As usual, my answers are stupidly long
My answers from that meme earlier! (Also feel free to ask me more. I love making lists :D)
egelantier asked me for my Top 5 Favorite Fics
Oh dear. I'll stick with bandom since those are the fics I've read the most and the fandom I've been in the longest.
1. All the Arms Around You by witheveryspark. It's the first Jon/Tom fic I ever read and it's what got me hooked forever on the pairing. Jon and Tom do some underaged drinking in the snow on the shores of Lake Michigan. It's so perfect for them.
2. Take the Guitar Player for a Ride by jae_w. This is the Jon/Tom story I had ALWAYS wanted. Jon takes Tom on the NRWC tour after Tom gets kicked out of TAI and Tom's a complete mess but Jon helps bring him back from the brink. It hurts and comforts in all the best ways.
3. Until I Am Home With You by colouredmango. Butcher goes to China to work on art soon after he and Siska get together and it's filled with beautiful pining and wonderful descriptions. IL all Butcher and Siskas and the way Mango writes them.
4. The Hipster Wedding of the Century by just_katarin Nick and De'Mar get married for the free swag AND because they're totally, stupidly in love even though Nick's a douchebag. Also there's a Kanye cameo. Of course this is one of my favorites. ♥Katarin♥
5. Pictures of You by witheveryspark Jon and Tom take pictures for each other while Jon's on tour. I love the pictures she used and the way she writes Tom's thought process so much.
Honorable mention(s): Iridium is the Second-Densest Substance on Earth and everything else just_katarin and colouredmango have ever written.
barnacling asked me for Top five Tom/William moments no one else in the world knows about
1. That time when Bill and Tom were hanging out in the van and Bill started play-slapping Tom's knee while he was fiddling with his camera and Tom got all pissed off and told him to stop but Bill just grinned and kept doing it anyway. Finally, after Tom carefully set his camera down, he tackled Bill and they started wrestling, but wrestling with Bill isn't fair at all because Bill is all legs and no muscles, so it ends pretty quickly but Tom doesn't move off of Bill's chest and Bill doesn't make him.
2. The first time during a show that Bill pressed his face up against Tom's while he was singing and it freaked Tom out. Not because of the gay thing but because he hadn't been in the band very long and Tom still wasn't sure of himself on stage and Bill doing that really threw him off. Bill comes up to him after the show, his arm raised for a high-five and his face all smiles. Tom high-fives him back, his face all screwed up in confusion, and Bill just grins bigger. "You cool if I keep doing that? It kind of just happened." He doesn't know why he says it but he answers "Yeah, it's cool."
3. The time Bill and Tom share a hotel room and they drink too much cheap liquor and Bill passes out way earlier than usual and Tom starts taking pictures of him. Bill's shirt has ridden up halfway and with his low-rise girlpants, so that's a lot of skin showing. Tom snaps a few artsy shots and tries to ignore his pants feeling tighter. After getting a few more pictures, he shuts himself in the bathroom for a good 15 minutes. When he comes back out, flushed and sweaty, Bill's smirking from his bed. He was awake the whole time.
4. Warped tour is awful. It's too hot, too crowded and too long. Everyone's at each other's throats and it's miserable. William and Mike start arguing over something stupid and Tom can't take anymore and walks off the bus with his camera. He wanders around for awhile, taking pictures of trees and clouds, until he ends up by the Porta-potties and Bill is there, like he was waiting for him. "You left these," he says, handing Tom his pack of Marlboros. Tom shrugs his appreciation and turns to leave but Bill grabs his wrist, "Can I bum one?" Tom spins around, "You don't smoke." Bill just shrugs, his long hair falling in his face as Tom hands him a cigarette. "Got a light?" Bill asks and Tom pulls his lighter out of his jeans and holds it up to Bill's lips, his hand cupped around the flame. The light flickering on Bill's face in beautiful and Tom wants to capture it, but not on film. As soon as Bill lowers the cigarette, Tom presses his mouth to his. When they pull apart, Bill raises his eyebrows. "Are you drunk?" Tom grins in spite of himself. "Drunk enough."
