Amazing
Okay, so, this is a quick hit-and-run post because I have some serious writing I'm slowly attempting to do (read: another chapter of Two Ducks in Love is probably coming out sometime this week) but OMG, somebody (read: fire_juggler) made a podfic of my story! A PODFIC OF MY STORY! THANK YOU fire_juggler!!!
It isn't live yet, so I can't link you to it, but trust me when I say it's amazing and stupendous and just, I'm grinning ear to ear and I can't believe that my story is now something that has an AUDIOBOOK format. This is totally a first for me.
It occurs to me that I should maybe mention what story it is, so here you go:
The Motions You've Been Going Through which is a Bandom story, Pete/Patrick pre-slash/friendship gen. WARNING: This story does talk about abortion, so, yes. Don't read if that is a trigger. But I wrote this story years ago, when I was trying to figure out if I should write another bandom story, a longer one wherein Patrick Stump is ftm, but that doesn't matter because he's Patrick Stump, and the reader would go through most of the story *not* knowing that Patrick was stealth and just having thinly veiled references to it, but then I decided that wasn't a good thing to do so I didn't and instead I wrote this.
In an unrelated note, well, kind of related--after Patrick's recent blog post that made me feel ALL the feelings in the world, I kind of want to write a story about him finding himself again, about him finding a life outside of music that is still all about music, and okay, apparently? I only have one trope of Bandom fic that I like to write, which is basically the idea that music isn't forever and there is always something after that, while it might not be better, is different enough to live for. Seriously, but then I decided not to write that story because I wasn't sure I should use Patrick's real-life angst to write fic and I got onto a whole quandry of questions and self doubt.
Mostly I want to write a story. A story that is angsty. And about people having imperfections and being human and not knowing how to deal with the imperfections so they make stupid mistakes and ruin things that shouldn't maybe be ruined, but once they are ruined they can't be unruined. So instead you keep going forward and living and finding new things that you haven't ruined yet.
It isn't live yet, so I can't link you to it, but trust me when I say it's amazing and stupendous and just, I'm grinning ear to ear and I can't believe that my story is now something that has an AUDIOBOOK format. This is totally a first for me.
It occurs to me that I should maybe mention what story it is, so here you go:
The Motions You've Been Going Through which is a Bandom story, Pete/Patrick pre-slash/friendship gen. WARNING: This story does talk about abortion, so, yes. Don't read if that is a trigger. But I wrote this story years ago, when I was trying to figure out if I should write another bandom story, a longer one wherein Patrick Stump is ftm, but that doesn't matter because he's Patrick Stump, and the reader would go through most of the story *not* knowing that Patrick was stealth and just having thinly veiled references to it, but then I decided that wasn't a good thing to do so I didn't and instead I wrote this.
In an unrelated note, well, kind of related--after Patrick's recent blog post that made me feel ALL the feelings in the world, I kind of want to write a story about him finding himself again, about him finding a life outside of music that is still all about music, and okay, apparently? I only have one trope of Bandom fic that I like to write, which is basically the idea that music isn't forever and there is always something after that, while it might not be better, is different enough to live for. Seriously, but then I decided not to write that story because I wasn't sure I should use Patrick's real-life angst to write fic and I got onto a whole quandry of questions and self doubt.
Mostly I want to write a story. A story that is angsty. And about people having imperfections and being human and not knowing how to deal with the imperfections so they make stupid mistakes and ruin things that shouldn't maybe be ruined, but once they are ruined they can't be unruined. So instead you keep going forward and living and finding new things that you haven't ruined yet.