Bandslash: Telepathy Means Never Having Privacy When You're Jerking Off

[naotalba]

Title: Telepathy Means Never Having Privacy When You're Jerking Off
Author: naotalba
Pairing: Pete/Patrick, a little past Pete/Mikey
Rating: R, mostly for language
Length: 3100 words
Author’s notes: Thank you to megyal for her awesome beta work, and to sevenfists for the inspiration. Additional authors notes here (spoilers for fic within

Comments

[naotalba]

Thanks! I feel like Patrick has to give him a hard time about his obvious mancrush on John Mayer.

[naotalba]

Thanks! I think I asked myself three or four times "why would anyone want to be a wheel?" before it occurred to me to look it up.

[thesleepless84]

Doctor Evil wrote that song. Duh. xD

[naotalba]

Thanks! It thrills me to hear that it pulled you in, because that is my favorite kind of story to read.

[naotalba]

Thanks! I have a huge Doug crush, and his fedora is awesome. I feel bad for abusing it, even in fiction.

[imogenelovelace]

I like it! Though I must admit that I wish you'd done the telepath story with Will, as you mentioned ages ago, but that's just my own personal bias. Telepathic bandslash is much better than no telepathic slash at all.

[naotalba]

If it makes you feel any better, I feel really guilty about it. The problem with the Will story was that this sort of thing should be a funny story, but if it happened to you in real life, it would be horrifying. So I needed the the POV character not to be the one it happened to, or it would veer off into angst (which the initial draft did, whereupon I put it down). And I needed the POV character to be kind of insensitive, so that he could laugh about it even when he maybe shouldn't, which ruled out Elizabeth. And I couldn't come up with a Jack voice, or a plot that would make Jack's POV make sense. So the story stalled for a year

[imogenelovelace]

I couldn't come up with a Jack voice,

I admire you for recognizing your limitations. I know I can't write Jack POV either, so I don't - but so many people do it anyway, and the badfic makes me cry.