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My current obsession-

aaaaaa YES it's so snotty and punky and OBNOXIOUS I ADORE IT. <333333

I am currently extremely amused and mildly obsessed with the incredible queerness of THIS:

I mean. It's impossible for a guy to sing this and not sound incredibly queer, but I am full of respect for how incredibly fucking hard Damiano is leaning into it all XDDDDD

There may be another instalment of Somebody Told Me incoming... *whistles*

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Alyssa Romano Is A Consummate Professional (14347 words) by spitefulangel Chapters: 4/? Fandom: Måneskin (Band) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Damiano David & Original Female Character, Damiano David/Ethan Torchio, Damiano David & Victoria De Angelis & Thomas Raggi & Ethan Torchio Characters: Damiano David, Original Female Character, Victoria De Angelis, Thomas Raggi, Ethan Torchio Additional Tags: Friendship, Developing Friendships, Poly Undertones Series: Part 14 of meet me there where it's never hopeless Summary: "So it turns out that Damiano David is a chaos demon in the body of a twenty-five-year-old Italian man, he goes at a hundred miles an hour all the time, talks at two hundred miles an hour, he can sing like an angel but he’s chaos personified and I genuinely cannot keep up with him. I do my best, but I feel like I’m just trailing along behind him all the time, always at least ten steps behind." Damiano's assistant Alyssa is very, very out of her depth.

Chapter 4, The Coffee and Pastries (and Poledancing and Sauna) Incident now posted! In which Thomas and Vic take Alyssa to their favourite little café, Vic shows Alyssa one of Damiano's many and varied talents, and Alyssa starts a list of things she probably shouldn't let him do.

This one takes place during the rest of i'm always running to you. Again, much of the dialogue from that one also appears here.

Characters (except for Alyssa and her girlfriend Ariel, who belongs to my lovely friend @malkaleh) are inspired by their real-world incarnations but are not intended to be exact copies; all inaccuracies are entirely intentional.

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oh ffs.

Oh my GOD, you guys. I am so oblivious to my own self it is UNREAL. This happened this afternoon and I am still laughing at myself six or seven hours later.

So, I think we have recently established that I have a Type, and it consists of three persons (Japa from Private Line, Ethan from Måneskin, and my missus, who looks a lot like those two only, y'know, a woman).

I showed the missus this pic of Ethan earlier...

...to explain why I am losing the plot a tiny little bit at the moment (better late than never and yes it has taken me two and a bit months to 'fess up, I am that hideously awkward about all of this nonsense).

And she, without even hesitating, because she is brilliant and also knows me far better than I know myself, apparently, said 'looks like Nuno', and I went 'oh FOR FUCK'S SAKE' because guess who I had a massive crush on in the early to mid 1990s...

For those of you who are too young to remember, which I suspect is most of you, it is Nuno Bettencourt from Extreme, and this is what he looked like then, for reference...

(he still looks pretty fuckin' awesome now, and he's grown his hair back after cutting it off sometime in the 90s, AND Extreme are back and have a new album out, which I did not know! HOORAY.)

I had forgotten all about him, but apparently some things never change. FOR FUCK'S SAKE. I had NO IDEA.

So the net result of this is that I still have a Type, and it consists of FOUR people. *facepalm at self* I am an absolute idiot. XDDDDD

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🌤️Share your favorite piece of dialogue from your WIP!

wheeeee, thank you! :D :D :D I'm afraid this is a) RPF and b) featuring an OC, so y'know, cardinal fandom sins and also NOT WHAT ANY OF YOU FOLLOWED ME FOR I AM SO SORRY but I am still fully in the grip of insanity and nobody else is managing to get a word in edgeways.

Here's a snippet from the next chapter of Alyssa Romano Is A Consummate Professional, which is entitled The Tour-Dates-Flashing Incident, and features exactly that (inspired by this ridiculous video what an absolute solid-gold idiot (affectionate) he is)...

