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This morning was Bins 2 -- Terri 0

I got a call from the school yesterday saying it would be off again, so didn't bother setting the alarm. Only to wake up after nine remembering it was recycling bin day. They're usually here first thing which is why I put that bin out the night before, last night I totally forgot. So I hurry downstairs, shove on my shoes and venture into the snow in my pjs. At which point it strikes me this isn't going to be the usual few seconds bin run of most weeks. First I had to actually move the bins, which were blocked in by solid walls of snow feet high. Then get them out of the wells onto the path, which hasn't been shovelled since all this snow started. Managed to drag one half way along, and realised I had to get the gate open. After a lot of kicking of snow to get it to open at least a few inches, I saw that that even if I got the gate open enough to get the bins out I'd need to lift them up about a foot to get to the level of snow on the path outside. At which point I thought, screw it, and went back in.

mini_nanowrimo posted their spreadsheet and I ended with a total of 20738 words for November. Which is way down compared to last year but not bad considering all that was going on. Plus, I wrote and hit my target every day, so that was of the good. Those words were mainly shared between the killjoys plus Bob gsf and the travelling slave fic, plus a few scraps of other stuff here and there. My aim is to get both finished by the end of the year, but I suspect that may be a little ambitious.

Some pimping now, which I meant to do yesterday but it slipped my mind.

mfac is a multi fandom advent journal that's run by

saba1789 I enjoy it every year, and Saba does an excellent job of posting really shiny things. So, check it out.

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While this one just makes me go, oh Mikey.

Which I think is a good time to introduce the fact that in my last post someone encouraged a Frank/Mikey retell of Grease. So far we have Frank as Danny, the brash guy who falls in love with the sweet Sandy/Mikey. For further visual details, think Mikey in very early days at first, then transformed into Mikey of the bird's nest era complete with eye make-up, tight pants, studded belt around his slinky hips and tiny t-shirt. There would be dancing on a fun house! There would be Mikey singing Hopelessly Devoted to You in his pyjamas and being all woeful! There would be Frank on the swing set and being dejected, Aloooooooone at the Drive in D:. There would be awesomeness!

But tell me LJ/DW, where would everyone else fit in? Would Gerard make a good Frenchie? LynZ Kenickie? Who gets to gyrate around and sing Greased Lightening?

*chin hands*

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It's been too long since I've seen Grease for me to contribute to that question meaningfully, but the image of Mikey as Sandy is... um. That is inspiring. I did laugh at Frank as Danny, because... short! But endearing. Please write this.

I think my favorite thing about that Epic Weird Comic Book Elevator Pose pic is that Ray is nowhere to be found. He's already in the elevator rolling his eyes. And possibly snapping the picture.

The image of Mikey as Sandy is killing me. Talk about strange casting, and yet, over at LJ he's now wearing leather, his boots of awesome and glitter along his cheekbones.

Frank would have an extra high quiff so he appears the same height as everyone else. Yes.

Poor Ray. I suspect that he often wonders what the hell he's doing with that bunch of fools. He doesn't even think about having a family as he already has three fully grown kids to watch and ensure they don't die of starvation/falling off a high stage/material melding into their skin.

*nods* I imagine that is true. Ray has had these three kids for YEARS...and they are NEVER going to grow up. Since they have, oh PETER PAN as their leader. *is giggling*

GREASE. *BOUNCES* OOOOOH, THAT WOULD BE VERY FUN. I AGREE. AND THINK MORE PHOTOGRAPHIC REPRESENTATION IS NECESSARY FOR THIS PROJECT.

Ray has had these three kids for YEARS...and they are NEVER going to grow up. Since they have, oh PETER PAN as their leader. *is giggling*

Ray has a very hard job! This is why his hair curls, with stress! *g*

Sounds like the Bins win was totally justified. I'm surprised you even tried.

Yay for 20k words! That's amazing!

I love those pictures! Mikey and his hat will never not be funny.

I wouldn't have if the recycling bin wasn't full. I was so annoyed, but thankfully Corey got them out eventually. Watch they won't be picked up now.

I think 90% of those words are Bob and Mikey scenes. Though Mikey and Frank have finally kissed in the gsf.

I love Mikey's ugly hat. He wears it well, and obviously loves it.

I'm impressed that you at least tried to get those bins out in all that snow. I know I would have given up much earlier than you did.

I don't think I've seen either Frank or Ray with that long hair before. They're looking totally adorable! The elevator pic is hilarious and I completely agree with what you said above about Ray just sighing and rolling his eyes at his band's antics. Poor Ray, his life is so hard :-)

I've never seen Grease but I'm sure that any song-and-dance movie involving Mikey and Frank as the main couple can't be anything except terminally absurd. And awkward. Like Bambi on ice... There's a Bob/Gerard Grease II story by

sinden and in that one Pete and Patrick is alluded to as having been the original Grease couple. That idea also makes me boggles but not nearly as much as Frank and Mikey does :-)

PS I completely forgot: That's a fabulous word count when fandom's been as active as it's been this month. You totally rulez!! I'm keeping my fingers crossed you'll get both of them finished this year.

