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This last few days consisted of taking Corey for his first pair of glasses. ( A+ service from them, he told us his eyes were bothering him last week, within days he'd had an eye test, glasses ordered, delivered and fitted, and it didn't cost a penny ) James at the walk in centre as he's a poorly bunny right now. A visit to the doctors, all laundry washed, ironed and put away, and struggling with the story that just won't quit. While that's doing my head in right now, that's so close I can taste it, so in all I count this weekend as a win.

I need to do the litter boxes, hoover and then this afternoon I intend to, harvest, boil and pickle the beetroot, do more editing --- omg, why won't it quit? -- and actually communicate with people. For now though, I intend to eat my banana, drink my coffee, and check out my flist. Also, post this meme. I'm not sure of the actual wording, but,

Pick a character from one of my stories or verses and I'll tell you 11 facts about them.

I've sucked at actually completing memes lately, and I always worry that no one will remember a thing I've written, but play with me! Or alternatively, come and clean the litter boxes for me! You can meet my cats, they're nice.

ETA: LJ is driving me crazy with its slowness to load. I've checked and know it's a known issue but still.

Crossposts: http://turps33.livejournal.com/1053518.html

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From:

sperrywink

Tell Corey that poor eyesight sucks but glasses are sexy!

Sorry about your story!! I hate it when people tell me I need to write more when I thought I was done with it and I hate telling other people that.

And I'm witching it up, instead of picking Richard of York, I am picking Mikey (Or Pete, I'm not picky) in the Sugar Survivors story. *g*

From:

turps

He looks very cool in them. He was put out he couldn't get designer versions but his nose was too big for them to sit right. He's at an awkward age/size it seems.

At least this time it's stuff in the middle that needs adding and not the end. I'll be emailing you v soon btw. I didn't get time last night, and all your comments make a huge amount of sense.

Hookers! YAY!

From:

sperrywink

Kids and their designer wear. I used to have some ugly ass glasses in high school. It was the 80s, what can I say.

Email, yay!! I know you want to tell me that my Gabe idea was the best you ever heard. *g*

I thought you might like that!

From:

turps

Okay, Pete for you.

(1) When Pete is first given the business card his first instinct is to rip it up. He can't help thinking that paying for sex is for losers, and as low as he's sunk -- and that's very low in the past -- he's never had a problem getting laid.

(2) When he gets in one of his downward spirals it feels like the whole world hates him. Something he reinforces by getting online and reading every negative opinion about himself he can find. Pete knows it's fucked up, but if he reads those it feels like there's some basis for his own self-loathing.

(3) Sometimes Pete phones home when he knows his mom will be out. That way he'll get to hear her voice on the answer machine, but won't have to actually talk.

(4) Each time he does that she phones back and says she loves him. Pete never answers those calls.

(5) The first time he met Mikey Pete expected the reality to be nothing like the picture. That's just how life is. It's one of the reasons Pete was so thrown, because in this case reality was even better.

(6) When Pete says he's gay above the waist he's being truthful. Meeting Mikey was never about sex, it was about an instant connection via picture and Pete needing company.

(7) Which Pete knows is insane, but he's lived his life jumping on instinct. Sure, sometimes those jumps lead to him crashing down, but often it leads to him flying.

(8) When Pete goes back to the hotel Patrick, Andy and Joe are waiting. Patrick's pissed, yelling about Pete just taking off and what the hell was he doing. Pete tells him that he was off meeting the love of his life. Patrick throws a shoe at Pete and stalks out of the room.

(9) Patrick does talk to Pete again, after Pete's given him twenty seven songs all about Mikey and lost loves.

(10) It takes two weeks and four cities before Patrick snaps and tells Pete if Mikey means that much why doesn't Pete arrange for another date? Pete tells him that he's scared, what if he sees Mikey again and this time it's not perfect?

(11) Pete doesn't mention Mikey again after that, there's no point, he's just yet another thing Pete's lost. Then one night Patrick grabs him, says, don't say I don't love you, and shoves Pete into the bus. Where the first thing Pete sees is Mikey.

From:

turps

But did you have tape wrapped around them? That's the sign of ugly ass *g*

OMG! Your suggestion killed me ded! Believe me, it's tempting.

From:

turlough

I remember getting my first glasses when I was around 17. It was such a suprise to me to discover that you were actually supposed to see the leaves on the trees and not just a slightly blurry mass of green :-) I hope Corey will have similar positive experiences of his.

Poor James, I hope he'll get better soon.

Cleaning, ugh! I hope it went well though and that the beet pickling was a success. And good luck with the editing!

You should tell me 11 things about Gerard in your Killjoys universe, or if you like that better, 11 things about the Gerard in Walking By His Wild Lone.

From:

delphinapterus

LJ is vexing me too. It's time like this when I'm happy for the DW alternate. I'm going to follow

mizubyte's example and suggest you go request something from me since I'm about to make a ridiculous request and not force myself to make a decision :)
So since I just can't pick... I'd love to hear about Mikey or Frank from Standing on the Grave of Dreams and When Day is Night Alone (are you sensing a theme here?)

Edited Date: 2010-10-04 04:29 pm (UTC)

From:

frausorge

I would like to know some facts about Tints!Mikey, please! :D??

You have been most industrious. I salute you.

From:

rikes

Ahahaha, yes! Leaves on trees was the first thing I noticed too! :D

From:

turps

Tints!Mikey. Man, I love him.

