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James goes back to work on Wednesday. It was his usual day off tomorrow anyway so the doctor signed him off for today so he could have those extra two days. So, two more days of him sitting asking me to look up crossword puzzle clues even though his own laptop is right next to him. Not that that annoys me. Not at all.

After a comment yesterday about Mikey not wearing colours all I can think about is a Gabe/Mikey bodyswap fic. How 'Mikey' would suddenly start wearing neon while 'Gabe' emerges totally dressed in black. Then if they had to perform it would be chaos, with Cobras almost booed off-stage when Gabe didn't interact with the crowd and Mikey would just beam and strut around the stage -- after he'd been peeled out of his bright orange shirt and lime green pants. Just thinking about it is making me laugh.

Looking at my h/c bingo card I noticed that I have three squares in a line. I just need to write stroke and post-traumatic stress disorder and I could call bingo, not that it matters as I'm going for a blackout. It's wrong to think about strokes in terms of hooker fics and johns having what looks like a stroke in the middle of sex leading to even more traumatised boys, yeah? Do not judge me! . I am thinking about using the prompt in a roundabout way for that square, because writing an actual stroke would take a lot of sensitive writing, also something long in order not to trivialise what's a devastating thing.

Thank you to everyone that said such lovely things on the writing meme. You made me sound much smarter than I actually am and am thrilled that such a wide variety of stories were mentioned. ♥ to you all. I'm still working through my flist and replying to the meme. You're all so talented, it's really quite sickening how much.

I've finally started to upload my popslash stories to AO3. It's so different to uploading the bandom ones because for popslash everything is so much more casual. Ratings, summaries, hell, even pairings sometimes, popslash needs none of that nonsense! Which is why I have 6 plus years worth of stories with little more than a title and word count. I think after I've finished uploading those I'll work on my masterlist because it's way overdue for an overhaul. I may even go crazy and add some summaries. Or you know, leave it for ages, forget to add things to it and end up frantically searching my journal months from now to find stories I vaguely remember posting.

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Silly James!

Gabe/Mikey bodyswap would be HILARIOUS! You should totally write that.

I'm judging you SO HARD right now ;-P

You write awesome stories!

You're so industrious, go you! And when you've finally updated your masterlist I'll come along and say, "Umh, you forgot this one and this one and this one..." :-D

Is it so hard to look up his own clues? I think not!

As you know, I'm very close to doing just that, and yeah, I knew you'd be judging me *g*

But I honestly don't think I could do the stroke square any other way. Actually giving someone a stroke would be a huge thing and no way would I even start a story like that without knowing it would take a lot of words.

Thank you <3

I'll be waiting for you to do so. But I don't know about industrious, I got two stories done today. There's still a load more to go.

Posting to AO3 is hard work! All those headers as you say, plus you have to check that the formatting isn't screwed up in any new and exciting way, and if there's a prequel or a sequel or it belongs to a challenge then that has to be linked up in the right place, and and and. I've gotten back to mid-2007 and have been stalled out there for a while. THREE YEARS DOWN, ONLY TEN TO GO O.O

Mikey in neon is a thought of immense hilarity!

That's it exactly.

Linking things is my biggest nightmare. I've only tried it once, linking all the tints verse stories together but they linked out of order and no matter what I've tried I can't fix it. I haven't tried linking things since.

I think at this rate we may both finish uploading there sometime in 2020.

I would read so much of that Gabe/Mikey bodyswap fic. SO MUCH. \o/

I keep thinking about it and giggling. It would be ridiculous to the extreme and I keep thinking about Gabe waking up in Mikey's body, realising what's happened -- because this is Gabe and Mikey, they'd call each other up and roll with it -- and sneaking out to get some different clothes. Then it would be something like.

Gerard sets down his mug, his eyes wide as he stares toward Gabe. "Mikey...." Gerard trails off and rubs at his eyes, says, "Are you feeling okay?"

"I'm feeling awesome!" Gabe bounds up the bus steps and stands in the middle of the lounge, checking out his-Mikey's-his reflection in the bus window. He was right, Mikey does look good in neon yellow.

"Okay." Gerard draws out the word, never looking away from Gabe. "It's just..."

Frank pushes himself up from the couch, brow creased as he stands in front of Gabe. He pokes Gabe in the chest; hard. "You'd better not be fucking using again."

Gabe smiles and tugs at his checked green shorts, enjoying how they match his socks. "Nope."

A last grin and he ruffles Frank's hair before heading for Mikey's bunk, where Gabe intends to get to know his new body well. Very well indeed.

::HEARTS:: Oh, Gabe, you are worrying Mikey's band. And Mikey is freaking the HELL out of yours, who are like "Gabe...why aren't you TALKING?"

YES!

Mikey would be sitting there mainlining coffee and just doing his usual thing of staring into space and they'd think Gabe has had some kind of breakdown and they'd be asking if he was okay and whispering together and then he'd go out to get dressed and come back in this weird assortment of black clothes and they'd be all, has someone died? And Mikey would just wander off and probably bash his head off a doorway because Gabe's body is taller.

Total freak out time!

::dying:: Oh, it's perfect. Gerard will be the one to figure it out, of course, because he *knows* his brother, and THIS IS AN IMPOSTER!!!!

Gerard would so figure it out!

