#likethenight loses the plot

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

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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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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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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

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3, 5 and 7 for the end of year fic asks? 🩷

wheeeee thank you lovely! <3333333

3. What piece of media inspired you the most? (This can be the fandom you wrote the most for, the one that spawned the most ideas, the one you thought about the most, etc.) OH MY GOD IT'S THE ITALIANS. >.< Honestly. It's only been a month, but I have not felt this ludicrously, exhaustingly inspired in YEARS. Also RoP and YOU my darling. <3333333

5. What ship(s) captured your heart? ahahahahahaha it's the Italians again. I am bewilderedly smitten with Pretty Singer Boy/Wee Drummer Boy With The Hair, and they WON'T SHUT UP. Also Hal and Jack absolutely recaptured me for the nth time. <333333

7. Did you write for any new fandoms or ships this year? ahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. XDDDDDDDD Listen, literally five minutes after I declared to @lemurious that I did not have the time or mental energy for a new fandom (Les Mis, which I suspect will be coming for me sooner or later), I tripped and fell headlong into that pile of needy Italians and now I CAN'T GET OUT. *flails*

Thank you so much for asking (and for enabling my scenery-chewing)! <33333333333 anyone else fancy asking me some 2024 in review questions about fic? :D :D :D

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Santa Baby (1477 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: Christmas, Humor, Genderfluid Character Series: Part 2 of Somebody Told Me Summary: Vic has had an absolutely genius idea for a festive encore.

This is for Dialas, who sent me the image above the other week and then suggested I write it. :D :D :D The video Vic mentions, meanwhile, is this one of the great Eartha Kitt doing the song in question and being very slinky indeed.

Follows on from Blondes Have More Fun, in which Damiano finally has to face up to not being quite as straight as he thinks he is, or at least, not when he's around Ethan.

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Blondes Have More Fun (6609 words) by Dialas, spitefulangel Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Måneskin (Band) Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Damiano David/Ethan Torchio, Thomas Raggi/Ethan Torchio, Victoria De Angelis & Ethan Torchio, Damiano David & Victoria De Angelis & Thomas Raggi & Ethan Torchio Characters: Ethan Torchio, Damiano David, Victoria De Angelis, Thomas Raggi Additional Tags: Gender Identity, Genderfluid Character, Gender Confusion, Sexuality Crisis, identity crisis, Humor Series: Part 1 of Somebody Told Me Summary: In which Thomas appears to be the only one who emerges from the Blonde Wig Incident at the 2023 VMAs without having had some kind of identity crisis.

I was chatting with Dialas (who is one of my longest-standing fandom friends although we haven't shared a fandom for ages) a couple of weeks ago about the whole how is he doing that? genderfuckery of Ethan in the blonde wig at the 2023 VMAs, particularly the blatant checking-out going on in this pair of gifs. We found ourselves pinging ideas back and forth, and before we knew it, we were writing this fic together. We haven't collaborated in a very very long time, and it was so great to get to do it again! <3333333

For illustrations, see Exhibits A, B and C in this post (and Exhibits D and E which are linked to there). :D

There is a very festive (and very silly) second part to this series, which will be posted next weekend. :D

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feels so good it's almost frightening (7722 words) by spitefulangel Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Måneskin (Band) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Damiano David/Ethan Torchio Characters: Ethan Torchio, Damiano David Additional Tags: Fluff, Fluff and Smut, Reunion Sex, Poly Undertones, Dom/sub Undertones, Light Dom/sub, Handcuffs Series: Part 9 of meet me there where it's never hopeless Summary: Ethan and Damiano get properly reacquainted.

I've been faffing about with this one for days and it's doing my head in, so I figure it's time to post and be damned. Here, have some very fluffy smut. Still not the filthiest thing I've ever written, but getting there. :D

Follows on more or less directly from seven thousand miles in which nobody is handling the hiatus very well, least of all these two.

Characters are inspired by their real-world incarnations but are not intended to be exact copies; all inaccuracies are entirely intentional.

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Good morning (and sorry for haunting your ask box so excessively atm 🫣). Are slight alterations to the Spotify Wrapped game permissible?

I was wondering if your soul-consuming Italians made it into your top 100? And if so: which 2 songs on which positions?

Thank you so much and have a fantastic day!

