you only hear the music when your heart begins to break

So yesterday I saw this band! By which I mean themeletor and I took a road trip, collected oliviacirce along the way (and met up with were_duck too, but after the concert) and went to Chicago to see My Chemical Romance. These three ladies have been educating me in the ways of bandom for the past ... oh, few months? so I knew enough to be entertained by Mikey's sparklebass, and Frank's shirt that had an F on it (y'know, just in case he needed to remember his name or something?), and watch for the bits where Ray rocked guitar solos. I kind of knew what was going on! And could sing along to the songs! I can't actually say what the set list was, but that's probably because I was distracted by Gerard's faaaace. And by 'face' I mean 'pants.'

Um, basically I had an excellent time? I screamed myself hoarse and jumped around a lot, and for afters went dazedly to a diner to have breakfast at midnight, and Mel drove us back home like a goddamn superhero, and I went to bed at 4:30. So I have no idea what I am doing by being awake again now, and I am not sorry for being kind of inarticulate.

Time for hot cocoa and basking! That is the thing I do after concerts, I guess.

not a tame lion

Re: delicious shutting down, I am mildly heartbroken because it warms my fuzzy organizational heart, and massively heartbroken because [a] it's such a lovely convenient way to find fic by specifics like pairing! and [b] I'll be honest, one of my favorite features was the ability to plug in the URL for one of my fics and see the notes people had made on it. However, all is not lost! I've seen these links around, but I figured I'd signal-boost: go here to export your own delicious bookmarks so at least you won't lose years' accumulation of favorite fics, and go here for some encouraging brainstorming on the subject of a possible fan-friendly delicious clone.

Re: other things I am doing to cheer myself up, at the moment I am eating chocolate, as you do, and watching Narnia films, ostensibly in preparation for seeing Dawn Treader sometime in the next few days. The funny thing is that I have to be sure to really make time to watch the Narnia movies, because I am so FEELINGS FEELINGS FEELINGS about them. Seriously, I cry all the way through The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. Why? I'm not even sure! I sort of waffle between whether Lewis or Tolkien is responsible for my first really fannish whatever, because I made my mum endlessly reread The Hobbit to me when I was four and I had a hilarious Elven Mary Sue when I was ten (alas, she never made it to paper, but she was BFFs with Frodo and had a romance with Faramir and Eowyn's son, it was awesome); on the other hand, I actually remember having ~theories~ about the Narnia books when they were first being read to me, and I still vividly recall the sheer joyful anticipation of a week in first grade when my family had ordered the BBC Narnia series and I could watch them ALL THE TIME, and I believed in Aslan so, so much. Basically what this means is that when I watch these new films and they are all pure and earnest and Aslan resurrects triumphantly as the dawn breaks behind him, I am damn well going to happily cry all over everything.

Do -- do any of you get all FEELINGS FEELINGS FEELINGS about Narnia? Surely this is at least somewhat a shared experience.

Re: Yuletide: AHAHAHA WHAT YULETIDE, WHAT COULD YOU POSSIBLY BE TALKING ABOUT, FUCK OFF, I AM WATCHING NARNIA FILMS.