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After all that effort the binmen didn't even come to pick them up! So they needed hauling back in again.

Frank's hair looks like it needs a good wash, which is unusual for him. Poor Ray, with Bob gone he has to endure the insanity alone. I'm sure he loves the crazy times really, though.

Just the thought of Mikey and Frank singing and dancing makes me smile so hard. Frank would be the shortest and most cheerful T Bird ever! And I suspect Mikey's as far away from virginal as you can get.

But Bambi on ice. I can't stop thinking about that now *g*

Thank you! There's more chance of getting the Killjoys story done, but you never know, both could happen.

oh no poor you! and evil snow and bins!

ray looks properly debauched in that picture with mark and omg that last picture of mikey just had me fall of the chair. well. in my mind i fell of the chair. in real life i just sat and stared with my mouth open. how so pretty, mikeyway?

OMG THAT GREASE REWRITE HAS TO HAPPEN!!!!!!!!!!! pretty puh-lease? i'll want nothing else for christmaaaaas haha i've been a good girl this year...

I can hear my kidlet moving upstairs, I think I'll get him out fighting the bins. *is a mean mam*

Ray does! I looked and was all, holy hell, Toro, turn it down a little! I've been told Mikey is even more better looking in real life. I don't know how I'l cope.

I KNOW! I've just been watching You Tube clips and if Gabe isn't involved somehow the world is not a just place!

I think Gerard would be an amazing beauty school drop out, but you know what's stopping me embracing that 100%? The fact he wouldn't be related to Mikey. I can't read stories where they're not brothers or their ages have been swapped up. I am the lamest /o\

But it would be so perfect! I am torn!

haha let's have a round of evil laughs there!

i know. ray makes me knees weak haha and well i didn't see mikey very close up, but he is ngggggggh *makes incoherent noises* how is this even possible???? to transform from dyke with birds in his hair to sex!god extraordinaire????? i think the universe not letting me win a meet and greet is a good thing in the end. i would never recover from it.

you know what? YOU are the GOD of this world. so just make him a beauty school drop out AND mikey's brother!

I'm undecided if I'd want to go to a meet and greet. On one hand, they'd be so close. On the other. They'd be so close!

YES! I like the way you think, and I am God of this situation. Which also means he can be there with brotherly advice during the transformation scene.

Gerard, brandishing a brush with an eye liner stuck behind his ear. "Now Mikey, just because you look like a hot piece of ass doesn't mean you don't have to protect it. Do you have condoms?"

Mikey. "Oh my god. Kill me now."

EXACTLY!!!! i'd probably be grinning like an idiot and waving at them for five minutes without a break like a complete idiot.

muahahahaha we make things happen in our writings ;)

OMG YES! this has to happen!!!! he should also give mikey a haircut. and and like, glitter!!!! okay, i don't know where that came from, i think it was gerard ballerina in my mind yelling. but uhm. yes. this has to happen! mikey. in leather. and like...nggggh *makes undignified noises again* mcr reduce me to a state of communicating merely through grunts and moans. it is quite pathetic.

Ahahaha, yeah. I suspect I'd be right there with you.

MIKEY MUST WEAR GLITTER! He could be a little unsure at first, but Gerard would be enthusiastic! And insistent about how it would highlight Mikey's cheekbones beautifully.

In leather. With those boots. Oh man.

we could wave at them like idiots together! :DDD haha

OMG YES! the leather and the boots and the GLITTER on his CHEEKBONES! i have an ongoing love affair with mikey's cheekbones. which sounds so wrong, but i really don't care.

gerard would be so proud of it, pointing out mikey's flawless make up to everyone...

THAT DOESN'T SOUND WRONG AT ALL!

I'm sorry, I'm capslocking at you like crazy today but I keep thinking of him with his hair and the glitter and the boots and needing to flail!

Oh man, yes. All, I did that! :D

oh don't worry about it, i understand the need to capslock very, very, very well...

gerard is gonna turn mikey into his big project as a "fuck you" to beautyschool.

Frank Iero is the shortest, most adorable man.
Also, it looks like Ray and Frank just had sex. Sex hairrrrr. :D

He is! No lie, my size kink is singing due to that first picture.

I agree! I think I'll go and imagine that a while.

[snortgiggles] That picture is like _ _-_ _ in terms of height. They're really such a very very tiny band. [grins]

Also, holy hell, Mikeyway. [blinks dazedly]

They are the tiniest! Frank even more so *g*

He is killing me.

20,000 words is great. My goal was 15,000 and I managed 11,000, because I quit at Thanksgiving. But that's still 11,000 more than if I hadn't signed up. You know how I need deadlines to actually write anything.

11,000 is a fantastic amount!

You know, the lack of an actual deadline is probably what kept my count down. It remains weird I have no deadlines this holiday season.

