maybe then garry would suddenly be much more interested in his hair

[schmerica]

Today I got a really great haircut, you guys. YES IT IS TRUE, I HAVE MANAGED TO OUT-CUTE EVEN MYSELF. I know, right?

The hair place we just started going to is kind of tiny and funky and cute, and our stylist is chatty and pretty with the kind of piercing/tattoos/dyed hair that look really good without actually scaring off the middle-aged people. Yeah, so, now I want a MCR AU where Frank owns a hair salon. FEED ME, FANDOM. FEED ME.

Here, let's play a game. If you can name my top 5 pairings in bandom right now, I will award you the PRIZE OF YOUR CHOICE. (I'm assuming you'll choose a ficlet, but what the hell, if there's something else you think I could manage.) If you comment with some but not all five, I'll tell you how many you got right, but not which ones. It's like the stupid game with colored beads you play in grade school!

Edited to add: Ahaha, you guys all did WAY better at this than I would have with any of you. I am super impressed! Apparently I am kind of loud about what I like? My top 5 at the moment (in no particular order) are: Pete/Mikey, Pete/Joe, Frank/Bob, Gerard/Brian and Gerard/Mikey.

(YES I STILL LOVE GERARD/RAY, AND IF I HAD DONE MY TOP SIX IT TOTALLY WOULD HAVE BEEN INCLDED. Heh.)

Comments

*doomed to fail*

[gobsmackit.livejournal.com]

PETE/MIKEY
GERARD/MIKEY
GERARD/RAY
FRANK/BOB
JAMIA/ALEESHA

Hurray, haircut! Rec me your stylist. ;_;

Re: *doomed to fail*

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

YOU GOT THREE. *PRAISE*

Ahahaha, would you come all the way to Oregon everytime you needed a trim?

Re: *doomed to fail*

[gobsmackit.livejournal.com]

Aw so even if I had gone for shleemeri/Jamia, it would've been a wash? That's some consolation.

I'm just so wicked desperate for a haircut and no idea where to get one...so...maybe.

Re: *doomed to fail*

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

If I was doing my top SIX pairings, you probably would have gotten 4 of them, if that helps.

Re: *doomed to fail*

[gobsmackit.livejournal.com]

Now you're just teasing me.

[sociofemme.livejournal.com]

MASTERMIND. I LOVE THAT GAME.

Pete/Mikey
Ray/Gerard
Gerard/Lyn-Z
Gerard/Mikey (esp. genderswitch)
MCR GSF

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

You got two!

ALSO I ACTUALLY REALLY WANT TO PLAY IT NOW.

[sociofemme.livejournal.com]

Hmmmm, okay.

Pete/Mikey
Ray/Gerard
Lyn-z/Jamia
Brian/Gerard
Brian/Bob

And I want to know if I got any white pegs, for half-correct pairings! :D

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Still two, actually, but not the same two!

[sociofemme.livejournal.com]

hmm!

Pete/Mikey
Brian/Gerard
Gerard/Lyn-z
Frank/Bob
...Joe/Pete? *runs out of ideas*

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

4/5!

[sociofemme.livejournal.com]

man, I suck at this game.

Pete/Mikey (if this is actually the one that I'm getting wrong, I don't want to know, okay? my world will be all off-kilter.)
Brian/Gerard
Frank/Bob
Joe/Pete
Gerard/Mikey

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

WE HAVE A WINNER.

[sociofemme.livejournal.com]

*dances wildly* You know what, winning is almost its own reward at this point. HA HA HA I WON, lol. If you wanted to write a little bit of Pete/Mikey HS AU, too, though, that would be pretty awesome. :DDD

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Oooh, Pete/Mikey HS AU is intriguing! Same universe as Deep in the Belly of a Whale is okay, right?

[sociofemme.livejournal.com]

YES PLS. <333333

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

I will probably not get this done till I get back to Eugene, so probably Monday night or Tuesday morning. <3

[sociofemme.livejournal.com]

\o/ Sounds AMAZING to me! <3

[shihadchick.livejournal.com]

Pete/Mikey
Pete/Alicia/Mikey (what that counts right? :D)
Frank/Bob
Ray/Gerard
ummmmm... Gabe/Mikey? *is taking total shots in the dark right now* Ooh, or maybe Gerard/Brian(or /optional (which option I beg them to take!) Bob, too).

