[fic] Happy Birthday, Jesspha.

[apiphile]

Title: Saturday Night's All Right For Fighting (So Is Friday)
Fandom: Bandom RPS [groaty's Thursdayverse AU]
Word Count: 7,000 (ish)
Rating: PG! For violins.
Pairing: IT'S A SURPRISE, MOTHERFUCKERS
Warnings: Violence, icky icky violence
Disclaimer: In the real world, the world where I unfortunately live, none of this happened. All the people involved are

Comments

[jackiesjunkie]

Ow teeth. My personal torture device. You made my teeth hurt.

OMG I thought you killed Andy!

Head massage. Even non-baked head massage is awesome. That final scene was great. I'd love to see this universe continue. Great job!!

[apiphile]

It was either that or eyes, and even I can't stomach writing about injuries to the eye; Jess's thing about hand torture in the first fic squicked me pretty badly.

<3 THANK YOU.

I'd love to see this universe continue.

NAG THE SHIT OUT OF groaty, there are SO MANY untold stories in her Mob-AU and I want to read them ALL.

[jackiesjunkie]

You and groaty are great at making me cringe in pain/pleasure. It's like half squick and half sadistic glee. I'm weird. I like it that way. ;-)

I shall happily nag the shit out of groaty if it gets us more Mob fic. hehehe

[apiphile]

YAY. [honestly I swear finding Jessface to be the A-half of a writing team with me is about the best fucking thing that happened in 2008, no kidding]

VICTORY.

[channonyarrow]

STILL AWESOME, HOMG.

Also, as I reread this again, I'm finding even more lines and bits that I love. Have I mentioned lately that I still totally love the fact that Joe is just higher than a kite? Nothing he does comes off as forced, it comes off as pot-logic, and the story hangs on that, and it is AWESOME.

Mikey! He's creepy! Vicky-T is pretty and DEADLY! Travis is wise and also, did I mention, a cop for some reason (I really really really wanna know what the reason IS). And also, there is blood and violence everywhere, and clearly, everyone in the hotel is about ten degrees off plane. And that's HOT.

Beckett approves.

[apiphile]

*FLAIL* I AM SO GLAD YOU LIKE IT, seriously. I covet your good opinion in bandom matters because, um, people who are difficult to please are important to please. And stuff. It's six am, don't expect a coherent response. [OMG!]

[channonyarrow]

I like that this (and the original fic, which I think I may have made my opinion on plain by now, but it consists of lots of AWESOME!) is not snuggle puppy cuddle time. SPCT is all well and good, but dude, it is possible to write insane bastards without writing creepy creepy inaccurate characterisations. One SMALL otp-centric example that both you and groaty use: Gabe is a fucking psycho with a history. Gabe is NOT, however, a creepy rapist, at least as has so far been explored. Gabe-as-creepy-rapist is a gimme in bandom: "Hi, this is Gabe, he keeps people in his basement and has WEIRD EYES OMG WATCH OUT FOR COCK." It is possible to take the characterisations we know and love, set them ten degrees off plane, and let shit happen. All done without relying on a gimme! It's possible! It's awesome!

[apiphile]

Personally I think if I was writing about Gabe keeping people in the basement it would be disturbed obsessive possessive love of the "dude's a headcase" kind rather than the "whoa rapist" variety. As commented at comedy workshop, "rapey" and variations are overdone. There can be OTHER KINDS OF BAD IN THE WORLD, PEOPLE.

/soapbox.

it is possible to write insane bastards without writing creepy creepy inaccurate characterisations

Not only that, it's possible to write sympathetic insane bastards! MY ENTIRE RAISON D'ETRE.

... I said I was getting off that soapbox, didn't I? *shoves it in the corner*

[swear_jar]

Okay, so I kind of took shitty notes as I read, so this will be incoherent, as-it-happened, and probably missing the important things that I wanted to say, but: If the atmosphere wasn't already stiffer and thicker than an old jerk-off sock,

SNOOOOOORT. I love your words.

Goth bathroom ducks. A++!

AHHHH, so many DETAILS. Little details of JOY.

Barefoot, lost Joe is such a vulnerable image. It's epically cool. Wandering around in a nest of snakes, feeling kind of paranoid AUGH, AMAZING.

Travis lays down the other bit of the rifle and says almost gravely, his eyebrows raised, "This is the kitchen."

SNORT.

And then he gets lost again.

HAAAAA. YES.

I LOVE YOUR JOE POV.

I LOVE IT.

AHdloashdisahd baseball bat Vicky. I can picture that absurdly clearly. BIFF.

Ugh, Quinn with Branden's teeth. That was vicious. LOOK. You got me! Teeth and fingernails being removed squicks me the hell out. Just a smidge with the queasy, now. I think this means you win

[apiphile]

I MAY BE SLIGHTLY GAY FOR YOUR COMMENTS. <3 Omg I scared you? I feel like doing a victory dance at my own badassery. THIS IS AMAZING NEWS.

That Travis "lifted from some fratboy", but he didn't because it's HIS

I AM SO SO SO GLAD THAT CAME OVER. >:D I was like, is this going to make sense, will anyone - and you saaaaaaw it! Reading the original was like watching an entire TV series, I think that's how I managed to get a handle on any of it; also your world is NOT SHITTY IT IS FUCKING AMAZING that's why I've been basically itching to get my hands on it since I READ IT.

Also, rubbing shaved heads does feel awesome.

I knooooooow. I used to have a fairly severe undercut, having your head rubbed backwards on pills will actually bring you to your knees, or at least it did to me on more than one occasion.

YAY MARRIAGE PROPOSALS. I give you Dan and Jepha as your wedding present.

[swear_jar]

Omg I scared you? I feel like doing a victory dance at my own badassery.

Seriously. I was like TENSE actually physically at more than one point there. YOU ARE VERY GOOD.

I give you Dan and Jepha as your wedding present.

WIN!

[apiphile]

I AM DELETERIOUS TO YOUR HEALTH.

[apiphile]

*g* PRO TIP, EMILY: READ THINGS IN THE RIGHT ORDER. You understand so much more than way.

Travis from Gym Class Heroes, in the real world where we live. He's cute. His hobbies include picking up Pete Wentz using only one arm.

[apiphile]

If you eat desert before dinner you just get chocolate in your fishsticks, and as any hygiene website will tell you, that can lead to thrush. :P

Vicky T is the keytarist in Cobra Starship. She has an LJ! THIS IS NOT AN INVITATION TO LINK HER TO THIS FIC.

[7iris]

Staring back at him from very close quarters is the unmistakeable metal and enamel leather-mounted insignia of a police officer.

*GASP* NOOOOOO, CLIFFHANGER ENDING! I MUST KNOW MORE.

This was great. I really liked the contrast between the sensual descriptions of Joe's high and the brutality of what's happening around him.

[apiphile]

Wooooo, thank you! I hear groaty is writing more in this 'verse EVEN AS WE SPEAK. :D

[7iris]

:DDD!