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I might have signed up for reel_band, okay, and I might have picked An Officer and A Gentleman for my prompt. I may or may not be casting Spencer as Richard Gere and Brendon as Debra Winger. Also, I might have signed up for teen wolf. Patrick might be the teen wolf in question, haha.

MEEEEEE!

I am going to Decaydance fest in Paris! I have tickets and everything!

Fall Out Boy and Panic! Gym Class! The Academy Is! Cobra Starship! OMG SO EXCITED!

My attempts at graphics are mostly laughable but I kinda like this one.

Also, I may have kindofbought the red bartskull hoodie from clandestine. Plus I've asked for the Richie Rich one for graduation.

The wedding was amazing.  I'll post photos as soon as I have them, but basically everything went fabulously and my mum looked amazing. I was so happy for her that I admit it, I cried. They had written most of the ceremony and vows themselves and they were pretty awesome.  Everyone was amazing and beautiful- the bridesmaids looked fantastic, the groom and his ushers (and yes, even me) scrubbed up nice and the hall itself was gorgeous. It's the most fun I've ever had at any wedding bar none. Maybe I'll be able to be more concise and stuff later but right now all I can do is be happy.

In other good news, I PASSED MY DEGREE! I got a 2:1 MA Anthropology (hons) and will graduate on the 3rd of july.  To celebrate this, my aunt and Sharon dragged me shopping for big girl clothes to match the big girl haircut which will be visible in the wedding photos.  They got me things I would never have chosen myself but they work. I'm pleased with just about everything right now.

Except:  Fall out Boy play Edinburgh the same day I'm seeing Panic! at Reading! So sad! They have to come back again next year though, right?

I finally caved and got photoshop 7.0. I was puttering about for a while trying to make some icons (damn you Spencer! pose for more photos!) and ended up making this instead. I'm not sure what to classify it as.



It's maybe just a bit too busy, but I'm working on incorporating photos into backgrounds without it being ultra obvious.

Remind me why I am graduating again?
Not only must I give up my days of cider, women and spanish lesbians, I have to move out of my flat *wail* This means having to jettison half my belongings and actually, you know, go it alone. I don't want to go it alone, I want to go and take Jane, Nicole and Adrienne with me. If I could also smoosh Di and Laura into a house as well I would do it. Really it would be awesome. 
I never realised just how many books I had. I think I have book amnesia: where I block out the sheer numbers in order to justify the purchase of yet more books. Then I look at them all and feel guilty for a minute or so, at least until I stroke my copy of Oscar Wilde's collected letters and purr like a happy kitten.
Still have to book my graduation gown. I graduate on July 3rd, same ceremony as Nicole. She's staying on to do an MA (res). I'll be leaving with my MA (hons) in anthropology, pending my results. Which come out on the same day as the wedding. I have a feeling I may be getting fairly drunk that day.

So I have been thinking for a while about changing my username, and I just kind of had a comment that made me think: Gemma, your username, while being cute six years ago, has become uncute. For real. It wasn't a bad comment or anything, not at all, I totally agreed with it. Highlander Fandom----> Panic! fandom? Do not go. In fact my username limits me, pretty much even in my own head. Therefore, I am thinking of changing.
Something non-fandom specific. I'm Flame_alchemist on buzznet and myspace, but again I don't want to be that.  So here is a question, how did y'all pick your usernames?

It has come to my attention that I am in mad lust with Spencer Smith.

Therefore, there was much reading of fic. Now, I am beginning to love Spencer/justaboutanyone but my panic!otp so far is definitely Spencer/Brendon. So now there are recs, and also an upload of Panic!'s live dvd in mpg4 format because I am nice like that. If I've missed any good fic just rec it to me. Doesn't have to be Brendon/Spencer (because I am a whore like that). I tag recs as I find them on my del.icio.us page and I usually add at least one a day.

Recs

There should be a name for something like this byskoosiepants         

As the boys say, kittens and baby seals are jealous of their cuteness. Baskets of them, even.

How many licks by kueble_fic        

Ticky box: do you like me? YES? No:( I love Spencer Smith. It is fact, you see, that he is a sexy bitch.

Misconduct by gigantic

To call this a PWP would not be to do it justice. So hot.

Lying beside you, here in the dark by kalpurna

The saggy bed of Ryan and Spencer's dead friendship! Singing Brendon. Loved this story into tiny pieces.

Regular struggle against being drowned by disarm_d

Um, jealous Ryan and Brendon/Spencer? Ryan Being STRAIGHT? How can I not love?

Outer-Space For Non-Believers by gigantic

It's hard to put my finger on what I loved so much about this fic.  To me this was spot-on Spencer and I just loved the drumming but there was something else. Maybe the style. Anyways I loved it.

the one with brendon and spencer, often at the same time (OR: cat heaven) byprovetheworst

I have read this three or four times already and I still can't get enough of it. Spencer's dreams intersect with Brendon's in interesting ways.


Now for the media portion of tonight's post:

The panic!dvd. 300mb in mpg4 format. It is awesome. Also I got my Fall Out Boy EP with the dvd so maybe I can rip that if someone shows me how (I got the other one from somewhere else).


THE END

My mum's hen night was quite fun if you enjoy that sort of party. Which I mostly don't but hey I tried.

I would first off like to say hi to always_august who is slowly being sucked into bandslash. I'm going to be coding up a set of recs for bandslash soon...
Secondly? I am going to see Motion City Soundtrack later this month, and then I AM GOING TO SEE PANIC! AT THE DISCO! I'm going to the Saturday at Reading, mostly for Panic! but Nat (aka always_august ) is madly in love with William Beckett and wants to see The Academy is...

All in all a pretty good day.