Jules and I have a challenge. A challenge of AWESOME

[schmerica]

So cidercupcakes and I have decided what the world needs is lots and lots of 1950s AUs. With diners! And high schools! And basically all the awesome parts of Grease and none of the boring parts.

Seriously, there are like eight million different stories you could tell in this universe and we want to read everyone. A FEW EXAMPLES FOR YOU:

+ Bruce Springsteen is a short order cook in the diner! Patti Scialfa is the bad girl! She steals his stupid little paper hat and he thinks it's charming even if no one else in Repressie 50s Suburbia does! They make out in her car!

+ Pete the jock and Mikey the weird kid! Pete gives Mikey his pin in the front seat of his car when they're at the drive-in! Mikey wears Pete's stupid ugly varsity sweater around over his freaky clothes all the time!

+ Gerard is the kid who goes up to Lookout Point with a boy and the boy won't take no for an answer and Gerard slaps his face and demands to be taken home! But the next day at school Gerard's reputation is ~*ruined*~! Gerard has to walk the halls and just pretend he doesn't hear all the whispering they're doing about him! Frankie gets into fights with boys in the locker room over his HONOR!

+ Greta and, like, Ray Toro or somebody have the Innocent Adorable Courtship of "Can I Carry Your Books Home For You?" Which culminates in the very exciting peck on the cheek outside her doorstep! Later they go to the diner and order one milkshake with two straws!

+ Patrick is the Really Very Nice Boy (Everyone Thinks He's Such a Good Kid)! But between being friends with Pete and the flirting from Vicky-T he is being tempted to a whole nother WORLD!

+ Vicky-T is a bad girl! She and Patti have a gang! They have leather jackets and tease their hair and smoke cigarettes together outside the school! In the morning before homeroom they tape up their hems a whole inch so their skirts are shorter than everyone else!

+ Also it's possible that everybody fights vampires. VAMPIRES MAKE EVERYTHING AWESOME, TRUFAX.

+ [FILL IN YOUR BRILLIANT IDEA HERE....?]

Comments

[gigantic.livejournal.com]

Gabe is the guy from the FUTURE who's gotten sucked through his television set, and now he's trying to teach hipsters not to take themselves so seriously everybody about sexual freedom and individuality, and suddenly PEOPLE ARE IN TECHNICOLOR. I mean... wait. Wait, that's something different.

[1001cranes.livejournal.com]

O___O

I think I love you. And Gabe. Well, mostly you, but... no, Gabe first. BUT I LOVE YOU LOTS FOR THIS. Pleasantville FTW.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

AS LONG AS THERE IS A LOT OF DANCING I APPROVE.

[shoemaster.livejournal.com]

William Beckett is the head of a gang! (A really pretty one) But over the summer he meets an Australian boy who steals his heart! But he thinks it's a temporary thing and goes back to school and his gang.

Then Chiz shows up at school! And is surprised when Billy pretends not to know him and hangs all over that Tom Conrad guy.

(I'm a terrible person!)

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

But you're pretty! So we like you anyway!

[jezrana.livejournal.com]

All of this: Y/Y

Frank is a greaser! Only he's really a nice, respectful guy, because his mama raised him right, but DON'T TELL ANYONE OR HIS REPUTATION WILL BE RUINED.

[mcee.livejournal.com]

YYYYYY!

Jamia is a waitress at the diner! Frank goes there every day on his break and combs his hair back at her.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

*starry eyes* HE GETS HER A STUPID LITTLE PROMISE RING THAT SHE WEARS AROUND HER NECK AND TELLS HER HOW HE'S GOING TO TAKE HER OUT OF THIS TOWN AFTER GRADUATION.

[mcee.livejournal.com]

She gives him a hard time, too. She'll lean on the counter in front of him when things are slow and let him flirt badly with her, and she'll wear the ring and let him promise things--BUT SHE WON'T LET HIM KISS HER. EVER. He's dying.

[jezrana.livejournal.com]

And/or eventually she'll kiss him, but the one time he tries to get past first base, she threatens to break his nose.

