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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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🌤️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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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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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

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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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should have known it wasn't real (922 words) by spitefulangel Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Måneskin (Band) Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Damiano David/Ethan Torchio Characters: Ethan Torchio, Damiano David Additional Tags: Angst, Miscommunication, Misunderstandings, One-Sided Relationship, (kind of), what happens on tour stays on tour apparently Summary: Ethan feels like an idiot. He’d thought there was something in it, in the way Damiano had been with him on tour, had sought him out, had…well. He’d really thought Damiano meant it. And now here they are, back at home, and Damiano is acting like it never happened.

Inspired by Just a thing by Dialas

So Dialas and I watched parts 3 and 4 of the Måneskin on the Road tour diary videos the other day and then she wrote Just a thing, and then it haunted me, and then I got Ethan being Distinctly Unhappy About Things in the back of my head and then this happened. :D

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i'm always running to you (14310 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, Damiano David & Original Female Character Characters: Damiano David, Ethan Torchio, Victoria De Angelis, Thomas Raggi, Original Female Character Additional Tags: Travel, Airplanes, Airports, Reunions, Poly Undertones, aroace character Series: Part 15 of meet me there where it's never hopeless Summary: It's almost spring and Damiano and Alyssa are coming to London for yet another round of promotion - and Victoria, Thomas and Ethan take matters into their own hands.

I have been faffing around with this one for weeks at this point and it is high time I stopped fiddling with it and got it posted before it gets any bloody longer. :D (this series has gotten SO out of hand, you guys, I can't even begin to tell you. It was only supposed to be one story!)

This features four versions of the same events because everyone wanted to talk (and the next chapter of Alyssa Romano Is A Consummate Professional will supply Alyssa's perspective), and uh there is rather more going on under the surface than I at first realised.

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 (7166 words) by spitefulangel Chapters: 2/? 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 2, The Tour-Dates-Flashing Incident, now posted! In which, having utterly failed to talk Damiano out of his brilliant idea to flash his tour dates for TikTok, Alyssa settles for negotiating him into at least keeping his shorts on while he does it.

Thank you so much, everyone, for being so wonderfully kind about Alyssa! I am having so much fun with her, and I'm beyond delighted that you like her so much!

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For the ask game:

I’d love to hear about 🌀 , please and thank you! 😁 Have a fantastic day!

wheeee, thank you! <333333

🌀Post the fic summary for a fic you haven’t written/published yet. It can be hypothetical or something you really plan on releasing… oooh all right then, let's see if I can come up with something... Vic makes Damiano deal with the fallout from the grenade he lobbed into their lives a few months ago. (in the next-but-one part of meet me there where it's never hopeless, which will be called baby, it's harder to breathe when you're gone)

Thank you for asking! <333333 Anyone else fancy asking me some questions about my WIPs? (full disclosure it's all going to be RPF XD )

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i know that it's a cliché but this is my moment (10692 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, Damiano David & Original Female Character Characters: Damiano David, Ethan Torchio, Victoria De Angelis, Thomas Raggi, Original Female Character Additional Tags: Established Relationship, Poly Undertones, Separations, Developing Friendships, Dom/sub Undertones Series: Part 13 of meet me there where it's never hopeless Summary: Back in Los Angeles, Damiano enlists a partner in chaos.

Well, here we are again. This follows on more or less directly from wish I could have stayed and introduces an original character, Alyssa, Damiano's long-suffering assistant, who has been mentioned very briefly in previous stories in this series but has turned out to have quite a lot to say for herself. I was going to put the stories featuring her into a separate series, because I know OCs aren't everyone's thing, but the further I got with them, the more I realised that they do actually belong with the rest of this series, and so here we are.

This part of the series actually started out with Alyssa's perspective on events, and I'm going to post that at some point too because her take on it all is still making me laugh. All you need to know for now is that she is twenty-one years old, this is her first time being someone's actual assistant rather than assistant-to-the-assistant, and she is completely out of her depth. :D

Characters are inspired by their real-world incarnations but are not intended to be exact copies; all inaccuracies are entirely intentional. Some situations are inspired by real-life stuff (particularly the delightful unhingedness of some of Damiano's TikTok videos, none of which are doing my sanity any good) and others are completely made up.

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I Cannot Compete With You, Jolene (2049 words) by Dialas, spitefulangel Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Måneskin (Band) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Damiano David/Ethan Torchio, Damiano David & Victoria De Angelis & Thomas Raggi & Ethan Torchio, Ethan Torchio/? Characters: Victoria De Angelis, Damiano David, Ethan Torchio, Thomas Raggi Additional Tags: Humor, Inspired by Jolene (Dolly Parton) Series: Part 3 of Somebody Told Me Summary: Damiano thinks he has a rival for Ethan's affections.

I (spitefulangel) was being very amused by just how lovelorn Damiano sounds on Måneskin's cover of Jolene, which is possibly the queerest song a straight boy could sing, and Dialas and I got talking. Before we quite knew it, we were writing another instalment of this series. :D :D :D