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[turps]

Corey's school was off again today. We got up at the usual time, checked the website, and then crawled back into bed for three more glorious hours. Of course him being off meant more X Box live time which kills my connection...sigh.

The school sent an email too. Sent time 6:50. The time I got it? Nearly 5 in the afternoon.

I've seen this a few places now and it's still cool. Picture of GB under snow.

popoffacork authors are revealed very soon, so, just for fun, anyone have an idea about what I wrote? themoononastick has already guessed because apparently she's magic like that.

To end.

Genderswap: It's not something I really seek out. Most always-a-girl stories leave me wondering why the writer didn't just use one of the many kick-ass women in fandom. I do like gender swap when it happens for a reason, the writer wants to explore something, from characters finding out about differing attitudes to genders in the industry to Mikey feeling down so has hot sex with Alicia, but so often the stories are nothing but the exact same characters with added boobs or dick. At which point I just think, why?!

Bodyswap: I enjoy it. Both the humorous kind to more serious stories where someone spends a day in someone else's shoes. Mostly though, I go for the humour. I like stories that make me laugh.

Drunk!fic:I have no problems with it, and have written it a few things. A lot of drunk!fic in mcr tends toward the serious side. Gerard really wasted and how that affects the others. I'll happily read that, the same way I'll read someone tipsy and having fun.

Huddling together for warmth: Dude! Show me a popslasher that hasn't written or read that trope and I'll show you someone falling down on the job! Don't you know when Nysnc and BSB started up they toured in Germany for *ages* and it was always *cold* and they huddled together on tiny beds with scratchy sheets and had sex. Sometimes with Justin's mom! Which is, bring it on!

Undercover in a gay bar: The Sentinel is full of those kinds of stories and I enjoyed them. They're not so common in the rps fandoms, which is a shame because there should be a sprawling bandom cop AU complete with missions and uncover shenanigans! And Mikey and Ryan could gossip over the water cooler in the corner, leaning against the table with their tiny cones of water, saying nothing but taking everything in to gossip about discuss later. And then there would be an undercover mission at the gay bar and people would be worried and they'd decide to send in the twinkiest of them all, which of course would be Mikey and Ryan, maybe Brendon and there would be a scene of fitting wires, with lots of groping and stern words not to get in any trouble! But of course they do and the people outside in the van, have to listen as everything goes to hell and they realise the gay club is the centre of a huge drugs ring and the big boss is there and suddenly there's gunfire and everyone is scrambling out of the van, yelling and all panicked and it would be awesome!

Pretending to be married: Works for me. Though it always reminds me of that X Files ep.

Secretly a virgin: While the secret keeping isn't anything I get excited over, the actual taking of the virginity scene? Oh yes.

Amnesia: Nothing I'd go looking for. But you know what would be good? One of the Ways having amnesia. That would be awful and tragic and would make me so sad. If it were Gerard, and Mikey's spent his whole life looking up to his big brother and now he doesn't even know him. WOE!

Cross-dressing: Let me tell you a story about cross-dressing. Back when I was but a baby!fangirl I read a crossdressing The Sentinel story, one where Jim got dressed in a fluffy jumper and got off on feeling the fabric. I was so traumatised you don't even know. Jim Ellison didn't wear women's clothes! Just the thought made me recoil. That attitude stuck with me through popslash where the thought of Chris in pink panties still makes me want to cry. Then I came into bandom.... I found writers who made it work, Frank wanting to fuck up Mikey's lipstick, Gerard in a dress, Brendon having a thing for panties, and I liked it. Not always, I have to trust an author before I'll read cross dressing and it also has to be certain people. Bob in a dress? Hell no. But others, yeah. I blame Mikey. Totally.

Forced to share a bed: Haven't I already mentioned Germany and the cold and the narrow beds with scratchy sheets!? They had to share a bed or freeze to death! My pop boys sparkle with joy not ice!

