you can't take the firmament from me

Here's the second part in the fic commentary series! I took requests here, and turlough requested one of my all-time most popular stories, A Lesser Disaster. (Both requests were for werewolf stories. Huh. Can't complain!)

( Fic commentary: A Lesser Disaster. )

Title: A piece of chicken
Fandom: Bandom (MCR) and actor RPF
Rating: PG.
Length: ~700 words.
Characters/Pairings: Mikey Way/Ian McKellen.
Disclaimer: While based on more reality than a lot of my RPF, this is still very very not real.

Summary: Fuck, Mikey was getting The Look from Magneto.

Notes: This is based on a quote from an Alternative Press article: "Toro and the rest of the band also watched as an actor (known to play an all-powerful wizard) eyed Mikey Way 'like he was a piece of chicken'." The real world is more cracked-out than I could ever be.

Also on AO3 and LJ.

( A piece of chicken )

Title: This Universe
Fandom: Bandom
Rating: G
Length: ~1470 words.
Characters/Pairings: Brendon/Patrick.

Summary: Patrick blinked. "I just normally get some kind of 'bigger on the inside' comment first." (Doctor Who AU.)

Notes: This is what happens when you're procrastinating from NaNo work on Tumblr and you stumble upon brilliant fanart like this (which is also where the title comes from). I wrote the story with katienyc in mind since we've both been itching for Brendon/Patrick. It might not be the Jesus!Brendon/devil!Patrick story knocking around in my head, but I'll get there!

Also on AO3 and LJ.

( This Universe )

Title: Why don't you just drop dead?
Fandom: Bandom: Panic! at the Disco, with Fall Out Boy and The Academy Is... (and more!)
Rating: NC-17
Length: 23k.
Characters/Pairings: Brendon/Spencer.
Disclaimer: None of the people on whom these characters are based drink blood in real life. (To my knowledge.)

Content notes: (unspoilery): (skip) Major and minor character death, violence and gore, underage drinking and drunkenness, abduction, captivity, mentions of torture, cursing, sexy stuff.
Content notes: (spoilery) (skip) Only unnamed characters stay dead.

Summary: Brendon wanted to be a rock star just like Pete Wentz. Spencer wanted to help Ryan out of his self-destructive cycle. Instead, they both end up undead and in the middle of an extremely dangerous clique war. Can they save their city from being torn apart by vampires and look dapper while they do it? (A Little Less Sixteen Candles AU.)

(Also on LJ and AO3.)

Fanart and mix

Master post - creepylicious

( Author's notes. )

( Why don't you just drop dead? )

Title: Giving Up the Ghost
Fandom: My Chemical Romance (with appearances from members of Black Cards, Fall Out Boy, and Cobra Starship)
Rating: NC-17
Length: ~26,300 words.
Characters/Pairings: Bob/Gerard, secondary Pete/Mikey
Disclaimer: Look up the word "fiction" in the dictionary.

Content notes: (unspoilery) (skip) Major character death, self-harm, drinking and drunkenness, depictions of pill use and medical situations (both forced and voluntary), depictions of addiction, depictions of mental health disorders, violence, bad words, bumping uglies.
Content notes: (spoilery) (skip) Only background characters stay dead. The self-harm's in the form of attempted suicide, but it stays an attempt.

Summary: Bob Bryar - also known as Spit Fire, the fifth Killjoy - should've died in the desert after Korse shot him in the head. But death isn't permanent in the zones, and rescue's nearly as ugly. When the fate of the resistance rides on Bob's shoulders, can Bob stop the mysterious enemies who anticipate his every move and cope with the mess Better Living Industries made of his life?

Bonus Tracks/Enhanced Content

Fanart:
Art by clandestine_fey

Fanmix:
Mix by desfinado

Author's notes:
For bandombigbang 2011, Wave Two. (This is my second story for this challenge; the first was Crash.) I wrote and posted this before the third Killjoys video release, but well after SING.

Because I always love playing around with presentation (particularly where Big Bangs are concerned), each site gives a different reading experience: LiveJournal has each part in its own post, Dreamwidth has the master post and all parts of the fic in one entry, and AO3 gives the option between chaptered reading and a single page. And then, because the story has special formatting and AO3 can screw that up in their premade ebooks, I made my own: .mobi, .epub, and .pdf.

If that seems like too much? Just pick your favorite site and go. Or stick with the LJ version: I really like the way it looks.

( Thanks. )

( Giving Up the Ghost )