Fair point. I used to live in the deep South (please make jokes), and the last summer I spent after graduation living alone in this ancient townhouse deal was fucking TRAUMATIC. There were spiders the size of small dogs, and I ended up spending nearly every night on the phone with my then-girlfriend, wrapped up in mosquito netting and crying while clutching a can of Raid while she researched whatever breed of monstrosity I described so I'd know the best way to kill it. I had no internet so I'd have to tell her, like, "Uh, it's huge and brown and hairy and it leaped at me from around a corner. FIND OUT WHAT IT IS AND IF IT'S GONNA LAY EGGS IN MY EAR." /tangent
Oh good. So do I. And I have a fun habit of sending them while drunk. And also posting to LJ while drunk. And Twitter. Just... fair warning. Email is actually better for me for legit conversations, too, especially while at work, since I can access email really easy from my phone, but LJ kills it.
As MCR AU fic goes, have you read The Anatomy Of A Fall or A Guided Tour Of The October Country? Both by novembersmith. They're my personal favorites and SO MUCH of what I draw is rooted in those fics and the imagery there, and a lot of Bradbury by proxy. And they're so, so AU, it's just names and yeah, like you said, really basic archetypes of the pre-existing personalities.
Dude, isn't it weird how they don't have much fic? You'd think people would be ALL OVER that shit, like, seeing as the bands promote it. Psh. Lame. I want more Alex/Ryland rad bromance in general. I mean, their existences basically constitute fic without even trying.
When nothing else in life makes me happy, a good Pete/Patrick makes me happy.
I agree, I'd feel more comfortable exploring her work if there were more explanation around it. But I also agree that yeah- isn't the idea of restricting yourself to only taking aspects of your own culture or whatever a little... contradictory? To the idea of art in general. Or, to the idea of, oh. I don't know. Modern society? ...Heathens.
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Date: 2011-06-24 07:37 am (UTC)Oh good. So do I. And I have a fun habit of sending them while drunk. And also posting to LJ while drunk. And Twitter. Just... fair warning. Email is actually better for me for legit conversations, too, especially while at work, since I can access email really easy from my phone, but LJ kills it.
As MCR AU fic goes, have you read The Anatomy Of A Fall or A Guided Tour Of The October Country? Both by
Dude, isn't it weird how they don't have much fic? You'd think people would be ALL OVER that shit, like, seeing as the bands promote it. Psh. Lame. I want more Alex/Ryland rad bromance in general. I mean, their existences basically constitute fic without even trying.
When nothing else in life makes me happy, a good Pete/Patrick makes me happy.
I agree, I'd feel more comfortable exploring her work if there were more explanation around it. But I also agree that yeah- isn't the idea of restricting yourself to only taking aspects of your own culture or whatever a little... contradictory? To the idea of art in general. Or, to the idea of, oh. I don't know. Modern society? ...Heathens.