Um. I want there to be a rumble and I'm trying not to cast Bert McCracken and/or Matt Pelissier and/or Brent Wilson as villains/bullies. BUT I DEMAND RUMBLAGE, whoever it involves.

(And possibly Mikey being given a makeover at some point, considering how much his later stages sometimes look greaser-esque. Only there's no Lasik in the 50s so he has to just carry his glasses in his back pocket and be blind the rest of the time.)

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

AWWWWWW Frankie is the most sexually frustrated dude EVER, it's wonderful! He's totally whipped, too. The other dudes mock him a bit.

But she does give him extra whipped cream on his slices of pie ever time.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

NOT UNTIL THEIR WEDDING NIGHT, FRANKIE. SHE'S NOT THAT KIND OF GIRL. IS THAT ALL YOU BOYS THINK ABOUT?

Hahaha, poor Frankie is, like, constantly on edge. He would jerk off all the time. When she lets him put his hand on her waist for a slow number at the dance, or when she gets out of the car in a way where he sees the top of her stocking on her thigh? That's orgasm material for MONTHS.

[shoemaster.livejournal.com]

OH OH OH. About the Frank defends Gerard's honor one, can they have been friends from waaaaaaay back and he's really close with the Ways so everyone figures it's like he's defending his sister (even Gerard assumes that) and Frankie's all "Yeah. Uh. Right." And ANGSTING behind the school with his cigarettes.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

WHY NOT. THERE IS ROOM FOR ALL SHENANIGANS HERE!

[suckmyglock.livejournal.com]

Gerard is a B-Movie star! The monsters are made from old stockings, moulded rubber and a moth-eaten fur coat (by Bob?)! Brian is the impatient director! The acting is terrible!

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

ahahaha. You know, when you're going the movie AU direction, though, I like the 20s place better than the 50s. Gerard's expressions are made for silent films.

[suckmyglock.livejournal.com]

Now my brain is going to.... METROPOLIS. OH GOD YES. I need a Metropolis AU, stat!

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Oh, see, I just went to the Singin in the Rain place, a little. Gerard is too squawky and New Jersey-y for talkies! Except that he'll show him, he'll show them all! AND THEN THEY PUT ON A SHOW AND IT'S AWESOME AND EVERYONE LOVES HIS SINGING /HAPPY ENDING.

[stereomer.livejournal.com]

HAHAHAHAHA.

"AND I CAAAN'T STAND 'IM."
"CAHN'T."
"CAAAN'T."

ETC.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

IS IT NOT GLORIOUS? GERARD HAS A SPEAKING VOICE MADE FOR SILENT MOVIES! HE IS A SHIMMERING GLOWING STAR IN THE CINEMA FIRMAMENT

[foxxcub.livejournal.com]

OMG YES I LOVE 50s AUs. \o/

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

MAYHAP THERE WILL BE A SOCK HOP? WHO KNOWS!

[blondiusmaximus.livejournal.com]

I want to take this post behind the high school and get it pregnant.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

UNDER THE BLEACHERS, I HOPE.

(Gerard and the post can sit all alone at the unofficial SLUT table in the cafeteria! It's over in the corner away from everybody else. Gerard offers to make baby booties in home ec, but they all have skulls on them.)

[cidercupcakes.livejournal.com]

I want to say that maybe Patti and Vicky even wear PANTS, but...THEIR LEGS.

I'm so torn, Erica. It is a tragic and awesome dilemma.

Please stop me from thinking up a name for our sordid little town, with the vampires in it, and creating a community so everyone can start writing and sharing their fic.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

You say that, but I think what you are really seeking is encouragement.

(What if we make it and no one writes us stories? It will be TRAGIC.)

[vampirespider.livejournal.com]

Just reading the first idea made me make an embarrassing little happy squeak and maybe kind of fall off my chair.

Hee!

[inmyriadbits.livejournal.com]

Lyn-Z and Alicia should also be in this gang with Vicky and Patti. Possibly it could be a motorcycle gang. :)