Glittering Pandemonium

Rockstar vampires.

FREE for Kindle on Saturday, June 13th, all day.

Pacific Time, Midnight to 11:59 PM.

(Also already on Kindle Unlimited, if you have that)

You can find it with a title search and my name, but I think it pops pretty early into search results with just the title, too.

Promoting this one again, for my upcoming birthday. MY birthday, but giving YOU a gift. The series began long before any discussion of the musical, because my bestie and I agreed David and the boys always looked like a hair band.

Imagine my thrill mid-project discovering Kiefer is a musician.

And The Violent released a "People Are Strange" cover about then, too.

Fanfic adjacent. Lots of changes. Eric and Raul are more OC's than homages to specific characters from the movie. Pierce has Marko's hair and an epic denim jacket. Are they similar otherwise? Up to the reader.

But I feel like this series still scratches that itch to give David, Star, and Michael something closer to an (admittedly somewhat problematic) happily ever after.

Like David, Dorian Volker makes loving him literally and figuratively very, very hard. But he's so damn charismatic, Jared can't help falling for him, anyway. Riding out all of Dorian's moods, with Haven alongside them both.

This is book one in Rock is Undead. There's already an interconnecting haunted hotel short story, "Hyacinth House," and a follow-up novel, Mystery Train, available.

With hopefully more to come.

Jared's best friend Lenore Grenway is one helluva fun trip, too.

A reimagining of The Lost Boys with changes naturally because copyright, AND because my best friend and I wanted to see an out and proud poly bisexual lead singer David balance Michael and Star.

Begun long before the musical. But given all the recent buzz about rockstar vamps, it may be of interest!!! ALSO as I say in the pinned post, if you’re interested but don’t want to do Kindle, let me know, and maybe we can still make it happen, so you can read Book One.

The most up-to-date edit.

Short story follow-up Hyacinth House leads into full-length Book Two, Mystery Train.

It was on my list anyway, and I happened to catch a post about where to stream it (or at least, one place to stream it).

OMG it was ADORABLE.

And the besties... friendship goals. And they're both SO so pretty.

Directed by Amy Heckerling (Clueless), released in 2012.

Starting over from scratch.

I realized it’s mildly illogical to have David biting him when he has his sunglasses on. Tho he doesn’t ACTUALLY take them off until after it’s fully dark. SO IN THEORY…

That, or he was just thinking about it. And it’s his visualization of a fantasy. Mainly, it’s easier to stay relatively faithful to the reference photos.

But I will keep practicing, especially now that I will be busy working for the next couple sketch sessions through the art gallery.

So many of you do an amazing job stylizing the boys. I may play with that, too. Maybe picking out a smattering of anime art to reference.

SOMEWHERE, kiddo had a book on drawing anime (she doesn’t draw much now, but she’s very, very talented).

Anyway.

New single up on streaming yo!!!

Officially releasing June 12th, but I guess Spotify is in an earlier time zone than me.

“It’s always ‘They’re only noodles, Michael,’ or ‘Drink some of this, Michael.’ Never ‘That jacket looks sick as fuck, Michael,’ or ‘Damn, you should’ve pierced your ear sooner. You’re prettier than Star. But I suppose to really judge that, I’d have to see you both, side by side, ideally naked.’”

David, dialogue: “Michael, you do realize I can hear your thoughts? All of them. Even the spicy ones. Especially the spicy ones. Star, darling, care to help settle a debate?”

HEYO somehow I attached the wrong gif. Whoops!

I finally streamed Solarbabies.

It is not great.

But the cast did pretty well with the material they had. And a lot of them were super pretty.

I missed the scene of Jami Gertz in the white dress swimming alone with Jason Patric. The scene you see in one of the stills from filming. But I saw her wearing that dress.

I had anticipated it. In the still, it looks so romantic. 💜 WELL…. Just before giving up and posting here, I fast forwarded very carefully…

The scene wasn’t there.

I’ve shared this grid before, but it’s the shot in the upper right corner. Gosh they look so great together.

It's my 1 year anniversary on Tumblr 🥳

Firstly, I wrote a little more in the fic inspired by a comment about David giving Michael beard-burn. Beyond what I linked earlier.

Another chapter. For the interested.

Secondly, having even just looked up stills from Rush (I didn't see any gifs here, unless they're buried), I am VERY very tempted to NOT ONLY track down that movie and refresh my memory, but ALSO write an AU crossover where Michael misses David's heart, and David escapes, in the chaos.

And like in my fic "Blood Calls to Blood," whether the other guys survive or not (not sure on that), David's bond with Michael persists. Maybe growing weaker over time, but still there.

Perhaps out of guilt over discovering himself capable of killing (first attempting to kill David then literally shoving Max into the path of an incoming fence spike), maybe trying to prove he's still a "good guy," Michael becomes a cop.

Eventually assigned to narcotics, as an undercover operative.

Succumbs to addiction, dosing himself with his own collected evidence, because after a point, the dealers didn't trust him and his partner until they'd seen them do the hard stuff.

(Would I leave her in? Feels logically inevitable that he'd have a partner.)

And David comes to the rescue.

I could literally start it right at crisis point, rather than rehashing the storyline of Rush. Initially, he'd be convinced David was a drug-induced hallucination. He'd mutter about how he'd heard his voice, seen him in dreams lately. Good to see him again. Maybe cracking a lame, self-deprecating joke about what Paul would think and almost choking on his own dry laughter.

Without realizing the conversation is actually happening.

I know there are tumblr users who aren't fans of the whole "Should I write it?" thing. This isn't that. I'm just super excited about the concept.

Not like I don't have a zillion other things to write. All the other ongoing fics, and back-burner original projects, and efforts at fresh poetry, etc., etc. And I'm trying to get back to sketching/painting... and so on.

Wow, I just watched a "What the hell happened to Jason Patric?" video on YouTube and was also reminded of Sleepers, and After Dark, My Sweet. And did I ever see Narc? Maybe not...

Also looks like he did some other fun indie stuff I haven't checked out. And as much as long-distance bestie has warned that it's NOT great, I might even watch Solarbabies, to see him with Jami Gertz again, pre-Lost Boys.