HIIIII! omg, no need for apologies! I love getting asks :D :D :D Thank you for sending them! <333333

I am somewhat crestfallen to discover that the soul-consuming Italians (heh that's about the size of it, damn them) did not appear even once! I think it's because I only discovered them on 12 November, and I suspect Spotify stops counting sometime in November so it can do the maths. Which is somewhat frustrating as I have spent the last three weeks with their entire discography on repeat all day every day, and have DEFINITELY listened to them more than almost any of the other artists who showed up, going by the stats in my Wrapped. I am completely obsessed and not likely to emerge any time soon, so I guess it's a challenge for myself for next year's Wrapped... XDDDD

HOWEVER. Here are two songs anyway, with the videos because they're SO PRETTY DAMN THEM ALL.

(this is the song that caused me finally to trip and fall face-first into the full-on scenery-chewing obsession that has consumed my soul for the last three weeks, courtesy of the AWESOME @pyromaniacbibliophile who said it reminded them of Jack in Two of a Kind, because it really is a Jack-ish sort of song)

a slow one! with possibly the most Dramatic video I've seen in a LONG time, these babies really do go hard.

And because I am incapable of picking a limited number of ANYTHING, here's another favourite:

They really are exactly what I needed and clearly it was necessary for the stars to align for me to finally get into them (*shows up three years late without starbucks*), but now I'm in I'm not getting out any time soon. XD

I am going to stop now, because otherwise I'll just be spamming your dash all morning, but uh yeah I am fully insane about these darlings right now, and likely to remain so for the foreseeable future. XDDDD

Thank you for asking, and for indulging my complete loss of plot! <333333333 does anyone else fancy sending me a few numbers and I'll tell you what songs correspond to them in my Spotify Wrapped?

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phew...

...so I did indeed manage to write over 50k last month. 51,271 words, to be exact, 43,229 of which was the Italians and written between the 13th and the 30th. O.O Good grief.

I feel like I might be running to a stop with them, but on the other hand every time I've felt that so far they've started talking again, so I guess we'll see. XD

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seven thousand miles (12475 words) by spitefulangel Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Måneskin (Band) Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Damiano David & Victoria De Angelis & Thomas Raggi & Ethan Torchio, Damiano David/Ethan Torchio Characters: Damiano David, Ethan Torchio, Victoria De Angelis, Thomas Raggi Additional Tags: Separations, Hiatus, Homesickness, Miscommunication, Polyamory Negotiations, (sort of), Poly Undertones, aroace character, Asexual Character, Aromantic Character, aroace!thomas, damiano thinks of them all as married, Reunions, Misunderstandings, Fluff and Angst Series: Part 8 of meet me there where it's never hopeless Summary: Nobody is handling the hiatus at all well, especially not Damiano and Ethan; Thomas and Victoria step in.

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five good things!

Oh dear, it is definitely time for one of these.

I am still up to my neck in scenery-chewing obsession with Måneskin, as you may have noticed from what my queue has been putting out over the last few hours (thank you @myeaglesong for reblogging all those lovely posts so I could queue them up! <33333333 ). I have been watching videos and flailing with my awesome friend (oh my GOD they are so pretty and so ludicrously young and enthusiastic about everything I adore them) and listening to their entire discography on repeat (plus Damiano's two solo songs which I really like too although they're very different, they remind me a lot of Keane, who I adore) and writing writing WRITING. I am currently 500 words off having written 50k this month, and 41.5k of it has been ridiculous slightly kinky Måneskin fluff what even is my LIFE.

And I've been having a whale of a time bouncing ideas around with @malkaleh and flailing about RoP and Måneskin and Hal and Jack and Natalie and just aaaaaa I love it all so much! <3333333 (and also pinging pretty pictures back and forth because PRETTY :D )

AND we've just had two really excellent gigs - Michael Monroe doing a 40th anniversary commemorative show for Hanoi Rocks' last album Two Steps From The Move, which was their last album because their drummer Razzle died in a car crash shortly after it was released (it'll be his 40th anniversary next weekend, as well as the Boy Disaster's (Hal's inspiration) seventh, and I am going to be a bit of a wreck. Razzle did some voiceovers and sang a song on that last album, in his very adorable London accent, and they got Rich Jones, one of the guitarists, to do them as he's the only Brit in the band (two Finns, one American, one Norwegian and Rich XD ) and it was so great...and they all sang the song Razzle sang together, which was just lovely. And then last night The Almighty, an absolutely brilliant Scottish/Irish rock band from the early 90s who we always loved (they were my best friend at sixth form's favourite band) and who have reformed, and they were also amazing. And I have something of a T-shirt haul, several MM ones including one in the style of the Ramones logo and one in the style of the Motörhead logo (it's okay, he was friends with all of them XD he's not appropriating anything), and an Almighty one with their old slogan on the back, all loud all wild all fuckin' mighty and aaaaaa! :D :D :D and Girlschool were supporting (legendary all-female British metal band, although they currently have a male drummer because their regular drummer isn't well) and I got one of their shirts too :D

And my talk to my dad's history group went really well, they all seemed to enjoy it, and I'm probably going back next year to talk about something else. I saw a load of people who've known me since I was knee-high, and it was just generally rather awesome.

