oops.

[cimorene]

A momentary whim led to my actually reading one of the many pieces of (non-Frank/Gerard - I read almost half of those, sad to say, but generally none of the others) badfic I clicked on yesterday... with the result that now I very much want to read some good (or okay, or hell - how about mediocre?) Mikey/Ray. I fear with very good reason, I think, that there is none to be had, and the only result will be getting past the headers of more badfic. So hopefully that will result in more laughing than headdesking, but I guess we'll see.

Now I'm occupying myself trying to lobby wax for inclusion of Frank/Gerard in Something We Don't Want To Jinx, although we are agreed that random inexplicable background pairings are unacceptable (reluctantly because I still wanted one, though, and who cares about Pete/Mikey? Plenty of other people, plainly, but certainly not me.) and B-plots are more acceptable, but the degree of subtlety required is debatable. "For example, it would be obnoxious," I said, "if Mikey were walking along, thinking about how Gerard told him he had a crush on Frank and also Frank told him he had a crush on Gerard, and he wonders when those two crazy kids are ever going to figure themselves out." She exclaimed in outrage, "Are you confusing me with a badfic writer?"

Comments

[sinden.livejournal.com]

There should always be Gerard/Frank b-plots. I mean, all it can do is make the story better, right?

[cimness.livejournal.com]

At least it gets YAY\o/ points, but I suppose if it was really pastede on and not-fitting it could detract in a strict good writing sense. One has to have standards, and not do things in the service of one's OTPs that would be horribly irritating if someone else were doing them with a pairing one doesn't care about. Which is why she should've just written Frank/Gerard in the first place, I think, but you know how she is about Mikeyway!

[sinden.livejournal.com]

But there should at least be some decent Frank and Gerard cameos, even if they aren't together, perfect foils those two. They really are.