Haha it's a writing meme no one cares

[kat_lair]

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Seriously, I've had a very long week. Yesterday I had 3 lectures. Which I gave. 2x2h + 1x3h and then I attended a fourth one. Now I need to clean and tomorrow I still need to do some lecture prep and clean more. I have many tabs open that I should comment on. I have laptop I should be buying. And... idek, other things that I've failed at. So hey, what's one more.

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Snuffled from thesmallhobbit.

Grill the (Grumpy) Writer Meme

Ask a question about my writing and I'll try to answer it:

1) What I was thinking at the time I wrote a story/series or a question about my writing as a whole. It can be absolutely anything including about my WsIP. (I don't post WIPs, they're all on my hard-drive and I don't like to talk about them so there)

2) Pick a character/pairing I've written and I will explain the top five some ideas, concepts, etc. I try to keep in mind while writing that character/pairing.

3) Quote a few lines from something I've written and I'll comment on them.

4) At AO3 I have posted xx works. Pick a number from 1 (the most recent) to xx (the first story I posted there) and I'll tell you three things I currently like about the story. IDK why this is so complicated a question and also, as much as I love AO3, the casual assumption that everyone posts fics there is annoying. Well. I do post most of my fics there. But not all, e.g. none of the unmarked_place stuff is there because of reasons. Anyway, rather than play with numbers, why not just randomly select a story and then I can tell you some things about it. Probably not 3 and probably not why I like it. But things.

Oh yeah, you can find my fics via LJ Masterlist or via AO3.

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Comments

[kat-lair.livejournal.com]

Pfft yeah because it was largely 'lalalalalalaaaaaaaaa'

Mikey/Gerard... Hmm, well there are quite a few versions of them in my head. It's an interesting pairing because I can believe it going either way with the d/s dynamic which is rare for me as most pairings I write I'm quite fixed on whom I prefer as d if that dynamic is present.

See, Gee as a d makes sense to me because... He's the older brother, he's supposed to be taking care of Mikes and this is really just another way of doing it, if Mikey needs it then shouldn't it then be his duty (but never just that, never only that) to provide it. And he needs to hear Mikey ask, needs to hear the need in his voice so he knows he's invited and wanted and it's okay. And Mikey, he's looking up to his older brother, loves him so damn much, too much really, and he's always wanted Gerard attention, loves being the one that Gerard comes home to and tells everything to. He'll do anything to please Gerard and maybe that's not healthy but he can't ever imagine Gee asking for something he wouldn't be willing to give. Largely because he can't imagine there being anything he wouldn't be willing to give.

And Mikeay as a d makes sense because... Gerard's the older brother, he's supposed to be taking care of Mikes. He could never... do anything, would never hurt Mikey by acting on what he wants because it's wrong. But when Mikey tells him to... Well that's different, isn't it? That takes the decision out of his hands, takes the responsibility away. And Mikey... well, his possessiveness really could flip this way too, couldn't it.

Even without any d/s dynamic, I'm really fond of the fanon portrayal of the two of them inappropriately close. Like even if there isn't slash I totally think they're kind of brothers who share too much and like give each other sex advice etc.

There's another version of the Way brothers that I have in my head and it's the kind of tangled together, fucked up, co-dependent, jagged, hurting, breathlessly fragile relationship I'm sketched in the two poems (and as of yet finished fic) that's kind half-tragedy, half-magical realism, all bird metaphors and yearning and slow press of fingers and mouths and... well, yeah. That.

[pushkin666.livejournal.com]

See I like all of those version so Mikey and Gerard, and always like to readh them as well.