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Dec 19, 2006 22:49

My dearest darling readers of savvygambols who have been with me through thick and thin, through Carl/Thom Yorke and Alex Turner/Jarvis Cocker. Changes are no good. But maybe these changes won't be too bad.

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dreamofthem December 20 2006, 18:44:17 UTC
If you're starting on a v2, can I read the unfinished v1? Please? Because, y'know, you can hardly tell someone that you've written the joys of Pete Wentz and Tim Burgess watching Disney films together and then keep it hidden....

There really isn't much to elaborate on. Mikey wears nice coats. Mikey should wear a nice coat in a fic and probably have something tragic going on with Wentz (although, it being Christmas, it's always nice to tone down the tragicity and give them some more funtimes instead). Here is Mikey wearing his nicest (as far as is known) coat:






Gaaaay. I mean what? Oh it's Mikey, when is it not gay.

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savvygambols December 20 2006, 22:12:24 UTC
“I love you,” said Timmy.

“I don’t,” said Carl.

And he went back to searching for his whisky, day five of an end-of-American-tour-celebration, day five of a socially-acceptable-(for a rockstar)-drunken-stupor, day five of a record-breaking Carl’s-an-asshole-streak. Timmy couldn’t believe anyone could stay drunk for that long but here he was in Carl’s hotel room, watching Carl phase in and out of consciousness, always, always, coming to just as Timmy decided to leave, once and for all. Not that the rest of the band were any better off. Didz was passed out in the adjoining room, naked for reasons Timmy couldn’t ascertain. Anthony had been missing for two days now, and Gary had flown home with Josh. The two were, by all accounts, ravaging Hull with the rest of the Paddingtons.

“Seriously Tim, have you seen my whisky?” asked Carl. “Fucking. . .I can’t find it.”

“Maybe you left it in the other room,” said Tim who’d been up for 72 hours without sleep and was decidedly not drunk. Anymore.

“Why the fuck are you still here?” asked Carl, shaking as he stood to go to the other room. Tim got up the bed and assisted his friend to the other room. Carl went on, growing crueler by the step. “Why are you. . .you don’t give a. . .I’m not yours. You don’t belong to me.”

“Shut up Carlos,” said Tim, guiding Carl to the bed next to Didz’s limp form.

“You don’t know me,” insisted Carl. “You bastard, you. . . done fucking nothing. Useless like someone’s grandmother. . .”

Timmy helped Carl pull off his shirt, socks, and trousers.

“You’re not Peter,” Carl said, climbing under the covers, next to Didz. Timmy pulled up the blanket to their chins. “I don’t love you one bit.”
Timmy brushed the hair off of Carl’s forehead. “Cunt,” he said, but Carl had already passed out.

Later that night, he ended up in some trendy bar nearby, filled to overflowing with boys and their skinny jeans, sidekicks, gratuitous eyeliner, greasy hair. He was decades older then most of these young men, older still in his buttoned-up shirt, lilting British accent, and a request for a scotch.

“Jesus Christ,” said a young man sitting on his left. “People still drink scotch?” And Timmy just looked him and drowned the shot.

“I don’t drink,” said the young man. “It gets out of control. You get out of control. You know?”

Timmy was torn between telling the boy to fuck off and asking him why he was in a bar if he didn’t drink. He ended up with “I’ve been up for three days and drunk for two of them, my best friend just passed out in a hotel bed next to his naked bassist, telling me I’m a useless sack of shit and someone’s old grandmother.”

“Are you in a band?” said the young man sympathetically. “I am too. It fucking sucks, doesn’t it? My band is full of bastards. But I still love them.”

“He’s not in my band,” said Timmy, “and I’m in love with him. He’s a drunken buffoon.”

“Ever been to Chicago?” said the young man. “Your problems sound like my scene.”

Timmy smirked, “I’m too old for you kid.”

“Not me,” said the young man. “I’m taken. But you sound like you could use a break from this shithole of a city.” He put his hand out. “Chicago pisses all over this place. LA sucks.”

Timmy shook the young man’s hand. He liked him already. “Tim Burgess.”

“Pete Wentz. But you can call me Pete.”

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too long for the comment box! too long for the comment box! savvygambols December 20 2006, 22:13:00 UTC
They ended up in Pete’s rented apartment, (“We’re recording,” Pete explained), watching Disney movies. Aladdin first, (“he’s so hot,” said Pete), then The Lion King (“my favorite,” said Pete), and finally at Tim’s comfortable insistence, Beauty and the Beast (“my favorite,” he said shyly. Pete nodded, and handed Tim a warm cup of coffee). It was 9 o’clock in the morning when they finished.

