Comments | wearemany: yes they are

wearemany

yes they are

Feb 04, 2008 16:53

hmmm. i've been thinking --

i have this conversation all the time. (all the time, seriously, ask J.) but i've been saying now for months how it's not a story i'm so interested in writing any more, and i think maybe that's not true at all.

so: if you give me the name of someone you know i'm likely to write big gay stories about, i'll tell you ( Read more... )

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wearemany February 5 2008, 02:58:55 UTC

wow. way to make me realize how hard this is for people i don't really think are all that queer. let me think on it a bit and get back to you.

wearemany February 5 2008, 05:49:42 UTC

but i meant to say yes, yes, a thousand times yes about lance. it's amazing.

inspiration struck! wearemany February 10 2008, 00:00:24 UTC

Spencer and Ryan spend the first week of August 1998 engaged in an epic fight: Ryan says AJ is the coolest. He is so very wrong. Obviously it's Kevin. Kevin is tall and bitchy and understands what it's like to have to take care of your best friends all of the time. Sometimes when they watch videos on MTV Spencer's fingers twitch with the need to push Nick's blond hair off of his round face, but Kevin is still the bad-ass of the Backstreet Boys ( ... )

fmangel February 5 2008, 01:04:06 UTC

patrick, please!

this may be the most tragic fucking thing i have ever written. consider that a warning. wearemany February 5 2008, 01:56:04 UTC

Patrick sends his in to AbsolutePunk.net, just like last time he had something serious to say.

Hi everyone. This is the kind of thing people keep saying should be done in person, but I can't tell all of you each in person, even if you deserve it. You deserve a lot from us, even when we're too tired or too busy or acting like we don't remember where we came from. We were just like you, kids at shows waiting to talk to people we thought knew every fucking thing in the world just because they were holding a guitar and shouting into a microphone. I remember seeing a band when I was 13, and I guess looking back now I'd say they weren't even a good band, but it meant the fucking world to me that they talked to me after, that they said I should keep playing and find some friends and start my own band. It meant everything ( ... )

Re: this may be the most tragic fucking thing i have ever written. consider that a warning. fmangel February 5 2008, 02:11:26 UTC

oh my god, this is the most perfect thing ever. god. my heart. both of them.

Re: this may be the most tragic fucking thing i have ever written. consider that a warning. cyclogenesis February 5 2008, 03:56:51 UTC

Oh my god, I weep! That was so good.

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deliberatehips February 5 2008, 01:04:59 UTC

BRENDON.

Even though we've talked about this a little before, let's talk about it more.

If I get a second one, I want Ryan too.

wearemany February 5 2008, 02:35:37 UTC

here's my most recent revision to our ongoing theories about this: he doesn't come out, not in the formal sense, not on the cover of a magazine or even the inside of one. he just tells somebody it'd be dumb to cut out the scene in the footage they have for the new dvd where he's kissing a guy, or talking about a dude he liked, or his boyfriend, or how that guitar tech was pretty fucking hot. or the scene where they're joking about their most popular and persistent rumor and ryan says, deadpan is-it-a-joke-or-not, i don't know why people always assume i have to be the guy you're having sex with, and brendon says, yeah, the guys i have sex with are always kind of annoyed by that too ( ... )

babygotbass February 10 2008, 04:46:56 UTC

This will be the best coming out ever. Because it just is. And they will just let it be.

strongplacebo February 10 2008, 12:57:50 UTC

ryan says, deadpan is-it-a-joke-or-not, i don't know why people always assume i have to be the guy you're having sex with, and brendon says, yeah, the guys i have sex with are always kind of annoyed by that too.

Okay, that's the greatest thing ever.

Thread 5

aproposofnothin February 5 2008, 01:05:00 UTC

Do I even have to ASK for Brendon? :)

aproposofnothin February 5 2008, 01:32:23 UTC

Oh fine, deliberatehips beat me to him (but only because I wasted time trying to decide how best to communicate my incredulousness at Brendon not being, like, a given on this question).

PETE, PLEASE!!!!

wearemany February 10 2008, 00:42:55 UTC

i am trying not to be lame and punt this back to the reaction shot with patrick's letter, because also the problem is if i start thinking about this too much it'll be like 40 pages long and eat my life and i can't do that right now!

but it goes something like this. there are photos, photos of pete with a guy, of pete naked enough and with hands enough below the waist that it doesn't really look like joking, it doesn't look like the same old thing. there are photos, and then there are questions, and pete says, "what the fuck, a dude's not allowed to change his mind?" and he says, "love is a mindfuck, huh," and he says, "i guess it was bound to stick eventually," and he says, "whatever i say i'm gonna piss somebody off, so fuck it," and says whatever else he's thinking right then, too.

aproposofnothin February 10 2008, 05:34:09 UTC

I love that! So offhand, nonchalant and matter of fact, like he washed his whites with colors one too many times. Like why would anyone care if his underwear's a little pink. Very Pete. xoxo

Thread 5

i don't have a The Wire icon or I'd use that jae_w February 5 2008, 01:09:23 UTC

BUTCHIE

Re: i don't have a The Wire icon or I'd use that wearemany February 5 2008, 01:10:12 UTC

oh fuck you, pick the HARD ONE. fine, fine. i'm coming back to it later when i'm done bitching.

Re: i don't have a The Wire icon or I'd use that wearemany February 10 2008, 00:24:18 UTC

i was thinking about this, watching episode five. then i got distracted wondering when butchie lost his sight, or if he was born blind, and how that would play into his expression of his sexuality in -- what, it must have been the '60s, i'd guess, when he was a young man? i like to think of butchie already behind a bar, maybe his own gay uncle's, maybe just a neighborhood joint, listening to men talk, trying to decide what kind of men they were, were they like him, by the way their mouths made words, by what drinks they ordered and what conversations they thought they were whispering to the guy sitting next to them even though, of course, butchie could hear every word. maybe he waited once until a guy struck out, not in a scary, is this going to be a fight way, just a no thanks, buddy. and butchie would pour him an extra drink as solace and lean in and hope the guy wasn't distracted by some fine thing across the bar and say it sounded like a good offer to him.

Re: i don't have a The Wire icon or I'd use that jae_w February 12 2008, 05:39:43 UTC

Oh, dude, did I not tell you how much I loved this in all my travels? This is fantastic -- I love the idea of butchie already blind and behind a bar, figuring things out, figuring out how he'll navigate his way. I'd been thinking he was the right age for the draft but I love the idea of him listening in, people probably figuring he couldn't hear because he couldn't see, the way people do, but butchie sitting there hearing exactly what he needs to go the whole time. Awesome awesome, thank you.