*stops guessing before she names everyone ever* (Joe/Pete? *is totally cheating by this point so stops*)

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

I'm purposely only counting couples, because adding threesomes into the mix hurts my head.

Also, you are TOTALLY cheating, my goodness -- you're supposed to only guess five! But you did get four of them right, so yay.

[shihadchick.livejournal.com]

I was gonna ask, yeah. But if you take out the threesomes I only really guessed...okay, like five or six. My enthusiasm makes up for my tendency to not count! ...or so I hope. :D

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

*giggles* There are always points for enthusiasm!

[shihadchick.livejournal.com]

Thank goodness for that! :D

[violin-road.livejournal.com]

? (http://community.livejournal.com/sidekickfic/tag/dread)

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

...Link doesn't work?

[violin-road.livejournal.com]

Oh goddamn, the comm is flocked! Sorry! It's beatpropx and xoverau's Dreadverse, where a bunch of the boys operate a hair salon, posted in sidekickfic.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

But will it fulfill my complex needs, Beckah? I AM VERY COMPLICATED.

[violin-road.livejournal.com]

It sadly has, iirc, none of your favorite pairings :( But it is charming!

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

I read things outside of my pairings! And I even enjoy them! I just am the sort of reader who is thinking the whole time "This is really good, but it'd be better with more GANGBANGS" or "This could have been so brilliant if they wrote MCR instead of wasting time on Panic!"

...I keep these thoughts to myself, obviously. Worst feedback ever!

[violin-road.livejournal.com]

There is no Panic!, and ... not gangbangs, but it is very GSFy :D

*guesses wildly*

[warmingweather.livejournal.com]

Ray/Bob
Pete/Mikey
Gerard/Mikey
Gerard/Brian
Frank/Bob

Re: *guesses wildly*

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

FOUR.

[drunktuesdays.livejournal.com]

Gerard/Brian
Pete/Mikey
Pete/Joe
Gerard/Mikey
Gerard/Ray

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

This is five of my top six, but only four of my top five. *grins*

[drunktuesdays.livejournal.com]

Has anyone guessed the one I'm missing yet?

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Yes.

[drunktuesdays.livejournal.com]

Gerard/Brian
Pete/Mikey
Frank/Bob
Gerard/Mikey
Gerard/Ray

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

You've totally figured out my top six, but you're still not quite at my top five.

[drunktuesdays.livejournal.com]

PEARL THIS IS VERY HARD, AND YET I'M WILDLY OVERINVESTED IN KNOWING NOW.

Gerard/Brian
Pete/Mikey
Pete/Joe
Frank/Bob
Gerard/Ray

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

I am actually really impressed by how good everyone is doing, dude. I would not be able to do nearly this well for anybody!

sociofemme ended up getting it here (http://pearl-o.livejournal.com/985540.html?thread=11357380#t11357380).

[drunktuesdays.livejournal.com]

Damnit, I flipped a coin on Gerard/Ray and Gerard/Mikey.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

brb, imagining Gerard flip a coin to decide between them.

[miss-saigon.livejournal.com]

Kind of cheating in that I read everyone else's guesses first but I swear these would have been mine anyway.
Pete/Mikey
Frank/Bob
Ray/Gerard
Joe/Pete
Mikey/Alicia?

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Three out of five!

[ficsoreal.livejournal.com]

Pete/Mikey
Frank/Bob
Gabe/Mikey
Gerard/Brian
Ray/Bob

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Man, one of these is so totally the gimme that EVERYBODY is getting. I guess people pay attention when I say "hey, you know what my favorite pairing is?" every other day.

You got 3!

[secrethappiness.livejournal.com]

somewhere there is a frank/jepha fic where frank runs a queer salon. here it is (http://paloma-cayendo.livejournal.com/10591.html).

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the link!