His Mikey senses would be tingling and he'd keep staring at him, knowing that's not Mikey and he'd start to quiz him on stuff, like, what did I get for Christmas 1985 and how did I get this scar and of course Gabe wouldn't know and Gerard would lunge the space between him and Mikey, grab hold of his shirt and demand to know 'who the fuck this is and where's my brother!'

Which is when Gabe would fess up and immediately Gerard would pluck Mikey's phone out of his pocket and look for the number for Gabe, call it and as soon as it's answered, ask 'Are you okay?' And Mikey would be sitting there, surrounded by Ryland, Nate, Vicky and Alex and he'd casually say, I'm fine' and Ryland would be all, 'You're not fine! You haven't said a word for four hours! You sang with your back to the audience! You keep falling over your own feet! That is not fine!'

Gerard totally wouldn't even be fazed by the fact that it's a body-swap. He's seen TV. He knows how this works. He just needs to know what body Mikey is in and that he's uninjured, and then they can all start focusing on how AWESOME this is.

You should totally write the Mikey/Gabe Bodyswitchers!! It would be hysterical and so funny. I can just see Mikey singing, ahahaha. He would do the classic Jim Morrison thing and face the back of the stage.

And Gabe would be all over Frankie and freak everyone out. *g*

Ahahahahaha. Oh man, now all I can think of is Mikey singing while looking at Nate. The fans would be going crazy!

Stealth Mikey/Frank. I love it! Frank doing his usual thrashing around on stage and then suddenly Mikey starts to twirl around and throws his bass around his body before launching himself at Frank and blatantly groping him. Then when Gerard comes over, all scrunchy faced after finishing the song Mikey would grab the mic and announce to the crowd, who thinks Frank is a sexy motherfucker!? And Gerard and Frank are looking at each other and thinking, intervention.

It's probably just me that went to a "Gerard/Gabe in Mikey's body" place, huh?

Not at all!

When I first started thinking of this it was mostly the funny I got caught on, but then I started thinking about other things. Like, if Gabe put the moves on Gerard, because come on, Gabe's on My Chem's bus, Gerard's just there and Gabe's not made of stone! And by this time they're actually aware of the swap so Gabe's pushing a bit, sitting close to Gerard and okay, maybe he's getting off on looking in their reflection in the window and seeing Mikey's body so close to Gerard's, and it's nothing Gabe hasn't seen before, seeing as the Ways are freakishly close, but Gabe hasn't been able to move Mikey's hand before, rest it on Gerard's thigh, and he keeps pushing even more sure Gerard's about to say no, because, hello, this is his brother's body, but he doesn't, and Gabe moves on to nuzzling at Gerard's neck and palming his crotch, until eventually Gerard turns to him and says that Gabe better follow through.

Or from Gerard's POV where he knows that Mikey's not Mikey, he's Gabe, but he's still *Mikey* AND Gabe. So he tries to play it cool. Let Gabe make the first move if he will and then it's everything. Gabe and Mikey and him and tangled and sweaty and Mikey and yet not and Gabe and yet not, like salted caramels.

Oh holy fuck. That's hot!

I approve of them!

And now I want salted caramels.

Gnrgh! That's so hot!! And yes Terri, you absolutely must write this!

Isn't it?

I have to admit, it's very tempting.

Do it! You know you want to ;-D

But what about my gritty hooker fic!? I say while knowing you won't care about that at all.

You know me too well.

I STILL DEMAND GRITTY HOOKER FIC.

I may have started writing gritty hooker fic!

yay for being able to go back to work soon.

OOOOO...I would totally read that story to pieces. I'm not the biggest fan of bodyswap fic unless it's done well(and just reading the comments above is awesome and wonderful).

DUDE...BLACKOUT*flails*....I'm so totally camping out to wait for that*beaming grin*

once I made my masterlist on dw I kind of ocd update it when I post new fic(though I should go back and post all of fbi verse and my other bingo cards on my lj comm*not that I have to...only like two people follow it*)

:D:D:D:D:D

He's ready to go back too. Then will be moaning as soon as he does *g*

Bodyswap can be so difficult to write and actually make sense. I'm very tempted to try though, I'll have to see what tomorrow brings. Right now I'm trying to clear tabs and actually catch up on email.

I'm so going for a blackout. I've plans for some squares but others are just there, so full of promise.

I suck at keeping things updated. I fail at tabs and it's really lucky I have Turlough around because she reminded me what I've actually posted. I'm a very sad person.

isn't that how it always is???...I remember back during school all the kids would be ready for summer but a month into it they'd moan about about being bored and why wasn't school back in session.

Understandable(I really should update my lj comm...but since I use dw alot I've just gotten used to posting fic there) but dude if you write it I will sooo read it:D:D:D

and I totally get that. Some of my squares I knew down to the tee how I wanted to write them and others only solidified when I started to write them.I'm sooo looking forward to what all you come up with.:D:D:D:D

I flip between being diligent and not. I have this compulsion to do things right so it tends to make me be all nit-picky from time to time

omg i want all the mikey/gabe bodyswap fic EVER.

hey, did you notice that la_dissonance said she'd draw my art for the pete/mikey bodyswap that turns into pmg bbb fic i'll be writing?

It's such a delightful thing to think about!

Heh. Who knew the casualness of popslash would one day come and kick your ass? :D I still skim most fic headers, but that stuff does make fic nicely searchable on AO3 so it's good for something.

I know, right?

I'm uploading stories and most have a pairing and that's it. Popslash has to be the most causal fandom out there.

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