Aliens made them do it: Well they sort of do in the a certain universe I have with aliens running space brothels \o/ There needs to be more aliens! Aliens that make people have sex. There is a sad lack right now!

Wingfic: I like wing fic but it's nothing I'd ever purposely search out.

Mpreg: Any Mpreg pales in comparison to Rhyss' Mpreg. Simple as.

Mistakenly assumed to be gay: That's not really an issue in either bandom or popslash. There's more a chance of mistakenly assumed to be straight.

Let's play truth or dare: A classic, one where many truths have been revealed. In the right hands it can be awesome. In the wrong hands horribly mottsy.

Mary Sue fic: No way. I don't need stories of Mistie, Christie, Sparkle, Ebony and Flo being the support act for Nsync, and....gasp! falling in love with them!

Aphrodisiacs: It can be smokin' hot! But I do like to know there was an actual attraction there and nothing forced between people who're supposed to be friends.

Curtain fic: Love it. Domestic scenes of cooking, cleaning, shopping. They make me happy.

Hurt/Comfort: I hate it.

....

Did you believe me? Did you?! Love it! It's my favourite always. If I had to pick any kind of trope ever it would be h/c. There needs to be more, much more! Crashes, adventures, illnesses, bumps, bruises, sickness, blood, pain, angst, woe. Bring it on! Comfort too of course, with hugs and reassurances things will be okay.

Apocalypse fic: Yes! I love all of that stuff.

Someone has a baby: I don't mind it, but it's way down on what I want to read.

Baby!fic: Wee!Bob! *loves* I do enjoy other baby!fic too, it can be fun.

Telepathic soulbonding: Like a wolf jumping into the panther kind of thing? I could go for that.

Werewolves mate for life: So do lobsters \o/

But what I want to know is, where is the fuck or die trope? I like that one.

Comments

[rikes]

I've never had a snow day in my life so I'm totally envious.

That aerial photo is really pretty though

[turps33.livejournal.com]

I'd imagine you guys could have ten times the amount of snow and still keep going. Here half the teachers couldn't get in due to the roads being so bad. Not that Corey minds, or me when I get extra sleep.

It's a gorgeous picture. Evidence of the snowpocalypse! *g*

[adelate]

Seriously, I was saying to mom today that it's crazy that it's -30C and people still have to GO OUT AND DO THINGS.

[dancinbutterfly.livejournal.com]

Um...The tour fic that was Mikey/Bob - "Always, Kinda, Sorta"

Its probably not but I know you love Mikey and I know you love the tour-days so...That's my guess. (i think everyone knows mine:P)

[turps33.livejournal.com]

I know yours \o/

And I'll tell you if you're right after reveal. But you are right that I love Mikey and tour-days :)

[turlough]

I don't know if you wrote PatD or MCR so I can't guess because I've only read the MCR fics. (And not even all of those now that I think of it. I didn't read the WWII zombie fic and I think there was a Bob/Mikey fic that I didn't finish because it was incomprehensible.)

Oh, a fic meme a reader can do to! I must totally do that tomorrow.

Hurt/Comfort: I hate it.

Hahahahaha!!!

where is the fuck or die trope?

Well, in a way it's covered by the aphrodisiac & aliens made them do it prompts.

[turps33.livejournal.com]

Are you suggesting I could have written an incomprehensible Bob/Mikey!?

I will go and be woeful in a corner now! /dramatic moment!

You should do it, it's fun.

I nearly fooled Noora. See, I could hate h/c!

I suppose, but fuck or die should have its own category. Then you can have evil kidnappers getting a kick out of making people have sex.

[nopseud]

If it were Gerard, and Mikey's spent his whole life looking up to his big brother and now he doesn't even know him. WOE!

And then, of course, Gerard doesn't know that they're brothers, so he keeps coming on to this hot stranger, and Mikey is TEMPTED and CONFLICTED and full of even more WOE for the dirty thoughts about his brother that are TORMENTING HIS EVERY WAKING HOUR. And then they have sex, and Gerard recovers his memories and full of shame he runs away into the snow and gets hypothermia, and is rescued in the nick of time by THE END.