“So you film me, and I’ll, like, sneak up to the poster on the wall and take it down,” Damiano says, grinning mischievously, and I roll my eyes. I’m more or less used to him and his crazy schemes by now. “Fully dressed,” I put in firmly, and he rolls his eyes right back at me. “Yes, fully dressed,” he says, sounding long-suffering. “And then I take all my kit off, tape the poster right here -” he draws his forefinger across his stomach, “and put the coat on, and then -” “You do not take all your kit off,” I interrupt, as sternly as I can given that I’m already on the verge of hysterics just thinking about it, his enthusiasm is infectious. “You keep your underwear on, or you don’t get to do it at all.” “You’re no fun, Alyssa,” he says, but he’s still grinning, his eyes sparkling with mischief. “That’s my job, remember?” “I thought your job was looking after me and making sure I’m happy,” he says. “This would make me so happy.” “Nice try. It would also get me fired and you probably dropped before you even get to do the rest of your album, let alone the tour dates you’re trying to promote.” It’s not the first time we’ve had this conversation and I’m well aware he’s only kidding, but I’m playing along because it does seem to make him happy - and I remember what the others told me about not letting him get away with any of his bullshit and being firm with him. He sighs theatrically. “Fine. Fine, I’ll keep my underwear on. And my incredibly sexy socks.” He chortles delightedly. “Although seeing as I’m barely wider than a sheet of paper, you’ll hardly be able to see whether I’ve got my underwear on or not, so -” “It stays on.” I keep my voice as firm as I can manage. “I do not need to see whether you have tattoos on your ass.”

Anyone else fancy asking me WIP questions? (fair warning it is going to be more of this sort of thing I am not managing to work on anything else at the moment XD )

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The Blonde Wig Incident, exhibits A, B and C. Exhibits D and E here.

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hello hello hello

have you watched the FEEL lyric video?

because fuck.

do so if not i recommend

hiiiii! I, uh, yes, I have, a couple of months ago. That was...slightly more than I expected/needed to see, especially when I really was not expecting it. XD nothing but an attitude and a 'censored' bar! good LORD (although not as much as the GOSSIP video, which was four times more than I expected/needed to see XDDDDD )

they are all so NAUGHTY I am far too old and tired and ace for this! XDDDDDD

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Thank you for the tag, lovely!

Last song: it's THIS AGAIN because OF COURSE IT IS I am so sorry for the state of general insanity I have descended into XDDDDD

Favourite colour: Purple, specifically the blue-toned royal purple of Cadbury's wrappers.

Last movie: we watched Back in Action the other night and it was a lot of great big stupid fun. :D GLENN CLOSE WITH A LASER SIGHTED RIFLE? YES PLEASE!

Last TV show: we're still working our way through our rewatch of Vera before we watch the last episodes.

Sweet/spicy/savoury: all three

Relationship: married for *counts on fingers and toes* 23 and a half years at the beginning of March :D

Last thing I googled: Kelly's Directories University of Leicester because I'm still on the trail of the history of my friends' new pub.

Latest obsession: Uh. *points sheepishly upwards*

Looking forward to: having this absolute bastard of an assignment done. Soul Asylum in Bristol on Monday evening! Drinkies with my best work friend/work wife next Saturday to mark the occasion of my 25th anniversary at job number one (TWENTY FIVE YEARS HOW IS THAT EVEN POSSIBLE I SWEAR I'M ONLY 27 YEARS OLD)

I am tagging anyone who sees this and wants to do it! Tell me about your stuff! <33333333

10 people I want to know better

thank you for the tag @indigostation

Last song: I often let random playlists run, but the last song I consciously started was "Something Blue" by VOILÀ

Favourite colour: honestly, that jumps worse than my mood (but the latest one is green)

Last movie: mostly watching youtube videos, but I think it was... Coco?

Last TV show: Vikings, but I am only a few episodes in, so no spoilers! (even though it's ages old...)

