There are two options: death or starting a band
So, olivia_circe and I had a crazy, crazy chat conversation this afternoon, about a Russian Revolution AU she was totally not contemplating. What follows is a chat log full of CRACK. And Gerard Way as Lenin. I just.
olivia_circe: is totally not contemplating a Russian Revolution AU.
jjtaylor: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OMG PLS
olivia_circe: ahahahahahahah NO
jjtaylor: DO IT! PLS!!!
olivia_circe: I wouldn't even know where to start
It is a hilarious idea, though. Hmmmm.
jjtaylor: it is an AWESOME idea, but you know my weakness for Russian things
olivia_circe: well, you would have to help A LOT. This is true.
jjtaylor: I'd help!! RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
I JUST
olivia_circe: Aw <3
I seriously wouldn't know where to start, though, is the problem. Everything I know about the Russian Revolution I learned from Stoppard. Okay, actually that's a lie
but still
jjtaylor: well, I am a reference librarian
olivia_circe: (secretly I think it would be incredibly fun, I am just afraid of getting in over my head)
jjtaylor: I appear to have no barriers when it comes to getting in over my head with bandom
I'm just like
BRING IT
olivia_circe: Maybe I could write a short Russian Revolution AU? Ahahah, yeah, like that would happen.
jjtaylor: a short Russian Revolution AU! OMG, that's hilarious. It'd be like a vignette.
olivia_circe: Maybe it could be a Decembrist AU
jjtaylor: AHAHAHAHAHA
olivia_circe: TRUNCATED REVOLUTION
OMG, I am laughing too hard, I have to go shut my office door
olivia_circe: The thing is, Gerard Way is totally Lenin
jjtaylor: why is that the funniest thing ever?
olivia_circe: I HAVE NO IDEA BUT IT IS
jjtaylor: it really, really is. His statue!
olivia_circe: AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAOMG
jjtaylor: "We will follow a different path."
Bert's an anarchist!
olivia_circe: !!!!!!!
jjtaylor: I feel like this would be a deeply unpopular story
olivia_circe: Yeah, I mean, there is totally no way to make it sexy or romantic
Even though Lyn-z would be awesome Nadya
jjtaylor: OMG
the big question: who would be the secret police?
who would be Trotsky?
olivia_circe: OMG, Trotsky! And, like, what about STALIN?
jjtaylor: !!!!!!!!
olivia_circe: And Tsar Nicholas, because that's just tragic!
jjtaylor: OMG! that is tragic
This is depressing
olivia_circe: I know, right? That is the problem! The Russian Revolution is depressing!
jjtaylor: totally
hence the abridged version
olivia_circe: Awesome, but tragic
jjtaylor: an AU AU where there's a happy ending!
olivia_circe: Right!
jjtaylor: Lenin forms a band!
olivia_circe: OH MY GOD I AM DYING
SORRY, I AM LAUGHING SO HARD I NEED TO GO PEE
I WILL BE RIGHT BACK
jjtaylor: AHAHAHAHA OMG OK
olivia_circe: I did not regain any sanity while in the bathroom, BUT Pete and Patrick are MARX AND ENGELS
jjtaylor: OMG YESYESYES
that is perfect!
olivia_circe: I totally ship Marx/Engels, btw
Maybe Frank can be Trotsky and it can be FULL OF TRAGEDY
jjtaylor: OF COURSE
that would be AWESOME
and HEARTBREAKING
olivia_circe: I WOULD CRY
jjtaylor: Lenin/Trotsky!
olivia_circe: TOTALLY
jjtaylor: I would cry the whole time
and then we'll get thrown out of fandom
olivia_circe: It would be like Romeo and Juliet, only a hundred times more awesome.
olivia_circe no we wouldn't, because nobody would read it!
olivia_circe: they'd be like "who are these crazy fuckheads?"
Actually, you know, it's bandom, probably they would LOVE US
jjtaylor: YOU KNOW WHAT
YOU'RE TOTALLY RIGHT
olivia_circe: In any other fandom people would shun us forever, but in bandom we would start a trend
jjtaylor: it's true!
olivia_circe: I don't not even know how this happy ending happens, though, really! Although the idea of Lenin starting a band with TROTSKY (and then they can move to England and Engels can produce their records with his family's slave labor fortune and they can all join up with the Chartists) is kind of the most hilarious thing I've ever heard in my life.
jjtaylor: AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
IT TRULY IS
BUT STILL AWESOME
we'd make everyone CRY
olivia_circe: Totally awesome
TEARS OF JOY
jjtaylor: YES
imagine the manips
olivia_circe: ....
DEAD. ON THE FLOOR.
