i'm not trying to wake you up

I HAVE WRITER'S BLOCK. I decided to attempt the drabble meme to see if it could kick me back into action, and it may have worked. I cheated though—I listened to each song a couple of times and totally edited them a little bit after. But shh! The important thing is that I wrote something, right??

1. Pick a character, pairing, or fandom you like.
2. Turn on your music player and put it on random/shuffle.
3. Write a drabble related to each song that plays.
You only have the time frame of the song to finish the drabble
You start when the song starts, and stop when it's over. No lingering afterwards!
4. Do ten of these, then post them.

I chose The Kills for my fandom, which basically means Alison Mosshart and Jamie Hince and everyone who is tangentially connected to them. There's actually a lot less Alison/Jamie here than you might expect, and that's because this was a really good opportunity to experiment with all kinds of other combinations.


Title: Drabble Meme #3
Author: likecharity
Pairing: Alison Mosshart/Jamie Hince, Alison Mosshart/Noel Fielding, Alison Mosshart/Jack White, Alison Mosshart/Kate Moss, Kate Moss/Noel Fielding/Russell Brand, Alison Mosshart/Kate Moss/Noel Fielding, everyone/everyone.
Rating: It varies, but let's go with NC-17 to be safe.
Warnings: Real person het and femslash, and hints of slash. A few have mentions of violence and rough sex, and a couple are slightly cracky, but I think that's it.
A/N: Well, er...these seemed less weird at the time.

( You are probably aware that I'm not very good at drabbles. )

Holy crap, I finished this.


Title: not falling together
Author: likecharity
Pairing: Alison Mosshart/Jamie Hince, and Alison Mosshart/various (Jack White, Noel Fielding, Brian Molko, and sort Kate Moss) plus mentions of Jamie Hince/some of those same people.
Rating: Hard R
Warnings: Real people. Violence (occasionally during sex and including a bit of breathplay), drug use, and slightly excessive infidelity.
Summary: It used to be just the two of them in this tiny room, and now they're letting others in. It feels like they're coming apart at the seams, and Alison doesn't know how to fix it.
A/N: This basically deals with speculated changes/struggles in Alison and Jamie's relationship brought about by Kate and The Dead Weather. The timeline spans from September 2009 to December 2011, so not surprisingly, it is LONG. Thank you to the people who encouraged me—you know who you are. ♥ (2/2)

( Jamie shows up the day after Alison gets back, lets himself in with the key he still has and scares her half to death when she wakes up to his grinning face. )

I JUST HAD AN EPIPHANY?

Or, a really ridiculous idea.

Either way, it was brought about by this interview with The Kills. They're asked how they can be so sexual even though they split up. (I love it when they're asked if they're a couple and stuff, it's so interesting to analyse their reactions.) Anyway, Jamie's like "We were never lovers" and the interviewer is like "Never?" and they're both like "Mm-mm, never" and then there's a pause, and Jamie goes "So...that's why." And then Alison cracks up and there's awkward laughter all round. (If you just want to watch that bit, there are little markers you can hover over to see which question is asked at each timestamp.)

This kind of reveals something about how Jamie sees the two of them and their sexuality, right? ...Right?

( Click to humour me. )

They really do drive me crazy sometimes. MAKE SENSE.

So I promised a few people that I would update about The Kills concert last week, and this is that post. I'm afraid it won't be very interesting. I mean, nothing earth-shattering happened, and I didn't take any photos, so the gist will probably be something like "It was good! They played some songs and I enjoyed them! But I got the hiccups. Sadface."

I'm trying to focus on the good things though because—well, with my social anxiety, and the fact that I rarely leave the house these days, it was difficult. I mean, I knew it would be difficult, so I was kind of prepared, but I just have the tendency to fixate on every negative thing until the event becomes this awful thing in my mind. But it wasn't! I just need to keep reminding myself I'm being ridiculous.

( So here we go. )

In other news, I have been alone in the house since Wednesday lunchtime and will continue to be until Tuesday morning, because my Mum is on holiday. I have cats to keep me company, and I've had phone calls from various family members (including my grandparents—even the ones in the US, bless them), and I'm no longer thinking I'm going to die whenever I hear a tiny noise at night, but I'm still kinda going stir crazy. *clings to you all* KEEP ME ENTERTAINED? Let's talk about Kills fic that I should write.

