always been crazy

Okay, listen up, yall. There is this verse that I absolutely LOVE, and I know that I've mentioned it here on LJ and also in our email chains and probably if I've had an actual conversation with you recently, but I don't think yall understand the magnitude of my love for this world that stratospherique and apiphile have created. (also, what does it say about me that my favorite places these past few months have been harriet_vane's schmoopy Johnny/Evan ideas and BPV, which are two worlds so completely opposite I wouldn't even know where to begin comparing them)

Anyway, the Brat Prince Verse is a series of stories created by stratospherique and apiphile, both of whom I love as writers and as friends. Here is the master list of links for the Brat Prince Verse. I should probably also link jumptheshark's posts on borderline personality disorder and mental illness, which are linked in the master post and which I also plan on including in my updated Author & Beta Resource Guide.

Now, on to an abbreviated version of why I love the 'verse. It is delightedly fucked up. It is probably wrong that I love it as much as I do, and that certain bits of it make me SO FRICKEN HAPPY, but it's okay because I'm not the only one who feels this way. I love that it's bits and pieces of their life together - Mat and Bob and Patrick - and that it's not in chronological order and that it's told from different viewpoints in different pieces. It makes it interesting to piece together. Also, the dynamic of their relationship just hits me in ways that I can't explain. Seriously, they hit kinks I didn't even realize that I have, or that I don't admit that I have. Some of it is really fucked up and dark. There is incest that is actually dirtybadwrong, and not in the dirtybadwrongsofuckinghot way of Wincest. Just... wrong and squicky and fucked up, which is how incest actually IS but isn't how it's portrayed most of the time in fandom. (don't get me wrong - I'm a total wincester, but this works on a different level) There are a lot of times that I question Mat's actions and thoughts, but at the same time, I can relate to some of them. SO FUCKED UP. But there is also the faildorableness of Mat trying to take care of a sick!Bob. And there is the kinkiest cuddle!fic ever that totally warms my heart. And there are pictures by howifall.

Seriously, give these stories a chance, even if you you're not into bandom. Hell, especially if you're not into bandom. I mean, it's AU anyway, and Mat Devine is tragically absent from bandom anyway, and I can provide you with pictures of the characters if you need.

( This is Bob Bryar. )

( This is Patrick Stump. )

( And this is Mat Devine! )

So, GO READ and be sure to leave some love for the authors! Or the artist if you're checking out the associated fanart!

Also, bug stratospherique for a new Kill Hannah primer, or at least a better picspam than I could come up with b/c I'm easily distracted by shiny. ;) I mean, it's not like she's busy with school or anything...

So, per the poll in my last entry, yall wanna see a happy list and pics of Illiana. (the runner up to that is a picspam of Spencer Smith. Oh, flist, I love you.)

HAPPY LIST

♥ Davey made me lunch this morning. I had a messy PBJ, a pudding cup, and fruit snacks. And koolaid.

♥ My cousin named her kid Cullen. While this doesn't exactly make me happy, it does provide me with an overwhelming sense of amusement.

♥ we seemed to have skipped right over spring. Warm sunny days are made of win!

♥ got to spend Sunday afternoon at the river with part of the family. good times. we got a group photo; I'll be sure to share it when my Aunt Vicky sends me a copy. It's probably the first family picture EVER that doesn't have a bunch of beer cans in it. (Daddy was drinking, obvsly, but he was putting his beer in a cup)

♥ I only have to work until noon tomorrow! Gonna spend the afternoon at the park with Ronnie, Davey, and Holdon.

♥ inside jokes

♥ I put in for a quality position at work. *crosses fingers* (the happy part of this is related to how many people told me I needed to apply)

♥ March of Dimes team is gonna be called "Maybe Babies" so everyone can speculate which members of my team are pregnant, lol.

♥ laying under the ceiling fan

♥ the cake my aunt made for Easter. It was like a layer of chocolate cake, a layer of vanilla creme cake, a layer of chocolate pudding, and another layer of chocolate cake. With chocoloate icing. I swear, I gained 10 pounds just looking at it.

♥ stratospherique and apiphile's Brat Prince 'Verse. Omfg, yall, it is so ridiculously hot and filthy and awesome, and I cannot wait to get caught up on reading.

♥ harriet_vane's Be One Traveler. 30K of woke-up-in-another-universe skating fic. Seriously, a couple weeks ago I didn't even know who Johnny Weir was. Certain members of my flist insist on using their powers for Evil.

♥ Empires is gonna play in Baltimore. That is close enough to me to be doable.

♥ this ficlet by strangecreature based on this picture by howifall

Pictures of Illy to come!