Later:
olivia_circe: ...I sent you a freaky text message
FYI
jjtaylor: OK LET ME GO LOOK
olivia_circe: ::hides under desk::
(The text message reads: You know what would make this story evne more tragic? If Mikey was ANASTASIA. Okay, so, it makes no sense with Gerard as Lenin, but Mikey would be the best Anastasia ever.
jjtaylor: MIKEY WOULD BE THE BEST ANASTASIA EVER
olivia_circe: I KNOW, RIGHT?
jjtaylor: I KNOW
OMG
THIS IS THE MOST CRACKED OUT STORY EVER
olivia_circe: I do not think we can actually write it, because I think I would die
of laughter poisoning or something
jjtaylor: I KNOW
I feel the same way
olivia_circe: OKAY, GOOD
However, it will be hilarious forever
jjtaylor: TOTALLY
I really think I would die of a cracked rib
if we ever tried to write this
I'd just write one paragraph of Gerard as Lenin and I'd die
olivia_circe: I could totally write a serious Russian Intelligentsia Coat of Utopia AU, or possibly even a the band guys during the Russian Revolution, but actually casting them as historical figures would kill me
Like, I would try to type it out, and then I would collapse in giggles on my keyboard
jjtaylor: agreed
olivia_circe: GERARD. AS LENIN.
I mean, there is no bad there.
olivia_circe: You know, possibly we should put this entire thing on Wolfshirts, but I am not sure anybody else would appreciate it like we do.
ahahahahah, yeah
olivia_circe: ...I think I am getting a headache from suppressing the LOLZ. But it is SO WORTH IT.
jjtaylor: LOL
awesome
I think it's totally worth posting in LJ, at least
I'd be kind of afraid of the questions we'd get in wolfshirts
like, um, how it would end
olivia_circe: well, we'd tell them that there are two options:
DEATH
or...
starting a band
jjtaylor: AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
that could be the cut-tag quote
olivia_circe: ::snicker::
I kind of like the revisionist history version, but I mean, in the real version, eventually there is Stalin, and that just sucks for everybody
plus, I have no idea who Stalin would be
jjtaylor: gabe
evil!Gabe
olivia_circe: OH MY FUCKING GOD
BRILLIANT
jjtaylor: LOL
olivia_circe: He starts out so likeable! And socialist!
And then the cobra of dictatorship just...corrupts him!
"The Cobra of Dictatorship"?
jjtaylor: OMG
this is the best and worst story ever
olivia_circe: totally
and yet, I just...cannot stop...
SO MUCH CRACK
jjtaylor: THAT IS HOW CRACK STORIES ARE
THEY WON'T LET YOU STOP
(LJ-ify your IMs before pasting!)
I warned you, seriously.
olivia_circe: is totally not contemplating a Russian Revolution AU.
jjtaylor: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OMG PLS
olivia_circe: ahahahahahahah NO
jjtaylor: DO IT! PLS!!!
olivia_circe: I wouldn't even know where to start
It is a hilarious idea, though. Hmmmm.
jjtaylor: it is an AWESOME idea, but you know my weakness for Russian things
olivia_circe: well, you would have to help A LOT. This is true.
jjtaylor: I'd help!! RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
I JUST
olivia_circe: Aw <3
I seriously wouldn't know where to start, though, is the problem. Everything I know about the Russian Revolution I learned from Stoppard. Okay, actually that's a lie
but still
jjtaylor: well, I am a reference librarian
olivia_circe: (secretly I think it would be incredibly fun, I am just afraid of getting in over my head)
jjtaylor: I appear to have no barriers when it comes to getting in over my head with bandom
I'm just like
BRING IT
olivia_circe: Maybe I could write a short Russian Revolution AU? Ahahah, yeah, like that would happen.
jjtaylor: a short Russian Revolution AU! OMG, that's hilarious. It'd be like a vignette.
olivia_circe: Maybe it could be a Decembrist AU
jjtaylor: AHAHAHAHAHA
olivia_circe: TRUNCATED REVOLUTION
OMG, I am laughing too hard, I have to go shut my office door
olivia_circe: The thing is, Gerard Way is totally Lenin
jjtaylor: why is that the funniest thing ever?
olivia_circe: I HAVE NO IDEA BUT IT IS
jjtaylor: it really, really is. His statue!
olivia_circe: AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAOMG
jjtaylor: "We will follow a different path."
