sailorstkwrning

Title: Drowning Lessons

Author: sailorstkwrning

Length: 33,060

Characters: MCR (incl Bob), P@TD/TYV, Korse, extended cameos by Maja Ivarsson, Travie McCoy, Cobra Starship, Lyn-Z and Chantal Euringer, mention of various others.

Warnings: Indentured servants; physical restraint (boys briefly in a bridle and also a cage); mention of past physical abuse; implied past sexual trauma; an attempt to exchange sex for protection/favors; voluntary cross-dressing; and a non-fatal duel.

Beta: egelantier, arsenicjade , corvide, and also my sister. Any remaining mistakes, gross historical inaccuracies, or flagrant ridiculousness are entirely my fault.

Author's notes: This story would not exist without egelantier and arsenicjade; it began life as chat-fic passed between us in email over the course of a year, which they have graciously allowed me to expand and contract, prune and flesh out, to make what you are about to read today. This story also owes a considerable and significant debt to the work of Patrick O'Brian; most notably, the trope of house-as-ship originates with him.

PART I | PART II | PART III | PART IV

Bonus Material: FANMIX by prettykitty_aya


( Part 1 )


PART II

Yeah. SEVEN MONTHS LATER. Sorry, y'all. (psuedo_catalyst: I haven't forgotten you, just ran out of time tonight!)

egelantier asked for: not!fairytale , ten years after.

352 words; includes possibly horribly fractured Latin.

( When he reaches them they are practically dancing in place with eagerness to get away. )

arsenicjade asked for: the guys finding out Brendon's in the hospital, from before the start of You Could Always Sell Any Dream To Me , aka The Highly Unlikely Warped Tour fic, the story that gets more probable and works better the more it gets jossed!

Word count: 1,229. (oops.) (note: Brendon is totally alive and well right now! the double pneumonia is invented from whole cloth!)

( Spencer rolls his eyes, but pulls his phone out anyway. )

Title: Naptime
Author: sailorstkwrning
Characters: P@TD (Brent-era), various others.
Length: 377 words
Rating: G for Gen!
Prompt: tentacles (comforting)
Warnings: Tentacles, people being photographed while asleep.
A/N: Because it had to be done. Also, this is what happens when I try to write drabbles. Unbeta'd, all mistakes definitely mine.
Summary: A scene from the tentacles 'verse, in which Panic! at the Disco have finished their first video, and they are very sleepy.

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- the band twitter ( ILoveTheLike ), which is presumably now under Z's sole control since Tennessee has her own, sparked up briefly this week to both promote Tennessee's personal twitter and also share a picture of a funny dressing room sign (The word "Like" in a circle with a red arrow through it.) Aside from that, however, I have seen no other recent sign of Z.

- Tennessee was busy being fabulous (and ill, poor thing :() with Alexa Chung in an undisclosed tropical location; mentioned she had interviewed someone for Lula magazine (hxxp://lulamag.com/); eventually returned to NYC to be fabulous there; and dropped a tantalizing but now deleted hint that she was recording something with a band called The Nectarines. Also she noted that she was "Only interested in making music with surf guitar and/or sixties organ at this point."

- Laena played a bunch of shows, had an entertaining time on the Lost Boys pier in Santa Cruz, and made some home-made CD cases/covers.

Since 5/19:

Noted that Tom Conrad had entered the world decades ago and that coffee makes him (JWalk) go; shared a link to his interview with Heave Media (there wasn't anything new or all that interesting); shared a picture of his dog in a field and of the poster for his show with Empires; was quiet for a week; and then mentioned Cosmos by Carl Sagan. It's not clear if he's reading it or just happened to walk past it in his travels or what.

Also during this time: the JBTV interview / performance videos FINALLY surfaced: hxxp://www.jbtvonline.com/artists/jon-walker

--

Ok y'all. Talk to me. Is anyone out there still interested in the ongoing adventures of Jon Walker, solo artist? I'm not so keen on what he has out right now, but I'm holding off on a decision until he releases some more new songs.

