new bandslash fic: wake up and notice

[cimorene]

So, you can see that wax finally betaed my storee and now I can post it! Also, it's too long for livejournal. Read it at cimorene.net.

Wake Up and Notice (≈ 21 000 words)
Bandslash: My Chemical Romance, Frank Iero/Gerard Way
NC-17; genderswap
Many thanks to bexless, a stellar cheerleader, and to wax_jism for beta.

Everyone just stared at everyone else for a second until Mikey mumbled, "Everyone turned into a girl except you last night, so I guess now there won't be anyone to kill spiders."

Comments

[shoemaster.livejournal.com]

If I tried to copy and paste my favorite bits of this into the comment box it'd probably be about 10,000 words. Seriously, it was hot and hilarious and I just love the whole band, and the inside of Gerard's mind as written by you. Alicia always comes in handy with these things and I adore her for it. I'm out of words at this point but it's saved to my hard drive already and will never be deleted.

[ficsoreal.livejournal.com]

I am filled with happy. \o/, this is one of the best genderswaps I've read and I like how they all continued being boys. Not bathing, flashing people...good times. And Frank, why so adorable? Why so sexalicious? Again, I really enjoyed this.

[twilight-la-fae.livejournal.com]

This is so good, its unbelievable. It was funny and hot and smart and sometimes a little sad but I loved it and it was so so awesome. /abusing 'and'

Ugh, I loved how Gee expirences everything as a girl, you just nailed everything. Frank was so perfect and Alicia, god, I really hope Alicia is like that in real life, because she's so awesome. The rest of boys were incredible too.

*grin* Great job!!

[eleanor-lavish.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow, fantastic!! Genderswap with all the Frank/Gerard sex there could POSSIBLY EVER BE!

I love the way Gerard still thought like a boy, in boy metaphors, that he was confused and oddly shaped, and it took him a minute to figure out he was turned on. I love the bra shopping, and the constant coffee/chain-smoking, and Bob Bryar as a girl, holy crap. I love Gerard and Mikey's silent conversation and Mikey's worrying about Frank, and i REALLY REALLY WITH ALL MY HEART loved Frank's enthusiastic cocksucking.

Two massive, massive thumbs up!!!

[anglepoiselamp.livejournal.com]

That was kind of really, really awesome. I'm sorry I don't have anything coherent or feedback-esque to say, I just never do. *hides*

[miserablefaith.livejournal.com]

oh my god, my heart feels too big for my chest, right at this very second. frank & gerard being all *puppylove* & *sex* just. god. you did a really awesome job of this.

[farwing.livejournal.com]

This is really brilliant and wonderful. I think this might be the best genderswap I have ever read. And I rather adore genderswaps. And it was filled to the brim with funny bits and really amazingly hot bits and I am in awe.

[sweetvalleyslut.livejournal.com]

This was so great. Wonderful characterization, good dialogue, and it made me nostalgic for my years of not wearing a bra. And just everything that Gerard thought about the whole experience seemed perfect. And I giggled forever about his battle with the hotel coverlets.

[thelionforreal.livejournal.com]

the tone is just fabulous, the vocabulary and the way it fits characterisation ... oh eff this you know i can't do coherent feedback I AM IN LOVE WITH THIS AND YOU AND GIRL!BOB'S NON-COMFORT LEVELS WITH HIS HUMONGOUS TA-TAS. (and girl!ray's extreme comfort levels with his humongous ta-tas.)

AND FRANK. AND GERARD. FRANK AND GERARD THEY ARE SACRED AND THEY ARE WONDERFUL AND THEY LOVE IN ALL GENDERS.

all caps! ALL CAPS!

i will tell the world "read cim's storee. cim's storee. read it!"

[mercurybard.livejournal.com]

There were all kinds of fantastic moments here, but my absolute favorite would have to be Bob in Victoria's Secret with his arms over his chest, being all grumpy and cavemanish over having to get a bra.

[valerie-z.livejournal.com]

I started copying and pasting my favorite parts, but I reached the maximum characters for a comment before I was even a fourth of the way in. And then I got to this:

if it didn't feel so good there would be something gruesome about love, and that no, actually it was pretty gruesome anyway in an awesome way, it was like having a bizarre craving to taste your own blood so you rip your heart out and lick it, and stuff it back into your chest still beating packed in cotton candy and it feels like sex, but there you are with blood all over, right?

And I actually cried. I'm pretty sure I've never cried while reading gender swap bandslash before, but this story was just that good.

There were so many honest laugh-out-loud moments, and then there was the amazingly hot sex, and I'm so impressed that one person can do both at the same time. And now I have to go change my pants. Luckily, unlike Gerard, I have a clean pair available.

Thank you for a great story.

[notshybutsly.livejournal.com]

I love genderswap where they don't suddenly become women in the emotional sense but continue to be guys just with different parts. It's much more interesting to read that way. There are just so many things I love about this fic, way too many to quote, it's amazing.

[stereomer.livejournal.com]

oh my christ, how did you write something so hot and so well-characterized and heart clenching and funny, all at the same time?! honestly now. i loved this.

[lesasoja.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's, super amazingly hot. I really like how Gerard works his way around to his more lasting revelations. Also, "in the history of man" made me giggle.

[littlerhymes]

This was so fun to read - really funny and smart and hot. Loved how you got all of the guys, their voices, their support for each other; and loved the style, which comes across so straight-faced and deadpan funny.

[paula0.livejournal.com]

Oh, hey... That was cool! Funny, yet deadly serious somehow. And I found myself described at one point! Let me go find it. Here: "...but recently it depends more on the angle. It was more androgynous than actually completely girl-like..." Except it goes the other way around for me, I guess. :)

"but, like, who's ever feeling confident and emotionally balanced? Sometimes I think that's just a myth."

I think so, too. I've found that the people who claim to be emotionally balanced are usually the most fucked-up ones. :)

[fluffontop.livejournal.com]

Wow, that was so funny and hot and really sweet. I love Gerard and Frank's relationship - the attraction that it turns out had nothing to do with the random genderswitch, and ohhhh for all the hot sex. Great dialogue and hilarity throughout! Fabulous!

[theaerosolkid.livejournal.com]

Amaaazing is all I have to say. Very nice, all of it was just great. Dialogue, sex, character interactions, everything!

\o/

[cimness.livejournal.com]

I really introduced Alicia at first more for a way to move the plot forward than anything else, but she turned out to be pretty much the most fun part of the whole thing. Of course I'm too lazy (and would also feel like too much of a creepy stalker) to track down information about what she actually acts and talks like, but I'm pretty happy with that. Thanks for the feedback! I'm so glad you liked it!

[cimness.livejournal.com]

Thanks! That's definitely what I was thinking about - I read genderswaps excitedly and the whole gender identity issue, the way they act while girls, is the big thing about it for me. I'm glad you liked my interpretation!

[cimness.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the fb! I had a lot of fun with Alicia and with Gerard's introduction to the World of Girl especially. Glad that some of my joy apparently rubbed off on the text. ;)

[cimness.livejournal.com]

Hee, thank you! I'm glad I went ahead and wrote the enthusiastic cocksucking scene, then, even though the romantic tension was already over, then. I'm so pleased and flattered by the feedback. Thanks for taking the time to write it!

[cimness.livejournal.com]

Hee. ♥ Don't worry about it! Thanks for the comment!

[cimness.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

High praise indeed! I'm flattered. Thank you very much for the feedback!