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with_a_kay, untitled (SPN RPS/J2):

Jared had to beg his parents for weeks before they let him take the scholarship he got offered for Maple Academy.

"But it's so far away," his mother said. "We'll never see you, sweetie."

"Summer! And Christmas. And it's a great opportunity, mama, and I'll get a lot more attention for a good college."

"I don't like the idea of you being all alone up north," she hedged. "We haven't even got any family around there."

"It's the age of technology," said Jared. "I'll always be just a phone call or an e-mail away. Please, mama. I really want this."

Of course, she'd caved in the end, as Jared knew she would, and Jared got to go off to private school, where he assumed there would be a rose-themed dueling society, or a cat for a ballet teacher, or maybe everyone would just secretly be a blackbelt and involved in a complicated fight club.

Maybe, if he was lucky, all of the above.

I don't recognize the one in which everyone's secretly a blackbelt and involved in a complicated fight club. This makes me sad.

So apparently I have this thing with RPF where I'm doing fine for a while and then I crack and look up pictures of the "characters" and then I know too much about them and get freaked out again. Especially when people are writing about, like, daily life, instead of writing screwball comedies set in outer space (complete works of with_a_kay) or AU slavery epics with boys in cages and stuff. Also, no one in fic mentioned that Ryan Ross looks like he's twelve. I feel dirty now.

So I do not want fic recs, but I did put in that one Fall Out Boy CD I got in 2003 when they were playing in Central Park with Coheed & Cambria (who apparently hate them! and whose one CD from 2003 I also have! I blame wordsofastory) and I remembered I kind of liked it, and then I watched Beat It and understood why everyone was so crazy about Patrick Stump even though, on the face of it (and it's a pretty face to have), Pete Wentz is the hot one. I am not sure I have ever seen anything else that managed to be that ridiculous and that sexy at the same time.

I read a bunch of bandom primers but they all tell me about characters and personal lives and shit and really, all I want is to read lots of interviews about the music and the video concepts and how The Black Parade and The Umbrella Academy are secretly part of this vast multiverse soap opera Gerard Way plotted out in chemistry class when he was fifteen, because, ohmygod, they so clearly are. When I was fifteen I was plotting out four-volume fantasy series and scarfing down interviews with writers, and now I must make up for my lost youth, because, in general, musicians are way hotter than writers. Sad but true. I would say I need pictures to pin up to my wall or hard drive, but in fact the bandom primers have that covered.

Also, someone out there has written fic set in Janelle Monae's alt-Metropolis android slavery future from the Many Moons video/short film, right? Please tell me this is true. Include illustrative links.