for anyone on my flist that draws fanart(oh hai, provetheworst), or know someone who draws fanart, please draw me a cartoon of Frank Iero as the sixty-five year old, cane-using, supercrazyawesome grandpa that encourages kids to watch horror movies and listen to his super-old CDs and is pudgy and wears sweater vests and caps. and jepha is his spry boyfriend, with a white pony-tail and superfancy shoes and wooden gauges.

oddly enough, this gave me that idea.

mais qui. sil vous plait. merci, au revior

YOU GUYS. THEY ARE SO CUTE!

ETA: featuring dancing grandma's:

Tommy: humping a tree?

18:53Maia: it was the most excellent thing i have seen all month

18:53Tommy: where was this

18:54Maia: in the side path between the tech center and Anderson. guess he/she wanted privacy

18:57Tommy: maaaaybe they are in love

18:58Maia: :D:D :D:D :D:D that makes a lot of sense to me
they could be in love

18:59Tommy: all of nature IS connected

maybe squirrels communicate with trees

19:00Maia: hmm. so when trees drop acorns and then squirrels then go and bury them, they're making babies?

19:01Tommy: yes exactly

19:01Maia: huh

19:02Tommy: acorns are tree babies

they dont eat them they bury them to grow

well keep them warm in the winter

19:03Maia: thats a little like seahorses

19:03Tommy: i suppose

19:04Maia: what with the dad seahorses carrying the kids around and all

only there's cheek pouches instead

19:04Tommy: like kangaroos

19:05Maia: yes!

19:05Tommy: only not alive just the tree eggs

19:06Maia: it really makes sense i mean they even live together

well, one lives in the other one

19:07Tommy: nature is amazing.

19:08Maia: it really is.

hooooly fuck kids. if you ever drop acid, do not take two tabs.

PATRIIIIIIIIIIIIICK

I cannot remember the last time i was so preemptively excited about the fanfic that would come out of a bandom event.

but Patrick took up the scandalous slack for me!

EVERYBODY, GET TO WORK.

but, best weekend ever.


oh well.

went to see snoop dogg on friday. He had people spray the crowd with champagne, which, awesome.

And Stephen Marley? Yeah. I have no idea how old the dude is, and he has terrible fashion sense, and i want to jump his bones. i don't even know. (And he had this cute 4-year-old on stage with him waving a Jamaican flag! this is something i can get behind, regardless of my wanting to bang him). His set was awesome too.

But Slightly Stoopid fans live up to their name,(except more than slightly). I have no idea why Marley and Snoop went on tour with them, their fans are annoying douches.

in other words, i have been enabling myself fairly constantly all this week in the name of this wereAnimal story that i guess i have to admit i am writing now.

This means endless hours researching Big Cat species on Wikipedia and watching hours of animal videos on YouTube and looking up just embarrassing amounts of androgynous male models of various mixed ethnicity, (often wearing make-up, heels, or Not Very Much At All, like here.).

and now i find myself in need of reading a whole bunch of Friendly Mutual Masturbation fic, and Friends That Are Also In Love fic.

so, i mean. Yeah, my week's gone pretty well. :)

but no, i cannot befriend my boss on facebook just to stalk his friend.

i may not have morals, but goddammit i have standards.

today was a very philadelphia day. It was raining this morning at 8am when i started helping my sister and 400 other volunteers build a playground at 47th and Sansom, but then it was just overcast by the time i headed to work for the Mural Arts Program.

Only apparently some protesters in wheelchairs had gotten onto the tracks at 30th street station and were refusing to move, so there was all kinds of crazed confusion with SEPTA. but then i finally got to work! and had fun painting murals until 3, when i walked about ten blocks to catch the bus and bypass any residual craziness back to the playground site, and man man man does it look awesome!

if you find yourself to be in West Philadelphia any time soon, go check it out. it was all put together in one day after two years of sweat, tears and planning on the part of my sister, and now we're just waiting for the rubber matting to be put down, and then kids can play on it! it is really beautiful.