5. October 2006 is the worst month of Tom's life. He just got kicked out of his band and his one best friend is on tour and the other is having some sort of mid-life crisis out in California. He goes to favorite local bar (it's a total shithole but that's how Tom likes it) to try and drink some of his problems away. Unfortunately, his biggest problem is already there. Bill's sitting at the bar, nursing what's Tom guesses is whiskey. Part of him wants to go up to him and sucker punch him, but he doesn't want to get kicked out of the only place he feels normal, so he instead turns to leave. He doesn't make it out the door before Bill calls after him. "Hey, wait!" Tom keeps going, pushing the door open and turning back to his apartment, but Bill's fast from all those years of baseball. He grabs Tom's shoulder, "Tom, wait, I wanted to see you." Tom turns around, almost snarling. "Well, you saw me. Now fuck off." Bill doesn't let go of his shoulder, though, and stutters, "I...I just wanted to t-tell you something. It's...it's not what I wanted." That's it for Tom, he can't deal with this, he's too sober and too pissed off. He grabs Bill by the shoulders and pushes him up against the nearest wall. Their chests are pressed together and they're sharing breath. It was whiskey Bill was drinking. "You obviously didn't want it...me enough," Tom growls before storming off.
marksykins asked me for the Top five times Jon was drunk.
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becs1024 asked me fore Top 5 Winchester quotes.
1. Dean: "So you found some beetles in a hole in the ground. That's shocking, Sam."
2. Dean: "I have no skin left on my palm."
Sam: "I'm not touching that one with a ten foot pole."
3. Sam: "You're bossy... and short."
4. Dean: "What's a PA?"
Sam: "I think they're like slaves."
5. Dean: "No, see, married couples can get divorced. Me and him? We're like, Siamese twins."
Sam: "It's conjoined twins."
Dean: "See what I mean?"
stealstheashes asked me my Top five favorite non-band members in bandom!
1. NICK SCIMECA. You're shocked, aren't you? But really, he is like, my 6th favorite person in all of bandom. I love that he was once just some lame kid in a band with an even lamer kid who made fun of him for his Angelfire site being "not sweet" who then gave him a pirated copy of Photoshop to make it look better and from there, he's started a pretty successful design company. I also love that he is the reason that most of bandom exists. He introduced Travis and Pete, he got De'Mar into drumming and pop-punk (he also made De'Mar a basically married man), his band helped get Fall Out Boy, Bill's acoustic act Remember Maine and Jon's high school band, Farewell Night, their first gigs, and then he designed merch and websites for all of them. I don't even care that he's a hipster douchebag (that's kind of his charm to me, actually), he's still my favorite.
2. Tony Marino, TAI's longest-suffering tour manager. No one has had a harder job than Tony Marino and I appreciate him so much. I love that TAI TV where they're stuck in traffic and snow in the UK and they get to their venue so late and someone asks him while he's running around: "Tony, when was practice?" "4." "Tony, when was soundcheck?" "6." "Tony, when were doors?" "7." Tony, when was the show supposed to start?" "8." "Tony, what time did we get here?" "7:45." (that isn't right but it's amazing, nonetheless.) Also, Tony is pretty damn hot:
3. Guy Ripley, anchor for the BBC world news. He loves William Beckett more than I do! And he's basically the best thing to come out of TAI TV, which says a lot, considering how much amazing and hilarious shit has ever been on TAI TV. My favorite Guy Ripley moment is when he cuts off a piece of Bill's hair in the bathroom. Or when he stalks them at Leeds and then the whole band ignores him at first but then they invite him back to their bus and surprise!Ryan Rossy greets him.
4. Jack the Camera Guy, the guy who films TAI TV and now CobraCam. Jack can be kind of douchebag but he's a pretty awesome camera guy and as someone who has had to edit together videos in 24 hours, I'm really impressed with how he gets that shit done every week. And I LOVE Jon Walker A LOT, but TAI TV's quality went way up when Jack started filming them. Also he's weirdly hot in person. Like, seriously.
5. I was going to say KKFP but then I remembered he is in a band. :( Oh! JMont! He totally counts! He's FBR's biggest fangirl who can't accurately review Cobra Starship's album because they're such good friends of his and he loves Pete Wentz and Ryan Ross a lot and linked to both Tom and Empires after their big trip to Chile together. &JMONT;
egelantier asked me for my Top 5 Favorite Fics
Oh dear. I'll stick with bandom since those are the fics I've read the most and the fandom I've been in the longest.
