DEAR GOD WOMAN THIS COMMENT. THIS SERIES OF COMMENTS. I've kind of been all *HANDS* about replying because I just don't know how to respond to something so EPIC. I mean GUH. This is amazing. THANK YOU.
It means a RIDICULOUS amount to me that you liked the story so much, because I know how much you love the mix. Hell, I know how much I love the mix, but I was so NERVOUS about writing this, because femslash isn't exactly my forte - hell female characters are not so much my forte - and like, I didn't even particularly set out to make it f/f, I just really wanted to write always-a-girl!Gee, because IDK, I guess SHE was kind of in my comfort zone to start with after having written her before with the whole Punk-Ass Threesome 'verse. So when I knew I had to write a female protagonist I started with HER.
Even after I'd started writing the fic - the whole front part with Pedicone, I still hadn't absolutely decided if Frank was going to be Frank or Frankie. But after listening and listening to the mix there was something about the songs - New and Like A Virgin in particular - that made it feel RIGHT to me that it COULD be this mix is about Gee getting together with a girl, as someone who hasn't maybe done that before, or who hasn't had a lot of experience. So with that in mind, Frankie was born.
I had WAY to much fun writing Frankie. I surprised myself, because once upon a time in my old fandoms I was all snobby about the idea of genderswapping characters, (because I lot of the early genderswap I read felt very Mary Sue-ish) but bandom has some really AWESOME genderswap fic out there (some of it written by you!) which totally changed my mind. So I wanted Frankie to still have FRANK at her centre, but I had a lot of fun playing with the details. Dear god I want someone to draw this Frankie, I can see her so clearly in my mind, with her sweated-through wifebeater, and black bra strap showing and her low-hanging jeans just all tiny and hot and awesome. Yeah, okay so I maybe fell a little bit in love with her through this process - but COME ON, girl Frankie with the skunkhawk - YOU KNOW YOU WANT IT.
Oh god your reaction to the interrupted conversation when Frankie was warming up to put the hard word on Gee at the party - PRICELESS. Exactly what I was hoping for! I know it was EVIL to include that but Gee is still so CLUELESS at that point so juggling between her being aware of Frankie's reactions without knowing WHY she was reacting that way was kind of stupid amounts of fun.
MIX CD OF CHICKS KICKING BUTT. I fucking love that Frankie is basically heading a full-on LOVE ASSAULT and Gee still thinks it's just bonding.
OLD SCHOOL WOOING. I mean, that phrase just popped into my head and I knew it would end up in the fic. FRANKIE TAKES HER WOOING SERIOUSLY. She would totally have graduated to a boombox on the front porch if Gee kept being clueless - you KNOW it.
(As I also loved Frankie coming to Mikey's defense re: general sluttiness in the scene before.)
Oh man, getting to write Scene!slut Mikey for this fic was SO MUCH FUN. I LOVE that characterisation of Mikey and even though the mix didn't call for a misunderstanding as such, once I got the idea in my head of Gee thinking Mikey and Frankie had hooked up I could NOT get it out of my head. (Even when I hadn't decided on Frank being Frankie I still had it in mind, because Mikey totally doesn't discriminate between pretty boys and girls.)
Of course Frankie wouldn't slut shame! More power to the promiscuous!
I love that they just don't STOP, they keep going, and it's clearly one of those nights where you just can't sleep because everything else is SO MUCH MORE EXCITING THAN SLEEP and there is a really gorgeous person RIGHT THERE, and just. You captured that SO FUCKING WELL.
EXACTLY THIS. I mean, god that's the upside of F/F right? There's this quote that I can't find right now, but it's from some interview with Ellen and Portia where they say something along the lines for their first date was dinner and a movie then they went home and made love for 24 hours (something like that, I'm paraphrasing) but that was totally the feeling I was going for, when it's new and AMAZING and you're just so insatiable for this person, right?
And the ENDING and PENCEY PREP and the image of Frankie in TAFFETA and COMBAT BOOTS, seriously, I cannot even.
The fic originally ended with the "I'm so weird thing" but I just kind of WANTED that epilogue. And my beta was like "why are you adding an epilogue, you don't need one?" but i REALLY REALLY wanted Frankie in taffeta and combat boots, okay? REALLY REALLY. I'm so glad it worked for you and it wasn't to schmaltzy, because ugh, it all felt so SELF INDULGENT, but I just WANTED IT.
