Embrace your lameness -- A 12-step program for boyband slashers.

[bubosquared]

Step One: Admit they're cute.
Step Two: Admit they're hot.
Step Three: Pair them off in your head and run screaming from the idea.
Step Four: Get dragged back kicking and screaming.
Step Five: Hunt for fic. Even bad stuff works, because you don't know any better yet.
Step Six: Become disgusted with a lot of the bad fic.
Step Seven: Be attacked by plotbunnies.
Step Eight: Resist bunnies.
Step Nine: Scream as they attack even more.
Step Ten: Write!
Step Eleven: Realise you actually did write that, yes.
Step Twelve: Embrace the lameness!

This Community Program brought to you by Melle and Molly. Because we care.

Comments

[silviakundera.livejournal.com]

SO true. So, so, true. ::sigh::

[lovelypoet.livejournal.com]

Currently in stage 9 staring stage 10 in the eye.

*planted firmly in stage nine*

[liviapenn.livejournal.com]

*wobbles*

At this point I'm not even not-writing because it's RPS, or because it's lame, or because they're a boy-band-for-crying-out-loud. At this point I'm not-writing because I know next to nothing of the "canon" (timelines, who sings what, etc.) and am afraid of perpetuating fanonical stereotypes and being regarded as a poor writer.

So apparently there's not much I won't stoop to do, as long as I can be assured of doing it well.

I'm kind of pleased by this realization, actually. *grins*

Re: *planted firmly in stage nine*

[silviakundera.livejournal.com]

Ummm... You may or may not hate me for this:

[The BoyBand Slash Primer (http://www.popslash.com/primer/index.html)]

Everything you need to know to slash these bastards. In depth. It's wonderful.

Re: *planted firmly in stage nine*

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Oi! I hate you. Now I have no more excuses to stay in stage nine! (Well, nine point five, actually.)

Re: *planted firmly in stage nine*

[silviakundera.livejournal.com]

Whee! If you write something, I must see it! Please??

Re: *planted firmly in stage nine*

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

I'm kicking around this bunny. It's Timbertrick. I don't even like Timbertrick. Also have vague feeling am plagiarising someone. So, yeah.

Anyone wanna give me a good Joey/Chris bunny?

(Have also just read about Lois seeing the puppies at a U2 concert. Tell me not to write a crossover? Please?)

Re: *planted firmly in stage nine*

[silviakundera.livejournal.com]

Damn you! Write Timbertrick! ::begs::

Ummm... okay. "don't write a crossover?" (write timbertrick)

Re: *planted firmly in stage nine*

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

But I don't like iiiiiiit! And anyway, it's stupid. They're not even in the same room. And Chris is acting like a teenybopper.

Thank you.

[orangekoi.livejournal.com]

I'm still working through step 4...

[ex-verdandi713.livejournal.com]

They are inbred-looking at best. And their mothers dress them funny. And they were fucking *Mouseketeers.* But whatever bites your bishop, I guess. [shrugs]

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Can I help dragging? Please?

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

I don't care what you say, I think Joey is cuddly and Chris is an elf. Lance, however, has weird-eye-syndrome, JC is a dork, and the Infant looks like he should be someone's prison whore.

Re:

[ex-verdandi713.livejournal.com]

No, you are *not* permitted to find them attractive if *I* don't find them attractive! I'll fight ya for it. ;-)

Pfshaw!

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

I have two brothers and I fight like a girl. I can beat you without even trying. ;)

Re: Pfshaw!

[ex-verdandi713.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah? Well, *I* can't even make a proper fist, so I *win* this girly-match! [folds arms, looking smug]

Re: Pfshaw!

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

I'd like to see you make that fist with my teeth in your arm.

Re:

[orangekoi.livejournal.com]

Heh heh, sure, just be warned- my screams are particularly shrill.

Re: Pfshaw!

[ex-verdandi713.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah? Well, *I'd* like to see *you* bite my arm with my boot in your teeth!

So *there.* Hmmph.

Re: Pfshaw!

[meacoustic.livejournal.com]

You know, I would be attempting to protect Melle if I weren't laughing so damn hard.

No wonder boyband-fandom is so stereotyped. Y'all fightin' like girls, sheesh. Get with it, yo. [/bad Justin imitation]

And once upon a time, I thought Lance had freaky-eye syndrome as well. Then I watched 'Making the Tour', and *that* excuse to hide behind went right out the window.

And yes, Vali, they do dress horribly. Their mothers should all be ashamed at what those boys wear. But it doesn't make them any less fun to slash. (And they don't wear stuff that's any worse than what Bon Jovi wore in the eighties.)

Re: Pfshaw!

[ex-verdandi713.livejournal.com]

Look, there must be some kind of amino-acid mutation on one of my chromosomes or something, because I don't git it. But still, any excuse to girly-fight cannot be esteemed lightly. ;-)

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Bah! I have a LarsMuse and a BonoMuse. Loudness does not scare me.

Re: Pfshaw!

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Well, I never understood dS slash, either. Read some, liked some, didn't 'get' it. IDIC and all that, I suppose.

Re: Pfshaw!

[ex-verdandi713.livejournal.com]

Eh, I'm sick of dS. LOL. Still gotta update that archive, though...grumble.

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[orangekoi.livejournal.com]

Ah, damn. Drag away, then. ;P

you know

[lucylooo.livejournal.com]

separately, the two of you seem like normal, fun, nice people.

But, together? You're like, the devil, yo.

Re: you know

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Bwahahahahahaha!

[kkscatnip.livejournal.com]

does this apply to hanson, too?