1. All the Arms Around You by witheveryspark. It's the first Jon/Tom fic I ever read and it's what got me hooked forever on the pairing. Jon and Tom do some underaged drinking in the snow on the shores of Lake Michigan. It's so perfect for them.
2. Take the Guitar Player for a Ride by jae_w. This is the Jon/Tom story I had ALWAYS wanted. Jon takes Tom on the NRWC tour after Tom gets kicked out of TAI and Tom's a complete mess but Jon helps bring him back from the brink. It hurts and comforts in all the best ways.
3. Until I Am Home With You by colouredmango. Butcher goes to China to work on art soon after he and Siska get together and it's filled with beautiful pining and wonderful descriptions. IL all Butcher and Siskas and the way Mango writes them.
4. The Hipster Wedding of the Century by just_katarin Nick and De'Mar get married for the free swag AND because they're totally, stupidly in love even though Nick's a douchebag. Also there's a Kanye cameo. Of course this is one of my favorites. ♥Katarin♥
5. Pictures of You by witheveryspark Jon and Tom take pictures for each other while Jon's on tour. I love the pictures she used and the way she writes Tom's thought process so much.
Honorable mention(s): Iridium is the Second-Densest Substance on Earth and everything else just_katarin and colouredmango have ever written.
barnacling asked me for Top five Tom/William moments no one else in the world knows about
1. That time when Bill and Tom were hanging out in the van and Bill started play-slapping Tom's knee while he was fiddling with his camera and Tom got all pissed off and told him to stop but Bill just grinned and kept doing it anyway. Finally, after Tom carefully set his camera down, he tackled Bill and they started wrestling, but wrestling with Bill isn't fair at all because Bill is all legs and no muscles, so it ends pretty quickly but Tom doesn't move off of Bill's chest and Bill doesn't make him.
2. The first time during a show that Bill pressed his face up against Tom's while he was singing and it freaked Tom out. Not because of the gay thing but because he hadn't been in the band very long and Tom still wasn't sure of himself on stage and Bill doing that really threw him off. Bill comes up to him after the show, his arm raised for a high-five and his face all smiles. Tom high-fives him back, his face all screwed up in confusion, and Bill just grins bigger. "You cool if I keep doing that? It kind of just happened." He doesn't know why he says it but he answers "Yeah, it's cool."
3. The time Bill and Tom share a hotel room and they drink too much cheap liquor and Bill passes out way earlier than usual and Tom starts taking pictures of him. Bill's shirt has ridden up halfway and with his low-rise girlpants, so that's a lot of skin showing. Tom snaps a few artsy shots and tries to ignore his pants feeling tighter. After getting a few more pictures, he shuts himself in the bathroom for a good 15 minutes. When he comes back out, flushed and sweaty, Bill's smirking from his bed. He was awake the whole time.
4. Warped tour is awful. It's too hot, too crowded and too long. Everyone's at each other's throats and it's miserable. William and Mike start arguing over something stupid and Tom can't take anymore and walks off the bus with his camera. He wanders around for awhile, taking pictures of trees and clouds, until he ends up by the Porta-potties and Bill is there, like he was waiting for him. "You left these," he says, handing Tom his pack of Marlboros. Tom shrugs his appreciation and turns to leave but Bill grabs his wrist, "Can I bum one?" Tom spins around, "You don't smoke." Bill just shrugs, his long hair falling in his face as Tom hands him a cigarette. "Got a light?" Bill asks and Tom pulls his lighter out of his jeans and holds it up to Bill's lips, his hand cupped around the flame. The light flickering on Bill's face in beautiful and Tom wants to capture it, but not on film. As soon as Bill lowers the cigarette, Tom presses his mouth to his. When they pull apart, Bill raises his eyebrows. "Are you drunk?" Tom grins in spite of himself. "Drunk enough."
