happiness is my default position

This Happy Ending's Just Beginning

Band(s): Panic at the Disco, Fall Out Boy (with Cobra Starship, The Academy Is... and plenty of familiar faces thrown in)
Pairing(s): Ryan/Brendon, Pete/Patrick, pre-Jon/Spencer
Word Count: 28,348
Rating/Warnings: PG13, language
Summary: The Disneyland parade has evolved into an all-singing, all-dancing extravaganza and Brendon wants to be part of it. Unfortunately there aren't a lot of opportunities for the guy who sells knick-knacks by the park gates. Enter Ryan, the parade's current star attraction, who might just have a plan to get Brendon everything he always wanted.

Part One
Part Two
Part Three


Bonus Tracks/Enhanced Content

Fanart:
The Happiest Place on Earth by lucentvictrola

Fanmix(es):
The Happiest Place on Earth by bestthingaround

Author's Notes: A huge thank you to ditchwitchbitch for letting me talk about this for months, and helping me in an endless number of ways, hand-holding and general cheerleading. Another big thank you to giddy_london for the fantastic beta work and advice. I couldn't have done it without you two. Thanks to lucentvictrola for the beautiful art and bestthingaround for the perfect mix.

I do not work at Disneyland or know anyone who works there, so this is in no way an accurate portrayal. The Golden Mouse is based on something at my current place of work.


( This Happy Ending's Just Beginning )

I have just sent off my Bandom Big Bang final draft. \o/

I'm so excited, and pleased that I actually finished. It's over 28,000 words which makes it the longest thing I've written since I was in the Buffy fandom about 6 years ago. I think it's a lot better than what I was writing then too.

Roll on June 8th. I can't wait to start reading everyone else's.

I've just sent off the rough draft of my bandombigbang fic. \o/

It currently stands at almost 26,000 words and it needs a few more scenes in the middle and some proper editing to make it the way I want it, but at least I have a month now to get that sorted out.

I'm feeling rather pleased with myself right now. It's been a long time since I wrote anything that long, and now I have two (mostly) completed bandom fics. This has been a good writing year so far.

I was going to do a big emo post because this week has been pretty crap, people have stolen from me and I'm feeling boring and unloved.

But that's as much as I'm allowing myself to moan right now.

bandombigbang Word Count

18651 / 20000 words. 93% done!

I have 13 more scenes to write to finish the rough draft. So I am excited about something.

Could Ashlee Simpson (Wentz) be any more adorable? Her twitter just makes me smile an inordinate amount. I sort of love her.

After a pretty crappy week things are starting to look up. I am planning on spending the day writing my Big Bang fic. I have less than a month now and while I'm only 5000 words away from the correct word-count, I am nowhere near finished the story, so I have to get going.

ETA: On the other hand maybe I just suck and can't write any more. I am in serious need of a brainstorming session. And then possibly a kick.

But stuff like this makes it easier to write. Oh Jon. Oh BOYS.

Big Bang Word Count

14708 / 20000 words. 74% done!

As much as I love my Mac, I have been frustrated recently about the lack of word count in TextEdit which makes it difficult for me to find out how well I'm doing for my Big Bang. I've been using an online word counter (which doesn't actually work) or sending it to my friends and asking them to check in Word.

Today however I did what I should have done ages ago. I asked Google. Now I have a shiny add-on that tells me I'm doing just fine. (That may also have something to do with Spencer's new found adoration of Jon Walker though.)

Big Bang Word Count

12074 / 20000 words. 60% done!

Woo hoo! Funk apparently over. I have been writing like crazy today. I plan on writing a lot tonight too.

The best way to get over stupid real life stuff is make the fictional stuff more adorable.

7,117 / 20,000 (35.6%)

Well my awful cough is finally going away so I hope that soon I'll be able to sleep a whole night through.

My friend Claire wants to set me up on a blind date. I'm not sure though.

HIMYM was legen... ( wait for it )


bandombigbang word count

2,217 / 20,000 (11.1%)

Not too shabby. I'm loving it.