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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.

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'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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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...

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

[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]

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.

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 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

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.

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.

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?

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

Bad bins, no cookies!

Yay words!

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

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