That attitude stuck with me through popslash where the thought of Chris in pink panties still makes me want to cry.

Unlike the idea of JC in a dress with Aaron and Lance, mmm?

Any Mpreg pales in comparison to Rhyss' Mpreg. Simple as.

Rhys's MPREG was okay, but seriously. JC IS KNOCKED UP BY ALIEN NEWTS! That is the most awesome MPREG EVER!

Someone has a baby: I don't mind it, but it's way down on what I want to read.

Yeah, I'm kind of neutral, too. Unless they've having an ALIEN NEWT BABY!

Baby!fic: Wee!Bob! *loves* I do enjoy other baby!fic too, it can be fun.

Like...ALIEN NEWT BABY!FIC, maybe? Oh, not, sorry, wrong kind of babies. How about if LANCE was an ALIEN NEWT BABY in the past?

Telepathic soulbonding:

With ALIEN NEWT BABIES! (Oops, I think that might be a spoiler.)


p.s. Non-popslash people one Terri's flist -- I am not insane, I promise. It's just the ALIEN NEWT BABIES have control of my mind right now.

[turlough]

Don't believe her, she's totally insane! I've been in popslash so I know ;-D

[turps33.livejournal.com]

I think that's the best Waycest summary I've ever read. *has awe*

You wore me down with JC in a dress. You know what? I was going to add something else then but I'm not giving you the challenge.

It seems the alien newt babies span many tropes! As well they should!

Alien newt babies. Man, popslash is so awesome!

[themoononastick]

Do I get a prize?

Also, you should tell me SO MUCH MORE about Ryan and Mikey being undercover in a gay bar and there being gunshots omg

p.s. maybe 'forced to share a bed' is the PG version of 'fuck or die' :D?

[turps33.livejournal.com]

Your prize will be a finished Mikey&Ryan sekrit bff fic *nods*

It would be awesome! See, I'm thinking it would have to be some huge cop AU with a lot of bandom in it. Clichéd because you'd have Brian the boss guy and maybe Pete underneath him and then the rest are partnered cops. The kind that have each others backs always. So we'd have Jon and Ryan, Spencer and Brendon, Mikey and Frank, Bob and Ray, Alex and Nate, Lindsey and Alicia etc. Gerard would be the sketch artist just because.

They'd work in an open plan office and have name plates that constantly change by the hands of others. Ryan becoming Rosie Ross one day, Pretentious Wan -- they ran out of space for more letters -- the next, which Brian knows about but turns a blind eye to.

So! They get info that things are going on at the local gay club 'The Pink Flamingo' and they know they need to get someone in there undercover. There's a loud and frantic discussion with Bob and Spencer both demanding they get to go in and Brian would be stalking around and be all 'no way will you two pass for twinks' and they'd both glare as Brian says it has to be Mikey and Ryan. Which Gerard and Jon don't like at all! And there's more angry words until Mikey and Ryan end it by saying that everyone needs to shut up, that they're both trained and more than capable of doing this. Which you know, would be more effective if Ryan wasn't wearing a ruffled shirt and hat with a feather and Mikey not fussing with his hair.

Reluctantly things are set in motion, wires fitted and they go into the Pink Flamingo, which Ryan loves and Mikey is kinda horrified by. Which is why Ryan grabs his hand and just pulls him in so they can pose under the disco ball and drink cocktails with sugar and fruit around the rim.

I think at some point they'd need to kiss, which is a little weird because they're gossip buddies and both attached to other people, but still, it's no hardship to make out a little, especially when it attracts the eye of the big bad who demands Ryan and Mikey join him in his booth. And it is a demand, there's no denying that.

So, they're in the booth and no ones talking about the really serious stuff, but big bad has his hand on Ryan's thigh and is getting really touchy feely and the bodyguard has his hand resting on Mikey's shoulder and things are getting kinda tense when Ryan sort of yelps a little but shakes his head when Mikey signals should they go. So they keep drinking and eventually, hours later someone comes up to big bad and Mikey and Ryan's cop senses are tingling that things are going wrong and fast and the new guy pulls out a gun and starts firing!

