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[jjtaylor]

Olivia_circe came to visit, and we got flaily and talked about bandom a whole lot, and then she came to dinner and Torchwood watching and got to meet and hang out with some of my favorite people, and it was an awesome end to the weekend.

We watched Becoming, Parts 1 and 2 from season two of Buffy while I was making dessert, and somehow, through some

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[midnightbex]

I know you wrote this forever ago and I am a complete stranger, but I just wanted to say yes, this, exactly. The thing I love most about bandom is that every story is an original narrative for these characters, because they aren't characters at all but people and the only narrative their lives hold are those we choose to see there. I'm not a writer, but a reader and the thing that keeps pulling me consistently back to bandom is that the only stories here are those the authors choose to tell and as a result some of the most creative fics and fanart I've seen are in this fandom.

Also, I am horrible at commenting on actual stories, but I've spent the whole day going through your backlog of fics. Someone on my flist recommended your fic from big bang this year (which absolutely stunned me). I remembered about halfway through reading it that you were the person who wrote Buy Handmade, which is one of my all time favorite MCR AUs. I have to say every story I've read so far has amazed me. You not only have a great handle on your characters (I LOVE your Frank, btw), but manage to make them and the worlds they inhabit full of depth. They read like accounts of real people, like each one actually exists somewhere that we just get to glimpse occasionally and see how they're doing. I absolutely adore your storytelling.

And I'm going to stop gushing at you now, but consider this feedback for all the lurkering I've done without commenting. :">