Also, more high school AUs should have GSA meetings

[schmerica]

I officially declare that in all college AUs ever, Gerard should totally fill the role of Pretentious Liberal Arts Student of Morally Superior Bisexuality. You guuuuuuuys, he would be so good at it! Everybody's naturally bisexual, just some people won't admit it to themselves! It's not that there's anything wrong with monosexuality, he's not judging or anything, it's just that personally Gerard doesn't understand why anyone would want to restrict their options that way! He falls in love with people, not genders, you know, so it's purer! He talks to his friends on the edges of the Kinsey scale with genuine curiosity!

Pete, on the other hand, self-identified as pansexual for a while, but has moved on to defining his sexuality merely in terms of "slut."

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[impertinence.livejournal.com]

Now I just really really want Pete/Gerard.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

I can see this particular Pete and Gerard involved in many threesomes together but not, I think, an actual relationship.

[soundslikej.livejournal.com]

Pete, on the other hand, self-identified as pansexual for a while, but has moved on to defining his sexuality merely in terms of "slut."

Hi.

This sentence fills me with glee.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

\o/

[etben.livejournal.com]

I AGREE WITH EVERYTHING IN THIS POST.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

LOOK AT YOUR ICON. HE DOESN'T BELIEVE I'M STRAIGHT EITHER. :(

[jezrana.livejournal.com]

Yes!

Gerard tells Pete, very earnestly, that owning your sexuality is a wonderful, empowering thing, but using typically demeaning language to describe that is counterproductive. Pete contemplates shoving his tongue in Gerard's mouth and his hand down Gerard's pants to shut him up.

[greyandgrey.livejournal.com]

Pete counters with the fact that language is socially defined and words can change meanings given the right context - he's not using 'slut' as a demeaning term, he's reclaiming the term as a positive!

...and then he shoves his hand down Gerard's pants.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Ha! Like having sex with Gerard has EVER shut him up!

[fallingfortruth.livejournal.com]

I actually think that Gerard might have done that exactly once. Then he got righteously smacked down by Patrick the Angry Asexual and now he is much meeker and says that he's bisexual even though he isn't entirely comfortable with the implication of the binary nature of gender, which he definitely doesn't agree with.

Gender is just performance! (But he has to say that kind of quietly next to Lindsey and Jamia and Beckett because otherwise they start glaring at him. Gerard's life is SO HARD.)

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

*giggles* POOR GERARD. He is so misunderstood!

I wonder how long Gerard can stay meek about anything, really.

He totally uses bisexual despite his objections because he thinks all the other terms are too academic and jargony and thus exclusive. Gerard wants to SAVE PEOPLE'S LIVES, you know. This is the best path towards change!

[prairiedaun.livejournal.com]

I like Patrick the Angry Aesexual. Also, that would be a bitchin' superhero name.

[wildestranger.livejournal.com]

Just to let you know, the idea of Patrick the Angry Asexual fills my heart with joy. Particularly when in combination with Gerard the Morally Superior Bisexual - Patrick being all no, you don't have to have sex all the time, it's possible to have meaningful encounters with people without sleeping with them, while Gerard tries to convince him about how beautiful human sexuality can be by sticking his hands down Patrick's pants.

I may have given this far too much thought. :D

[flimsy.livejournal.com]

A++++++

IT'S ALL THE TRUTH

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

IT IS ALL SO OBVIOUS

[greyandgrey.livejournal.com]

Ahaha! The Pretentious Liberal Arts Student of Morally Superior Bisexuality is not only a whole bunch of people I know, it's also me /o\

At least I'm self aware and have a sense of humor about it?

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

*grins* Many of my BEST FRIENDS fall into that category, darling.

[joandarck.livejournal.com]

EVERYBODY I WENT TO COLLEGE WITH WAS LIKE THAT VERSION OF GERARD.

THEN FOR FIVE YEARS AFTERWARDS, THEY ALL BECAME THAT VERSION OF PETE.

Now they stay home, get up early, take antidepressants, and do pilates.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Ahahaahah. Only half of the people I went to school with were that version of Gerard! And only about a sixth of them were that version of Pete!

[hobbledehoy.livejournal.com]

that's me, too. except i roller skate instead of the pilates.

[restless-jedi.livejournal.com]

I love this. Can AUs have canon? Because if they can, this is it.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Ahahahaha. I think that is actually the opposite of AU, but whatever!

[nova-bright.livejournal.com]

I just think of my uni experience, and the Queer Room, and how Gerard would be the most annoying and awesome Male Identified Queer Representative ever.

And there would be so many posters to make up. And buttons to design! And condoms and dental dams to hand out!

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

OH GOD THE BUTTONS. *DIES*

[wordsalone.livejournal.com]

Everybody's naturally bisexual, just some people won't admit it to themselves!

I've been saying this for years. It's funny how many people don't think bisexuality exists.

[blushandrecover.livejournal.com]

Funny and/or damn annoying, yeah?

[blushandrecover.livejournal.com]

So many links have led me to stalking this thread and let me tell you, Thank God. This is all sorts of amazing. Besides ringing true on, like, everything, it's been quite the laugh (I needed).

And every time they're at a local coffeehouse, Gerard brings up Kinsey without fault. Mikey used to try not to listen, but he's since given up. Once the conversation's been successfully rerouted to a safe topic by Frank ("So, Mikey, what d'you think of post-Danzig Misfits?" because, God, something has to be done, even if it is a horrible segue), Gerard lets Mikey ramble on, half-listening. He picks up Mikey's monotone leaning toward enraged with "blasphemy" and "fucking ridiculous," before he runs to a quiet stop, straightening his glasses.

When no one says anything for a minute, Gerard seizes his chance, trying to clarify whether Frank feels he's really more of a three or a four. What? This is a serious question-- for research! And Gerard needs to know! It will, erm, help him. Help him with his studies and help him help others. A lot. So yeah.

[wildestranger.livejournal.com]

There's something intensely hilarious but also brilliant about the idea of Gerard the Morally Superior Bisexual. Would you mind terribly if I wrote (crack)fic about this? I'd credit you, of course. :)