And I find I am unaccountably doing really well at the moment. I think it's the scenery-chewing obsession that's doing it, it seems to be cheering me right up, and I am much more motivated and happier than usual. (well, motivated for writing fic and working, less so for studying but I'm going to catch up tomorrow XD )

Oh, and I managed to write my assignment and submit it in time, and my tutor marked it in super-quick time, I had it back yesterday morning and I got 93% for it!! I was honestly thinking I hadn't done very well, but I think I was probably overthinking it - I couldn't quite figure out how to answer the question, but there isn't really a satisfactory answer so it was more about thinking about it and explaining. Although apparently my sentences are too long and hard to follow which will probably surprise absolutely none of you XDDDDD so that's good constructive feedback to work on (I knew some of them were a bit impenetrable but I just could not think how to split them up XD )

And Hal and Jack are continuing to keep me in a good mood too, and everyone who's been commenting and encouraging! <333333 big thank you to @bigneonglitter who has known them since the beginning, I am so excited that you've come to play! <33333 and @pyromaniacbibliophile and @seagull-energy and @myeaglesong and @lemurious as always I am just so glad you encouraged me to get posting again! <333333

RIGHT. Time to sort out that last 500 words of fic and get Hal and Jack's latest chapter posted (so that I can post Crochet Club tomorrow because it's about 10k and I'm going to need time to go through it and put all the italics in because if there's one thing Jack overuses, other than the word 'fuck', it's italics XD ) and then collapse. I am far too old for all this excitement. :D :D :D

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How many fic ideas are you nurturing right now? Share one of them?

If someone were to make fanart of your work, what fic or scene would you hope to see?

wheeee thank you so much! <333333

So. I have several but the most insistent one is (no surprises here) the Italians, who are not dealing well with being on hiatus and all doing their own things. So far there is a fairly disastrous late-night phone call, a not-really-an-ultimatum-but-it-might-as-well-be and a possibly reckless career decision. :D

OMG. I would be DELIGHTED with art of absolutely any of my works, but particularly, I think, Empty Vessel-'verse, All I Want Is You-'verse, Dancing in the Dark-'verse, or Two of a Kind, omg, if anyone ever felt like doing art for my two disastrous boys I would be BESIDE MYSELF WITH GLEE. :D :D :D <3333333 No specific scenes in mind because I would love any and all!

Thank you so much for asking, lovely! <333333 Anyone else fancy asking me some questions-for-fic-writers? I'm off to work now but I promise to answer when I get home (and I am absolutely going to do the ones you lovely people sent me when I was sick in October, just...not right now because I have to go to work and be sensible XDDD )

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you're still the oxygen I breathe (2544 words) by spitefulangel Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Måneskin (Band) Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Victoria De Angelis & Thomas Raggi, Damiano David & Victoria De Angelis & Thomas Raggi & Ethan Torchio, Damiano David/Ethan Torchio Characters: Thomas Raggi, Victoria De Angelis, Damiano David, Ethan Torchio Additional Tags: Friendship, Dom/sub Undertones, Fear of Change, Asexual Character, Aromantic Character, Aromantic, Asexuality, Asexuality Spectrum, aspec!thomas, damiano has a praise kink Series: Part 6 of meet me there where it's never hopeless Summary: Thomas and Victoria have a revelation about Damiano, and Thomas doesn't want the tour to end.

This one follows on from make me helpless (tie me down and use your rope made of velvet), in which Ethan has the same revelation. XD Your humble author's fluffy ace issues with the muses' insistent ideas are making their way out via Thomas, it appears. :D

Characters are inspired by their real-world incarnations but are not intended to be exact copies; all inaccuracies are entirely intentional.

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five good things

Because I'm in a pretty good mood at the moment, despite the impending doom and the fact I still haven't started writing the essay I have to hand in by next Wednesday...

I had an absolutely fantastic time in Finland, even if one of the gigs I was planning to go to got cancelled in favour of a show three weeks later at a bar round the corner from the hotel I'd been staying in, aargh. Although given the general state of insanity I've descended into since, and given that the cancelled gig was that of Japa's new band and I've always been extremely fond of him, it's probably a good thing. XD Anyway, I spent ten days running around Helsinki, Espoo, Turku and Tampere, sightseeing and cramming in as many museums and galleries as I could thanks to my museokortti (paid €70, got about €400-worth of museums and galleries out of it!), drank a lot of nice beer, also drank a lot of lonkero (gin and grapefruit soda, utterly glorious), ate a lot of nice food, saw two AWESOME gigs, and generally recharged my batteries quite enormously. Photos sometime, once I sort myself out a bit.

