Rob Thomas @ The Establishment

[tasyfa]

I'm writing Rob Thomas of Matchbox Twenty as a character in the RPG The Establishment, over on JournalFen. From the Est's profile:
The Establishment is a role playing game which takes place in and around an underground, international organization devoted to bdsm culture. The characters are for the most part celebrities. Needless to say every entry

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[kane_75]

Hey there. I've been reading your Establishment pieces and have become totally hooked. Your work reminds me that I used to love to read another fan fiction writer with the psuedonym of Peanut that a friend turned me on to and I was wondering if you'd heard of them or read their stuff? There was a lot of it floating around at one time, but I haven't heard anything from them in a while. They seemed to have your take on the whole Paul/Rob dynamic, too.

Great job. I'm waiting for more!

Kane

Good work

[tasyfa]

Hi Kane! Thanks so much. I'm having a disgusting amount of fun writing him, if feeling a little schizophrenic some days. *g* Unfortunately I'm not familiar with Peanut, which is a damn shame because there's so little Matchbox fic out there that I'd *love* to find some good new-to-me stuff, especially Paul/Rob. There used to be a slash comm here on LJ but it was deleted a while ago, and everything there went with it, of course.

I'm writing more, I promise. One of the down sides to co-writing most logs is that you're held to your writing partner's pace and life has a habit of interfering sometimes, y'know? But there should be more soon. And there was a fun meta... thing... with Mark B on the est_meta comm, here. I haven't quite decided how to go about pointing out any publicly-posted meta yet since I'm really not used to working with it!

[kane_75]

Great, glad to hear you're writing more. I can see it would be tricky waiting for someone else to continue the storyline before you can move on. I bet you sometimes wish you could just take control and write the whole damn thing

[tasyfa]

Well, I'll just have to suss out Peanut's stuff, but at least I know it's out there now, so thanks for that.

Yes and no on wanting to take control; part of the point for playing him in an RPG instead of simply creating my own story is that it's a lot of fun to interact with other writers and their characters and see what shakes loose. The inability to truly predict what'll happen is a big part of the appeal. :D Meta is essentially character interaction that takes place offstage and thus does not count as an official part of the character's in-game story arc. It's sort of an elaborate writing exercise, and you can find out some fascinating things about your character that can help you figure out what to do with them in-game.

I have three Rob/Paul drabbles, which are 100 word fics: More; Smoker's Cough; and Breaking Me In. I also have a fairly long fic featuring Rob/Billie Joe Armstrong, which is pretty much my prototype character for Est!Rob, Downtown Whore.

[kane_75]

Thanks for the links! I'm going to read them right now. :)