5. October 2006 is the worst month of Tom's life. He just got kicked out of his band and his one best friend is on tour and the other is having some sort of mid-life crisis out in California. He goes to favorite local bar (it's a total shithole but that's how Tom likes it) to try and drink some of his problems away. Unfortunately, his biggest problem is already there. Bill's sitting at the bar, nursing what's Tom guesses is whiskey. Part of him wants to go up to him and sucker punch him, but he doesn't want to get kicked out of the only place he feels normal, so he instead turns to leave. He doesn't make it out the door before Bill calls after him. "Hey, wait!" Tom keeps going, pushing the door open and turning back to his apartment, but Bill's fast from all those years of baseball. He grabs Tom's shoulder, "Tom, wait, I wanted to see you." Tom turns around, almost snarling. "Well, you saw me. Now fuck off." Bill doesn't let go of his shoulder, though, and stutters, "I...I just wanted to t-tell you something. It's...it's not what I wanted." That's it for Tom, he can't deal with this, he's too sober and too pissed off. He grabs Bill by the shoulders and pushes him up against the nearest wall. Their chests are pressed together and they're sharing breath. It was whiskey Bill was drinking. "You obviously didn't want it...me enough," Tom growls before storming off.
marksykins asked me for the Top five times Jon was drunk.
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4.
5.
becs1024 asked me fore Top 5 Winchester quotes.
1. Dean: "So you found some beetles in a hole in the ground. That's shocking, Sam."
2. Dean: "I have no skin left on my palm."
Sam: "I'm not touching that one with a ten foot pole."
3. Sam: "You're bossy... and short."
4. Dean: "What's a PA?"
Sam: "I think they're like slaves."
5. Dean: "No, see, married couples can get divorced. Me and him? We're like, Siamese twins."
Sam: "It's conjoined twins."
Dean: "See what I mean?"
stealstheashes asked me my Top five favorite non-band members in bandom!
1. NICK SCIMECA. You're shocked, aren't you? But really, he is like, my 6th favorite person in all of bandom. I love that he was once just some lame kid in a band with an even lamer kid who made fun of him for his Angelfire site being "not sweet" who then gave him a pirated copy of Photoshop to make it look better and from there, he's started a pretty successful design company. I also love that he is the reason that most of bandom exists. He introduced Travis and Pete, he got De'Mar into drumming and pop-punk (he also made De'Mar a basically married man), his band helped get Fall Out Boy, Bill's acoustic act Remember Maine and Jon's high school band, Farewell Night, their first gigs, and then he designed merch and websites for all of them. I don't even care that he's a hipster douchebag (that's kind of his charm to me, actually), he's still my favorite.
2. Tony Marino, TAI's longest-suffering tour manager. No one has had a harder job than Tony Marino and I appreciate him so much. I love that TAI TV where they're stuck in traffic and snow in the UK and they get to their venue so late and someone asks him while he's running around: "Tony, when was practice?" "4." "Tony, when was soundcheck?" "6." "Tony, when were doors?" "7." Tony, when was the show supposed to start?" "8." "Tony, what time did we get here?" "7:45." (that isn't right but it's amazing, nonetheless.) Also, Tony is pretty damn hot:
3. Guy Ripley, anchor for the BBC world news. He loves William Beckett more than I do! And he's basically the best thing to come out of TAI TV, which says a lot, considering how much amazing and hilarious shit has ever been on TAI TV. My favorite Guy Ripley moment is when he cuts off a piece of Bill's hair in the bathroom. Or when he stalks them at Leeds and then the whole band ignores him at first but then they invite him back to their bus and surprise!Ryan Rossy greets him.
4. Jack the Camera Guy, the guy who films TAI TV and now CobraCam. Jack can be kind of douchebag but he's a pretty awesome camera guy and as someone who has had to edit together videos in 24 hours, I'm really impressed with how he gets that shit done every week. And I LOVE Jon Walker A LOT, but TAI TV's quality went way up when Jack started filming them. Also he's weirdly hot in person. Like, seriously.
5. I was going to say KKFP but then I remembered he is in a band. :( Oh! JMont! He totally counts! He's FBR's biggest fangirl who can't accurately review Cobra Starship's album because they're such good friends of his and he loves Pete Wentz and Ryan Ross a lot and linked to both Tom and Empires after their big trip to Chile together. &JMONT;