And then i got a cheesesteak because duh, and a water-ice because i always get Celebratory Water-Ice from the store with the friendly Asian family, because they are really nice and plus you can get a huge 16oz water-ice with two flavors for only 1.75.

AND I AM GOING TO SEE SNOOP DOGG ON FRIDAY.

and its all sunny and temperate now!

good lord this city is great.

i have just spent the last five hours of google and wikipedia researching canids and big cats for a WereAnimal story i didn't even decide i am writing yet.

i mean, cool, its better than watching another six episodes of Buffy The Vampire Slayer, but.

seriously, what?

every time i see the 42 bus, i give it the finger.

or at least, every time i am not getting on it.

Its such a useful bus for me; it goes straight down the length of philadelphia into center city, i can catch the subway really easily from one of its stops, and i really like taking the buss more than the subway,(as long as being on time isn't an issue). But its such a bastard too. i have never met a more finnicky mode of transportation than bus travel, especially the 42. i don't know what it is. they're drivers are usually nice, (but then again most bus drivers period in philadelphia are nice) but their timing is, maybe because of the long route, ridiculous. i cannot describe the amount of times i've walked halfway to my destination by the time a 42 catches up to me. or the number of times i've been early, gone into a store to window shop while i wait, and come out exactly as a 42 was pulling out. Of course, whenever i don't need one its like they're everywhere, portly and asthmatic in their trundling up and down Spruce/Walnut/Chestnut loudly announcing their function with every stop. Even at 3am.

But i will continue taking it until my sister moves, because one of its stops is literally right in front of her house. which is damned more convenient than the el sometimes, six blocks away from my house through a busy area where people always hit on me. Sometimes you just want to take the bus, you know?

Comparatively, its hassle free. And you meet nicer people on the bus.dunno what's up with that.

I saw one just now on its way to 69th. a car passed in front of it at the intersection and the driver beeped, a fast little toot toot! of sound. at first i thought the car was running the red light, but its answering beep was just as cheerful and friendly. I guess when people are being sociable they beep in a rhythm, whereas when they mean business they just lean on the motherfucker.

anyway, told you bus drivers are nice.

saw the fast and the furious (original) last night. was overwhelmed by the amount of gay, (especially with the comparatively lukewarm "love" scenes between Dom's sister and Brian, compared to all of Dom and Brian's heart to hearts and inside jokes and "i gotta show you something"s).

there has got to be some fast and furious fic! look at that alliteration! LOOK AT THAT HOMOEROTICISM!

i am on the hunt. for fast cars, and faster, (sometimes overly muscled) boys.

Ps. Did you know that Vin Diesel plays D&D? he's been playing it for 20 years, according to his wiki.

As part of my summer job i have to go around getting quotes from people of various ages, colors, creeds, etc, asking them a question about love. This is the most annoying thing anyone could have asked me to do, but money is money. But i am shy! So can everyone take this poll and then comment with your name, (or a fake name, I don't care) and age?

THANKYOU SO MUCH! You are saving me from having to talk to RL strangers in public places!

Poll #1428484 About Love
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 2

What is your favorite kind of love (friendship, family, sexual, etc.) and why?

I have fallen in love...

I think love is...

its been in everything except maybe politics lately! From the weird and unexpected deaths of all the famous people to the break-up of Panic (which i have no comment on, seriously. They stayed mostly fictional in my life and that's how i liked it. I liked their music when i heard it, but i didn't actively pursue it. I can imagine how i would feel if MCR or the Used broke up though, so my condolences to all those on my flist who are really upset) and the Torchwood Writing-Wank (which i DO care about. I have not seen any of it since Tosh died because i stopped downloading it, but i have been faithfully checking up on bexless to see what's up and JESUS CHRIST WHAT ARE THEY DOING OVER THERE), there's been some major shit going on.

and now i am supposedly fighting with a friend who loves to make a big deal out of everything. It is enough to make me want to hole up with library books and Dan Savage podcasts until the world makes sense again.