Bert's an anarchist!
olivia_circe: !!!!!!!
jjtaylor: I feel like this would be a deeply unpopular story
olivia_circe: Yeah, I mean, there is totally no way to make it sexy or romantic
Even though Lyn-z would be awesome Nadya
jjtaylor: OMG
the big question: who would be the secret police?
who would be Trotsky?
olivia_circe: OMG, Trotsky! And, like, what about STALIN?
jjtaylor: !!!!!!!!
olivia_circe: And Tsar Nicholas, because that's just tragic!
jjtaylor: OMG! that is tragic
This is depressing
olivia_circe: I know, right? That is the problem! The Russian Revolution is depressing!
jjtaylor: totally
hence the abridged version
olivia_circe: Awesome, but tragic
jjtaylor: an AU AU where there's a happy ending!
olivia_circe: Right!
jjtaylor: Lenin forms a band!
olivia_circe: OH MY GOD I AM DYING
SORRY, I AM LAUGHING SO HARD I NEED TO GO PEE
I WILL BE RIGHT BACK
jjtaylor: AHAHAHAHA OMG OK
olivia_circe: I did not regain any sanity while in the bathroom, BUT Pete and Patrick are MARX AND ENGELS
jjtaylor: OMG YESYESYES
that is perfect!
olivia_circe: I totally ship Marx/Engels, btw
Maybe Frank can be Trotsky and it can be FULL OF TRAGEDY
jjtaylor: OF COURSE
that would be AWESOME
and HEARTBREAKING
olivia_circe: I WOULD CRY
jjtaylor: Lenin/Trotsky!
olivia_circe: TOTALLY
jjtaylor: I would cry the whole time
and then we'll get thrown out of fandom
olivia_circe: It would be like Romeo and Juliet, only a hundred times more awesome.
olivia_circe no we wouldn't, because nobody would read it!
olivia_circe: they'd be like "who are these crazy fuckheads?"
Actually, you know, it's bandom, probably they would LOVE US
jjtaylor: YOU KNOW WHAT
YOU'RE TOTALLY RIGHT
olivia_circe: In any other fandom people would shun us forever, but in bandom we would start a trend
jjtaylor: it's true!
olivia_circe: I don't not even know how this happy ending happens, though, really! Although the idea of Lenin starting a band with TROTSKY (and then they can move to England and Engels can produce their records with his family's slave labor fortune and they can all join up with the Chartists) is kind of the most hilarious thing I've ever heard in my life.
jjtaylor: AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
IT TRULY IS
BUT STILL AWESOME
we'd make everyone CRY
olivia_circe: Totally awesome
TEARS OF JOY
jjtaylor: YES
imagine the manips
olivia_circe: ....
DEAD. ON THE FLOOR.
Later:
olivia_circe: ...I sent you a freaky text message
FYI
jjtaylor: OK LET ME GO LOOK
olivia_circe: ::hides under desk::
(The text message reads: You know what would make this story evne more tragic? If Mikey was ANASTASIA. Okay, so, it makes no sense with Gerard as Lenin, but Mikey would be the best Anastasia ever.
jjtaylor: MIKEY WOULD BE THE BEST ANASTASIA EVER
olivia_circe: I KNOW, RIGHT?
jjtaylor: I KNOW
OMG
THIS IS THE MOST CRACKED OUT STORY EVER
olivia_circe: I do not think we can actually write it, because I think I would die
of laughter poisoning or something
jjtaylor: I KNOW
I feel the same way
olivia_circe: OKAY, GOOD
However, it will be hilarious forever
jjtaylor: TOTALLY
I really think I would die of a cracked rib
if we ever tried to write this
I'd just write one paragraph of Gerard as Lenin and I'd die
olivia_circe: I could totally write a serious Russian Intelligentsia Coat of Utopia AU, or possibly even a the band guys during the Russian Revolution, but actually casting them as historical figures would kill me
Like, I would try to type it out, and then I would collapse in giggles on my keyboard
jjtaylor: agreed
olivia_circe: GERARD. AS LENIN.
I mean, there is no bad there.
olivia_circe: You know, possibly we should put this entire thing on Wolfshirts, but I am not sure anybody else would appreciate it like we do.
ahahahahah, yeah
olivia_circe: ...I think I am getting a headache from suppressing the LOLZ. But it is SO WORTH IT.
jjtaylor: LOL
awesome
I think it's totally worth posting in LJ, at least
I'd be kind of afraid of the questions we'd get in wolfshirts
like, um, how it would end
olivia_circe: well, we'd tell them that there are two options:
DEATH
or...
starting a band
jjtaylor: AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
that could be the cut-tag quote
olivia_circe: ::snicker::
I kind of like the revisionist history version, but I mean, in the real version, eventually there is Stalin, and that just sucks for everybody
plus, I have no idea who Stalin would be
jjtaylor: gabe
evil!Gabe
olivia_circe: OH MY FUCKING GOD
BRILLIANT
jjtaylor: LOL
olivia_circe: He starts out so likeable! And socialist!
And then the cobra of dictatorship just...corrupts him!
"The Cobra of Dictatorship"?
jjtaylor: OMG
this is the best and worst story ever
olivia_circe: totally
and yet, I just...cannot stop...
SO MUCH CRACK
jjtaylor: THAT IS HOW CRACK STORIES ARE
THEY WON'T LET YOU STOP
(LJ-ify your IMs before pasting!)
I warned you, seriously.