Title: Screaming down the Starlit Sky series
Fandom: Bandom (Panic! at the Disco, Fall Out Boy, The Academy Is..., My Chemical Romance, Cobra Starship, The Cab, Hush Sound, Amanda Palmer, Mindless Self Indulgence, Phantom Planet, Gym Class Heroes), American Idol Season 8.
Pairings: LOTS, omg. Brendon Urie/Ryan Ross, Gerard Way/Frank Iero, Mike Carden/Tom Conrad, Andy "Butcher" Mrotek/Adam Siska, Jon Walker/Spencer Smith, Tom Conrad/Alex Greenwald, Cash Colligan/Alex Marshall, Pete Wentz/Patrick Stump, Bob Bryar/Joe Trohman, Adam Lambert/Tommy Joe Ratliff.
Rating: Explicit (though it's mostly hard R for violence, with the occasional brief explicit sex scene)
Warnings: EXTREMELY UNHEALTHY RELATIONSHIPS (stalking, kidnapping, obsessive behavior, possessive behavior, all kinds of manipulation, betrayal), GRAPHIC VIOLENCE like whoa, torture, lots of mindfuckery and characters losing agency, grief, minor character deaths, underage sex.
Download link: See livejournal masterpost page.
Author's summary: "Arrogance and impulse control -- too much of one means too little of the other. Lines are drawn, alliances are forged, and nothing in Beckett's city will ever be the same again."
Notes: Thirty-two hours of queer vampires and their scheming vampire gang politics!!! I listened to this whole story over just five days in an obsessed blur. Both the writing and the reading are beautifully done, creating a thoroughly enjoyable dark, gritty urban fantasy tale. I like my vampires badass, violent and amoral, with traditions and a culture all their own, and this certainly fits the bill. It starts off a little slow with the first installment (a rather typical unusual-human-high-school-student-catches-eye-of-vampire,-gets-stalked story), but keep going, because Epic Plot and gang wars are coming to keep you on the edge of your seat. A Sixteen Candles 'verse AU, which non-Bandom vampire-podfic enthusiasts can easily follow with the help of the introductory links on reena_jenkins' masterpost.
I repeat. QUEER VAMPIRE GANG WARS.
