wordslinging

More reposting!

Title: Shook-Up World
Pairing/Prompt: Frank/Gerard - crossdressing (more on the lifestyle side, not one-time kink)
Rating: R
Word Count: 5054
Warnings: mentions of violence, criminal activity, and homophobia
Notes: Written for the no_tags fic exchange in 2011. Part of this is set in 1924 and part in 1932, and I suspect it's part of a much longer story I'm still figuring out. Title from the song "Lola" by The Kinks. Many thanks to the people who looked it over for me!

( And boys will be girls )

Take a Picture, It'll Last Longer
Pairing(s): Frank/Gerard
Rating: R
Word Count: 3404
Summary: A classic tale of boy meets boy, boy photographs boy naked, boy and boy hook up afterward.

...Wait, that's not a classic tale? Dang.

Author's Notes: Hey look I finished another kink bingo fic! From the card I got last year. Shortly after everyone started getting their cards for this year. My timing is awesome! Anyway, it's for the "film/photography" prompt, and pretty different from the story I originally had in mind for that prompt, but that one went nowhere and this one went somewhere, so. Thanks to cool_rain_kiss for betaing!

( Jepha's got the flu and there's a deadline to make, so there's a new model coming in on short notice. )

And The Autumn Moon Is Bright
Pairing(s): Frank/Gerard
Rating: R
Warnings: werewolves, violence, mild d/s themes
Word Count: 9996
Summary: "So...what, am I a werewolf now?"
Author's Notes: This is for spuzz, who won a fic from me in the help_haiti auction. It's also more OTP fluff than the warnings may make it sound. Many thanks to strobelighted for betaing!

( 'Yeah, basically, we're fucked.' Frank straightens up, wiping his hands on a rag and glaring down at the engine. )

A World So Small

Band(s): My Chemical Romance
Pairing(s): Frank/Gerard
Word Count: 30,943
Rating/Warnings: R (contains sex, morbid themes, and Wikipedia-researched history)
Summary: Victorian AU. When Frank, a sickly young man, is advised by his doctors to leave London for the country, he makes arrangements to stay with his friend Michael, who just so happens to be in possession of a large, old, and somewhat creepy manor house. What Frank has no idea of at the time is that Michael has an older brother, whose presence in the house he conceals. Gerard is an eccentric recluse who spends most of his time hiding in the attic and avoiding any kind of interaction with people, but he finds himself fascinated with Frank, who in turn realizes that the house has secrets, and becomes determined to uncover them. When he finally does discover Gerard, their first meeting is only the beginning of their story.
Notes: Hey, look, I wrote a historical AU! I'm sure you're all shocked. On the list of "Things I've written that are incredibly self-indulgent", this one ranks pretty high--it started off as me wanting to play around with Gothic romance tropes, and ended up a little bit Jane Eyre and a little bit Secret Garden, only minus all the things that make those classic works of literature and plus a lot of Frank and Gerard being loser weirdos in love. Many thanks to shoemaster and strobelighted for beta-ing, and, as always, to everyone who, for whatever reason, continues to encourage me to write down all the ridiculous stuff I come up with. I hope it's as fun to read as it was to write.

Standard disclaimers apply: these representations of real people are amazingly fictional and not for profit, I should in no way be mistaken for an expert on the Victorian era, and I think all the books mentioned are in the public domain, but if any of them aren't, they belong to their respective authors' estates, not me. The title comes from the song "Now Three" by Vienna Teng.

Part One
Part Two
Part Three
Epilogue

Bonus Tracks/Enhanced Content

Fanart:
"Frank reads" and "Gerard in moonlight", by allyndra


Fanmix(es):
Things Found in the Dark by fleurdeliser
Fanmix by summerslaughter

I was lucky enough to get two fanmixes this year, and I adore them both. It's always amazing to me when someone can take something I wrote and find a song I've never heard before that fits it perfectly, and both my mixes are full of examples of that. Thanks so much to both my mixers! ♥

( Things Found in the Dark, by fleurdeliser )

( Fanmix by summerslaughter )

HEY, REMEMBER A MILLION YEARS AGO WHEN I WAS WRITING A VAMPIRE AU?

(Note so that no one gets their hopes up: this isn't a full update to the story, more just a "still alive!...sort of" status report.)

Yeah, about that...I'm honestly not sure what I want to do with Sharpest Things, at this point. Some days I start thinking about it out of nowhere and get an idea and go YES YES I AM TOTALLY GOING TO FINISH IT, and then I hit another mental roadblock and go WHO AM I KIDDING I'M NEVER GOING TO FINISH IT, and then I think about how it was my first bandom fic ever and the early chapters kind of make me cringe now, but then sometimes I still get comments from people going "IDK IF YOU'RE EVER GOING TO FINISH THIS BUT I HOPE YOU DO" and it's simultaneously guilt-inducing and touching!

So I don't know. I do want to give it some kind of an ending, which may not be the ending it was originally going to have and I still have to figure that out, but I don't want to leave the people who still want it hanging. So I guess right now I'm just saying no promises, but watch this space?

I've had the part that comes right after where I left off written and sitting on my hard drive for uh, a while? And since I'm not sure what else I'm going to write for this AU or when it's going to get written, here's that part, at least. It's just a snippet, but I know some of you out there have been wanting to know what happens next, so here it is.

(For reference, since, y'know, it's been a million years: Chapter 9.)

( Gerard wakes up groggy and disoriented, with a dull ache behind his eyes. )