There's been some FB activity:
- Laena left a keysmash-y comment on the hiatus announcement with the account for her new Band (Raw Geronimo)

- Tennessee commented to say "Thank you all for all of your support!!!! Wish this weren't the case!! :-( Xxxx Tennessee"

Other notes:

- Tennessee has her own Twitter now, at tennesseebunny , in which she notes, among other things, that she's been playing with Jenny and Johnny.

- Laena has done an interview about her new band: hxxp://www.modestjune.com/2011/05/raw-geronimo.html
in which she mentions The Like decided to "take a break" at New Years and she decided to start Raw Geronimo AFTER they made that decision.

- Annie seems to be in London with James D. Kelly being fabulous (and writing music!): hxxp://www.jamesdkelly.com/blog/2011/05/28/lillenblum-annie-monroe-music/

- The last thing I've seen from Z is the Altru Apparel video earlier this month. Also, going by the video, Z has style-shifted and now has a more '70s beachy vibe going. I've seen rumblings of a JJAMZ record being on the horizon, so hopefully they'll do some press for that, too.

Since 4/10:

Agreed with Will Noon that he missed The Young Veins - this is the first comment he's made since Decmeber on the subject - and then made plans to go to Coachella with Alex Greenwald and Stuart Zender (bassist for Jamiroquai (!) , also playing for Mark Ronson); first "someone" lost his car keys, then he apparently misplaced Alex and Stuart individually an collectively while at Coachella, made a joke about being in a casino, and went off in search of food; was excited about the LA Kings winning games, shared a picture of himself at a game with a commemorative towel;

was (kind of hilariously) irritated by people telling 4/20 jokes; made a puzzling comment about "ghost trash" that Google suggests might related to an suite of icons; noted that he loved movies; appreciated Alex Greenwald's creepy Easter artwork; modified some common sayings in ways that suggest he might have been having a rough day ("if life hands you lemons, eat them" and "it really is a frog eat frog world"); was grumpy about the Kings losing; RT'd Alex Greenwald saying he looked like Encino Man (movie in which Brendan Fraser was a caveman transported to modern times and had a scraggly beard and disasterous hair the whole time, c. 1992 or so);

asked why he was still wearing a hair shirt, normally a sign of penitence; noted the cops had been calling the police all night; gloated at a friend of his when his substitute hockey team had a triumphant run of several wins; shared the video with the "talking" dog (YouTube); was mildly snarky with Greta about her mother's conservative (and very good!) advice, then softened it by saying he loved the '50s; allowed he couldn't think of anything worse to do than watching Lady GaGa on tv;

mangled the Infinite Monkey Theorem; quoted and agreed with someone as saying "if your brain's in the way you can't ride bulls"; and finally shared another video, this time of a small child rapping about God.

As of this writing he's been quiet for about a week.

There have been some rumors floating around that they've gone kersplitsky. I'm assembling data here pretty much just as data points, and to try and separate provable items from speculation.

Timeline:

March 29: JJAMZ (Z's side project) show in LA.

April 8: Raw Geronimo, Laena's side project, plays their first real show in LA.

April 13: Their last tweet, about being in a Lil Depressed Boy comic.

April 15: Notice that they will not be Maroon 5's support band in Japan posted to Japanese ticketing website.

April 22: Second Raw Geronimo show in LA.

May 3: I see the first "R.I.P. The Like" comment on Tumblr, at which time I check their MySpace, and find their show calendar is suddenly empty. There's no comment from them there, or on FB, when I checked that next. There are a few people rumbling about a festival that is allegedly telling people they (the band) have split up.

May 4: Some Googling reveals they've been neatly edited out of both the line-up AND the previously released announcement for the Wireless Festival in London in July, but there's no "The Like have dropped out" comment from the organizers. As of today (5/7) The Like is still on the line-up for the Cornbury festival, which was supposed to be that same weekend, also in England, and not far away.

May 6: More FB rumbling, this time noting some of the facts above, and also that their website (run by their UK on-line pr people) has vanished. I checked, and it has, and they are also not on the posted client list for either the US or UK web-based PR or their US or UK booking agents. They ARE still listed as a client by their management (BigLife), both of their print PR people, and their label, though in the latter three cases, the information on the website(s) is only current to last fall and/or last summer.