There's chaos, the bodyguards firing back and Mikey and Ryan are trapped in the booth so they start fighting to get to safety and also to get to the innocent people that are getting caught in the cross-fire.

And then Ryan gets shot! Only a flesh wound but enough he's bleeding a lot when reinforcements come running in. Just in time to see Mikey take down the shooter and Ryan punch big bad in the face.

maybe 'forced to share a bed' is the PG version of 'fuck or die'

It could be. Another big bad standing there and demanding they get in the bed or else!

[castalie.livejournal.com]

That picture is amazing, really. And it's damn impressive, too, wow!

You wrote for popoffthecork, too? Damn, I'd totally missed that! You participated in two many challenges lately, I'm mixing them all, dude! How did that challenge work, btw? Were you assigned someone,, did you pick their prompt, what?

And that trope meme is pretty cool! So many goodies in there!

[turps33.livejournal.com]

It really is fantastic.

I did, but as a pinch hit which is probably why you missed that I had. I saw Jae ask for pinch hitters, volunteered and two days later the fic was posted, giving me no time to talk about it on here, which I'm sure was a relief for many. But if you're asking in a general sense, people are assigned someone to write for and have to write the prompts they asked for.

I love the trope meme. Even if it did take me back to that terrible Jim story *shudders*

[adelate]

Ahahahahaha I laughed my ass off at your descriptions of huddling together for warmth in tiny tiny beds in Germany where it is always cold. (It's funny because it's true!)

Also you had me going with the h/c thing for a moment! I was like, :O really? but then I read on and was thankful you were only pulling my leg :D

I've never heard "curtain fic" before. Is it synonymous to domesticity in a fic?

[turps33.livejournal.com]

The Germany cliché kills me. It doesn't matter that we all know they toured other places it's always Germany in stories, and it's always freezing cold.

H/C is my favourite ever! I'm surprised anyone was fooled for even a moment.

Is it synonymous to domesticity in a fic?

Yeah, that's it exactly. If I remember rightly it came from a story where two characters went out to buy curtains together, and it stuck from that.

[lady-fro.livejournal.com]

Oh my goodness, that totally made my day... And to make things weirder I just finished writing a fic a few weeks ago where aliens make people have sex... <.< >.>

[turps33.livejournal.com]

I just finished writing a fic a few weeks ago where aliens make people have sex...

You are my new favourite! I hope you're posting it soon!

[yami-tai.livejournal.com]

Picture of GB under snow.

Oh, that is so awesome!

[turps33.livejournal.com]

It's such a cool picture!

[arsenicjade.livejournal.com]

OMG, can I please have your baby? I know you already have one, but I could have ANOTHER one.

[turps33.livejournal.com]

OMG! ARE YOU BACK!?

You can have a million of my babies if you never leave me again!

[kira-j.livejournal.com]

...I don't need stories of Mistie, Christie, Sparkle, Ebony and Flo being the support act for Nsync, and....gasp! falling in love with them!

WTF FLO? i've never read one with flo! links pls.

old school het fic is my favorite forever and always. don't you want to read about isabellina and melody getting their dream double wedding with aj and nick??

[turps33.livejournal.com]

Sadly the story only exists in my head. Which is woeful!

don't you want to read about isabellina and melody getting their dream double wedding with aj and nick??

You've just made me laugh so much. But you're right, how could I pass that up?!

[frausorge]

Ach, I didn't even make it through half the popoffacork stories before the reveal, so I couldn't have guessed even if I'd seen this before. But I am looking forward to reading yours, very much!

Also, for the record, I did not belive your red herring ONE BIT. ;p

[turps33.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I didn't manage either. There's just so many stories going live lately! There needs to be more hours in the day.

It was worth a try *g*