But that would be giving in. So today i did a metric fuckton of winter laundry that i had put in plastic bags and left to fester for two months, then got celebratory water-ice, which i am now working my way through, deliciously.

how is everybody? i hope you're all doing fine and not getting thrown curve-balls from life. If you are, go get some water-ice. I guarantee you it will cheer you up, at least a little bit. :)

in other news, my menstrual cycle usually gives me happily vivid sex dreams, and this month's are all about bondage. I may have been reading too much Savage Love, but i really can't find it in myself to complain. :)

Have some Timon and Pumba!

So, i finally met those cute and extremely well-dressed neighbors that i may have mentioned earlier,( and if i didn't, i should have). How?

( Oh just wait for it )

i finally just downloaded Pretty. Odd. it seemed to me like it was time to accept Panic at the Disco into my life again, and hey, they are still pretty talented. As long as I never again go looking for RL gossip about them, i feel that i can retain my sanity.* relaxing, happy albums have been just my speed the last few days.

I seem to attract fire alarm malfunctions. Last night the fire alarm went off once at one-ish, and once at three-ish, (causing me to be rather rude to a fireman, looking back. even though he was cute! but he asked a stupid question, and all my politeness reservoirs had shut down for the night), with no discernable cause.

the job market for young people with little-to-no job experience in Philadelphia is shit. UGH, i just need a job, somebody, i have rent just like the rest of you ;_;

*i take that back. Brenden Urie is anathema to my sanity. Every time i think i like his voice, he decides that crazy amounts of vibrato are necessary. But it never is, Brenden, it never is.

i might have made this up.

Pick five of your favorite bands, and then for each one link a short video (music or otherwise) that exemplifies your favorite fanfic persona of them. Tell why, and then tag three people.

1. The Used--A Box Full Of Sharp Objects my favorite way to read the Used is pretty much the way sinsense writes them. Reckless, slightly insane, a little battered, and totally in love with each other. they look like they're grabbing life with both hands, for better or worse; i never get tired of watching them in this video (especially jepha. he's so young).

2. My Chemical Romance-

I couldn't pick a music video for them. I can enjoy them in fic pretty much any way, and their quintessential characters look the best individually for each video, so idek. but here is my favorite interview video of them (excluding LOTMS of course. that will always be the greatest ever because its theirs): Talking about international fans. its short, nerdy and funny, just like frank iero. Gerard's the only one who's noticably remembering there's a camera in his face, and there's keith from every time i die whom the whole band clearly has heart-eyes for.

3. Panic At The Disco-

this band freaks me out in real life, but i will read them in fic. because of that Nine in the Afternoon makes the list because Brenden literally freaks the shit out of me with his closeups in this video while the rest of them are more subtly crazy. It also has a heavy Jon-and-pot feel. I love Ryan-the-stoner in fic, and Brendan-who-is-smarter-than-appears and also kind of self-less, and Spencer with a beard and dour expression, and jon just being cute.

4. Fall Out Boy

i can read the Pete/Patrick pairing, and each separate member of FOB in pretty much any AU as long as they're in some semblance of character dynamic. But when I want the read about the band, this is definitely as i like them: Grand Theft Autumn (Where Is Your Boy). Patrick is, literally, jail bait, and Pete is a bit hunched in on himself, and Joe and Andy are just being more awesome than they are given credit for.

5.
This is a cheat and i know it, but Cobra Starship Supergroup-"Snakes on a Plane (Bring It)". This was the first thing that introduced me to them all at once, and i mean come on. They're overdramatic and cool as hell while making it look like they're not even trying. They're pheromones come through the screen at you. And they don't even look full of themselves.


new_evolution, stereomer, and sinsense, if you're experiencing some downtime along with me, i'd be really interested to see yours :D

*I forgot how many people on my flist were doing bigbang, its like all my favorite authors decided to put out (free) books all month, with accompanying media.

*(You mixers have good taste)

*men in cardigans are so hot.

*my alter ego is a bisexual man.