Synthesis: Something is going on here. They might have pulled out of Japan because of earthquake-related issues, but . . . Maroon 5 is still going. Other things could easily be ascribed to careless editing of websites on the part of other people. The side projects seem to be thriving, but not so much that they'd get in the way of regular band stuff, as far as I can tell.

Dept. of Wholly Unsubstantiated Rumors

I did also see a couple of comments about an article allegedly appearing in the March 2011 issue of Kerrang! wherein Ryan Ross said he and Z were expecting. So far, when pressed for proof, Anons have not come though. Still, I checked the Kerrang! website for the issue for that month, and saw no interviews with Ryan Ross. (Also, it just seems sort of ridiculous on its face - Kerrang seems like such a random choice of outlet for that kind of announcement, in the middle of his total media-related radio silence of the last couple of months.)

A more complete accounting:

Since 3/12:

Noted that it's impossible to go through a drive-in or eat french fries on a motorcycle; tweeted his area code (311), probably by accident; wished that good shows like Dinosaurs were still on the air; RT'd a hockey player doing a followers-for-donations-to-Japan exchange; also encouraged us to follow one of the dudes in More Amore; was unimpressed with the Situation's attempt at roasting Donald Trump; entertained himself (and us) with some fancy Noam Chomsky-inspired wordplay, trolling us a little bit, I suspect, for all of the people who tell him he never makes any sense;

was sad to be going to Paris alone but noted he'd be close to the Supermoon (The Internet: WHAT? PARIS? WHAT?); was sarcastic about standing in line; noted that Tosh.o doesn't give a fuck and he (Ryan) hasn't been giving a fuck since '92 or '93; had a day off in Paris followed by a high-speed train to Belgium to do some work (Internet: BELGIUM? Work? Belgium? WORK? WHAT.); posted a studio picture from Day 2 of Didier Chapedelaine's solo record; noted he could almost see his face in Will Noon's shiny shoes; grumbled a little bit about speaking Mumble (perhaps having trouble with heavy Parisian drawls?); spouted a bunch of stuff about Christmas trees and unicorns and leprechauns that was probably related to/inspired by the video for the song Do You Know How Christmas Trees Are Grown?" from On Her Majesty's Secret Service that he posted later;

either had or overheard a conversation about The Cowsills (family group on which the Partridge family was based); announced he wanted to wake up every morning to Are You Ready For This? from Space Jam and fall asleep to We Have All the Time In the World by Louie Armstrong; noted that Swedish was insane; posted a picture of Nic Johns of Les Wampas sleeping and managed to misspell "asleep"; posted a truly terrifying video about a yoga farmer (srsly WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT, free nightmares is RIGHT); mentioned "tragic magic", which could be either a now-defunct source of house music, two different books (one of them is a scrapbooking mystery!) or an instrumental song by Steve Winwood, and really, your guess is as good as mine, here;

noted that 12 songs in was a perfectly good time to get their surf rock on; posted the Boom Boom Boom Way Ho! girl video (YouTube); encouraged everyone to vote for Panic in MTV March Madness, with some help from Shakesperian insults; told Dan Snowfreak that Belgium was rainy and he was tired but not cranky; noted that the studio they were in was the same one where Technotronic made Body to Body, with such hits as Move That Body and Move This; had a discussion about house music with Will Noon;

asked if Fidel Castro had died or if that was an April Fool's Joke (Castro is not dead, as far as I know); made a terrible pun about jumping off bridges in Paris making you in Seine; noted that Belgium loves Batman; told another terribly punny joke about a small fortuneteller escaping from prison; compared Didier Chapedelaine to Clint Eastwood and John Wayne; asked how long one could survive on ketchup sandwiches "for a friend"; RT'd more LA Kings stuff, this one for a blood drive; took the train back to Paris with people who looked like spies, and got his spy music on; was excited about the Kings clinching a playoffs berth, and since then has been silent.