There's this Kills interview I saw a while ago and then lost, and I've been trying to find it again to show alliean for ages. And I finally found it today!

This is the link. the Kills part starts at about 8:00 for their performance of 'Cheap and Cheerful', and then the interview is at about 10:50.

IT'S REALLY QUITE AWKWARD. Foreign interviews often are, and the dude keeps translating things back and forth, and he also asks some pretty bold questions. And I kind of hate that, because I don't like seeing them get uncomfortable, but at the same time...the reactions are so interesting. First of all I love how embarrassed Alison gets when he tells her Brian Molko said he got hard listening to her voice. And how she just kinda hides in Jamie's shoulder and behind her hair. I THINK SHE'S BLUSHING. So cute.

But the real point of posting this is that I kept referencing the moment where they're asked if they're a couple. Jamie laughs when the guy says "but you're not a couple, you're not in love?" and then realises no one else is laughing, and apologises. And Alison says "What's so funny about that?" and the guy agrees, saying "What's so funny? It's possible!" Jamie says "It's a ridiculous idea," and then immediately follows that with a ridiculously loving look at Alison. OH JAMIE. SO IN DENIAL.

Mainly I just love that Alison questions him, even though she does it in a kinda jokey way. It's like - they never discuss this in their day-to-day life. They're only confronted with how weird their relationship seems when other people comment on it. And that's like...the only chance for Alison to see how Jamie reacts to the idea, and vice versa. It's so interesting, because to us, their sexual tension is so obvious and the love they have is so intense, that making the mistake of thinking they're a couple is completely understandable. But from where they're sitting, it's apparently a surprise, and strange. Funny and ridiculous, even.

Though I think it's denial, to a certain extent. I think Jamie's genuinely afraid to let himself go down that route, to really think about it. Because their relationship works, as it is, and maybe they think that if they do anything to change it they risk losing each other. And I just can't believe they're THAT oblivious to the way they are onstage together. Like, I know Jamie says "I've never seen us play, so..." but then there are things like this:



Which kinda prove that he's at least somewhat aware. But ha, I love how Alison's signature is so bold and confident and Jamie's is this hasty scribble in the corner. And that he seems to have forgotten to use 'Hotel'.

Okay, I've started analysing handwriting, it's time to end this post now.

In the middle of a song, halfway through The Dead Weather's Glastonbury set, this happened (gif nicked from Tumblr):



Alison rushed offstage to kiss Jamie, who was watching from the side. ♥_♥ THEY ARE THE CUTEST.

More Kills spam. I feel like I have so many things I want to post now, it's hard to split them up, haha. I want to post some Kills videos and some stuff to do with Jack White...particularly Jack/Alison which I've started to ship despite not wanting to. And Jack/Meg, because apparently whenever someone asks me on Formspring if I ship something, I start to. *sigh*



( Several pictures, and an interview quote (w/ download link). )

Um, I'm genuinely nervous about posting this. It's been a while since I've felt like that about a fic! I think it's partly because of the subject matter and partly because wtf, I'm actually quite proud of it. The 'stop judging me' tag is totally necessary for this one.

Also, I have a new layout! For the first time in AGES. Woo.

But yeah, onto the depravity...

Title: signal when you want me (when you want me to stop)
Author: likecharity
Pairing: Alison Mosshart/Jamie Hince
Rating: Very hard R
Warnings: Oh, man. BDSM, sexualised violence. Including breathplay, slapping, kicking, scratching and trampling....all consensual, though.
Summary: They maintain a difficult balance, taunt temptation like they're playing with fire. They let out just enough of that tension to be able to live with each other, and then they put the lid right back on it, lock it away and let it build and build until once again, they're bursting at the seams with it.
A/N: I'm...not entirely sure what it says about me that a) this is totally how I see their relationship, and b) I really enjoyed writing this story.

( Jamie once said in an interview that he and Alison never impose rules on each other, that from day one they've always behaved however they like with each other. It's not quite true. )

Time for another random Kills spam!!


I wonder if I just keep posting pictures of them, eventually more of my flist will become interested.

( ...Probably not. )

Random anonymous questions for drunk!Jenny to answer, anyone? Go ahead!

In the meantime, a picspam of

( attractive people with cats. )

FUN FACT: I had all of these pictures saved on my laptop already. I didn't realise quite how many there were until today. Apparently I have a thing for attractive people with cats?