God girl, thank you SO MUCH. I was SO unsure about this fic and so worried about making it work not only because the mix was so awesome but also to make it work as a genderswap fic and as YOU are someone who writes awesome genderswap and you REALLY love the mix - so you loving it SO is like the biggest compliment ever.
It means a RIDICULOUS amount to me that you liked the story so much, because I know how much you love the mix. Hell, I know how much I love the mix, but I was so NERVOUS about writing this, because femslash isn't exactly my forte - hell female characters are not so much my forte - and like, I didn't even particularly set out to make it f/f, I just really wanted to write always-a-girl!Gee, because IDK, I guess SHE was kind of in my comfort zone to start with after having written her before with the whole Punk-Ass Threesome 'verse. So when I knew I had to write a female protagonist I started with HER.
Even after I'd started writing the fic - the whole front part with Pedicone, I still hadn't absolutely decided if Frank was going to be Frank or Frankie. But after listening and listening to the mix there was something about the songs - New and Like A Virgin in particular - that made it feel RIGHT to me that it COULD be this mix is about Gee getting together with a girl, as someone who hasn't maybe done that before, or who hasn't had a lot of experience. So with that in mind, Frankie was born.
I had WAY to much fun writing Frankie. I surprised myself, because once upon a time in my old fandoms I was all snobby about the idea of genderswapping characters, (because I lot of the early genderswap I read felt very Mary Sue-ish) but bandom has some really AWESOME genderswap fic out there (some of it written by you!) which totally changed my mind. So I wanted Frankie to still have FRANK at her centre, but I had a lot of fun playing with the details. Dear god I want someone to draw this Frankie, I can see her so clearly in my mind, with her sweated-through wifebeater, and black bra strap showing and her low-hanging jeans just all tiny and hot and awesome. Yeah, okay so I maybe fell a little bit in love with her through this process - but COME ON, girl Frankie with the skunkhawk - YOU KNOW YOU WANT IT.
Oh god your reaction to the interrupted conversation when Frankie was warming up to put the hard word on Gee at the party - PRICELESS. Exactly what I was hoping for! I know it was EVIL to include that but Gee is still so CLUELESS at that point so juggling between her being aware of Frankie's reactions without knowing WHY she was reacting that way was kind of stupid amounts of fun.
MIX CD OF CHICKS KICKING BUTT. I fucking love that Frankie is basically heading a full-on LOVE ASSAULT and Gee still thinks it's just bonding.
OLD SCHOOL WOOING. I mean, that phrase just popped into my head and I knew it would end up in the fic. FRANKIE TAKES HER WOOING SERIOUSLY. She would totally have graduated to a boombox on the front porch if Gee kept being clueless - you KNOW it.
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Oh man, getting to write Scene!slut Mikey for this fic was SO MUCH FUN. I LOVE that characterisation of Mikey and even though the mix didn't call for a misunderstanding as such, once I got the idea in my head of Gee thinking Mikey and Frankie had hooked up I could NOT get it out of my head. (Even when I hadn't decided on Frank being Frankie I still had it in mind, because Mikey totally doesn't discriminate between pretty boys and girls.)
Of course Frankie wouldn't slut shame! More power to the promiscuous!
I love that they just don't STOP, they keep going, and it's clearly one of those nights where you just can't sleep because everything else is SO MUCH MORE EXCITING THAN SLEEP and there is a really gorgeous person RIGHT THERE, and just. You captured that SO FUCKING WELL.
EXACTLY THIS. I mean, god that's the upside of F/F right? There's this quote that I can't find right now, but it's from some interview with Ellen and Portia where they say something along the lines for their first date was dinner and a movie then they went home and made love for 24 hours (something like that, I'm paraphrasing) but that was totally the feeling I was going for, when it's new and AMAZING and you're just so insatiable for this person, right?
And the ENDING and PENCEY PREP and the image of Frankie in TAFFETA and COMBAT BOOTS, seriously, I cannot even.
The fic originally ended with the "I'm so weird thing" but I just kind of WANTED that epilogue. And my beta was like "why are you adding an epilogue, you don't need one?" but i REALLY REALLY wanted Frankie in taffeta and combat boots, okay? REALLY REALLY. I'm so glad it worked for you and it wasn't to schmaltzy, because ugh, it all felt so SELF INDULGENT, but I just WANTED IT.
God girl, thank you SO MUCH. I was SO unsure about this fic and so worried about making it work not only because the mix was so awesome but also to make it work as a genderswap fic and as YOU are someone who writes awesome genderswap and you REALLY love the mix - so you loving it SO is like the biggest compliment ever.
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