Close Encounters with the Blue Screen of Death

[rheasilvia]

Two weeks ago, my computer died on me - and due to a series of what basically amounts to the pc equivalents of amusing pratfalls and pies in the face (or rather the mainboard), it's taken me until now to get a new system up and running. Before you ask, no, I hadn't made a proper safety copy of all my data. I have always been obsessive about backing everything up... except for the last couple of months, when I relaxed because I had a brand-new harddrive and too much trust in the universe. (Yeah, you can already hear the audience beginning to chortle as the pie is raised.)

To summarize: Argh.

Still, subtract the stress of suddenly being thrust into a pc-less world and the damage isn't that bad. I have the latest versions of my most important files, by which I mean my various writing endeavors. :-) The rest, I can beg, borrow and/or steal, as appropriate. (Thank you, solo___ and k_julia, for letting me. *g*)

But. Uhm. There's this new thing. I hesitate to call it a fandom just yet, especially since I have of course managed to slide into it ass-backwards and wrong way up and then compounded the problem by insisting on not actually being interested in any of the main pairings that anyone *else* in the world is interested in. Noooo, of course I had to go and find myself a corner of the new playground in which I am absolutely alone. And then collect a huge bunch of pics and info and videos in a very short time and start writing a story at breakneck speeds - and then have the data go poof and the story stall for lack of a real computer to write it on.

Argh, squared.

Vague enough yet? *g* Yeah, you'll hear more about this new thing (TM) soon, when I have gathered the resolve to out myself. Just let me whine a bit first. ;-)

Anyway! If anything interesting / exciting / wonderful happened in the last two weeks that you think I should know about, please let me know!

Also, just how subsceptible are you guys to pimpage...?

Why I ask? Oh... no particular reason. *whistles*

Comments

[fleurrochard]

Well - that has been a wank a few months ago - there were people that said that bandom should apply to all bands, and they were people that said, eh, if you want to use it for that, ok, but we'll continue our usage (i.e. mostly bands that have some connection to Pete Wentz from Fall Out Boy.)

It wasn't exactly pleasant.

It has died down now, and on LJ bandom continues to mostly apply to bands with a connection to Pete Wentz.

So - it depends! Has this band a connection to Pete Wentz? (Or to another band/person who has such a connection?) Have they ever played at a festival one of these bands has played at as well? Then they might fall under the name of bandom. *g*

[rheasilvia.livejournal.com]

So Pete Wentz is the foundation of bandom, huh? *g* I've heard the name bandied about on my friendslist, but I couldn't pick him out of a line-up...

Has this band a connection to Pete Wentz? (Or to another band/person who has such a connection?)

I can say with absolute certainty that this is not the case, except in the sense that they all make music and are all human. *g* So definitely not bandom, then.

Too bad, in a way, because if it were bandom then I would not feel so alone. *sob*

[http://users.livejournal.com/solo____/]

...are all human.

Such confidence...

...would not feel so alone.

I think k_julia and I should go sulk now...

PS who is this Wentz guy?

[rheasilvia.livejournal.com]

Such confidence...

Unless, of course, you count Maru's sweater vest, which gets as much stage time as the other band members, but doesn't sing. That's why I didn't think it should count.

I think k_julia and I should go sulk now...

You're both being very supportive and enabling, which I appreciate muchly! It's just that... ack. I feel somewhat alone in my corner of self-created OTP-ness. *g*

(And I just had to stop myself from making a bad pun. I hope you see the full horror of this.)

[fleurrochard]

Pete Wentz is the BNF of bandom.
No, really.
No, really.

Unfortunatley I don't have an icon with him on it, but have a Patrick icon! (Patrick Stump is the lead singer of Fall Out Boy, Pete's best friend and the one Pete is most often slashed with. Sometimes even by Pete! *g*)

Too bad, in a way, because if it were bandom then I would not feel so alone. *sob*

Awww.
Who is this band then? *curious*

[rheasilvia.livejournal.com]

Pete Wentz is the BNF of bandom.

No, really? *g*

Who is this band then? *curious*

It's... complicated. In part because it's not really the *band*. It's more one guy who happens to be in a band. And then there's this other guy who happens to be in a different band. And...

They're not often slashed with each other - and for "not often", read "not at all". Except once, in a TV show. And in my story. Which probably nobody will want to read anyway, because I am basically inventing this pairing. Unless you count that show, where they were very sweet as a loving couple cuddling on a beach. *g*

Anyway, complicated. I'll get back to you on this, I promise. I just need some more time. :-)

I could possibly send you some pics though...

[fleurrochard]

I have nothing against pictures. :)
(Though stories are usually more effective to pimp me into a fandom. Just saying.)

[rheasilvia.livejournal.com]

Okay, will assemble something... it may take me a bit though. I am still very hesitant about this entire thing, as you may have noticed. ;-)

And - there is a story coming up. Yes. But it's not short, and so not yet ready for public consumption. *g*