And then I had another absolutely fantastic time in London with the ever-lovely @lemurious, running around more museums and galleries and drinking more beer and eating more food and seeing two AWESOME shows and talking about all sorts of fandom things!

And then I started posting Two of a Kind again, at lemurious' encouragement (thank you! <333333 ), and it has readers!!!! Renewed and flailing thanks to @pyromaniacbibliophile and @seagull-energy for giving my disastrous boys Hal and Jack a go! <3333333 I've been figuring out where some bits of it need to go, how to join some bits of it together, and I'm having a marvellous time with it!

And then @pyromaniacbibliophile suggested The Driver by Måneskin as a very Jack-ish sort of song, which it is, and I tripped and fell face-first into full-on chewing-the-scenery obsession. Um. 18.6k of fic written in a week? A series of five fics and probably more to come? What the actual fuck even is my LIFE right now. augh they're so PRETTY and NAUGHTY I am far FAR too old and tired and ACE for this I've had their whole discography on repeat since last Wednesday and am struggling to surface, or indeed to get anything else done. I tried putting a different playlist on yesterday and I honestly felt like I was trying and failing to wake up. I could rather do with shaking this off because I HAVE AN ESSAY TO WRITE DAMMIT down, boys, shut up for a little while I need to do something else than write ridiculous slightly kinky fluff about you! >.< (but seriously I am having a whale of a time with it, I haven't felt this inspired or this obsessed in a long while, and I'm going to just surf the wave for as long as I possibly can because I'm also super motivated and super cheerful at the moment :D )

And as a direct consequence of this I am back in touch with one of my oldest fandom friends who, it turns out, has been writing Måneskin RPF for a while; I stumbled across one of her fics without realising it was hers as she has a different username, commented flailingly, and then had a message on FB going 'oh hey you just commented on one of my fics!' and we've been catching up and chatting ever since and at least 10k of that fic is thanks to her sending me extremely pretty pictures and videos and telling me stuff about them and sparking the muses. It's been an absolute dog's age, but we used to RP a long long time ago in our old fandom and it is so nice to talk to her again, partly in our own voices and partly as the characters we're writing (we did it in person once, all the way from Camden to Belgravia, much to the bemusement of the friend who was with us at the time XDDD ). And good lord the prettiness of the pictures and videos. I am...oh yeah, far FAR too old and tired and ace for this. XDDDD

And work is fun at the moment, I am sorting out all the minutes of all the committees of the county council so they are catalogued and structured in a sensible way that we can add new volumes onto when we receive them; the minutes themselves are desperately dull and I am sure nobody else would enjoy this, but I am an enormous administrative systems nerd and I am finding it extremely satisfying.

And my MA course is also very interesting and rewarding, although I've been struggling a bit with the first assignment as part of it involved having to post on a given subject to the tutor group forum and then responding to other students' posts, and I don't particularly enjoy that sort of thing so I haven't been very motivated for it, although one of my favourite fellow students from the systemic functional grammar course a couple of years ago is doing this one and is already making some excellent points in a very dad-jokey way that helps me understand what's going on :D But the essay I have been being distracted from by the overexcitable Italian muses (DOWN, boys) is only 1500 words so I should be able to bash that out this weekend with any luck if the Italians shut the fuck up for FIVE MINUTES OH MY GOD.

And I'm off to the old country (Suffolk) to see the parents next week, and give a talk to my dad's history group about gardener-lady from job number two, which will be fun, although I managed to slightly double-book myself and I need to come straight back on Thursday morning because...

we're off to Wolverhampton to see my absolute heroes Michael Monroe and Sami Yaffa play their band Hanoi Rocks' classic album Two Steps from the Move for its 40th anniversary with our mate Lynda who is as huge a Hanoi fan as I am, and then to see The Almighty the following night, who the missus and I both really liked in the 90s. So that's fun!

I think that's more than enough for now. Now to see if I can stay muse-free long enough to write that effing essay...on the other hand my friend and I are planning to watch a documentary on Måneskin's time on X-Factor Italia tomorrow afternoon and squeal at each other, so I have the space of a morning to get on with it before I lose the plot again, I suspect XDDDDD a;djfl;aksdfl;adsjkfa;sdfkla;sd *facepalm*

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oh, for fuck's sake. what an idiot. how am I supposed to get anything done under these circumstances? (I am still laughing now XDDD )

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...)