(1) When he was young Mikey used to put bread crumbs and grass in the dragon bird bath. Only Gerard asked what he was doing, and he never laughed when Mikey told him he was feeding the dragon. Because Mikey knew at night the dragon came to life and ate what he left.

(2) Mikey never tells Gerard that he eventually saw him going out and sweeping up the mixture before throwing it into the next door neighbour's yard.

(3) Even now, when things are so much better, it still takes Mikey a moment to remember his actual age. Fact is, it feels like he's lived a life time already.

(4) Mikey's only hated Gerard once. Intense, burning hatred when he found him on the bathroom floor and realised that Gerard had tried to leave him behind too.

(5) Mikey thinks that the saying boys don't cry is stupid. If he doesn't cry sometimes he'd have to scream instead, and if he does that he'd never stop.

(6) Mikey hates arguing with Frank, sure that when it happens Frank will walk away and never come back. When Frank realises each time they argue he'll stop before stalking away, say 'I'm fucking angry with you right now but I will come back' each time he has.

(7) Frank's the love of Mikey's life. Simple as.

(8) Mikey resents Bob for a while. It feels like he's taking on roles that are supposed to be Mikey's, even if those roles leave him exhausted.

(9) Mikey loves the whole process of helping Frank dye his hair. How Frank will laugh, be pliant under Mikey's hands as they crouch over the tub and add the new colour.

(10) The first time Linda refers to Mikey as her son he spills coffee down his front and has to spend twenty minutes in the bathroom pulling himself together.

(11) Mikey never loves flowers and plants as much as Frank, but he does learn their names and helps in the garden. By sitting in the shade and admiring Frank's ass. Which hey, counts.

From:

turps

Corey seems to be getting on with his glasses nicely.

Okay, Gerard in the killjoys verse.

(1) Gerard only ran because of Mikey. Truthfully, back then it would have been easier to give in to the inevitable and become one of the drones, accepting a life without colour, sheltering under glass domes and breathing recycled air. Then Mikey was busted for listening to illegal music, coming home with an official warning on his record and welts around both wrists. They'd ran that night, Gerard's apathy not extending to watching his brother go down for something that brought him so much pleasure.

(2) For a long time Gerard thinks he's made the biggest mistake of his life. Eating scavenged rations and surviving on a shared bottle of water is brutal, but somehow they manage to keep going, sheer bloody mindness keeping them putting one foot in front of the other.

(3) Finding Dr Death Defying seems like a miracle. That he actually lets them stay is even more so.

(4) It's Mikey that first kisses Gerard. They've been sleeping together since the beginning, curled together for warmth and comfort, but it's never been anything more, until Mikey pushes himself up on one elbow and stares down at Gerard and says that he loves him. Which should sound like some kind of cliché but from Mikey it's nothing but a statement of fact, put out there as he leans in for a kiss. The first one, but also, one that feels like it's been happening forever.

(5) When Ray and the kid turn up it takes Gerard almost a week to realise that they're looking toward Gerard for leadership. When he does realise Gerard goes and freaks out for almost an hour, because he was never supposed to be a leader, he doesn't want to be a leader. He's Gerard Way, nobody or nothing special. When he tells Mikey that Mikey rolls his eyes, says, "As if," before wandering away, saying fondly, "Moron," as he does so.

(6) Gerard loves his leather jacket, and often wears it even when there's no need. When there's no dracs anywhere close and it's so hot it feels like he's swimming in sweat. Fact is, it's his shield against the world, his own fuck you and protection.

(7) Gerard isn't sure about Frank at first. He comes to them shaking and burned, eyes wide and so smothered in sadness Gerard can hardly breathe around him. Frank's a self ghosting waiting to happen, and Gerard's wary, sure he's going to wake up one morning and find Frank gone. That does't happen, but what does happen is Frank and Mikey developing some kind of instant friendship. The kind that leads to Mikey staying with Frank one night leaving Gerard alone. He hates himself for even thinking it, but Gerard's jealous.

(8) Gerard knows exactly how many dracs that he's killed, how many friends he's seen die, how many people he's lost. He wishes he could forget those numbers, but knows there's no chance.

(9) Leadership is a heavy burden, one that sometimes gets too much. The first time that happens Gerard's running on auto pilot, jumping into the Trans Am and taking off into the night, blood on his hands, sand under the wheels and music up so high he can't think. When he goes back hours later Frank punches him in the face and threatens if he ever does that again he'll ghost Gerard himself. And Gerard would be angry but he sees how Mikey's every barrier is down and fixed in place and how the kid's eyes are red and he's about to aplogise when Ray grabs him and holds on, says, "There's better ways, believe me."

(10) That night Gerard sleeps with Ray, held close, silent tears soaking Ray's shirt. It's the first time Gerard's cried in forever. It helps.

(11) It's not often they get the time, space or security to spend time indulging in sex. Mostly it's fast, which makes the times they do get to indulge even more special. Gerard knows which one of them likes, how Ray loves to fuck with his fingers and Frank deep throat and Mikey to indulging in lengthy rimming. Gerard likes all those too, but also, he likes to watch as they come on each others bodies, Gerard running his fingers through the come drying on Frank's chest, Mikey's face, Ray's lower back, swirling designs onto skin, a form of claiming that makes them Gerard's.

From:

turlough

I love this universe so much!

From:

turps

Me too.

It's the one I feel most comfortable in writing wise, but there's not a thing left to say. Which I think is good, they had their happy ending.