Sweet/spicy/savoury: Sweet

Relationship: Single

Last thing I googled: if detergend could be the reason my shirt is scratchy

Latest obsession: Remus Lupin, Regulus Black, Moonseeker

Looking forward to: the lunch with my family on saturday and the escape room on sunday :)

@ooh-theseus @kaqtusm @the-neptune-system @magicalravioli @et-arcturus @starmoonsunseeker @ @mooonyssweater @remuslupinslastbreathofair @nyx-taylors-version @reggieblackposts

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Oh my hels his voice in begging I can't right now

(maneskin just ngk)

omg yes I KNOW RIGHT a;skdljfla;sdjfas;fjsa *flails*

I am still completely obsessed XD they are exactly what I needed, I'd been feeling rather burnt out on music and fandom, I think, and they're basically distilling literally all the music I have loved for ever into something that's utterly purely concentrated my thing and I feel so much better about everything. And uh. yes. THAT VOICE. (how is he doing that? how is he that versatile?) (and the rest alkdsjfa;sdfsad;fds THEY'RE ALL SO PRETTY)

:D :D :D :D

And for anyone who fancies it, here's what we're on about:

THEY'RE SO GOOD.

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This, as so many things I find myself writing these days, is all Dialas' fault. XD We were chatting and she sent me this image and said What evil spirit is possessing Thomas in this picture? and before we knew it we were talking about zombies and monsters, and the whole idea for this fic just unfolded. For anyone who is currently feeling a little bit bruised by nothing breaks like a heart, we are not at all sorry, but here, have something completely ridiculous to cheer you up. :D :D :D

MONSTERS, ALYSSA! (2262 words) by spitefulangel Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Måneskin (Band) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Damiano David & Original Female Character, Damiano David & Victoria De Angelis & Thomas Raggi & Ethan Torchio Characters: Damiano David, Victoria De Angelis, Ethan Torchio, Thomas Raggi, Original Female Character Additional Tags: Crack, Crack Treated Seriously, (kind of), Humor, Monsters Series: Part 17 of meet me there where it's never hopeless Summary: Damiano has a brilliant idea, and Alyssa gets a job offer. And then finds she can't look Vic in the face.

This exists within meet me there-'verse, but is not quite part of Alyssa Romano Is A Consummate Professional, although it does feature Alyssa being her usual consummately professional and long-suffering self. XD (for anyone unfamiliar with her, Alyssa is Damiano's very young and very out-of-her-depth (but very competent) assistant from LA in meet me there-'verse :D )

Characters (except for Alyssa and her girlfriend Ariel, who belongs to my lovely friend @malkaleh) are inspired by their real-world incarnations but are not intended to be exact copies; all inaccuracies are entirely intentional.

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I am, and will absolutely continue to be, deeply, deeply mentally unwell about the line if I was a cat, you would be a balloon and its almost painful self-awareness. yikes. it hurts.

(on the other hand, I am also deeply amused that Mr-Newly-Sharp-Suit-And-Haircut-Wearing-Pop-Star is promoting his tour dates by flashing them from under an overcoat while wearing absolutely nothing else on his insta stories this evening XDDDD you can take the boy out of the exhibitionist band but you can't take the exhibitionist out of the boy, apparently...)

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nothing breaks like a heart (5493 words) by Dialas, spitefulangel Chapters: 2/3 Fandom: Måneskin (Band) Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Damiano David/Ethan Torchio, Damon Baker/Ethan Torchio Characters: Ethan Torchio, Damiano David, Damon Baker Additional Tags: Angst, Misunderstandings, Miscommunication Series: Part 4 of Not just a thing Summary: It did mean something. It was real. It is real. And maybe the timing isn’t right, but they have time. They have time, and Damiano has work to do. It’ll be all right.

Chapter 2 now posted! There’s something about the way Damon looks at him, in the dim light of his hotel room. Like all of his attention is focused on Ethan, on how he looks, how he moves. It’s intense. It makes Ethan feel larger than life, like the most desirable person on earth.

Damon was only supposed to be a plot device, but then all of this happened. Don't look at us! (okay, do look at us...)