For further visual details, think Mikey in very early days at first, then transformed into Mikey of the bird's nest era complete with eye make-up, tight pants, studded belt around his slinky hips and tiny t-shirt.

Best. Image. Ever. Hold this thought until I'm home from work and I will attempt a ridiculous doodle!

I didn't know that I had this deep unrealized need to hear GeeWay sing 'There Are Worse Things I Could Do'... but there it is, suddenly realized. XD

(I've been stockpiling my recycling in the laundry room so I don't have to deal with dragging it around through the snow, I'll admit. *g*)

I didn't know that I had this deep unrealized need to hear GeeWay sing 'There Are Worse Things I Could Do'... but there it is Oh WOW. I now have the same deep unrealised need.

I need this in my LIFE.

Mwuahaha! The biazarre craving is contagious!

Best. Image. Ever. Hold this thought until I'm home from work and I will attempt a ridiculous doodle!

Eeeeeeee!

You have just made my day!

Add me to the list of people having that need now.

I think I'll start to stockpile our recycling too. The snow has to go soon surely. Then I can get rid of it.

Well, I certainly fulfilled the "ridiculous" part of my promise... XD

That's hilarious. You've even got Mikey's knock-knees.

\o/ Thank you!

Eeeeeee!

That is amazing!

The knees! The hair! The slightly turned in feet!

You are the best ever!

Mwuahaha, thank you muchly!

Oh my god. Sandra Fuckin' Dee, I am ded. DED. This is awesome, I love the pose and the unmistakeable :|

Yaaaay for the :-| face coming through despite the lipstick! XD Thanks!

Hee, this is great! Thanks for sharing! <333

*g* Thanks for commenting!

I can't imagine what it is to have a house in this amount of snow! Good for you for trying *high fives*

I love the elevator picture lol

I thought you had a load of snow too?

I suspect anyone used to snow would know it was a futile attempt, or more likely, not let the paths get so deep in the first place. I am a snow noob.

Yes, but I live in a apartment building, ie no shoveling for me \o/ (here you get a fine if you don't clear the sidewalk in front of your house two days max after a big snowfall - lots of pressure, IMO).

I am a snow noob.
Such a cute expression! And fear not, a few more winters like this and you'll be ready for anything *g*

b_dsaint and I both agree there needs to be a Grease bandom rewrite. I have had Summer Lovin' stuck in my head for about an hour now. Miz's fault!

Also, those pictures are adorable. They are the cutest cupcakes. And I'm sorry but that first one? Ray has a total blow job mouth. He has been blowing someone immediately prior to that picture being taken, I KNOW IT.

A Grease bandom rewrite would be amazing! *_*

Damn, but thinking about Ray blowing someone is hot!

Theory: Frank and Ray just had sex, to give Ray such fucking delicious matted sex hair, and to make Frank look so tired. Gerard looks subtly cranky because he and Mikey were going to have morning blowjobs, but they stayed up waaay too late playing Magic and ended up sleeping through their alarms and Frank had to bust into the room to wake them up and thus no sex. And Mikey just hates photoshoots.

Is it just me that looks at the second picture and sees inception?

Alicia and Jamia and Bob and Mike and James should all be working with cars with Frank. Because they're awesome and hardcore.

Is it just me that looks at the second picture and sees inception?

Nope. *g*

I like your theories! Especially the sex hair, because that's always amazing.

I still haven't seen Inception but will take your word for it.

YES! I can see that too.

It's not like Inception is THE MOST AWESOME EVER, I didn't get into the fandom or anything. But there's this scene that's been ripped on in tons of memes and jokes that's all LOOKIT ME, I'M DEFYING GRAVITY AND RUNNING ON THE WALLS (http://reviewsoutsidethebox.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/inception_hotel2-e1281104884221.jpg) and I can totally see that in the second picture.

For some reason, Ray with matted hair is like one of the sexiest things I've ever seen. nrggggh.

Ah, I see what you mean.

Ray with sex hair is hot as all hell!

Bins + snow is never a good combination. I actually remembered to put my rubbish bags out last night but I wish I hadn't bothered because a) they didn't get collected due to too much snow and b) by the time I woke up this morning they were buried under the foot or so of snow that fell overnight and I managed to trip over them when I ventured out to the shop because I couldn't see them under all the snow >:(

Those pictures are delicious. Also? I would very much like to enable to posting of a Mikey's hat of awesome picspam :D?

Bins are evil! Ours still haven't been picked up, though I shouldn't be surprised as we only got our first post delivery in over a week this morning. Way to grind to a halt NE >:(

I will post a Mikey hat spam! Because I've just seen a Mikey in his hat picture that made me squeak with joy.

Gabe & the Cobras would do Grease Lightening, I'm sure! :)

Perfect casting!

Bad bins, no cookies!

Yay words!

And thank you so so much for the MFAC mention, dearest Terri! ♥

I am displeased at the bins.

You are so welcome <3

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