes in the story.

look at all pieces on AO3

snowflake_challenge  - Day 14



I have quite a varied taste in fic. I read a lot, from short PWPs to long chaptered AUs, multiple pairings, in different fandoms, various tropes, kinks, etc. I usually avoid incest (but read when I trust the author) and stop reading when the writing is very bad or when there is a lot of (even consenting) shaming (not sure if it's even the right term for this, but anyway, I won't read it).
My favourite is bandom though. That's where I started creating a bit myself. But I've recced lots of bandom-fic already, in this year's Snowflake Challenge (check out my "recs" tag) and in past years (2014), so I tried to rec stories that are not what I usually read but got bookmarked by me as favourites. But before I read bandom I didn't have an AO3 account for long so I don't have many bookmarks that aren't bandom. Oh well...


"Just Like That River I've Been Running" by miss_begonia (17.044 words, explicit) is a Bandom (Brendon Urie)/Adam Lambert mix and my comment on the bookmark was "Love the glimpse into the musicians minds and hearts."

"If This Is Love" by sunsetmog (85.591 words, explicit) is not a lesser-known fic in a rare fandom. It's One Direction, Nick Grimshaw/Harry Styles. But sunsetmog is a writer who I follow everywhere. I just like their writing and characterisations, and this fic is no exception. The tags for that story are "Unresolved Sexual Tension, Coming Out, Best Friends, Angst, Baking, Quite a lot of angst, Christmas, Toblerone" - everything that I love.

"by streetlight this dark night" by clumsygyrl (thegirlthatisclumsy), (5.329 words, teen and up audiences), My Chemical Romance, Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Bob Bryar/Ron Weasley
“I carried an amp.” Ron said dryly. - Ron escapes his old life and finds a new one. I really like the beginning, how bleak Ron sees into the future, how war left everyone a loser. So nice to see him trying to getting his life back on track.


- And now for a few bandom-only-recs that I just came across again and thought maybe someone might like them:

"But Not the Song" by emilyray (emilyenrose), ignipes (192.263 words, explicit, other warnings) Panic! at the Disco, Ryan Ross/Spencer Smith/Brendon Urie/Jon Walker
"The epic bandom slavefic. Running and shooting and angsting and kissing and more angsting and a bunch of kids named Alex."

"Basement Rhapsody"-Series by autoschediastic, rivers_bend (27.514 words, explicit), Bandom, My Chemical Romance, Adam Lambert, Tommy Ratliff
A High-School-AU. I like how they write the guys. Not too cute.

"A Storm Brewing; in which the honorable Spencer Smith asks questions and finds answers" by bad_peppermint (25.073 words, general audiences), written for Bandom Big Bang 2013, Panic! at the Disco, Spencer Smith/Brendon Urie - and dragons.
Lovely AU with great detail in worldbuilding and insight in Spencer's thoughts and feelings.

snowflake_challenge  - Day 6



I have started writing something today. Yay! But it's way from finished and not ready to post today.

When I don't know, I resort to creating icons.

akamine_chan wished for text based icons. I tried. Oh well.


     


----

P.S. on http://www.imnotokay.net I found the quote about moose. I hope that's the one you mean, Aka.

Frank: "Has Goldfinger ever seen any mooses?"
Mikey: "That isn't the plural of moose. It's moosi."
Gerard: "Fuck off, it's meese."
Frank: "Has Goldfinger ever seen a flock of meese advancing on him? It's a terrifying sight. They aren't small creatures. You would just run off like a girl or a boy. What does running like a girl mean anyway?"
Mikey: I've seen one. I'd run like a girl for sure. They're massive. If you run over one you're fucked. They come in through your windscreen kicking." - just like in Long Kiss Goodnight! But I think it was a reindeer. Same diff.
Bob: "People think that moose are really gentle and goofy but they aren't; they're fucking animals."

snowflake_challenge - Day 1



1)  Artwork and icons
Today also is the reveal of the creators for the bandom_holidays fanwork exchange, so I can link to what I created for this challenge:

Artwork and Icons for were_duck

I had written some Killjoys Haikus before and was inspired by them to make the artwork and add two more haikus just for were_duck.


2)  Drabbles
I seem to have the best ideas but cannot write long storylines for them. That's why I like drabbles so much. They're only 100 words, not too many possibilities for grammar-mistakes, but they still tell a story. That's what I try to accomplish.
I found out about this through two Drabble Days, organized by dear friends. Those challenges were great fun and I'm still happy about what I created:

My Drabble Days


3)  Fic
I have written longer pieces. If "longer" means about 1000 words. One fic, actually.
It's for the first fandom I actually participated in, "Alles Was Zählt", a German soap with a gay storyline.
It's revealing or defining as it's explicit and about a threesome, and I like explicit fics about threesomes.

Wait

For this round I wrote some Killjoys-Haikus.