“I gotta go meet my band,” said Pete, struggling to untangle himself from the couch that he and Tim had buried themselves in. “But you’re welcome to stay here if you want. You look pretty fucking tired.”

Tim held up his hand. Four fingers, four days without sleep. Pete grinned. “Man, I could learn a lot from you.”

Tim fell asleep on Pete’s couch and slept for twelve hours straight. He was awoken by Pete shaking him.

You can see why I stopped writing, it was too serious to pull off convincingly and it got really boring really quickly. Don't worry, version 2 so far has an existential crisis about a Sidekick and a dark alley/bad idea next to a gay bar and I'm still on the first page.

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Re: too long for the comment box! too long for the comment box! savvygambols December 20 2006, 22:14:38 UTC
That makes me think, I have got a lot of unfinished fics who met their tragic demise the same way as this one. I wonder what else is hiding in my computer.

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Re: too long for the comment box! too long for the comment box! dreamofthem December 20 2006, 22:39:37 UTC
Man, me too. Endless little snippets, and a couple of unfinished epics too. *mourns them*

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Re: too long for the comment box! too long for the comment box! savvygambols December 21 2006, 00:36:10 UTC
Someday we should both just post all of our random snippets and epics and mourn the unfinished of brilliance.

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Re: too long for the comment box! too long for the comment box! dreamofthem December 20 2006, 22:43:13 UTC
I *can* see why you stopped writing, it gets serious very quickly and it's kind of upsetting really, which isn't to say I approve of you stopping, because it seems like it was going to get very good, but, but, I do understand. So. It's really good though, Camz, you write serious fic so well. Although, your serious fic always has desperation and tragic relationships (you should *really* write some proper Pete/Mikey some day). Anyway, I really like it, and I'm looking forward to v2, yey xxxx

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Re: too long for the comment box! too long for the comment box! savvygambols December 21 2006, 00:38:51 UTC
It probably would end really happily if I could get my head out of the angst bucket, le sigh. But I can't.

What is proper Pete/Mikey? Are they happy boytoys? My impression of the two of them has always been somewhat tragic, doomed lovers whose love ended because of time and the universe or something.

I'm glad you like, that makes me sort of pleased hehe. Thank you!

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Re: too long for the comment box! too long for the comment box! dreamofthem December 21 2006, 15:27:21 UTC
By 'proper' I meant 'longer than the 5 things one'. They are indeed tragic, doomed lovers whose love ended because of time and the universe. Ok no wait, it was because Warped Tour ended and they.. I dunno, it went wrong somewhere. But anyway, they are the most tragic love story of our generation. But I should imagine before the tragicity started they had quite a lot of funtimes.

....yes. anyway.

:) xxx

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Re: too long for the comment box! too long for the comment box! savvygambols December 21 2006, 17:45:02 UTC
Oh, ok.

Warped Tour, Fiance, the emergence of Panic! at the Disco. . .it's all very sad, isn't it? Still. I'll make it my personal goal to write happy Pete/Mikey.

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savvygambols December 20 2006, 22:15:35 UTC
what sort of funtimes? sexy funtimes? gay funtimes? funtimes involving zombies and the coming apocalypse?

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dreamofthem December 20 2006, 22:40:07 UTC
Canon funtimes! My favourite type.

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savvygambols December 21 2006, 00:37:13 UTC
So vampire funtimes then!

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dreamofthem December 21 2006, 15:10:17 UTC
Oh my god Camz I'm not even kidding when I say that if you write me vampire!fic, I *will* cry. I can take zombies, I can take amoebas, I can take genderswop and heavy kink and Spencer Smith as a *belt*, but oh man, I cannot take vampires. Many a brilliant fic has been *ruined* by vampires. Gah.

*breathes*

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savvygambols December 21 2006, 17:32:28 UTC
Man, I am just murdering you today, aren't I?

I won't write vampire!fic. I can tell already that it'd turn out too Buffy-the-Vampire-Slayer and she is not my favorite person to begin with. So. Canon!funtimes it is, by which I'm assuming you mean no drinking and people being happy.

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dreamofthem December 21 2006, 22:50:15 UTC
Thank you, and although that may have seemed like an over reaction, it wasn't. Vampires are just.. nggh. I think it's because I grew up reading Savage Garden slash which is just swarming with vampires and it was so painful..

Now to fix your Spencer addiction.

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