We hope you love him as much as we do. :D

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Alyssa Romano Is A Consummate Professional (11157 words) by spitefulangel Chapters: 3/? Fandom: Måneskin (Band) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Damiano David & Original Female Character, Damiano David/Ethan Torchio, Damiano David & Victoria De Angelis & Thomas Raggi & Ethan Torchio Characters: Damiano David, Original Female Character, Victoria De Angelis, Thomas Raggi, Ethan Torchio Additional Tags: Friendship, Developing Friendships, Poly Undertones Series: Part 14 of meet me there where it's never hopeless Summary: "So it turns out that Damiano David is a chaos demon in the body of a twenty-five-year-old Italian man, he goes at a hundred miles an hour all the time, talks at two hundred miles an hour, he can sing like an angel but he’s chaos personified and I genuinely cannot keep up with him. I do my best, but I feel like I’m just trailing along behind him all the time, always at least ten steps behind." Damiano's assistant Alyssa is very, very out of her depth.

Chapter 3, The Transatlantic Flight Incident, now posted! In which Alyssa has to go to London with Damiano, and there is so much to do, she's not sure she's going to have time to even sleep. Damiano has other ideas.

Here is Alyssa's take on most of i'm always running to you. It was going to be her side of that whole story, but then it got a bit long...

I actually wrote this one first, and then wrote i'm always running to you around it. Dialogue from that one also appears here. Please enjoy Alyssa's complete bewilderment at the combined effect of the four of them in person. XDDDDD

Characters (except for Alyssa and her girlfriend Ariel, who belongs to my lovely friend @malkaleh) are inspired by their real-world incarnations but are not intended to be exact copies; all inaccuracies are entirely intentional.

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Alyssa Romano Is A Consummate Professional (5166 words) by spitefulangel Chapters: 1/? Fandom: Måneskin (Band) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Damiano David & Original Female Character, Damiano David/Ethan Torchio, Damiano David & Victoria De Angelis & Thomas Raggi & Ethan Torchio Characters: Damiano David, Original Female Character, Victoria De Angelis, Thomas Raggi, Ethan Torchio Additional Tags: Friendship, Developing Friendships, Poly Undertones Series: Part 14 of meet me there where it's never hopeless Summary: "So it turns out that Damiano David is a chaos demon in the body of a twenty-five-year-old Italian man, he goes at a hundred miles an hour all the time, talks at two hundred miles an hour, he can sing like an angel but he’s chaos personified and I genuinely cannot keep up with him. I do my best, but I feel like I’m just trailing along behind him all the time, always at least ten steps behind." Damiano's assistant Alyssa is very, very out of her depth.

Chapter 1: The Losing-The-Talent Incident. In which Alyssa was already out of her depth having to wrangle Damiano, but then he runs away. And when he comes back, she gets sucked even further into the chaos.

This takes place alongside seven thousand miles, wish I could have stayed and part of i know that it's a cliché but this is my moment, and includes references to the, uh, visible evidence of what happened in feels so good it's almost frightening. :D

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wish I could have stayed (5517 words) by spitefulangel Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Måneskin (Band) Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Damiano David/Ethan Torchio, Damiano David & Victoria De Angelis & Thomas Raggi & Ethan Torchio Characters: Victoria De Angelis, Damiano David, Ethan Torchio, Thomas Raggi Additional Tags: Fluff, Poly Undertones, Separations, Dom/sub Undertones, Aroace Character, Asexual Character, Aromantic Character Series: Part 10 of meet me there where it's never hopeless Summary: One last day all together, before Damiano has to go back to LA.

This series has got thoroughly out of hand and gone in a very self-indulgent direction, but it's making me happy and keeping me going in the midst of a very grey winter, so. *shrugs* :D I have a few more bits to post (a couple of flashbacks, Damiano enlisting his poor overworked assistant as partner-in-chaos back in LA, and three chapters of the assistant's POV of the chaos, none of which will probably appeal to anyone other than me XDDD ) but this is probably where the series proper finishes. Thank you to those of you who've read, kudos'd and especially commented! <333333333

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the muses poll results are in!

two votes apiece for the Twins, Sigrid and Legolas, no votes for Hal and Jack or the Italians! well, that's told me! XD

Joke's on you guys, I'm about to post more Hal and Jack and there are at least four more pieces with the Italians to come :D :D :D :D :D